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 | Ascot DFAS: Ascot DFAS have financially supported Cranbourne Primary School to create a ceramic display in their entrance hall celebrating the School's tercentenary. |
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| Camberley DFAS: Camberley DFAS are currently helping to support an Arts Week in Ravenscote Primary School. |
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| Cobbetts Wey DFAS: Awarded a bursary of £200 to an art student from Farnham College and £200 to a ceramic student from UCCA. |
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| Cranleigh DFAS: Worked with the newly amalgamated Cranleigh Infants and St Nicholas Schools in designing a stained glass window to celebrate the merger. |
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| Englemere DFAS: So far in 2009: a ceramics workshop with Sadie James was organised at Holy Trinity School, Sunningdale. EDFAS sponsored an art session with Kerry Lemon as part of the Bracknell Pyramid Scheme [organised by MIND] - a service for children of primary school age, to help them fulfil their potential by improving their self confidence and self esteem. A second workshop at Great Hollands School in Bracknell with Sadie James is planned. EDFAS holds its lectures at St. George's School in Ascot and is developing a partnership with the school whereby one lecture per year, relevant to the school's curriculum, is chosen jointly and open to students. |
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| Farnham DFAS: [1] Green Man Project at Hale School - one of the projects funded by the Young Arts Group was based on the legend of “The Green Man”.
It took place at Hale County Primary School and involved 64 eight and nine year old pupils who worked in pairs with the Berkshire artist Sadie James. The task set them was the making of a three-dimentional mask; the base being cardboard and the surface being built up with rolled newspaper for the features.
[2] A West Street Potters Farnham Summer Project with Tom Barnett,an incendiary ceramicist, funded by the Young Arts Group of FDFAS.
Over two days, with a week in between to allow for drying, a bottle sculpture was constructed and fired in Alice Holt Forest. The clay mix, designed to cope with rapid drying and unpredictable firing conditions, was trodden by energetic children who out-performed any machine that could have been used. This ready mix was rolled and cut, using a cardboard template, into scaled down bricks - customised by each maker. Faces, animals, bored holes, abstract impressed designs and signatures brought a graffiti quality to the ‘bottle wall’.
[3] The final project of the Young Arts Group took place at the William Cobbett Junior School on 29th September. Sadie James, an artist from Berkshire, introduced the 90 Year 5 pupils, aged 9 – 10 years to the technique of monoprinting. The pupils were divided into 3 groups, with their class teacher, an assistant and a Young Arts volunteer to help them in each case. Each group was given a different theme to explore and these were Trees, Bugs and Butterflies.
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| Haslemere DFAS: This year Haslemere DFAS has donated funds to sponsor prizes for local Junior art competitions. A donation of £25 was made for first prize in the Junior category (under 12 years) of the Haslemere Festival 'Images of Haslemere' Art Competition which took place in May 2009 and was awarded to Jemima Barr (see photograph). A further £260 has been donated to the Vivartis Autumn Arts Festival, at King Edward's School in Witley, for first and second prize in two categories of the Junior and Prep Schools Art Competitions. The latter donation is part of a continuing association between Haslemere DFAS and art students at King Edward's. Haslemere DFAS has full details about their Young Arts activities, past and present, on the HDFAS website at www.haslemeredfas.org.uk. |
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| Mayford DFAS: Paid for a "sculptor in residence" to assist all the pupils of St Lawrence School , Chobham to create a giant wooden bench (eee photo above). |
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| Shalford DFAS: Supported Busbridge Junior School, Godalming to fund a three day workshop to create a textile project. |
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| Surrey Heath DFAS: Have given money for art materials at White Lodge Centre, Chertsey (run by Scope) to provide art materials for use by their young people in the art room. |
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| Walton & Hersham DFAS: Have financed a project at Ashley Church of England School to pay for an artist to help the children design a mural for their School. |
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| West Surrey DFAS: Supported the Jigsaw School, Dunsford educating autistic children with a donation for money to be used for art materials. |
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| Weybridge DFAS: Supporting a visual artist to supervise some projects at Send Prison Visitors Centre to entertain the children whilst seeing their mothers. It is hoped this project will be ongoing. |
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| The Wey Valley DFAS: In the 4th year of their work at Gosden House School. |
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| Windlebrook DFAS: Have supported a project at Meadowcroft Community Infant School, Chertsey and are also working with Footsteps at the Woking and Sam Beare Hospices which helps bereaved children to express themselves through art and have financed a sculptor for a day's workshop. |
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| Woking DFAS: Links were established with the Head of the Art Department at Winston Churchill School in St John’s. A timetable was mapped out to fit with the curriculum of Years 7, 8 and 9. In February I met a ceramic artist, Angie Sayer, who was prepared to work with pupils who had not used clay before and she would fire the pieces in her own kiln.
At the end of the Summer Term we booked a date with the school and worked with a group of pupils for a whole day in July. During this time they learnt about the properties of clay and the way to work with it. The school had been exploring ‘masks’ as a theme and the pupils had already designed a double-sided mask which was translated into a large clay pot and then decorated with slip. The pupils were all completely focused on the task and enjoyed their first experience with real clay. |
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| NADFAS East & West Surrey Areas DFAS: Have this year given money to The Lightbox, Woking for a Paper Plane Competition which was run in conjunction with the Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition. NADFAS Volunteers took part in the running of it and it was a happy occasion for many children. |
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If you would like more information on local Young Arts or if you have a potential young arts project, please contact your nearest NADFAS society or contact the Area Young Arts representative at:
