It's the very end of March when the KWoA team gets the news that we can put our creative plans into action..we're ready to start our 'Landmark' journey!
The KWoA Landmark community art project is inviting individual and group responses to local landscapes, with artists working with communities at Grasmere, Ambleside, Windermere, Kendal, Milnthorpe, Selside and Shap.
Activities run by arts charity Kendal Windows on Art, are helping to raise awareness of Lake District landscapes, traveling from Kendal through the scenic tourist route up to Thirlmere near Keswick and the busy work route to join the M6 at Shap. Both routes pass through breathtaking Lake District scenery and living amongst these Lakeland landmarks are several rural communities. KWoA are inviting children, their families and their older neighbours in each community to consider, identify and share their own personal outdoor ‘landmark’.
Using a range of contemporary digital art techniques, mark making, creative writing, sound recording and traditional construction skills, the KWoA team of artists and community facilitators will be encouraging participants to record their landmark. Having discovered what captivated the participants’ interest in their landmark, KWoA will share our creative journeys with wider audiences through local media, this KWoA project blog and Torch Relay showcasing opportunities. KWoA is also planning a range of visually dynamic local exhibitions at venues within the rural communities involved leading to the collaborative ‘Landmark’ exhibition at Kendal Library in October.
The KWoA Landmark project is funded by
Lake District National Park Sustainability Fund
South Lakeland District Council
Holehird Trust/Cumbria Community Foundation
Kendal Town Council.
Lake District National Park Sustainability Fund
South Lakeland District Council
Holehird Trust/Cumbria Community Foundation
Kendal Town Council.
