CultuRISE Durham
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About our project
Soap carving? graffiti art? chapbook making?
A group of young people discover a world of artistic inspiration at the Durham Oriental Museum.
NE-Generation has been funded by the Legacy Trust UK, creating a lasting impact from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by funding ideas and local talent to inspire creativity across the UK.
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A blog written by the young people
Monday 1st August
We started the CultuRISE 5 week project so far we have had a few marvelous sessions. We think that more young people should get involved in this type of thing - because you learn about art - old ages - back in the day - old skool.
Our first session of the project was to get to know each other and learn about some of the history in the museum - we found it quite interesting to learn about the ancient egyptians, the japanese, the chinese, india and many more cultural stuff.
Our second session (today) was carving soap into some things we found artistic like mummys, fish, vases, etc. after ourt break we came in to make some clay models.
Friday 5th August
Our third session we painted them shabti things. We looked around the museum for colours for our dragon mummy. Others did mosaic and spray painting egyptian hieroglyphics.
We have been around the museum, we have been painting the cloth/canvas including Michael falling over into the paint. We painted the canvas so that the spray paint doesn't soak into it or run.We also painted our shabtis and Micheael wrote his name out in hyrogliphics. Trist's arm fell off his Shabti!
Monday 8th August
toaday we have done our sketch and peeled all of the moasic tiles of the tield backing then cut them in to little bits. we also put them in to different cups to show the differnt coulours bright and dull jaymee terry and selina and nic also helped pased so we could stick our mosaic tiels to our dragon sketch that is so what wee did in our third session of coultorise session it is great funnn !!!!!!!!!!!!! xx
Friday 12th august
today we finished kendelles project and also finished ours (tristans and michaels) we made a couple of mistakes which we put right and we are proud of our finished project. our project was inspired by the indian window in the museum we also wanted our names in hieroglyphics.
15th August 2011
Monday, 15th of August,
Kendelle feeling rather cold today. we completetd our secound project and then started the 2pac stencil.
ROADSHOWS!
The Culturise team took their fantastic artistic creations around the North East! People were wowed by their artwork at Chester-Le-Street and Newton Aycliffe. Thankfully it stayed largely dry apart from the last day.
