YOUNG ARTS PROJECTS.
AIMS: -

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

• 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.

2006-20010 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.

Chloe Cussell, recently graduated after studying Fine Arts, began her first commission by discussing her scale plans, metals and toolings with the Chairman and Young Arts representative. She carried out the work in her Master Craftsman father’s Grantham workshop. The moustachioed lintel and window sill were tooled to simulate textured stone. The window panes were silvered, the frame gilded and the components assembled on a backplate to give a 3D effect. The piece was 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.

2010-2011 PROJECT : TAKE ONE BOOK : THE LUTTRELL PSALTER
Under the direction June Graveson, the then East Midlands Area Young Arts Coordinator, GADDFAS organised the funding of a series of workshops by artists and craftsmen in the local rural Primary School of Ingoldsby., using a facsimile copy of the Luttrell Psalter, originally commissioned during the early Middle Ages by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell of nearby Irnham Manor, Lincolnshire. The pupils gained experience of their local Heritage as well as an insight into medieval rural life and crafts. Workshops included an introduction to the arts of calligraphy, paper-making, book-making, illustration, painting, brass–rubbing, as well as knowledge of farming methods and pastimes.