Young Artisan Project

The Trust had a successful experience, providing professional support for underrepresented and disadvantaged groups to acquire new skills and progress into further training, employment and volunteering opportunities, this included:

‘Young Artisan’ project for school refusers from Atlantic Academy that included local community volunteer support from four local artists and two recent art graduates undertaking a one-year artists residency with the Trust, including Mike Chato a professional fine art painter also in residence with the Trust who delivered experimental  drawing workshops for community artists and pupils  as well as slide projections.

The Trust, an Artsmark Partner, designed and delivered its yearly creative arts programme, giving young people wide access to, and engagement with, different artists and materials, resulting in the ‘Young Artisans’ developing motivation, direction and outstanding work. An exhibition and presentations at the Drill Hall Gallery by the young Artisans to the public was very well received.