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About
Us
Artistsatwork is an award-winning
organisation, which specialises in creating innovative
online cultural resources for children and young people.
Our interactive websites
are designed to inspire creativity in the classroom
and to provide children and young people with the opportunity
to engage with art and artists no matter where they
live in the UK.
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Our
Websites
Artisancam
www.artisancam.org.uk
ArtisanCam is a free website, which introduces children
and their teachers to the world of contemporary art
using a mixture of video and interactive activities.
Children can see artists working in their studios via
specially recorded video clips or learn how to create
their own artwork from a wide range of interactive workshops
and games. Online activities include everything from
designing and firing your own plate to sculpting a stone
block, designing jewellery and learning how to mix colours.
Teachers can learn alongside their pupils with innovative
step-by-step classroom workshops led by an artist or
a virtual activity. Every term ArtisanCam features a
new artist-in-residence, as well as exploring behind
the scenes at large exhibitions.
Launched in Autumn 2004, ArtisanCam has twice been nominated
for a BAFTA and a Webby and in 2007 won a prestigious
BETT award.
ArtisanCam is delivered in partnership with CLEO (Cumbria
and Lancashire Education Online).
ArtisanCamPerformance
www.artisancamperformance.org.uk
The One Small Step online education project took place between May and July 2009. It introduced the cross-curricular theme of the space race to three Newcastle primary schools by focussing on the Oxford Playhouse production 'One Small Step' and resulted in the production of a video based learning resource.
The project followed the ArtisanCam principles of leading
users from watching online video to a creative activity.
The young people first watched original archived video
clips from the 50's and 60's and used those as the inspiration
for new pieces of drama. These performances were
created with the help of drama worker Jackie Phillips.
Four groups from each school were selected to travel to
Northern Stage to perform their work to camera in front
of a green screen. Of the twelve performances filmed just
four were selected to be edited into finished video clips.
The young people then visited Northern Stage and watched
the performance of the professional actors from Oxford
Playhouse and reviewed the play and their experience to
camera. These video are hosted on the ArtisanCam
Performance website to hopefully inspire other classes
to try the same activity and submit their videos
to the site.
Funded by Newcastle City Council the project involved a partnership with Northern Stage,
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Who we are
Keith Alexander: content director
As well as being the originator
and creative driving force behind Artistsatwork, Keith
is a visual artist with over 20 years experience of working
with schools and communities in artistic collaborations.
These include the Room for Gateshead Garden Festival 1990,
36 Banners MetroCentre, Gateshead, Year of the Visual
Arts in the North 1996 and Through Young Eyes, Arts are
Ours, 2000.
Keith is responsible for developing content for our current
websites as well as generating new ideas for future projects
and partnerships.
keith@artistsatwork.org |
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Hannah
Murray-Leslie : project manager
Hannah has been Project Manager
for Artistsatwork since January 2007. Her background
is in Local Authority Arts Development and she has worked
on a range of projects involving arts and education, as
well as developing regional networks, community arts projects,
research and evaluation.
Hannah is responsible for the co-ordination and administration
of project activities, developing new funding streams,
networking and generating ideas for future projects and
partnerships.
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