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100 Canvases 2017 A City Arts Fundraiser
Welcome to our exciting fundraising project. We began our fundraising with an exciting project: 100 Canvases 2017 a community event for all ages and abilities.
We asked the community to helps us paint, exhibit and buy 100 canvases…
The ‘100 Canvases’ process was as follows:
Painting
- Come and purchase a 30 x 30cm (12 x 12″) canvas from us for £5, on either Sat 28th or Sun 29th January
- Create your design using any medium/technique on your own time (don’t sign them on the front!) and,
Donation
- Deliver and donate your finished artwork to us, on either the Sat 11th or Sun 12th February (or by appointment with Isabel Carmona).
Collection and delivery are both from City Arts Newbury from 10 am to 2pm
- Or you can come and do the above with us, in situ on the Tuesday 14th February, at our Canvas Painting Workshop day, for the cost of the canvas (£5).
- Workshop times are either 10am-12pm or 1pm-3pm
Exhibition
Following the collection of the canvases, we held a Fundraising Exhibition Weekend on Sat 18th and Sun 19th February from 10am to 3pm, we displayed, for sale, all the canvases you donated and you were able to purchase any of the canvas too!
The exhibition was “blind” with no names of the artists displayed.
All proceeds of the exhibition went to the City Arts Building Renovation Fund.
We hope you enjoyed it!
We still have some canvases for sale, so get in touch and come along for a viewing.
Email: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Tel: 01635 45449
Summer update – Chalk Fest fun and Summer workshops
We are now taking bookings for our Summer Workshops for various age groups:
Collagraph printing with Isabel Carmona
Flower Power with Bernadette Jones
Tie Dye Spiral Tshirt with Wendy Lloyd
Lumen and Libri with Donna Lewis
Brusho Inks with Carolyn Towers Wood
Mighty Pens with Donna Lewis and Isabel Carmona
The Camera’s Eye with Deborah Taylor
To book any workshop email us at info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Chalk Fest – 12 July 2015 Thanks for taking part and enjoying it!
We had a fantastic day on the Sunday 12th July where we painted Newbury’s Market square with chalk. You can see on the photos below how much fun it was, exhilarating and colourful. We loved seeing families working together and people who normally say I can’t do art, having a go. Some stayed the whole day, some were just passing.
The competition was hard to judge and judges Cipriano Martinez, Alan Harding and Sarah Martinez had a really difficult time making a decision. In the end local resident Inmaculada Vivar won the generous prize donated by Craftsman Newbury Ltd. The mayor of Newbury handed the prize over to Inmaculada for her chalk picture of the Town Hall.
The selection of the works and images of the day are all courtesy of Dave Webster
Summer 2015 – Workshop 4 – Brusho Inks
Experimenting with Brusho Inks with Carolyn Towers Wood
Thursday 27th August
2 to 4:30 pm
Explore the vibrancy of colour using these highly pigmented watercolour ink powders together with Quink ink, and create several unique paintings in one afternoon.
This workshop is for young people (14+)
Cost £7.50 – All materials provided
Places available 10
To book contact us
