Project Case Study
Name of Project:
Arts Apprenticeship - Printmaking
Background:
This project is running as part of Arts Apprenticeships which is a programme devised by East-Side Educational Trust to offer teachers the opportunity to work collaboratively with artists. Arts Apprenticeships is a learning and training programme for everyone involved – teachers, artists and students. Unlike artists’ residencies, Arts Apprenticeships places a greater emphasis on the collaboration between the teacher and the artist. For this project the school was interested in exploring printmaking as this is an area that has never been explored in the school.
Details:
The artist is working with a group of students in Year 11 who are preparing for their GCSE exams. The students have had the opportunity to compare painting and printmaking using their theme of ‘underneath and overhead’. Techniques introduced by the artist have included mono-prints, wood-block prints and relief printing using a printing press. The teacher has enjoyed working with a professional artist because of her expertise in the field and he has been able to learn a lot from her and the students have benefited from working alongside a professional artist which has introduced them to an entirely new technique.