Theatre Design Workshop with Saranjit Birdi.

OUTLINE students on the Theatre Arts Course and BMAPA  drama students worked together with visiting artist and theatre designer Saranjit Birdi following his FEED night talk outlining his varied career in architecture, computer animation, community arts and recent performance pieces creating a fusion between drawing and dance.

The students worked in groups to develop ideas for the collaborative live project, BMAPA’s production of “The Little Match Girl” considering points raised in Saranjit’s  talk and solutions to staging problems, for example how to light a match without using a real flame!

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.

 

Level 2 Art and Design and Town Junior School Animation Collaboration

Just a few of the Characters the children developed as part of the School Animation Collaboration

Well done to all the kids for such creative ideas and for joining in with all the activities so enthusiastically!

Summer Shows - June 2013

This year's OUTLINE Art and Design Exhibition showcases student's best work from all levels of courses at the Sutton Coldfield Campus of Birmingham Metropolitan College. Work exhibited is from Level 1, 2 and 3 and the pre-degree Foundation Course.  

Students on these multi-disciplinary courses work across a broad range of art and design subjects with their ideas and outcomes focused in one specialist area at the culmination of their course.

The private view will take place on Thursday 13th June from 6.30pm until 9pm, all welcome!

Sutton Coldfield Campus

Outline - Art & Design Centre, Rooms SCL 53 - 56 

and Student Centre, 1st Floor 

34 Lichfield Road, 

Sutton Coldfield, B74 2NW

Outline experimental drawing workshop

This entry shows a project run with the Harborne Academy where year seven students studying on the theme of the history of Birmingham turned photographs they had taken in the Jewellery Quarter into large-scale, experimental, mixed media drawings.

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. 

Comenuis exchange programme

Last week students from colleges in Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Turkey, Latvia and Bulgaria visited Outline. The group of students was working on a large scale mural inspired by their local surroundings. Find out more about the exchange programme here:

Art students in the local paper

Our talented students got a mention in the Sutton Coldfield Observer on October 5th. The image features the fantastic portraits produced by the A-level Art students but all Art students put on a fabulous exhibition after only three weeks! Excellent work!

Book of Birmingham

Come along and join us at The Birmingham Book festival in the library. The City of 1000 Stories team invites you to participate in our latest art installation, the Book of Birmingham. Share you personal experience and tell your story through words and images using a range of simple mark making and drawing techniques, before adding your contribution to the flying pages of the Book of Birmingham installation in the pop-up bookshop.

Spend some time or simply drop in for a moment to add your ‘visual voice’ to the many fragments. Join us, let your story be part of the installation, be creative and make your mark!

The Birmingham Book Festival runs from the 4^th October until 13^th October at the Birmingham Library, weekdays 10am – 5.30pm, Saturdays 9am – 4.30pm, Sunday the library is closed. 

Find more information about the Festival here.

The view from the outside in

Marvellous Market at Outline

This week Outline opened it's doors to welcome family and friends to the Marvellous Market. On show and for sale was work produced by our students during the last three induction weeks. The exhibition was very well received by our visitors, all proceeds from the event will be going towards future exhibitions at Outline.

Final Year Exhibition - Private View

Last week Outline opened it's doors to welcome families, friends and visitors to the private view and launch event of the final year shows of all art and design courses run at Outline*. On Thursday night visitors poured into the department to see the work that had been produced as part of the students' Final Major Projects and to celebrate the excellent achievement of our students. 

The night was a great success and the reaction by the great number of visitors that came was overwhelmingly positive. A massive thank you to all students and staff that worked so hard over the past weeks to help make the exhibition such a successful event.

 *all courses except: HND in Fine Art, which is currently being shown at Minerva Works in Digbeth