Manchester School of Art Outreach

The School of Art Outreach department runs an array of Creative workshops and opportunities for Greater Manchester to find out about their creative futures. Watch this space for information about events and opportunities and see what we have been up to.

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Creating it’s just not a nice activity, it transforms, connects and empowers

Paula Briggs Founder and Director AccessArt

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Ideas Foundation, Canon and UAL - Creative Media Camp 2018

Man Met also posted a Creative Media Camp over the summer with the BBC. Check out their website to find out more: https://www.ideasfoundation.org.uk

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The Saturday Club at Manchester School of Art is a free project offering young people in school years 9 – 11 the opportunity to come and learn, explore, make, trial, draw, examine, interrogate and take risks through Art and Design workshops held at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Delivered by specialist tutors with support from current students, pupils are offered exciting workshops in a range of creative disciplines. Sessions are fun and relaxed while also allowing young people to learn about the breadth of Art and Design courses on offer at Higher Education. Sessions allows young people to experience exciting and varied creative disciplines giving them a platform to ask questions about further education and careers within the creative sector.

Club members will also take part in three National Events; the LONDON VISIT, in which club members take part in a pop-up self-portrait exhibition and visit the capital’s museums and galleries; a MASTERCLASS with a leading creative industry professional; and the SUMMER SHOW where all club members exhibit their work in an exhibition in Somerset House, London – all for free!

Email Rachel for more info - [email protected]

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Teacher who won $1m ‘Nobel Prize for Teaching’ will use windfall to get artists into schools

Teacher who won $1m ‘Nobel Prize for Teaching’ will use windfall to get artists into schools

Andria Zafirakou recruits musicians, art historians and actors to her cause:

After winning a $1m global teaching prize, Andria Zafirakou could have paid off her mortgage, bought a Ferrari and put her feet up for the rest of her life.

Instead, the north London teacher has announced she is using the money she won in March with the Varkey Foundation global teacher prize – a kind of Nobel prize for teaching – to set up a campaigning charity to get more artists and arts organisations into Britain’s schools.

Surrounded by pupils, teachers, family and supporters including Simon Schama, Melvyn Bragg, the musician Naughty Boy and the artist Mark Wallinger, Zafirakou launched her charity, Artists in Residence, at her place of work for the past 12 years, Alperton community school in Brent, and said she wanted to bring about a classroom revolution.

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“Here’s another headline you probably didn’t read: once you add in self-employment, then after five years, creative arts and design students have a higher employment rate than graduates in computing.”

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❝The creative economy is not only one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy, but also a highly transformative one in terms of income-generation, job creation and export earnings...when the creative sector becomes part of an overall development and growth strategy, it can contribute to the revitalization of the national economy where hybrid and dynamic economic and cultural exchanges occur and innovation is nurtured. But that is not all. Investing in culture and the creative sector as a driver of social development can also lead to results that contribute to the overall wellbeing of communities, individual self-esteem a❞nd quality of life, dialogue and cohesion UN Report on Creative Economy 2013

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Importance of failure: why Olympians and A-level students all need to fail

Teacher and psychologist Marc Smith looks at why we should embrace failure as a springboard to success

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Watch this space to see the outcomes from our exciting Minecrafting Ceramic Narratives Summer School 2017

Blurring the boundaries between digital and physical making, this Summer School will allow students to develop skills in researching, translating ideas, and using RaspberryPi. Students will develop new and exciting surfaces for ceramic ware by translating traditional ceramic scenes into innovative modern depictions, utilising Manchester School of Art’s specialist workshops and equipment.

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Majority of people think art should be compulsory until 16, survey shows

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/majority-people-think-art-should-be-compulsory-until-16-survey-shows

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If you missed #McrDegreeShow17 then fear not! Check out this film captured by students from Harrop Fold School.

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Masterclass by Sophie Thomas for Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metrolpoitan University

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You can now watch our Masterclass with Sophie Thomas online, courtesy of The National Saturday Club Trust

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National Saturday Art and Design Masterclass with graphic designer Sophie Thomas

Special guest led activities and got visitors thinking

Check out this article about our Nationa Saturday Art and Design Masterclass with Sophie Thomas!

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The Graduates 2017: how to make the most out of failure

No matter how hard you work, the road to success is never straightforward. If you want to make it in the creative industry, you’ll need to not only get used to being rejected (a lot), but work out how to harness short-term set backs and transform those soul-crushing "didn't get the job" moments into life lessons.

How to make the most out of those failures, set backs and rejections.

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To tie in with the Degree Show this year, we are inviting schools, colleges and arts groups into the art school and compete in a collaborative sketchbook challenge. We want you to visit the Degree Show and draw, record, interpret, question and document your visit! There will be a prize for the best collaborative sketchbook, so pencils at the ready!

For more information about visiting the art school, how to get here, and health and safety procedures, visit the Degree Show website here:

http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/degreeshow/schools/

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Arts projects care homes get £350,0000 investment - BBC News

A charity says arts can help boost confidence and the self-esteem of the elderly in care.

Great news! Hopefully more care homes can follow suit!

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Serota sets up commission to explore benefit of arts for children

Arts Council England chair seeks proposals to ensure pupils across UK get ‘opportunities currently only available in the best schools’

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Earlier this month we had the amazing opportunity to host a Saturday Club Masterclass by Sophie Thomas of Thomas Matthews!

Sophie got us thinking about graphic design and social issues, inspiring us to develop creative responses to the things that make us most angry. We had some really exciting ideas around mental health, pollution, body image and transport, and we can’t wait to develop these further!

Photos: The Saturday Club Trust/Rob Thompson