Level Two students get ready for Christmas Fair

Amy Harris, the Course Leader for Level Art and Design, has been using enterprise week for her students to create Christmas cards to sell at the upcoming Christmas Fair.

They have made some brilliant hand printed cards that will be for sale in December for a very reasonable price!

Foundation student lends expertise to catering dept.

As part of our enterprise activities across the college one of our Foundation Art and Design students, Claudia Collett, spent some time with the catering department helping them design their blackboards to make them more attractive for potential customers.

See comments below from the lecturer, Peter Harvey:

She was confident and showed great maturity throughout the time she spent with the group. After she had worked and encouraged the best out of the students they produced a themed board for a 70’s night being held in the restaurant. It looked fantastic!  The feedback from the catering students was very positive and they really appreciated the fact that Claudia had volunteered her time for their benefit. Thank you Claudia you were a great ambassador to your area and I hope that we can use the art department again for similar activities in the future.

Lee runs workshop at National Theatre

Lee Jamieson, ED Performing Arts course leader, is working with young people across the country on his specialist subject of 'Artaud'.  Lee, his students and the technicians have created some great videos to support the workshops....see links below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSJS738c71Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CiHFHMIMPg&feature=youtu.be

See information below from the National Theatre's website:

Katie Mitchell’s 5 Truths films present Ophelia’s ‘mad’ speech, directed in the style of five key theatre practitioners: Artaud, Brecht, Brook, Grotowski and Stanislavski. Timed to coincide with the 5 Truths installation (Olivier Theatre foyer, 24 September – 6 October), this full day event examines their work and theory through on-stage workshops.

(images and text courtesy of http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover/learning-events/five-truths-6th-form-conference)

Photography lecturer exhibits work

Part of the forthcoming MERL Ladybird exhibition will be a series of banners featuring responses to Ladybird images by University of Reading academics. We asked these academics ‘what do you look for when you look at one of the “What to Look For  in Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter” Ladybird books.

Wig Sayell has a longstanding interest in offering complex engagements with landscape and rural history. Her response to our commission was to produce four images, each reflecting one of the four ‘What To Look For…’ books.

Here is the image for ‘Autumn’. 

Link to Foundation Art and Design

Martin and his team have been blogging all the latest work the students have been achieving on the Foundation course...see link below:

http://inventoryofeverything.wordpress.com/