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NE Arts also
offers a range of community arts workshops which deliver simple, accessible arts activities from around the world including:-
Aboriginal
Navajo
Shona
Columbian
Inuit
Navajo Art
Northumbrian
Cup & Ring rock art
Pop Art
Cartography
Benefits
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Accessible to people of all ages & abilities
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Community Inclusion in your project or initiative
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Targeting specific groups
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Providing learning opportunities in an informal setting
• Opportunities for Community participation
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Aboriginal Art Workshop
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Australia has a long history of visual arts, starting with the cave and bark paintings of its
indigenous peoples.
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Modern Aboriginal artists
continue the tradition using modern materials in their artworks.
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Aboriginal art is the most
internationally recognisable form of Australian art.
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Several styles of Aboriginal
art have developed in modern times including the watercolour paintings of Albert Namatjira; the Hermannsburg School, and the acrylic Papunya Tula "dot art" movement
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Everyone
is an artist
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Images
of “Dreaming” / Journeys / Animals / The Land
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Aboriginal
art is expressing how you feel
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Aboriginal
art is spiritual / mystical / ceremonial
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Aboriginal
art is about patterns & shapes
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"dot
art" is easy – accessible & creative
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Pop
Art
Pop
art exploded on to the scene in the fifties and sixties. The world was changing and so were people's ideas about art.
Pop
artists wanted to bring life and art closer together, so they drew normal objects that were important to ordinary people.
Burgers, sweets and cans of pop - all your fave stuff was turned into pop-tastic masterpieces.
Shona Rock Art
Some of the oldest art in Africa is to be found in Zimbabwe. The Art presents the shamans’ privileged
view of the trance dance and of the spirit world to which they are transported. This workshop gives an overview of the rock
art in it's context & allows participants to explore their symbols & to try to create their own.
Northumbrian Cup & Ring
Thousands of prehistoric
rock carvings are found on boulders and rocky outcrops in many parts of Britain and Ireland. This rock art is an important component of our historic environment but it is also one of the more mysterious and poorly
understood aspects of our past. The carvings are concentrated mainly
in northern England, Scotland and Ireland. Almost a thousand rock
art panels are so far known in Northumberland.
This workshop celebrates the arts heritage of Northumbria
& in doing so will inspire participants not only to produce their own work,but also to visit the art in situ - providing
excellent fieldwork opportunities.
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Inuit Art Background
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Inuit is a general term for
a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic coasts of Siberia, Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Labrador in Canada, and Greenland.
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The Canadian Arctic has been
populated for more than 4,000 years
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Contemporary Inuit Art is
deeply embedded in a culture which has survived the cruel and harsh Arctic environment for thousands of years.
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Modern Inuit artists continue
the tradition using modern materials in their artworks.
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Everyone
is an artist
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Images
of “Dreaming” / Journeys / Animals / The Land
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Inuit
art is expressing how you feel
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Inuit
art is spiritual / mystical / ceremonial
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Inuit
art is about symbols patterns & shapes
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Inuit
art is often used by Shamen’s
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Navajo Art
•Navajo art uses symbols and signs to represent their ideas, beliefs, dreams, and visions. It is often associated
with healing & is performed in ceremonies by medicine men to produce sand paintings
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•The Navajos have a complex series of healing ceremonies, or chants.
• Ordinarily, on each of these nights, the Singer (medicine man) directs the making of a sandpainting that illustrates an allegory used in the ceremony
Columbian Rock Art
Several thousand years ago indigenous cultures in the northern part of
South America shared a complex system of shamanic beliefs
with Central American cultures. Close to 800 rock art sites have been
identified. This workshop looks at the symbols, signs & emblems used in the rock art & invites participants to enage
with the art & create their own.
Cartography Workshop
This workshop explores the evolution of maps & how they are both the product of the map maker as
well as the person for whom the map is intended. It engages the audience using well known maps and encourages them to devise
a lifestyle map or "map of me" using the principles of cartography & the use of abstract images.
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NE Arts, 56 Meldon Terrace, Newbiggin-by-the-sea, Northumberland, NE64 6XH
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