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The Arts Society Surrey Hills gives grants to arts projects for children and young people in our local area. In a time of cuts and changes to the national curriculum, this has never been more important. The Society aims to give more children and young people access to the arts and supports a wide range of projects. The Society is passionate about the benefits that creativity and arts education can bring to children in early life and adolescence.

Our Young Arts programme organised by Anne Heine Carmichael, continues to fund art themed projects in three local schools:

 Wonersh & Shamley Green School

This year, we funded the Buzzy Bench Project at the School to make the Peace Garden area more welcoming and inviting. The children painted the wooden benches with brightly coloured insects as a permanent piece of outdoor artwork. 

Year 5 took part in the National Art Bytes Competition. This is a national inter-school art competition with a bespoke immersive virtual gallery and in person celebration events across the UK. The children were allowed to offer any art work they have completed this year to be included. It was all uploaded online and national judges shortlisted three winners in each school. These were then voted for by the public and we did ask our members to vote as well as indeed did all our committee! The three shortlisted artists received certificates at a special regional event. And indeed Miah D who drew an amazing lions head called ‘The Great Lion’s Roar’ is the school winner. Her picture is shown on the art bytes website artbytes.co.uk   

Jigsaw Trust

For several years, we have supported the Jigsaw Trust, who are based at Dunsfold and provide education for both children and young adults who are affected by Autism. We believe this to be a very worthwhile project for our support. This year the Society contributed £500 towards their screen printing and block printing project.

This is an art self expression project helping the children to develop their creative skills and find their voice - building on the previous project we supported.  They worked then with Social Fabric and an experienced artist Sarah Pimenta who is also a children’s author and illustrator. This time they have used mark making, mono print and finger painting. There will be an art exhibition at their specially created Jigsaw Gallery in September at the school. 

Loseley Fields School

The School decided to get involved with the National Gallery's 'Take One Picture' project which is a national programme aimed to inspire a life long love of art and learning and cross-curricular work in primary classrooms. This year the picture in question was the famous 'Regatta in Venice' by Canaletto and the Society contributed £480 towards the cost of the materials. This was brilliantly organised by Charlie Stanton who arranged an Art Week across the whole school with each year looking at a different aspect of the picture - everything from boats and races, construction of boats, flags and banners design, architectural drawing, texture of water, costume design for masks and balls etc.

The art process is submitted to the National Gallery in a PowerPoint presentation. All presentations receive a participation certificate and they will be informed if their submission will be included on the National Gallery's website by the Christmas break. The school however will be having their own celebrations near the year end possibly including a black tie event for parents and families and of course an exhibition of the art work in the school.  

 

 

 

The Arts Society Surrey Hills gives grants to arts projects for children and young people in our local area. In a time of cuts and changes to the national curriculum, this has never been more important. The Society aims to give more children and young people access to the arts and supports a wide range of projects. The Society is passionate about the benefits that creativity and arts education can bring to children in early life and adolescence.

Our Young Arts programme organised by Anne Heine Carmichael, continues to fund art themed projects in three local schools:

 Wonersh & Shamley Green School

This year, we funded the Buzzy Bench Project at the School to make the Peace Garden area more welcoming and inviting. The children painted the wooden benches with brightly coloured insects as a permanent piece of outdoor artwork. 

Year 5 took part in the National Art Bytes Competition. This is a national inter-school art competition with a bespoke immersive virtual gallery and in person celebration events across the UK. The children were allowed to offer any art work they have completed this year to be included. It was all uploaded online and national judges shortlisted three winners in each school. These were then voted for by the public and we did ask our members to vote as well as indeed did all our committee! The three shortlisted artists received certificates at a special regional event. And indeed Miah D who drew an amazing lions head called ‘The Great Lion’s Roar’ is the school winner. Her picture is shown on the art bytes website artbytes.co.uk   

Jigsaw Trust

For several years, we have supported the Jigsaw Trust, who are based at Dunsfold and provide education for both children and young adults who are affected by Autism. We believe this to be a very worthwhile project for our support. This year the Society contributed £500 towards their screen printing and block printing project.

This is an art self expression project helping the children to develop their creative skills and find their voice - building on the previous project we supported.  They worked then with Social Fabric and an experienced artist Sarah Pimenta who is also a children’s author and illustrator. This time they have used mark making, mono print and finger painting. There will be an art exhibition at their specially created Jigsaw Gallery in September at the school. 

Loseley Fields School

The School decided to get involved with the National Gallery's 'Take One Picture' project which is a national programme aimed to inspire a life long love of art and learning and cross-curricular work in primary classrooms. This year the picture in question was the famous 'Regatta in Venice' by Canaletto and the Society contributed £480 towards the cost of the materials. This was brilliantly organised by Charlie Stanton who arranged an Art Week across the whole school with each year looking at a different aspect of the picture - everything from boats and races, construction of boats, flags and banners design, architectural drawing, texture of water, costume design for masks and balls etc.

The art process is submitted to the National Gallery in a PowerPoint presentation. All presentations receive a participation certificate and they will be informed if their submission will be included on the National Gallery's website by the Christmas break. The school however will be having their own celebrations near the year end possibly including a black tie event for parents and families and of course an exhibition of the art work in the school.