PASW Regional Newsletter: Spring 2001
Regional Projects - Window Sills Project
The Window Sills project initiated by Gill Melling, Sarah Bennett and John Butler of Exeter School of Arts and Design, culminated in July with a sited exhibition in West Exe, Exeter. Pollination, Mapping Home, Moments and Evident, led by artists Edwina Fitzpatrick, Neil Musson, Rebecca Eriksson and Brenda Byrne respectively consisted of window boxes, scent dispensers, sound recordings, posters, postcards and manhole covers. Over 250 residents and organisations collaborated in the projects supported by the Regional Lottery Arts Programme, Exeter Arts Council, University of Plymouth, The Elmgrant Trust, FotoFirst, Technical Concepts, Eurobell, Stagecoach, Spacia and Exeter City Council. An evaluation report is due to be published in the spring of next year.
Postcard from 'Pauline's Window Sills Moments' for the 'Moment'
collection 'No. 21 - This is Norman. True saying: Its a Man's World'
by pauline Madden aged 70-75 years.
On November the 23rd 24th and 25th the Divers[c]ities Symposium took place at Exeter School of Arts and Design. This was initiated by the Arts and Urban Futures Research Unit of which Window Sills is now a part and the Public Art Observatory co-ordinated at the University of Barcelona. The Symposium included Key Note speakers Tim Collins, Nine Mile Run project, USA; Judy Ling Wong, Black Environmental Network, UK; and Malcolm Miles, Arts and Urban Futures Research Unit, Exeter School of Arts and Design. The presentations, papers and workshops considered strategies for art in sustainable urban regeneration, focusing on inclusivity and the non-metropolitan city. Papers from the Symposium will be published on the Window Sills web site (www.adr.plym.ac.uk/windowsills) in the new year. The Symposium will also see the launch of our new book with the Arts and Urban Futures Research Unit, Advances in Art and Urban Futures Vol. 1: Locality, Regeneration and Divers[c]ities.
For more information about any of the above please contact:
Gill Melling: 01392 475083, email [email protected]