This Outreach-focused project provided the foundation in teaching skills, equipment and technical knowledge for our Outreach programme which continues today. It connected Swansea Print Workshop with many local schools, colleges and communities and raised awareness of how printmaking can contribute to the education and voluntary sectors.
Working with over 50 groups, nearly 500 workshops and with over 6000 attendances, this project, which ran between 2001 and 2004, was an ambitious Outreach programme which took our mobile presses out to work in any venue across the community.
Once contact had been made and an introductory session or workshop taken place, some of the groups came to the main studio and progressed onto more advanced work.
Through the project we aimed to raise the profile of printmaking as a valuable activity for any group and to raise awareness in the role prints and printmaking can play in in mainstream education within the context of curriculum requirements.
We also provided entry level workshops for a wide range of groups including those with access needs, mental health groups, those with environmental concerns and specialist groups within Swansea’s wider ethnic community.
Equally importantly was the education and development of printmakers as freelance artists to be able to deliver high-quality workshops with good working practices in a creative and interesting way and the career progression of project staff and volunteers.
The project established the printmaking processes and best practice for Outreach workshops for the organisation on a long-term basis.
PARTICIPATING GROUPS:
Bishop Gore Comprehensive | Bishopston Comprehensive | Blaen-y-Maes Primary School | Bonymaen Family Centre | Brondeg House | Brynhyfryd Junior School | Cadle Primary School | Cefn Coed Hospital/staff development | Ceri Richards Festival | Cliffriw junior School | Clase Primary School | Clwyd Junior School | Clydach Infants | Coed Hirwaun | Crug Glas Special Needs School | Crws Junior School | Cwmbwrla Day Centre
DACE Muslim Womens Group | Dragon Arts | Dyffryn Comprehensive | Ffynone House School | Glyn Vivian Art Gallery | Glynneath Adult Training Centre | Gors Junior School | Gorseinon College | Gorseinon Longfields Day Centre | Gowerton School | Graig Infants | Gwyr School | Hendrefoilan Primary | Home Education Group | Heol Goffa Social Activity Centre
Llanelli Involve | Interplay Independent Living | | Lynx Llanelli | Lynx Ty Amman | Maes Glas Community Centre Neath | Morriston Primary | General Hospital Neath | Port Talbot College Out of School Group | Olchfa comprehensive | Oystermouth Primary School |Palette Club | Pen Y Fro Primary School |Playright | Pentrepoeth Infants | Pentrepoeth Juniors | Pont y Brenin Primary | Pontardulais School | Pentrehafod School | Quay House Bail Hostel | Red Café Connected | Rose Cross Day Centre
St Thomas Junior | Swansea Museum | Swansea Women’s Centre | Symud Ymlaen Regeneration Trust | The Shaw Trust | Disability Action Centre | Taliesin Egypt Centre | Three Crosses Art Club | Terrace Rd School | Tregwyr Junior School | Wetlands Wildlife Trust
Gweithdai Argraffu | 2001-2004 | Gwobr ‘Arts for All’ Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru
Yn y prosiect hwn, darparwyd y sylfaen ar gyfer y rhaglen Outreach – sylfaen mewn sgiliau dysgu, offer a gwybodaeth technolegol sy’n para hyd heddiw. Roedd hyn wedi cysylltu GAA â llawer o ysgolion lleol, colegau a chymunedau gan godi ymwybyddiaeth o sut mae argraffu yn gallu cyfrannu at addysg a sectorau gwirfoddol.
This project took place in 2001-2004 and was made possible by an Arts Council of Wales’ ‘Arts for All’ Award.
