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Our Summer Workshops ran for two days per week during July and August. The aim of the programme was to provide supportive and creative activities for families who have a child with a severe learning disability. It provided the opportunity for children, their family and siblings to work together in self directed creative workshops with professional artists. |
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Our 2006 / 2007 Open Studios programme began at the beginning of October. The one-year Open Studios programme will provide an opportunity for people with complex learning disabilities to work alongside artists, non-disabled students from Higher Art Education and people from different adult social care settings on an ongoing and inclusive programme of creativity and learning. |
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Our Summer Workshops ran for two days per week during July and August. The aim of the programme was to provide supportive and creative activities for families who have a child with a severe learning disability. It provided the opportunity for children, their family and siblings to work together in self directed creative workshops with professional artists. |
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From January 2006 we worked with Saxon Mount Special School involving pupils in a series of workshops at the Project Art Works studios in Hastings . Each class group has spent a day making huge paintings (5x1.8 meters) of bird's eye views of their school and its grounds. In July Project Art Works and the staff and pupils of the school created a temporary transformation of the school grounds during a week long residency. |
Project Art Works has received a significant award from the Camelot Foundation (£90,000) towards a new project - the Personal Profile Pilot which will take place between March 2005 and the autumn of 2007 |
In partnership with Sussex Autistic Community Trust (SACT) we ran a digital film and animation art foundation course for twelve young adults with Autism and Aspergers Syndrome. The programme was for 18 weeks, divided into four terms, and took place here in our studios at Project Art Works on a weekly basis. |
Project Art Works ran a innovative, inclusive pilot art course for adults who have severe learning disabilities in partnership with Brighton University and Hastings College of Arts and Technology (HCAT). |
In 2004 Project Art Works were commissioned by MENCAP to deliver a number of projects at Tate Modern as part of the MENCAP's 'In The Frame' – a national conference on Art and Learning Disability held on June 20th 2005. |
In August 2004 Project Art Works ran an art workshop for children with severe learning disabilities, their families and carers. As with all our summer workshops this project was designed to provide interesting and appropriate art activities during the long summer holidays. |
This was a challenging project that gave Downs View SLD School (Brighton), Ickburgh SLD School (Hackney) and Torfield School (Hastings) the opportunity to work intensively with artists over the course of a full academic year, enabling a level of continuous engagement often missing from arts in schools projects. |
Project Art Works received a major commission from West Sussex County Council for permanent installations of art in a new special school build in Crawley – Manor Green College and Manor Green Primary School. |
In 2004 Project Art Works successfully completed Project India, a three-year residency at co-located secondary schools Hazel Court (SLD) and The Causeway in Eastbourne. |
Project Art Works ran summer art workshops for young autistic children aged 4-8 at Torfield School Hastings during August 2002. The aim of the project was to research ways of working with children within the autistic spectrum to encourage engagement and interaction through creative activities. |
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Mencap UK commissioned Project Art Works to contribute to a National Training Video on good practice in the arts for people who have a learning disability. |
Project Art Works ran three one day workshops at Hastings College of Arts and Technology (Supportive Education Sector) during November 2001. The work was a collaboration with 12 young people who have learning disabilities, Hastings College and the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill. |
Project Craig involved a series of creative workshops in London and the South East engaging children, young people and their carers in making art. |
Project Art Works ran six three hour art and digital video workshops over three weeks during the summer 2001 at the Hollington Youth Centre. The sessions were run by three artists from Project Art Works and supported by a youth worker from Hastings and Bexhill Area Youth Services. |
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During June 2001, Project Art Works ran practical creative workshops for a week at Nine Acre School, which caters for young people who have severe learning disabilities. |