Young Arts - GADDFAS

Grantham & District Decorative
& Fine Arts Society
Affiliated to NADFAS at Area and National Levels

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YOUNG ARTS PROJECTS.
AIMS: -

To inspire young people with lasting enthusiasm for the Arts
To encourage an awareness for Arts Heritage and Conservation

NADFAS: -

Approves Society projects, which may encompass a wide range of activities to benefit individual or groups of pupils
Young Arts Coordinators are appointed at National, Area and Society level.

GADDFAS PROJECTS: Linking our last three projects to Education , painting skills with primary pupils, website design with a secondary pupil, the theme culminated very successfully with a young student in Higher Education who was approached to design and make a Chairman’s Badge of Office.

2009 PROJECT:
To design and make a GADDFAS badge of office . Chloe Cussell, recently graduated after studying Fine Arts begins her first commission.

Chloe discussed her scale plans, metals and toolings with the Chairman and Young Arts Representative.
In her Master Craftsman father’s workshop Chloe measures and cuts with precision.

The moustachioed lintel and window sill are tooled to simulate textured stone. The window panes are silvered, the frame gilded and the components assembled on a back plate to give a 3D effect.
Finally the piece is signed.

GADDFAS is proud and privileged to have been associated with Chloe’s first commission - A ‘treasure’ of elegance and beauty.
We thank John Cussell for his support and Colin Young, of Golding Young Auctioneers and Valuers, for financial sponsorship.