This week we have a wide range of ideas. It is International Design Day on April 27th, there are opportunities to get involved with their theme of Peace! Love! Design. Loads of great ideas on the website and a superb introduction to the International Council of Design. We have a trip, for Year 1 learners, to Blackpool planned, a chance to explore parts of the town you might usually miss and a fantastic opportunity to create a range of artwork that can be used in your coursework. Make a print from a drawing or create fascinating light paintings in the illuminations. They'll be something for everyone.
OPPORTUNITY: YEAR 1 BLACKPOOL TRIP
We have a great opportunity coming up for our first year students. A day to explore the real blackpool and take part in a series of workshops from Art to Fashion at Blackpool and the Fylde College: Art School. The college, where I did my foundation year, is brilliant full of great equipment and superb tutors. The fashion course worked on this years' Strictly show in Blackpool and former students feature heavily in the international art world. It has the facilities to allow you to be successful creative and is less that an hour by train away. Watch the videos below to get a sense of the place. You will have a chance to take part in a range of workshops and everyone's specialism will be considered.
We will then explore Blackpool and capture the vibrant, exciting and Edgy side of this iconic coastal time. You may have been to Blackpool before, but NEVER like this!
To attend this great day you will have to pay for your own train ticket and we'll do the rest.
WE WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO BE THERE AND WILL NEED AN EXPLANATION AS TO NONE ATTENDANCE.
Train tickets £12.80- deadline 18th May you should pay at student information.
THERE WILL BE MORE TRIPS IN THE LAST TERM. SO KEEP AN EYE OUT. YOU SHOULD ATTEND ALL OF THEM IF YOU CAN.
GET INVOLVED: INTERNATIONAL DESIGN DAY
The international Council of Design launch their annual International Day of Design on 27th April.... Here is all the info you will need to get involved.......
"In 2023, the year of our 60th Anniversary, we celebrate International Design Day with a theme that nods to the Council’s legacy as an organisation. The theme for this year is ‘Peace. Love. Design!’. Inspired by the activism of the sixties, we encourage you to explore issues of environmentalism, social equity, collective movements and radical change."
"With ‘Peace. Love. Design!’ we challenge you to think about how design has a role to play in solving many of these issues. (war and the threat of nuclear proliferation, environmental degradation and climate change, increasing economic disparity, political polarisation and the rise of nationalist movements) Fundamental changes are afoot, both good and bad. These intense pressures create new problems. But in periods of transition, astounding human ingenuity often emerges. These are a series of challenges that humanity can rise to. Working together with a kind heart, empathy, and goodwill toward our fellow humans, we can imagine disruptive change."
TIK TOK: YOU BETTER NOT ACT LIKE A WES ANDERSON FILM TREND
This week a trend to make your life look like a Wes Anderson film has appeared on Tik Tok. Full of pastel hues, symmetry, POV shots, colourful labels it's really quite fun. For many years there have been people on the internet doing pastiches of Wes Anderson, someone edited the trailer of the horror movie The Witch to appear like an Anderson film. Turning a terrifiying horror into a twee comedy. Another user made a Wes Anderson version of the X men. With this in mind I have added below links so you can see what others people are doing and also some youtube clips so you know what you need to do, if you wanted to make one yourself. We'd love to see them if you do....
Read more about the trend on the Creative blog post that is hyperlinked here.
Videos so you can get the asthetic you want.....
NETFLIX: LOCKWOOD AND CO.
The Director of Attack the Block and writer of Ant-Man, returns with a book adaptation on Netflix of Lockwood and Co. Some kind of event has happened and ghosts are throughout the world. Only children and teenagers can sense them and they set out trying to rid the world of the ghosts. It's a fun series, full of great visuals, humour and quite a lot of tension.
I'm looking forward to exploring the world more in future series and hoping the ongoing, who can we trust/ blame storylines, clear off, after it all resolves this series.
ARTICLE: FLORIDA PRINCIPAL QUITS OVER MICHAELANGO'S DAVID CONTROVERSY(?)
In Florida last week, a Principal of a high School quit follow parental complaints about showing students Michaelangelo's Davis in art class. The parents claimed the sculpture was pornographic and should not been shown to students.
Above is a video that explains the merits of the work and how it was made. If the world deems this work to be pornographic, does that make much of western art taboo?!? What do you think? Do you think it's ridiculous? Do you agree? Should the Principal have quit? Would you quit if you had to deal with people who thought like this?
This also opens up censorship of the arts, throughout history this has been a ploy of the far right to stunt creative expression and only allow certain types of art. The Nazi's called it Degenerate
and Russia only liked Socialist realism with all abstraction banned. Can you believe this is still the case in 2023? Have a read around this and tell us what you think.
TV: LAST WOMAN ON EARTH
YOU CAN WATCH ALL EPISODES ON IPLAYER HERE!
Sarah Pascoe is back for a second series of The Last Woman on Earth. She travels the globe exploring cultures and traditional crafts that are at risk of disappearing forever, supposedly trying to learn them so she can continue them on in the future.
The 1st episode in Jordan is a fascinating insight into Bedouin culture and what has been lost since the British and French split up the Arab world into seperate sovereign states.
EXHIBITION: GOING TO THE MATCH: BOLTON MUSEUM
This exhibition is your chance to see Lowry's painting Going to the Match, a world famous painting that depicts the crowds going to watch Bolton Wanderers at Burnden Park. The rest of the exhibition looks at Bolton Wanderers impact on Bolton's culture full of amazing memorabilia and great artwork, showing how others have responded to similar themes.
It's in the temporary gallery so not a huge exhibition, but vital to understand Bolton's cultural impact in the art world.