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ABOUT US
FUNDING
ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES
ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES
The Workshop was originally set up with private funding from founder members Jackie Ford and Alan Williams.
Since then, the Arts Council of Wales has been our most consistent funder. In particular, the purchase and refurbishment of the studios in Clarence Street in 2000 facilitated the rapid expansion of our activities.
All Wales
Ethnic Minority Association
Better Swansea Compact Funding
Department of Adult & Continuing Education
2008: Changing Swansea Project September 2008-9: £15,000
Scope of the Project:
The project will track and record a ‘snapshot’ of Swansea over a 12 month period.
The city is undergoing a tremendous change in both the physical and social landscape. The project will orchestrate responses from participants through the medium of printmaking.
At present we are looking at three over arching strategies which will orchestrate the activities.
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The Artist as recorder/documentor/chronicler
The landscape of Swansea is changing every day, some view points are disappearing while new ones are opening up. The city is trying to re-invent itself as a cosmopolitan city of culture and distance itself from its industrial past. This theme will attempt to connect this history to the present in interesting, thought provoking and personal ways. -
The Artist as commentator
This theme will provide a vehicle for comment and statements about what is happening in Swansea today and will very much arise out of a personal, original perception and observation. -
The Artist as visionary
What will the future for Swansea hold. What would we like to see ?
Each of these themes will be introduced by a speaker with exemplars of artists working in these ways to prime participants and inform debate.
There will be an exhibition of prints from this project at the Arts Wing of the Grand Theatre in August 2009
2007-8: Information and Resource Coordination Project £20,000
This project is designed to bring all the expertise we have accrued over the past few years into a coherent and accessible form. The grant has enabled us to offer a 12 month consultancy post to an experienced printmaker to coordinate the project.
Additionally digital development consultancy and marketing support will be supplied by Lorna and Nigel Packer of Business for Business
2006: Festival of Muslim Cultures: UK 2006
Print Project exhibition: framing and to publish tri-lingual exhibition catalogue £5000
2005: Festival of Muslim Cultures: UK 2006: £24,000
Project Manager: Exhibition of Contemporary Pakistani Printmakers
2005: Feasibility Study: Stage C Capital grant of £38,200 for new premises to be located at the Kings Lane Warehouse, Swansea.
2004: Marketing and Publicity project: Small Grant Scheme:: £5000
2004: Volunteer Participation Project: £12,000
An infrastructure was set up to supervise, support and encourage a wide range of volunteer activity in the Workshop.
2003: Dylan Thomas Print Project £24,800
This was a collaborative print project by twelve printmakers to produce a limited edition boxed set of prints.
especially when the october wind
TWELVE ORIGINAL PRINTS
Collectors item to mark the 50th anniversary of Dylan Thomas’s death.
2001-4: PrintWorks: Outreach Project £69,076
Arts for All Lottery Award
This project made printmaking available to any group in the community who wanted to get involved. A core group of experienced workshop leaders we were able to take the mobile presses out to community venues on a wide ranging basis. The project was extremely successful in raising the profile of printmaking, not only in the voluntary sector, but also in mainstream education, where we can make significant contributions to curriculum requirements, outreach community college programmes and small art groups.
We worked with over 50 groups, nearly 500 workshops and over 6,000 attendances by the end of the project.
2000: Capital grant of £89,962 for the purchase and refurbishment of the studios at 19a Clarence Street, Swansea
1999: Feasibility Study for the refurbishment of 19a Clarence Street: £6,000
Swansea
Print Workshop is a not for profit
company limited by guarantee
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