Now go comapre

As we discussed taking your portfolio of work as your starting point look at role models and other sources of inspiration - how does your work compare and contrast with others

You may like to check out Street Graphics India by Barry Dawson - let me know what you think

http://www.amazon.com/Street-Graphics-India-Barry-Dawson/dp/0500280959


" The streets of India are filled with Vivid representations of popular cultural themes. These range across political utopianism, religious celebration and commercial advertising, presenting a visual parade of transport, animals and people, hoardings, street furniture, architectural detail, packaging, display - backdrops and props of a rich cultural street theatre. Striking images blur in a confusion of colour, scale and quantity. Static or moving, figure or landscape, every surface is a panorama, every material a canvas, an opportunity for expression and communication"

The work in this book is categorised as follows

Transport
Comics
Circus and Cinema
Sculpture and Murals
Fashion
Signs and Advertising
Packaging and Display
Politics

Our first meeting was at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, full of inspiring display cases - take a look around http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/pittrivers/map.html#

Welcome to art apprentices kleiner shames

In your introductory email - you say you hate writing. You raise an interesting question about the role of text for a visual artist. In your blog http://www.kleinershames.blogspot.com/ I notice that your work is without text, which was a surprise for someone I was told was a graffitti artist and my automatic assumption from that limited description is that it would be text based.

I hope we will find a way to explore our mentoring through the visual image. To start us off your introductory text as a wordle

What key words would you use to describe yourself? Why not try using wordle to give a sense of your practice. See how your wordle compares to mine below

www.wordle.net/

Mentoring together

I like the idea of using a blog as a tool to mentor and share ideas. I would like to use this as well as email and telephone conversations. I also like to meet up a few times at 'inspirational places' chosen by my mentees so that I can get to know them better.

This blog can be used, as you can already see, to create a space where we see our own creative learning in action. We can also share our learning with others. I prefer to work visually so where ever possible we will find interesting and stimulating images to begin our conversations.

I have chosen this image to describe my interest in being a mentor on the OYAP

Young Creative Leaders Training Programme:

• taking a birdseye view;
• helping my mentee to see over the horizon and take a wider view of the landscape:
• working with you to take you to a level you may not yet be able to reach;
• always there in the background;
• watching over you while you learn to fly

Check out my other blogs to get a feel for what I get up to:

http://lindajanejames.blogs.com
(my artist blog)
http://educedrawingoutpotential.typepad.com
(my work with young people and communities)

Introducing myself

Young Creative Leaders Training Programme


OYAP Trust has developed an exciting new programme for entrepreneurial artists and artist managers who are setting out on their careers in the creative industries. During the programme our Young Leaders will undertake an intensive course of formal training in career development, working in schools, self-employment, understanding the wider cultural landscape, arts project management, fundraising and working with young people. Alongside the core training a professional mentor will work on a one to one basis offering support and guidance as these emerging cultural leaders shape their careers in the arts.

I am pleased to be able to offer myself up as a mentor to young artists on this programme

Thanks Hannah

Hannah

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to help you with your project. Sorry you were not able to complete it. Keep me posted