Art, Nature, Friends, Food
This summer Art and Energy are working with Significant Seams artists and youth workers to host art workshops for young people age 11 - 16 years. Together they will explore, play and create, the programme will lead young people into inspiring environments. Artists will share how they think about art and make, and invite participants to try out their approach, or share one of their own.
The programme is about fun, inspiration, togetherness and making.
Art and Energy’s Naomi Wright will be working alongside Significant Seams for Week One and Week Four of the holiday programme. Every week has a distinctive theme and a different designated artist lead or leads.
Week One: How to Bury a Giant – from tiny plants to carbon rich landscapes with stories of Giants, a project with winners of the Sustainability First Art Prize 2021, Art & Energy.
Naomi Wright, a Director of Art & Energy and associate of Significant Seams, says, “Through art we see the tiny elements that make change, as well as the whole landscape. We can consider the carbon giant we face every day, and think how to keep it underground.” Wright will lead a range of activities including Energy based art, Moorland immersion, nature positive farming, Growing your own moss, making mini terrariums, and discover how artists are helping ensure peatlands are looked after for the future.
This programme will be based at Sands School in Ashburton except on Wednesday 3 August when we will have a field trip to Challacombe farm on Dartmoor. This programme runs 2-5 August.
Week Two: The Art Leaders of Tomorrow, Today
This programme will be based at Sands School in Ashburton. This programme runs 8-11 August.
Week Three: Art from the Earth - Wild Clay, Natural Dye, and Charcoal Mark Making
The project will be based at West Town Farm in Ide. This programme runs 15-18 August.
Week Four: Freestyle Patchwork - freed to remake a healthier world
Artist Catherine West uses symbolism and metaphors inspired by quilting and patchwork in a wide variety of community projects. Increasingly she is concerned about the climate crisis and various aspects of her work explore this. Working with young people from Crediton, she has devised an approach to artmaking dubbed ‘Freestyle Patchwork’ which she will share in this week of activity in Mid/West Devon. Participants will be able to choose if they want to hand or machine stitch, and if they want to create a practical or aesthetic outcome, or of course, something that combines the two. They will however be challenged to use what has otherwise been dubbed ‘waste material’: The UK has the dubious distinction of being the fourth largest textile waste producer in Europe: 35% of microplastics in the oceans are attributable to the textile industry. Textile production contributes 10% of global emissions and uses massive amounts of fresh water. So in this workshop session we will breathe new life into older fabric with our individual and collective creativity.
This project will be based at the Okehampton Ecohub, alongside Okehampton College. This programme runs 22-25 August.
Significant Seams are delighted to be working with a range of partners including Sands Democratic School, Organic Arts, Art & Energy CIC, Okehampton EcoHub, and Harvest Workers Coop.
There are some free of charge places available for families entitled to free school meals and for children with a SEND diagnosis, full details and further information can be found via the link below:
