Christchurch Creatives: SCAPE 8 portrait workshops

Christchurch Creatives: share your skills in SCAPE 8 portrait workshops

SCAPE Public Art Christchurch Biennial presents the ‘How-To’ Guide to Making Portraits: Workshops by Locals for Locals during SCAPE 8, a free public participation event in central Christchurch between 3 October and 15 November 2015.

“The ‘How To’ Guide to Making Portraits” is a public participation project in the SCAPE 8 programme, in which we celebrate the skills and talents of people in the local creative sector and we invite you to propose ideas for free-to-the-public portrait-making workshops – in any style or form – for people of all ages, including children and young people.

Rob Garrett, curator of SCAPE 8, invites submissions for Portrait Making Workshops from the local creative sector. We are seeking all sorts of ideas for innovative and fun-filled workshops, from all sorts of talents: fine artists, video and filmmakers, photographers, forensic artists, cartoonists, comic artists and others we don’t yet know about.

“We really want to see what the local creative sector is excited by and we’ll take their lead on this,” says curator Rob Garrett.

Once we have received proposals, all selected presenters will be paid a fee to enable the workshops to be offered free to the public during SCAPE 8 at Arts Central (corner of Gloucester and Colombo Streets). “First and foremost this idea is about celebrating and sharing the amazing skills and experience of the local creative sector,” says Garrett, “and of course it is also about the fun of taking part; and the enjoyment of sharing and learning a new skill.”

Proposal submissions close 5pm, Friday 1 May 2015.

The selected workshop holders will receive $500 fixed presenter payment, with an additional budget of up to $300 to spend on materials.

http://www.scapepublicart.org.nz/scape-8-portrait-workshops/

The SCAPE 8 Public Art Christchurch Biennial is a contemporary art event, which mixes new artworks with existing legacy pieces, an education programme, and a public programme of events. The SCAPE 8 artworks will be located around central Christchurch and linked via a public art walkway. All aspects of SCAPE 8 are free-to-view and will be available to visit over a period of six weeks between 3 October and 15 November 2015.

SCAPE 8 curator, Rob Garrett is a New Zealand-born curator based in Poland, with more than 35 years in the art sector, including curatorial experience in New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, France, Turkey, Germany and India. Most recently he curated the 2013 Narracje public art festival in Gdańsk, Poland.

http://www.scapepublicart.org.nz/scape-8/

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