Nearly forgot the Messy Jam!

Met some students from Barton at The Big Umberella and thought we would give them a mention! or you can find them on You Tube! www.youtube.com

MAP does Step Inside at Rose Hill.

The MAP team were working in Rose Hill today as part of a two week arts project called 'Step Inside.' We have run these around the county with 11 different schools. Today the team delivered a mixture of drawing projects, mask making for drama workshops and sculpture sessions.





Today we looked at our favourite food and our relationship with it. We made up big menus and talked about our families and who does the cooking in our house! Next we are going to make food sculptures and tomorrow we're making a film! p.s nice picture of the bins!

Um-BER-el-ER-ER...

Craig, Stephen and Andrew jumped in a cab and nipped over to Oxford to attend The Big Umbrella Youth Arts Festival, where MAP showed a film and visual work in the Gallery.
We stopped off for Pizza


...and broke the ice-cream machine



The waitress was very understanding.

At the festival, all three were really inspired by the event and were excitedly planning new ideas as they headed back home.

MAP Banbury

It's all go at Banbury MAP. Lots of great music, photography and creative writing happening. Chris says -

"At MAP I have been steadily completing a big piece - like a big detailed picture of my character surrounded by legs, flowers, hands and wires. It's taken me weeks to perfect it and like make it look 3-D. But when I had finally finished it, I was mega hyped and proud of what I had achieved.

I have been using Photoshop a hell of a lot too. At first, it took a while to get to grips with it but now I’m like a PRO with it and can easily navigate around it.

I’ve been using the studio a lot too, it's my favourite activity here at MAP. You can, like, make music with so many options it's limitless to what you can create. I’m really liking the studio, close to loving it even!

Stencilling was pretty cool - a bit annoying, but the end result was cool..."

MAP Re-animated.

Loads more work on the animation today. Above are back drops, story boards and plasticine people made by Oli, Esme and John.

Monday at MAP

Katy pretending she's Cindy Lauper














Then doing a huge drawing.










John is creating a huge army of plasticine creatures to take over the world.














And this is Cassi's design for a new mural.

Nearly finished.....

MAP at The Big Umberella

Stars to shine at Umbrella
Oxfordshire's artistic stars of the future will be out in force later this month
On Tuesday, February 19, for one night only, young people from across the county will take part in The Big Umbrella.
The event, at Oxford Town Hall in St Aldate's, will see performers display their skills in an exciting and fast moving showcase.
Theatre, dance, acrobatics, street stunts and music of all kinds will be on show in a sequence of five to 10 minute pieces.
The Big Umbrella is produced by the Oxfordshire Youth Arts Partnership (OYAP) and supported by the county council's cultural services and Oxford Inspires.
The evening will include the first public performances by Garsington Youth Opera and the Oxford Playhouse Youth Theatre.
The night will be hosted by the rapper MC Yungster from the Courtyard Youth Arts Centre in Bicester.
Alongside the performance, there will be a display of artworks and films in the Town Hall art gallery.
Admission is free, but wristbands allowing entry must be booked in advance on 01869 602560.
Also taking part will be a group of young people from Liverpool. They will present a short film and welcome young people from Oxfordshire to the Liverpool Capital of Culture Celebrations in December.
Performers at The Big Umbrella will have the opportunity to apply to be in the team of 15 who will go to Liverpool.

Budding Artists...

Wow what a day! Ben's been drawing some great charcoal images just using his left hand! Cassie has been making a 3D model of an outdoor space that needs re vamping in Cowley. Marianna has come over all Cornelia Parker and is wiring up a frame to hang stuff off! Oliand oli are finishing a drawing project from last week. Bea is organizing all the art materials and making up order sheets! John is doing some really cool music on garageband.Katie has been looking at Helnwein for inspiration and is now designing some really interesting stuff in her sketch book. Who else? oh! Esme is just off for a college interview in a minute! busy busy!

Film Screenings at The Mill Exhibition

The exhibition was a great opportunity to show animations and films made by the students at MAP. Visitors also had the chance to watch the short made by young parents in Blackbird Leys called 'If you were me.' The film featured on the BBC website recently and won a local filmakers competition organized by OFVM. It was also screened on Channel Six.

MAP Exhibition at The Mill Arts Centre

For everyone that missed out on coming to the exhibition here are a few images taken on a reasonably dodgy camera phone!

This is your captain speaking...

Nic and Emma have spent the past ten minutes pretending to be pilots whilst sat at their desks. Keeps us amused! cabin crew to seated positions we are ready for take off. Let's get this baby off the ground!

Witney MAP students doing a 'Patrick Caulfield'

MAP Artwork!!

Mixture of stuff here! from backdrops for animations to graffiti projects for our calendar!

Hard at Work at The MAP Project

As promised the (almost) finished group drawing project.
Also some general photos of the young people working today (they worked very hard for some reason).

Group Work

A whole day of group working at MAP today!
First off, a drawing project devised by Joel, with seperate pieces of work coming together to create one final piece (examples below - final piece will be on the blog tomorrow).












































































Then a Diversity workshop run by Jane Limerick and Luke Chambers from Connexions, so, many thanks to them for coming in and giving up their valuable time.