March Art Club

We were back in the Sisters hall for art club in March. It makes it easier being in one place as I only have to set up and tidy once - two rooms is twice the work. I can only have the hall when its free as other groups book it out and sometimes there is a crossover.

We had another well attended event - some new faces came for the first time. It was a wider demographic with children, young adults and adults of every age attending which was good. It seems there is a natural organic growth as families come together to make art.

I met a lady who had seen my poster in the Library. I was glad as I have tried to advertise this using social media and good old fashioned posters. They have all worked in letting people know about the event. Tina Roberts from Garforth Art Club offered to come and show people the basics of Gelli Printing, I was very grateful for her help.

It was interesting how people are responding to the materials now. I can see people personalising their work and I am able to engineer their experience to suit their own art making interests.

People still seem to enjoy the fact they have their own space to make what they want and are ok in being left to make. I want this to be people lead so I need to develop this further.

A friend had mentioned how when she was attending this time, she had seen others walking up the main street and she could tell the people coming to art club because they were carrying their sketchbooks.

I think its only fair to offer art club the opportunity to show their work or work towards that if they want, so I will organise something for October time if there is a consensus.

I try to make the adverts for the clubs using the art of people who attend. I use speech bubbles and I wasn’t sure if that was making things look silly, but all the images Ive used appear to be saying something, so I use them to bring in a sense of humour. I will find out if it’s working or not, I am making them in an app on my phone so Im not sure If I need to change that. It’s all a learning curve but I don’t want to be disrespectful to the art that is made by the people who attend.