Forth Valley Open Studios
Well, It’s over and the consensus is that it was an astonishing success – given the short time span we had to work in.
The benefits are too numerous to mention from educational, and financial to community involvement and inter-activity.
I had members of the public drawing for the first time on an iphone then I would email the image they created to their email account.
Forth Valley Open Studios
Our opening exhibition to launch the first Forth Valley Open Studios ( we are in central Scotland since you ask) takes place this Friday.
Tonight we have the last committee meeting before the event.
So far everything going to plan though we are concerned we are going to run out of brochures because they seem to be very popular.
Another artist, with years of experience of opening her studio under Fife Open Studios
warns that the brochure will act like a magnet and we will be inundated with people.
Lets hope all 100 artists participating are prepared ….I know I am not. Panic will set in next week.
Forth Valley Open Studios
Life has been so hectic recently that have not had time to update my blogs.
Cathy Peattie, MSP for Grangemouth, has agreed to open the launch exhibition for Forth Valley Open Studios on June 4th in Delta Studios. We regard this as something of a coup – especially as she has agreed to sing at the event too!
Brochures are in great demand, we fear that the 15,000 we had printed is not enough. But we dont have the cash or the time to print more.
This is a totally artist- led venture.
Our book ” The Children of Craig-y-nos” has had a number of favourable reviews in the academic press. This is an extract from one written by the Medical Officer for Health for Wales for the Journal of Public Health:
http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/fdq011v1
Well, we didn’t win an award for the “Children of Craig-y-nos” but, along with four other runners-up, we received a certificate
commending us “for excellence in communicating medical and health information in a book for the lay reader”.
The prize was awarded to “Medic: saving lives – from Dunkirk to Afghanistan by John Nichol and Tony Rennell – a very worthy winner.
Ann Shaw is an artist/writer based in Scotland working in new media. As a journalist she campaigned and wrote about many social and medical issues. She is a feminist and founder member of Falkirk Womens Aid, active in the trades union movement and former member of National Union of Journalists Equality Working Party, and founder member of Forth Valley Open Studios.
