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We are currently delivering this exciting and immersive art project for Support Plus, across 2 of their centres in Wolverhampton. It will involve joining together pieces of artwork physically and people and communities metaphorically.  Project branding Support Plus are a day service for adults with a profound and multiple learning disabilities who require high support needs we also support people with physical disabilities to maintain and develop their quality of life. They provide a wide range of day opportunities whilst supporting people to access their local and wider community and The Big Link Up Art Project is one of those opportunities.
What is vital to us was that despite of some very profound needs the adults are engaged in decision making and actively making their own marks.  Enabling people to make choices We are constantly evolving the project to suit the needs of our clients, investigating various strategies to enable engagement (and enjoyment, if it’s not fun what’s the point?) As one of our team is profoundly Deaf we are integrating sign language lessons into the sessions. This has benefits in terms of another new skill learnt, active engagement and breaking down communication barriers. It is early days with the project but already both centres have their own DREAM TREE’s – which act as the project aims and objectives. We’ve found out about each individual – what colours they like, what they like to eat, where they like to go and who is important to them. Each has indicated to us what size canvas they will be painting on, what colour the background should be and an idea of what they will be painting or making (some are going to be 3D or textural pieces rather than 2D paintings).
We are exploring apps which make digital art-making accessible to people with profound disabilities. The examples here are making a vocal sound that produces a unique soundwave and touch screen pattern making apps that respond to an individual’s touch.
This project is a perfect example of how RAW approaches its work. We are customer centred, so although we go in with an overarching aim, it is the participants who steer the project. We are versatile and flexible enough to be able to adjust our delivery to ensure the best possible outcomes.
We are really excited to see how the project progresses and will post again in September when we are back onto it.
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 Alex with the artists and their final piece - a collage and painted Giraffe and a very individual Zebra. On Tuesday 17th July RAW was at Lyng Community Association Youth Club. To link in with their recent trip to the zoo, we were asked to deliver a session based on animal art. Alex led this session and showed the young people examples of his own animal art: pencil drawings and watercolour paintings, and then demonstrated a drawing - combining new and old technologies.  Using 1990s and 2018 technologies together A old video camera was linked to a projector and pointed at the paper as Alex drew a picture of a lion. Charcoal was the primary medium in this workshop because of its immediate and effective mark making capabilities. This suits the drama of animals associated with the safari.
The young people then had a choice of animal to draw - this could be Gorilla, Lion, Elephant, Meerkat, Rhino or any other animal they liked. Here are the young people hard at work: And here are some final pieces which were made into a pop up art gallery  The pop up Art Gallery of Wild Art The last part of the session was dedicated to creating a LARGE, like HUGE painting / collage of a giraffe and a zebra:
The final magnificent piece  Collage giraffe including plenty of glitter paint and a very individual and diverse zebra. Lyng Community Association Youth Club runs every Tuesday evening in term time, 4-7pm for anyone aged 10-17. More information here
We had a great time at #SciFest2018 on 6th and 7th July 2018. Day One was working with local primary schools and Day Two was open to the public for their Family Day. We made loads of great new connections, our neighbours were wonderful and we even got time to have a little look around at other stallholders. This included making rocket cars with the RAF Museum, looking at the sun through a telescope and making Spirograph type images on a gyroscope. If you weren't able to get to this year's event, please try and make it next year. Here's a few of our favourite snaps...  Twin Curiosi-Trees
 RAW has a stand at Sci Fest 2018! We'll be in the Ambika Paul corridor at Wolverhampton University making a 'Curiosi-Tree'. Come and say hello and see the work we are doing with young people - combining the arts with other curriculum subjects: English, Maths, Technology, Science. Primary school day is 9.30-3, Fri 6th July. Family day is 10-4, Sat 7th July. For more information and to register visit: https://www.wlv.ac.uk/…/faculty-of-science-and-eng…/scifest/ #scifest2018
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