Summer Portfolio Intensive

Monday 27 – Wednesday 29 July, 10am – 4pm

This new short course at Forgan Arts Centre will provide a fun and creative environment for young people aged 15-17 (S5 age) who are thinking about applying to art college or university in any subject from fine art, graphic design to filmmaking, animation, and architecture.

Over three days, a cohort of twenty students will join in art activities that will spark ideas, open you to new techniques and challenge you to unlearn assumptions and attitudes about art.

Students will collaborate with peers, ask questions, take creative risks, and build confidence in articulating ideas.

Taking place in July at Forgan Arts Centre, you will be inspired by the ideas and themes of the place and the Arts Centre as a Garden.

Overview

Day One: Students will grow skills in drawing from observation and by thinking critically about ways of drawing/seeing. An experimental loosening up day, this will include drawing as practice, drawing as research, visual gathering, digital photography and alternative photography processes.

Day Two: Students will take part in an ‘Ideas Jam’; what does creativity mean in the time of AI? This day we will work together to practice prototyping, critical thinking, development of ideas and contemporary art history.

Day Three: On the final day students will work together to make a large sculptural or 2D work in collaborative groups. Using what you have learned in the first two days to formulate a culmination of ideas into an artwork.

More information on content to follow.

How to Apply

This project is in collaboration with ACES (Access to Creative Education in Scotland) and Dundee University. There are ten free places available for ACES registered students who meet the below criteria and ten places paid for at £60 for three days.

All materials are included in the course. Priority is given to students from North East Fife. There is some support for travel, any questions email programme@forganartscentre.co.uk

ACES Criteria

In order to be eligible for a free space, you need to meet one or more of the following criteria.

• I am a young carer
• I have spent time in care
• I receive free school meals
• My home postcode is in SIMD decile 1-4 zone
• I am estranged from my family
• I am eligible for or in receipt of Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)
• I am a Refugee or Asylum Seeker
• I am the first in my family to go to university
• I am resident in an area considered to be remote and/or rural (categories 4-8 on the Scottish Government’s 8-Fold Urban Rural Classification 2020)

If you meet one or more of the above criteria please registered with the ACES University of Dundee programme here and then select an ACES place (Free).

If you do not meet the criteria, please register for a paid for place using the three day ticket option (£60).