Arts & Science ….

Engagement@Manchester runs a series of lunchtime meetings exploring different aspects of public engagement. All university staff and students are welcome to attend and find out more. 

 

The next meeting will look at Collaboration between the Arts and Sciences and take place on 21 November 2012, 13:00 – 14:00, University Place 2.220

We explore how arts and sciences disciplines across the university and beyond have worked together to create some amazing engagement activities and opportunities. A few speakers will present short case studies giving a taster of what they have worked on with time for discussion.

 

Jenna Carine Ashton Colour/ “Chroma”
Jenna will discuss the ongoing public engagement project Colour/ “Chroma”, exploring the relationship between arts and science, and our understanding and perception of sensory impairment.

 

Kate Dack Exploring Enhancement with young people

The ‘Seeking Perfection’ project brought together creative practitioners and researchers to workshop together and develop a public performance for the Manchester Science Festival.

 

Naomi Kashiwagi In The Mix

Naomi will talk about her work animating the University of Manchester’s cultural wonders through new commissioned soundscapes that are inspired by electronic music pioneer, Delia Derbyshire.

Arts-Science Event

In Memory of “Chroma”

Exploring the role of colour within science and visual art. Through live chemical experiments by Dr Frank Mair and a narrative of art, history, memory and science from Jenna Carine Ashton, this event invites an audience to revisit and remember Derek Jarman’s text “Chroma.”

Saturday

19th November 2011

2pm in The Whitworth Art Gallery, Lecture Theatre

All Welcome

Website: http://colourchroma.wordpress.com/

Email: colourchroma@gmail.com

Colour Images

 

Collating images for the ‘In Memory of Chroma‘ event (Sat 19 Nov, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester).

Do you have any interesting or emotive images relating to colour which could be included in the event, or perhaps posted on this blog?

Email in jpeg format, including a short description or story behind the image to: colourchroma@gmail.com

http://colourchroma.wordpress.com/

Blog now live!

The “Colour/ Chroma” is now live, and we’ll be posting regularly. Comments/ thoughts very much welcomed!

http://colourchroma.wordpress.com/

 

Colour/ “Chroma”

Colour/ “Chroma” workshop for WP Summer School went great – the Yr9 students produced some really wonderful colour posters. Yr 10s will be doing the workshop at the Aimhigher Summer School this week – looking forward to it!

An arts-science blog Colour/ “Chroma”will soon be going live. The blog will offer readers thoughts on colour and will present some of the contributing material which is to be woven into a collaborative lecture-event between Dr Frank Mair (Chemistry) and PhD researcher Jenna Carine Ashton (Art History & Visual Studies). The event will take place at the Whitworth Art Gallery (date tbc).

AHVS & Widening Participation

A quick Widening Participation update ….

 Online resources for post-16 EPQ have now gone ‘live’ – see the Engaging with Visual Culture section: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate/schoolsandcolleges/post-16/epq/downloads/

Yr9 Summer School starting next Tuesday; collaboration with Dr Frank Mair (Chemistry) on the theme of ‘colour’ in development … more on that at a future date! A big ‘Discover History’ day coming up at the end of June; ongoing talks/ meetings/ coffee breaks (!) with Manchester Museum and Whitworth Art Gallery on collaborative projects for 2011-2012.

Save the Arts …

If you have not done so already, sign the petition …..

http://savethearts-uk.blogspot.com/

AHVS Widening Participation 2010/2011

An update on the Widening Participation front 2010/2011! …. Busy busy again this academic year: developing on-line resources for teachers to support the post-16 EPQ (Extended Project Qualification) – currently being tweaked by the University web team before they go ‘live’ – I’ve created resources on the topic of ‘Engaging with Visual Culture’ ….

A great Yr9 History Day last month – students attended a workshop entitled ‘Visual Culture: Evidence of History’. The workshop explored the role of visual culture within history, examining how art and imagery aides our understanding, and provides ‘evidence’, of societies and cultures, people and events.

Exploring our responses to colour with Yr7s at an Aimhigher event next week, and a series of Yr10 Identity Days at the Museum coming up at the end of March/ April.

JC

Summer School & History Day

Busy busy busy … we are all preparing workshops for the Widening Participation Summer School (15th, 16th, 17th June) and the History Day (23rd June). The AHVS workshop for the Summer School explores ‘Artists, Artefacts and Museums’; the History Day workshop examines ‘Architectural Histories: The Building as a Book’ … very much looking forward to delivering these, especially as students may be using plasticine in the History Day workshop (!) …. an idea for undergraduate seminars perhaps? ……

Darwin CPD Event

I was thrilled to contribute to the two Darwin CPD events for teachers, 20th and 24th April held at the Manchester Museum, with Lou Sutherland, Cat Lumb, Alexa Jeanes, Henry McGhie and Pete Brown. Teachers were given a tour of the fabulous Charles Darwin exhibition, and throughout the session were introduced to various creative techniques and methods for engaging with museums and collections, and the topic of evolution, such as mind mapping, Clippy Island, and my focus, ‘scrapbooking’ the Museum. I discussed the work of artist Mark Dion, in particular the Surrealism Bureau which is installed in the Museum, and artist-scientist Ernst Haeckel and photographer Karl Blossfeldt. We then examined the Collection Wallets (see earlier post), and the process of collecting and ‘scrapbooking’ ideas, information and images to create an interdisciplinary teaching resource. The CPD event was great for demonstrating the links between art and science, and emphasising the Museum as wonderful environment for cross-curricula learning.

Artist Chrissie Morgan worked closely with the curators to visualise Darwin’s life story, and the resulting displays are stunning. Any students (or lecturers) that have not yet visited the Darwin exhibition, I very much recommend you do so before it is packed away in August – this is not an exhibition just for scientists!