"This is the best art lesson I've ever had." .. pupil's response to a Chapel Arts Studio workshop.

Chapel Arts Studios work towards the goals of enabling more children to experience the arts, and providing arts leadership. We aim to do this via our Educational Project Residency, facilitating Arts Award courses, and in-school education.

Studio holders David DIxon and Yonat Nitzan Green are both qualified Arts Award Advisors and are looking to recruit young people to embark on exciting and rewarding Arts Award projects. For more information contact us.

Below is a sample of some of the educational work that Chapel Arts Studios has been involved with:

Winton School: Test Chamber

This was an ambitious week long residency that challenged and stretched the abilities of a group of year 7 children. Each days session developed those preceding it. The cumulative result was one that allowed the pupils to realise a much greater depth of creativity, sharpened their perceptive skills, and encouraged them to take artistic risks. Test Chamber was designed to be process oriented, focussing more on the understandings that can be gained through in-depth exploration of the creative process, rather than concentrating on a finished outcome.

Working from five core concepts: Information, Cause and Effect, Interdependency, Flux and Value, the pupils engaged with a wide variety of techniques and approaches. These ranged from digital photography, charcoal drawing, sculpture and installation techniques using conceptual and collaborative methods.

Portswood School: Rangoli Project

The Rangoli Project developed over several weeks. Pupils were introduced to various cultural approaches to pattern making: Aboriginal (Australia), Rangoli (India) and Celtic (Europe). The workshops led pupils through mathematical and narrative concepts key to each style, and they developed their own designs taking techniques and inspiration from the sessions.

The final work was a 25m outdoor carpet design, made from bio-degradable material such as sand, bark chippings, rice and lentils. Chapel artists David DIxon and Yonat Nitzan-Green guided the building of this work over two days. At it's completion, every child in Portswood Primary school had designed and made their own original contribution to the carpet, as well as a larger number of friends and family.

The work was left on the pubilc playing field to gradually fade over the next three weeks.

Harrow Way Community School: Book reconstruction

Artist David Dixon delivered two workshops at Harrow Way. For the first, the pupils had a unique chance to experiment with the Tibetan Chakpu tools he uses in his work. Using these tools, the pupils experimented and made images and text pictures out of flour, salt and sugar.

The second workshop gave the pupils the chance to re-invent a book given to them. The books were folded, cut, sliced, punctured, painted, glued, drawn-in, built-with, torn, shredded and soaked. The finished works included pictures, sculpture, theatrical diaramas and even a site-specific installation.

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