Art is a wonderful way to engage people in almost anything – and the Sidmouth School of Art has been doing that successfully with several projects – including back in June when some eye-catching River Sid artwork featured on Sidmouth’s Wallspace and this time last year with the new gabion art trail at the Ham Sensory Garden. And last week, it put on free half-term workshops, looking at where art and nature meet.
Over the last months, the School has put together an extraordinary and ambitious project – its Confluence – the River Sid and Its Tributaries, which brings people, ideas, knowledge and action together to protect, conserve and enhance the river and its tributaries.
The artwork co-created through the project will be presented at the Riverside Art Space in the Sensory Garden in November.
This has been not only big in scope but big in involving other groups in the Sid Valley – as the piece on Art in the Environment for the Environment explains:
Sidmouth School of Art, working with Sidmouth Coastal Community Hub invites the community to get creative…
Confluence – The River Sid and Its Tributaries is a public participation project which is inspiring, engaging and connecting children, young people and adults with nature. Working with the River Sid Catchment Group the project is helping to engage everyone to look after the Sid.
A series of Discovery Workshops have so far worked with over 200 children and older people through art workshops and river walks with Sidmouth and Sidbury Primary Schools and Sid Valley Memory Café, during Sidmouth Science Festival’s Super Science Saturday and at the recent “Life on the Hedge” event by the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group.
There’s a lot more to learn about the project on the Sidmouth School Of Art pages, including direct input from all the participants – and there are a lot of fabulous photos of children and artists at work along the River Sid:
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See also the Project – River Sid Outreach Project from the River Sid Catchment Group for more.
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