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

L1 Art and Design yellow week

Yellow week students from Level1 Art and Design at Outline worked with L1 hair and beauty to produce hair sculptures and make up to represent the four seasons. 

     Summer

 Winter

 Summer

 Winter

 Spring

Autumn

Hybrid - A Yellow Week Adventure

Twice during each academic year students take part in an off timetable week-long project. The weeks are called 'Yellow Weeks' and students are encouraged to cooperate and work with students from different departments and courses, with the aim to produce outcomes that are shown to an audience at the end of the week. 

During the first Yellow Week of the current academic year, students from our Creative Careers Subsidiary Diploma in Art & Design cooperated with student from the Specialist Careers Extended Diploma in Art & Design. The theme of the week-long activity was 'Hybrid'. Each group of students used different kinds of animals as their inspiration, which they combined to produce their own hybrid species. The week was concluded in an improvised performance in the lecture theatre and a parade through the college that attracted a lot of attention.

 Setting up for an improvised performance, that was watched by all participating staff and students.

 Students and their "Hybrids" during the parade through college.

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