I recently visited our ‘ Learning to Learn’ (L2L) project at HMP Rochester where a group of ten young men worked together to plan and produce an 8ft by 6ft mixed media artwork. The process took them through from warm-up exercises, such as mark making, to draft sketches, to drawing to scale and producing the finished artwork. As the current batch of projects are evaluated, findings so far confirm what the converted already know – that the arts facilitate learning that helps develop ‘... more
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Issue 170: Working with Libraries , Issue 170: Making Arts Buildings Pay
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Working with Libraries, Making Arts Buildings Pay
19 May 2008Bridget Edwards marvels at the work of arts professionals who help offenders to learn how to learn.
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19 May 2008
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19 May 2008
Arts organisations should be aiming high ? but this can only happen if managers take the excellence agenda on board, says Howard Raynor.
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19 May 2008
Matt Carwardine-Palmer reveals the five websites he wouldn?t want to be without.
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19 May 2008
Bridget Edwards marvels at the work of arts professionals who help offenders to learn how to learn.
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19 May 2008
Galleries and libraries are reaching out to similar audiences, writes Leisa Gray.
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19 May 2008
Specialised resources and staff help to make a successful enterprise out of hire and services, writes Richard Lee.
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19 May 2008
Paul Bogen identifies a range of non-arts activities that building-based arts organisations in Europe are using to increase their income.
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19 May 2008
Stereotypes wither when arts organisations collaborate with libraries, Adam Pushkin discovers.
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19 May 2008
Anne Sherman shows how art and literature development can read from the same hymn sheet.
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19 May 2008
Nineteenth-century buildings can work in a twenty-first century world if the resources are made available, says Nica Burns.