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OUTREACH 2006
Anthony Cawood- AT FOUNTAIN HOUSE ON MONDAYS Velile Soha -PRINT MAKING AT FOUNTAIN HOUSE Madi Phala Barbara Voss - WOMENS ART WORKSHOPS Helen Johnston -ST ANNES WORKSHOP- March 2006 Pierre Fouché - TAKE IT LIKE A MAN Mandla Vanyaza - I.D MKHIZE HIGH SCHOOL Kadiatou Diallo - LINGE PRIMARY SCHOOL IN NYANGA Garth Erasmus - MURAL PAINTING AT ARTSCAPE 2006
	OUTREACH 2006
	ANTHONY CAWOOD AT FOUNTAIN HOUSE ON MONDAYS 2006
	As part of Greatmore Studio’s outreach project, Anthony Cawood is working with people from Fountain House in Observatory each Monday afternoon. Over the past few Mondays they have concentrated on a large paper mural in the dining room. As a group effort the mural is developing with input from all involved, discussions and interactions influences the direction in which the mural will develop. Using coloured paper and wall paper paste makes the medium accessible to all. After each day’s work the results are surprising and stimulating. The making of the work in the public space has generated interest by all that see it and will remain a strong statement of co-operation and sharing to all who experience the work. [Back to top]
	VELILE SOHA -FACILITATES A PRINT MAKING AT FOUNTAIN HOUSE in January and February 2006
	A printmaking course, facilitated by Velile Soha, was held at Fountain House in Observatory, a rehabilitation and training centre for adults disabled by mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder. The purpose of the course was to give them skills and allow them to dabble with creative thinking. At the course, the learners had been able to design through Mono-print techniques. They also understood the basic ethics that are applied to the publication and display of prints. They feel confident that they have acquired basic printmaking skills. Their prints showed confidence and they could identify areas of improvement in their printing ability. They now know how to use printing ink by means of applying it onto the flat glass using rollers. The materials used for the duration of the course were masonite boards, cartridge paper, news–print, printmaking inks, ear-buds, cutting tools, thinners, linoleum, masking tape, acrylic paints and Perspex. [Back to top]	[view more images]
	Barbara Voss - WOMENS ART WORKSHOPS IN ROBBEN ISLAND 2006
	Barbara Voss Facilitated 6 sessions of 3 hours, in February and March. Barbara lives and works on Robben Island. She is an artist and art teacher and runs workshops for both children and adults. A group of five women working on Robben Island expressed interest in attending art workshops for their personal enrichment and, in some cases, to build confidence in doing art activities with children. Art facilitator Barbara Voss agreed to run a series of workshops to meet these women’s specific needs. The Robben Island Museum supported the initiative by allowing the women to have the workshops during working hours and by providing the art studio in the education block as a venue. Objectives: > To experience art in a relaxed, fun and non-threatening environment > To develop confidence in using art activities for personal enjoyment and relaxation > To gain practice in the use of art materials and techniques relevant to the pre-school or educare teacher > To experience the value of art activities as tools for personal expression Download enitire report. (35K) [Back to top]	[view images larger]
	Madi Phala 2006
	Madi Phala first explained to them the importance of colour, then they had to mix colours themselves. This really took them by surprise and one could sense a high octave of excitement. Of course one of the elderly ladies was always mistaking one colour for the other, a purple would come out brown for her. He then gave them courage to show off their usage of the pencil. Not surprising, a lot of African " drievoet " (three leg) pots came out, as well as huts. The joy of this exercise brought about their will to go home and bring more drawings. Drawings were brought in and, surprisingly, stencils that they have been using for a while. We started with fabric painting, then ended the day with bleaching of fabrics. They also asked if they could be offered further workshops. The success of the workshop lies in the aspect that they realised the importance of time management, a system of doing easy subjects and the immediate pleasure of not knowing what will come out of bleaching. Their major setback at this point in time is that they do not have their own premises, and we had to use one of the participant’s mum's restaurant. [Back to top]	[view more images]
	Helen Johnston -ST ANNES WORKSHOP- March 2006
	Thirteen children from St Anne’s came down to Greatmore for an afternoon of art making. The children do study art at school but had not made any sculpture. I decided to introduce the children to sand casting. The students all left a foot-print in some damp sand and then the children poured plaster of Paris into it. While the plaster was setting we did some drawing to decide what to paint on the foot. The group came up with a variety of ideas, some painted imaginary journeys and some decided on a real journey they had made. The children were very excited to see a cast of their foot. They painted them in vibrant and lively colours. The children really seemed to have fun and were very pleased with their art work. It was great to introduce the new methods of art making to a young lively group. Helen Johnson. March 2006. [Back to top]	[view images larger]
	TAKE IT LIKE A MAN : February 2006
	Photography workshop by Pierre Fouché A series of two snapshot photography workshops involving Cape Town male sex-workers revealed the shady underworld of Cape Town Rent to be filled with light and hope. Facilitated by Greatmore resident Pierre Fouché and funded by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, seven male sex-workers from a prominent agency were introduced to the world of photography through Polaroid lenses on two Saturdays during the month of February 2006. Each participant received a Polaroid camera and after a basic demonstration and presentation of essential camera and composition basics, was given an open brief to snap their environment and themselves. The resulting images (which will be shown at blankprojects in July 2006) revealed a surprising sensitivity of keen observation in some, and a delightful and playful portrait of Cape Town and surrounds in others, while a select few made direct reference to the participant’s working environment. As a whole the results are a realistic affirmation of life: filled with light, beaches, sand and leisure time on one hand and counter-pointed by a darker interior side on the other. The world revealed through the eyes of individual rent boys seems not much different from any Capetownian’s world, and by inference, everyone who experiences life as a paradoxical combination of joy and celebration despite difficult circumstances and a few cloudy days of the soul. Hopefully the culminating exhibition will aid in gaining visibility for individuals forging an existence in this doubly negated realm of identity on the eve of proposed legislative reforms to the sex-work industry as a whole – an attempt spearheaded by S.W.E.A.T (the Sex Workers Education and Action taskforce) to make South-Africa truly free and safe for all. [Back to top]	Alex [view more images]
	TIE-DYE WORKSHOP AT I.D MKHIZE HIGH SCHOOL 2006
	Mandla Vanyaza's report When I was thinking about where I can conduct an outreach program I thought of a school In Gugulethu which has a few students taking art as their subject. I had met the teacher before and discovered that she was one of the many teachers in the townships who had been handed the task by the principals of taking over a new subject of art and culture of which they had no knowledge. I went to the school to make a proposal to conduct the tie-dye workshop knowing that there is high chance that the teacher herself had not been exposed to the process. It was so and the teacher suggested that she also take part to familiarise herself with the process. A date was set and materials needed were discussed. I talked to the students briefly about tie-dyeing and how common it was in everyday clothes that they see and they were excited and looked forward to make their first cloths. The teacher supplied the kettle needed to boil water for the dye and also supplied the buckets to dip the cloths in. Greatmore supplied the cloth, dyes and strings .I supplied the measuring jug (without my wife’s knowledge ) and salt, because I forgot to include it in my budget. The workshop was held in a classroom which doubles as a art classroom. The only two boys in the art class did not attend school on that day so we proceeded with five girls. Little stone pebbles were gathered and after the cloth was cut and divided among all, the stones were knotted in cloth with the string. That was the most time consuming part because every care had to be taken to tie tightly to prevent water from getting to the stone. From then it was all fun with the mixing of the dyes, with me only supervising and only had to intervene when one the m became too enthusiastic in throwing of the salt into the dye. Eventually it was time to immerse the cloths and time was apparently passing slowly for them in order to see the results. After taking them out they were hung out to dry on the school fence. Second cloths were done with second colour dyes and the process was quicker than the first. Every one of them were impressed with their creations and the teacher was glad to have their creations as part of work to be shown for a year mark. I truly enjoyed and was also humbled being part of laying a foundation for them towards bigger things in the future and thank Greatmore Studios for allowing me. Yours in art (Mandla Vanyaza) [Back to top]	[view more images]
	Linge Primary School 2006
	Kadiatou Diallo report: have been facilitating workshops with 10 children from Linge Primary School in Nyanga at our project space in the city centre – called Kwa. Using the media of arts, music, movement, discussion and play, we explore how their curriculum links to other areas in their lives. For the Greatmore outreach programme these weekly 2-hour workshops specifically focused on exploring the links between visual images and perception as well as the image as communication. So we began with “learning to see”. Through play they became aware of their own (limited) visual memory and practiced identifying the basic geometrical shapes that make up our visual world. We looked how these basic building blocks are used in contemporary paintings to make known objects. These basic shapes were then used as building blocks to construct images, first as collages and drawings, later in painting. We had “crits” together encouraging the children to think and talk about why they thought something was beautiful and what it is that they would want to communicate in a painting (“What do you want the audience to think and feel when they see you work?) and why. The experience of thinking of painting as more than just nice images was a novel idea initially but quickly revealed interesting responses (such as that abstract art is not considered beautiful because it is “not right” and messy). Many of them have also never been exposed to media other than crayons and exceeded in mixing beautiful colours. The results of these 4 weeks will be shown at the end of the residency as part of my final exhibition. [Back to top]	A collective work [view more images]
	Garth Erasmus - MURAL PAINTING AT ARTSCAPE 2006
	THE INITIATIVE : The symbolism of the artwork as portrayed by Garth Erasmus is one of unity, bringing together The City of Cape Town and Artscape as well as building capacity within communities. Artscape provides infrastructural support and professional expertise, which makes this partnership possible. THE MURAL: Commenced during June 2004 and completed over a two year period. The design of the mural follows a thematic progression with the character and feel of Indigenous Khoisan Iconography.. a colourful celebration of our original culture heritage and taking in the cultural forms and shapes of Dance, Music, Mythology and Landscape. The theme roughly follows a movement “from darkness to the light” in the context of the tunnel. [Back to top]	Garth Erasmus and Sipho Hlati [view more images]