A Summary of Work undertaken by rojo art:
Art and Music Day, Babergh District Council - Planets and stars themed workshop for families to complement musical activities.
Childrens Festival, Bury St Edmunds and Haverhill - a St Edmund themed workshop for families
Gifted and Talented summer School Thefrord - Feltmaking
Harringey Council Green Festival - Drop in workshop in tent making giant recycled plastic flowers.
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds - Working with youth theatre to create masks for next production.
Raleigh School, Thetford, July 2009 - Working with the whole school to create a recycled plastic garden.
Wickham Market Primary, June 2009 - three day project creating an outdoor magical garden from recycled plastics
Elmswell Primary School, June 2009 - one day project creating a fence of brightly coloured recycled flowers for the playground.
St Williams Primary, Norwich, June 2009 - Three day residency creating large scale artwork for the school.
Sextons Manor Primary and Gunton Primary, June 2008 -Drama and art promoting safe and sustainable travel to school. See 'Way to Go'
Rainthorpe Hall, Secret Gardens, Norfolk County Council - Giant fairytale flowers for families.
National Trust, Ickworth House, May 2009 - A three day residency working with two local schools to create wall hanging based on the life of evacuees at Ickworth.
Feltmaking workshop, Bury St Edmunds, March and April 2009 - a masterclass teaching the technique of cobweb felt.
Moyses Hall Museum, March 2007- St Edmund themed activities for families.
Norton Primary school, January 2009 - Feltmaking for the teachers for PD day.
Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fair, December 2008 - Created a Santa grotto for Bury Corn Exchange and held a family workshop in the Abbey Gardens combining storytelling and making handmade felt gifts.
Moyses Hall Museum, November 2008 - A St Edmund themed workshop for families.
National Trust, Ickworth House, October 2008 -a family workshop making kites from recycled plastics- they flew very well!
Norton Primary School, September 2008 - a project with the whole school making a felted vegetable garden that was installed in the school hall.
After School Art Clubs, Ickworth Park Primary and Norton Primary, September 2008 to April 2009 - weekly art clubs in local schools offering a chance to try out new and unexpected techniques and materials.
Green Festival, Romford, August 2009 - A drop-in workshop making giant recycled plastic flowers.
Children's Festival, Bury St Edmunds, August 2008 - A St Edmund themed workshop for families
Gifted and Talented Summer School, Thetford, July 2008 - two days of activities for young children using recycled plastics.
Raleigh Primary school, Thetford, July 2008 - a two day residency creating a felt vegetable garden for the school foyer.
Heritage Services, Bury St Edmunds Market, June 2008 - a drop-in workshop for families to create an artwork to reflect the changing face of Bury market.
Barningham Primary School, June 2008- Feltmaking with the whole school for Environment Day.
Sextons Manor Primary School, June 2008 - Creating 3D carnival minibeasts with Years 1 and 3.
Ixworth Primary School, June 2008 - Large wall mosaic from recycled ceramics involving the whole school.
Festival of Culture, June 2008 - Latin American inspired art activity for children.
Shirley Community Primary School, June 2008 - Feltmaking with the whole school along a tropical rainforest theme.
Knodishall Primary School, May 2008 - A one day feltmaking project with the whole school creating a large artwork of felt fruit and vegetables.
Westley Middle School, May 2008 - A two day residency with Years7 and 8 creating a recycled plastic sculpture garden.
Norwich Rd School, Thetford, April 2008 - A half day project with year 1 using recycled plastics to create an underwater scene.
Boxted Hall, April 2008- A full day art retreat for adults, with floristry, willow weaving and a delicious lunch.
Hadleigh Easter Programme, April 2008- Recycled art workshops for school age children.
Heritage Services, April 2008- Drama, music and art inspired by a local heritage theme
Thetford Excellence Partnership, March 2008- Easter holiday family workshops.
Willow weaving at Lackford Lakes, March 2008- a morning workshop introducing willow weaving skills to adults.
Guildhall Feoffment School, March 2008- Painting playground signs with the children
Great Barton Primary school, March 2008- A whole school project using recycled plastic. Inspired by the science week theme of plants the children created a large artwork for the school hall.
Cedars Park Primary School, Stowmarket, January 2008 - A whole school project to create a large artwork for the school entrance hall. The children created a flower garden making the flowers in handmade felt and recycled plastics.
Adult workshop at Lackford Lakes Nature Reserve - Beginners feltmaking
Adult Workshop at St John's Centre, Bury St Edmunds, December 2007 - Beginners feltmaking
Guildhall Feoffment Primary School, December 2007 - Helping Year 1 & 2 create a Christmas tree from recycled plastics.
Summer in the Park, Sudbury, September 2007 - An outdoor drop in workshop in Bellevue park making masks and tiaras from woodland materials.
Summer School, All Saints Primary School, Lawshall August 2007 -A one day summer camp with three different projects around the theme of mini beasts.
Summer School, Thetford, July 2007 - Drop in workshops for children and parents with a sea theme. Recycled plastics were transformed into 3d fish mobiles and glittering underwater scenes.
Guildhall Feoffment Primary School, July 2007 - Helping children to create a healthy eating mural to brighten up their dining area.
Bury St Edmunds Cathedral, July 2007- Working with Cathedral volunteers to explore artistic responses to reflective storytelling.
Walsham-le-Willows CEVCP School, July 2007 - Helping children to brighten up a playground wall with a large-scale mosaic. The mosaic was designed by a Year 1 student.
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery June 2007 Creating a recycled plastic garden for Children's Art Day
Thetford Grammar School
June 2007
Working with year 7 students to produce recycled art.
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds
June
2007
Working with pre-school drama group to produce animal masks for story telling.
St Mary's CEVAP School
June 2007
Two days feltmaking with years 2 and 3,
producing outdoor felt for the sculpture trail.
Suffolk County Council Festival Of Culture
May 2007
A children's workshop to celebrate diversity.
Sir Robert Hitcham's
CEVAP School
April 2007
Two day feltmaking residency with the whole school. Introducing feltmaking as a
textile technique and working towards a collaborative artwork.
Haddenham Gallery
April 2007
A holiday workshop for children aged 7-14 using recycled materials to complement the exhibition 'TRASH'
Westgate Primary School
March 2007
A Whole school project using recycled materials to produce a communal artwork on an African theme.
St Louis Middle School
December 2006
An after school
club Christmas felt making project.
St Edmunds CVA Primary School November 2006
A Whole school feltmaking project using the life of St
Edmund as its theme for Risbygate Arts digital story telling series.
Colchester Museum September 2006
Working with excluded teenagers on a feltmaking project relating to the
museum's collection.
Suffolk Carers January – August 2006
The aim of this programme is to allow carers to develop interests of
their own while caring long term for others. Rojo worked with
adults on feltmaking, printmaking and papermaking. We worked
with Young Carers as summer projects on papermaking, feltmaking,
recycled plastics and metallic sculpture.
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury July 2005- August 2006
Regular holiday programmes of workshops for children and accompanying
adults.
Lawshall Primary School August 2006
A two day Summer School for primary age children. Using a
summertime seaside theme we provided a fun programme of projects
including clay work, disposable art, recycled plastics, feltmaking
supported by drawing and painting.
Risbygate Arts May-July 2006
A community project working first in the Abbey Gardens as part of Bury
Festival making birds from natural park materials followed by a
printmaking project which resulted in a large piece of artwork for
display in Bury Library.
Tuesday Art
Club February 2005 - ongoing
The aim of this club is to offer a diverse range of art activities as a
supplement to the school curriculum. Designed for children
who enjoy the freedom to create on their own terms, it is run as a fun
after school activity for school age children in and around Bury St
Edmunds. Children are introduced to the work of
different artists and genres and produce a range of work, some of which
has been displayed in the Professional Development Centre, Bury St
Edmunds. The club has also worked with the Theatre Royal
Young Drama Group to produce scenery for their performance in
July.
Diversity Day for SCC June 2006
One day workshop making recycled plastic masks with visitors to this
event.
Worlingworth Primary School June 2006
Whole school feltmaking project
Skylarks After School Club April 2006
A feltmaking course with middle school children.
Cockfield Primary School April 2006
A whole school project to make an exterior mosaic mural. for the
Sebert Wood CP School March 2006
A recycled materials project with •early years' to produce a
mural for Asia week.
Wilby CP School February 2006
Whole school felt making project based on Natural Forms.
Horringer Court Middle School January 2006
A textiles project working with a selected group of forty
students. The children used dying, painting and fabric
collaging techniques to make hanging banners to represent their Houses.
Risbygate Arts December 2005
Festive Fun - Part of the •Unburying Voices' community arts
programme, these workshops invite participants to be inspired by
memories and feelings about Christmas, and to work with different
materials over two sessions to produce decorations.
Great Barton Primary School November 2005
Snowflakes: A whole school project to create a backdrop for the winter
play. Children worked with recycled materials, print and
collage to produce a collaged mural and a shimmering hanging montage of
3D snowflakes over the whole hall.
Suffolk County Council Community Education Families Learning February 2003 - September 2005
A monthly programme of lively interactive sessions giving families the
opportunity to discover the excitement of making art
together.
These workshops work around a theme, using varied resources to spark
the creative process. Then, exploring a particular media or
method the children create an artwork to take home.
Suffolk County Council
Learning and Neighbourhood Development Project Training for Community
development in Suffolk June 2005
We delivered a workshop to community development workers
who are interested in using the creative arts in their work. The aim of
the training being to demonstrate how a community worker could plan and
deliver a creative arts project.
St Edmundsbury Borough Council Suffolk Waste Partnership April 2005
A project aiming to reinforce the work of 'Sort it for Suffolk' by
using recycled materials to produce artwork. A drop in
workshop for families was held in Bury St Edmunds Library.
The resulting work was hung in the library for six months before moving
to other council venues.
This work is currently on display at Endeavour House Ipswich (January
2007).
West Suffolk Drugs Advisory Service
Mildenhall Disaffected Youth Project:
September 2004 - February 2005
Funded by the Drugs Advisory Service, this project was designed to
introduce working in the arts to disaffected youth in the
area.
The aim being to minimise the likelihood of them becoming drug
users.
The group, aged from 15 -24yrs met every Thursday. The project
introduced print techniques to produce work based loosely around urban
themes and music. A display of work was hung in The Old Post
Office, Mildenhall and later toured other drug service venues.
Mildenhall Drug Users Art Project
May -
July 2005
Introducing felt and papermaking techniques with the aim of helping
users find alternative ways to use their time.