Community Arts Projects supported by TASO
June 2018 to June 2019
Old Fire Station – ‘Our Place’ second year
This is the first project TASO has funded over a two year period, as well as being match funded.
The Old Fire Station works with a range of arts particularly aimed at the homeless. The ‘Our Place’ project engaged about 35 homeless people, 5 professional artists and more than 2000 people including visitors to the final exhibition. It has helped AOFS and Crisis develop a model for social inclusion by engaging the wider public in workshops and the final exhibition. The project increased the skills of the artists working with the homeless and enabled those with severe disadvantages to develop personal skills.
As well as directly benefitting those involved, ‘Art at the Old Fire Station’ workers feel the experience of managing a 2 year project has been invaluable in developing their longer term approach working with disadvantaged individuals.
On a number of occasions TASO has had very favourable comments for the support we have given.
Below are images of the art hanging in the final exhibition.
Pitt Rivers – Youth Action
TASO sponsored the Pitt youth action team which is an ongoing project involving 16-19 year olds as part of possible career development. They are engaged through meetings with the activities of the Museum and have the opportunity to curate their own showcase.
The funding for this project was to act as a bridge until it became self-funding in future years.
Ark T – ‘The ROARsome Collective’
TASO funded two artists to create costumes with help from eight disabled artists aged 11 to 40 over four weeks. The participants then performed in the costumes at the Oxford City of Light Festival in November 2018. It was a very successful collaboration and delighted the young people to join the Festival.
Unfortunately we have no pictures of this, it went very well.
HMP Bullingdon – Painting Workshops
TASO helped to finance a project to support an artist to run painting workshops for up to 12 young adults in HMP Bullingdon. They produced paintings for an exhibition at the prison with a subsequent exhibition taking place in Didcot.
June 2017 to June 2018
The Old Fire Station – ‘Our Place’ project
This is the first project TASO has funded over a two year period, as well as being match funded.
The Old Fire Station works with a range of arts particularly aimed at the homeless. The ‘Our Place’ project engaged about 35 homeless people, 5 professional artists and more than 2000 people including visitors to the final exhibition. It has helped AOFS and Crisis develop a model for social inclusion by engaging the wider public in workshops and the final exhibition. The project increased the skills of the artists working with the homeless and enabled those with severe disadvantages to develop personal skills.
As well as directly benefitting those involved, ‘Art at the Old Fire Station’ workers feel the experience of managing a 2 year project has been invaluable in developing their longer term approach working with disadvantaged individuals.
On a number of occasions TASO has had very favourable comments for the support we have given.
St Ebbe’s School – Art Cards
This project was based on the design and production of 100 playing card-size Art cards involving 51 children who designed 100 cards. Their artistic influences included – Duchamp, Hokusai, Picasso, Mondrian and Pollock.
As part of a European project St Ebbe’s School was twinned with a school in Romania whose pupils also produced cards which were eventually exchanged between the two schools.
Helen House – Sibling Mosaic Art
This was initially a project with Helen and Douglas House but was moved to Helen House due to the closure of Douglas House.
The project supported siblings of children with life limiting conditions. An artist led a weekend workshop for the siblings to produce mosaics reflecting on the feelings they had towards their sister/ brother’s condition and living in Helen House.
The mosaics produced during the project are powerfully expressive.
2017 – The Highfield Unit
For 2017 in partnership with Artscape and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we provided funding for a mural on the long fence around the Highfield unit in the Warneford Hospital. The Highfield unit provides specialist inpatient services for young people aged 11-18 with acute mental health needs. The open space enclosed by the fence provides a calm outdoor space. The project engaged the young people at all stages and started with design workshops. The artist, Dan Wilson, used shared ideas to develop a story board and from these the design took shape.
In the summer holidays Dan and a fellow artist Tom Webb painted and sprayed the fence. The young people had indoor workshops to design and paint five large pictures to complement the Mural. The results have been very well received with tremendous comments from parents, staff and most importantly the young people themselves.
2016 – Mosaic Project for Young People with Acute Mental Health Needs
We have recently funded a series of workshops (over the Easter break) for the design and production of a mosaic sculpture by residents of the Highfield Unit, a state-of-the-art NHS facility providing specialist in-patient services for young people aged 11 to 18 with acute mental health needs. This project, led by Becky Paton, a local mosaic artist also experienced in working with young people, has been completed, and the sculpture erected in the grounds of the unit for the benefit and enjoyment of current and future residents, and of staff members.
Initial design for the mosaic, and the finished product before being installed in the hospital grounds.
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Previous Community Arts Projects supported by TASO
For full details of previous projects click here: Community Arts Projects Archive
| 2011 | Art materials for three Special Schools |
| 2012/13 | Primary schools
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| 2014 | Sixth Form Art Competition |
| 2015 |
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| 2016 | Secondary schools
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We keep a photographic record of each project for our website and publicity purposes, taking care to ensure that we abide by regulations and host requirements concerning distribution of photographs of young and/or vulnerable people. Below are photos with more details of some of the projects
For more information about Community Arts Projects nationally, visit The Arts Society
For information about TASO Community Arts Projects activity, contact the Community Arts Representative via tasoxford@gmail.com