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Schools Workshop ARTISTS
IN SCHOOLS The Colour + Chemistry Project at Sherborne House in Dorset has just produced a report on the seven workshops it has been running with artists in schools this year. The workshops took place in secondary, primary and special schools all over Somerset and Dorset and students' work produced during the workshops was recently displayed at a Sherborne House exhibition called Vibrant 2. All the workshops employed professional artists to help students explore the relationships that exist between art and science and to encourage them to experiment with new techniques and materials. The artists involved - three of whom live in the South West - included a textiles artist, an installation artist, a digital artist, a painter working with SMART paints and a kinetic artist currently working with a SMART material called Nitinol. "Art and Science are essentially doing the same thing - understanding nature," says kinetic artist Balint Bolygo. "They may use a different vocabulary but they are looking at exploring and explaining the same thing." " We've had to think for ourselves, use our brains," says one of Balint's students. " We've been thinking about how science and art link - not just how something looks but how it works." For the teachers involved, the workshops were an opportunity to extend their pupils' knowledge, to provide them with valuable new experiences and to let them work on a project with a professional artist. "The workshops opened teachers' eyes to the possibilities of science and art disciplines collaborating on projects in school, " says Caroline Wallace, the Colour + Chemisty Schools Officer. "In two schools, the art and chemistry departments joined forces to forge even closer links between the two disciplines." Using the schools workshops as a model, Sherborne House hopes to work closely with schools in the future and with this in mind is having a champagne reception for teachers in Somerset and Dorset at Sherborne House on Thursday 9th November. Some of the teachers involved in the schools workshops will be invited to give a short presentation about their experiences. FOR A COPY OF THE ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS REPORT AND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLOUR + CHEMISTRY PROJECT CONTACT 01935 816734. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEACHERS RECEPTION CONTACT NINA GRONW-LEWIS ON 01935 815899 .
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