Summer School
An unparalleled blend of creative arts and leadership development. Free course for young women (16-22) in and around the Nailsworth area.
Attention aspiring female artists! Our exciting Summer School in August offers an unparalleled blend of creative arts and leadership development. Over four weeks, you’ll engage with renowned women photographers, delve into exciting modules, and gain invaluable studio experience in our Nailsworth atelier to create personal projects and tell your story.
Want to explore creativity on your terms? Choose your adventure? Our 4-week programme offers a variety of independent modules. Sign up for all or just the ones you love. No experience required. All materials provided and it’s all free!
When and Where?
- Starts 1st August – finishes 24th August
- Thursdays to Saturdays, 10:30 to 16:00 with plenty of breaks
- Optional open access on Wednesdays (starting 7 August)
- A weekend workshop with British/Egyptian visual artist Laura El-Tantawy (exact date TBC).
- Summer School takes place at our museum at Nailsworth Mills (Unit 19, Nailsworth Mills, Avening Road, Nailsworth, Glos. GL6 0BS).
- Photography for metaphor and meaning
- Conveying myth and mysticism
- Images onto textiles
- Emotional expression through photography
- Alien landscapes and ecology
- How sustainable are alternative processes?
- Projects from 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth
- SCOBY-lab, bio-art and process-oriented art
- Fun with Fluxus
- Women’s Workshop and queer zines
- Zine making and book-binding
- Photo-manifesto textile montage
- Making record images – photographing the Collection
- Curating the archive
- Delving into the archive
- Starting your own collection
- Produce a mini-exhibition
What to expect
Each module offers an introduction to using Canon cameras and you will have use of them for the duration of the course. Each week we’ll be looking at a different theme and some of the women artists working in these areas. The sessions will combine research and theory with lots of practical opportunities to have a go with different techniques and equipment from the process-oriented art using a SCOBY to hot press and sublimation techniques for using photo-montage for the basis of textile protest banners.
Register your interest using the form below – all sessions are free!
Open Access – Wednesdays from 7th August
Our open access sessions are designed to facilitate your ideas, building on the knowledge gained on the course. We can help you develop your own project, whether that’s for you personally or your portfolio. We encourage you to explore difficult topics and will point you in the direction of Heroines’ objects from our collection who have explored similar concepts! Thanks to Canon and donors of equipment, we have DSLR cameras, backdrops/lighting, art supplies galore and machinery to make art prints, scan 35mm film, stencil screen prints, sublimation printing onto fabrics, use of Adobe software and so on. There is also an opportunity to collaborate with other like minded people your own age on projects, which we think is super exciting.
This project has been made possible through the generous support of the Canon Young People Programme
