Arts
Awards Success
In December 2008 seven young people from Southampton and Portsmouth
attained their Bronze Arts Award, a nationally-recognised
qualification. This was the culmination of work completed
since September in partnership with Wessex Youth Offending
Team, Southampton Intensive Supervision and
Surveillance Programme and John Hansard Gallery.
Thanks to the national enquire programme,
participants were able to work alongside professional artists
in the city.
John Hansard Gallery and Wessex
Youth Offending Team will work together on the Arts
Award course in 2009.
More about the Arts Award
The John Hansard Gallery has three trained
members of staff to advise and support young people taking
the Arts Award up to Gold
level. The Arts Award is a nationally recognised
qualification which supports young people to develop as artists
and arts leaders. The award is available throughout England
at three levels, Bronze, Silver and Gold, and the Gallery
can now support Arts Award participants at
all levels of the scheme. For further details about how to
participate in the Arts Award at the John
Hansard Gallery, contact Ronda Gowland, Head of Education
on 023 8059 2160 or email:
rjg3@soton.ac.uk
Visual
Roots
Since October 2008 we have welcomed two volunteers as part
of the Visual Roots programme, a national
initiative supporting placements in visual arts venues for
vulnerable and hard to reach young people. Our volunteers,
Carl and Chloe, have been
involved in a range of activities and are completing their
Gold Arts Award.
Carl
“I feel privileged because of the number of art
forms that have
opened up to me. I’m interested in looking for
the truth and different perspectives, especially those
that differ from mainstream media.”
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Chloe
“The scheme is helping me with gaining a certificate
which I can put on my CV to help me find a job. Here you
can get to choose things for yourself, where in school
it’s already chosen for you.” |
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Photos of the Gallery and surrounds
by volunteers Carl (top) and Chloe (bottom)
More about Visual Roots
Visual Roots is a new
initiative supporting accredited placements in visual arts
venues for vulnerable and hard to reach young people. The
programme is managed by engage and funded by the Department
for Children, Schools and Families in 2008/09 and
the National Lottery through Arts
Council England in 2009/10.
One of four arts organisations nationwide
participating in this round of the project, the Gallery will
has been working in partnership with the Wessex Youth
Offending Team and Southampton Intensive
Supervision and Surveillance Programme, enabling
two young people, aged 16, to experience the work of the Gallery
and gain a nationally-recognised Silver or
Gold Arts Award.
For further information about this initiative
or to find out more about our work with communities, contact
Ronda Gowland, Head of Education on 023 8059
2160 or rjg3@soton.ac.uk
enquire:
inspiring learning in galleries
enquire is a national programme of projects
that aim to explore the special learning benefits to young
people of working with galleries, the contemporary visual
arts and artists. Phase 3 sees the formation
of a new group of galleries in the Solent area, comprising
the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Quay
Arts, Isle of Wight and Aspex, Portsmouth,
working alongside a range of schools, youth groups and other
partners within the South East region.
The enquire programme is funded jointly
by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport,
the Department for Children, Schools and Families
as part of the Strategic Commissioning Programme
for Museum and Gallery Education, and the
Foyle Foundation. The enquire programme
is managed by engage and has been developed
in association with Arts Council England.
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