NEWSLETTER This has been an exciting month within the Artcycling team. We met in Copenhagen on 8th and 9th and our feelings couldn’t be better! We made an overview of the work done in each partner organization until now and planned the further steps. Also, we had time to visit a really interesting project of the city council of Copenhagen supporting local artists working with recycling materials. Visit our Facebook for more information about it.
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LEARNING FROM CRAFTSPEOPLE In INTRAS, we finally managed to involve 10 artists with mental health issues to participate in Artcycling and express their creativity using recycling materials. To learn how to work with this kind of materials we have already organized six workshops run by local craftspeople of the region in the last months. In January 2016 the local craftswoman Pilarina hecho a mano taught the group how to make patchwork and “trapillo” (t-shirt yarn), because one of the products that the artists want to make are knitting carpets. The same artist gave another workshop in February about how to re-use old jeans; you can make thousands of different things with them! In March, the group had two workshops about how to work with reused ceramics and how to do paper mache recycling old newspapers. The Spanish Artcyclers are going to collaborate with the famous national Art Exhibition “Las edades del hombre” (the most important annual Spanish exhibition on religious art) making handcraft ceramic magnets and caps for bottles using reused ceramics so this workshop was really useful. We are very proud of collaborating with such an important art exhibition! On April two more workshops were organized: painting and drawing and re-using old pallets. One more about how to work with recycling leather is coming soon. As you can see, we are learning a lot from our roots, from the local community of artists working in the area of Valladolid and Zamora and we expect that this will be an inspiration for our Artcyclers.
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