Latest contribution to @TheresaEaston’s #WW1 trench & folk art project. Strong images from Ukraine.
Anna Tea, Ukraine, presents a series of work originally commissioned for I am the warrior an ongoing project by artists Juneau Projects which celebrates creativity and making in all its forms with Wysing Arts Centre and Kettle’s Yard’s Circuit young peoples’ group.
Nice blog post by @theresaeaston about her new #WW1 trench art project with @dottodotart…
Exploring Trench Art at Beamish
”I have been working on this ww1 Mail Art project since August 2013, building connections with Mail Artists both nationally and internationally. The project is now in a progress thanks to HLF funding through their Young Roots programme and a range of partnerships including Hartlepool Borough Council and their Integrated Youth Support Service, with some fantastic heritage support from the Heugh Battery and the volunteers, as well as Beamish Museum, and still to come, the Museum of Hartlepool. ” Theresa Easton
Working with Dot to Dot Active Arts the project will see young people and volunteers from the Heugh Gun Battery working together to explore the First World War heritage of Hartlepool and the heritage of Trench Art
4th August Beamish Museum
Volunteers and young people will explore the social history behind Trench Art using First World War heritage at the Heugh Gun…
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François Matarasso's 'All in this together' (2013) offers a powerful critique of the de-politicisation of art
As founder of dot to dot active arts CIC – a member organisation for socially engaged artists and arts workers that’s fiercely independent and always grassroots – I’m committed to working with communities and our artists to develop new ideas to mix art and life openly and honestly. We worked in Blyth, Northumberland last year,…Read more AGL: above ground level
colouring in culture 