Taster Day 2013

Taster Day for new students joining Outline in September 

for Levels 1, 2, 3 and Foundation Art & Design

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Taster Day for Subsidiary Diploma in Art & Design July 2013

Taster days activities for the new level 3 first years was based around the theme of organic/natural growth, the students put together a structure based on natural repeating forms using a variety of techniques to 'grow' a structure spanning a room using paper and card.

 

Yellow Week - January 2013

The recent yellow week was our first themed event related to the development of the new overseas exchange programme “Comenius”. The project theme of “gastronomy” was taken up by our students from the Subsidiary Diploma in Art and Design in the development of drawings, sculptures and Prints looking at the forms and structures of fruits and vegetables. Above you can see a short film which captures the week-long activities. 

Yellow Week 2 - Comenius inspired activity

During the second yellow week the current group of Subsidiary Diploma students are producing work inspired by the theme of the Comenius exchange programme, which is 'food'. Over the next two years students from the department will have the opportunity to visit different countries and cities, with the aim to meet students and to sample the local cuisine. 

Today the students are working in three different groups. Each group is working on a set activity for either a morning or afternoon, before switching over to the next activity. The activities on offer are a large scale drawing, which encourages the students to work large-scale across walls and floors. A sculptural outcome, which encourages students to use wire to create a three-dimensional response. And a relief printing workshop, which requires of the students to first build and then print their own large-scale printing plate, which is made from paper and other found materials.

On Thursday all work produced during the yellow week activities will be showcase in a final exhibition, which will be held at Outline, Sutton Coldfield. 

 Above & below: Wire-sculpture workshop

Above: Students 'translating small-scale models into large scale wire sculptures

 Above & below: Students painting and printing their relief printing plates.

Above: Final group crit

How the Hybrids were made....

Here are a few photos of the Hybrids development,you can see the full set of photos if you click on this sequence:

hybrid sequence video

Welcome to Outline!

Today Outline welcomed the next generation of artists and designers for a taster day ahead of the start of their level 3 Subsidiary Diploma, which will start in September. The objective of the day was to give the students the opportunity to 'tell' their stories and introduce themselves to the group using the medium of drawing. At the same time the taster day was designed to give our next generation of students the opportunity to meet fellow learners and to familiarise themselves with their new college environment. The group of over 40 students took part in a series of workshops, as a group they produce a final piece of fine art drawing.

At the beginning there were individual drawings....which later were joined through further sketches and drawings of personal items that the students brought with them.

 A students mapping her journey from home into college...

Students expressing themselves through 'silhouette-drawings'.

Keywords such as 'Heritage', 'Education' and 'Magic' prompted a mind-map.

The students regularly rotated and changed their positions, which led to the creation of a final communal piece of work. 

 "Jazz-hands!"

Outline would like to thank all students that attended today's taster session for their effort and for the fantastic outcomes they produced during the session, it would have not been the same without you! Welcome to Outline!