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The Adjacent Generation - Portraiture For Teenagers

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One of the interesting aspects of fine art museums as well as galleries which doesn't oft acquire a high profile is the operate they create inward relation to teaching by as well as large - as well as the teaching of younger people inward particular.

The Next Generation is a projection run past times the National Portrait Gallery which is all nearly inspiring 14­-19-year-olds (aka "The Next Generation") nearly portraiture.  It provides unlike opportunities for teenagers to run across amongst as well as gain insights from past times BP Portrait Award artists as well as to part their ain artwork.

There's a display nearly the Next Generation  Project inward the NPG -  in the Room 36 Lobby (as you lot brand your agency towards the BP Portrait Award 2012 exhibition).   This tells the even out of Next Generation through a brusk cinema as well as a pick of painted industrial plant from past times Summer Schools.

On Lord's Day I'm going to live on observing the concluding session of ane of the initiatives -The Next Generation Taster Session. Below here's what I flora when I investigated the nature of the unlike opportunities on offer

If you lot know immature people interested inward portraiture
I advise you lot bookmark this post as well as ship them a link to it.

BP Portrait Award: Next Generation Taster Sessions
Try your manus at portrait drawing as well as run across practising artists inward ane of 5 brusk Taster Sessions, kicking off on the start weekend of BP Portrait Award 2012. Bookings essential on a first-come, first-served basis. Please mass for alone ane session. All materials provided. Please furnish your total advert as well as contact details, mobile number, historic catamenia as well as preferred session date.
On Sunday, 24 immature people volition operate inward 3 groups inside the Galleries hosting the BP Portrait Award exhibition.  It provides them amongst an chance to run across other immature people interested inward art, to attempt novel techniques for drawing as well as to run across amongst unopen to of the artists who convey won the BP Portrait Award.

You tin regard unopen to of the ativities which guide identify inward photos inward the National Portrait Gallery BP Next Generation's photostream.

This is a link to the slideshow persuasion of those photos.

H5N1 set out exercise the Taster Sessions equally a launch pad to their application to as well as involvement amongst the Summer Schools

BP Portrait Award: Next Generation Summer Schools for 14-19 twelvemonth olds
After a to a greater extent than intensive experience? Apply for a identify at ane of our three-day Summer Schools inward August to operate amongst past times BP Portrait Award-winning artists as well as experiment amongst painting, life drawing as well as other portraiture techniques. Applications are encouraged from these boroughs: Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Newham as well as Greenwich.
The Summer Schools are gratis as well as materials as well as refreshments are provided. You tin download Summer Schools data as well as application forms from this link to the BP Portrait Award: Next Generation Summer Schools

Who tin apply
If you lot are interested inward portraiture, are studying fine art inward a secondary school, alive inward London as well as the Home Counties and are aged between 14-19 years one-time you lot tin apply.  Applications are especially encouraged from the immature people who alive inward the London 2012 Host Boroughs – Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Greenwich, Newham

How to apply
  • Entry is past times application. This is a link to the application cast (Word doc). Note the Artist Statement of the application is especially important.
  • There are alone eighteen places inward each of the ii summertime schools
  • There is nonetheless fourth dimension to apply for the Summer Schools.
  • Applications unopen onTuesday 24 July at 5.00pm

Dates as well as times
  • Summer School 1: Midweek fifteen – Fri 17 August 2012 11.30 – 16.30
  • Summer School 2: Mon xx – Midweek 22 August 2011 11.30 – 16.30

BP Portrait Award: Next Generation Flickr Group

I'm really impressed amongst the lineament of the ikon I've seen posted to the Next Generation Flickr Group.
Some of the portraits past times immature people inward the BP Portrait Award: Next Generation Flickr Group 
BP Next Generation on Twitter

The twitter feed for the projection is https://twitter.com/bpnextgen

Meet the Artist

Tomorrow (Wednesday 18th July) a ane solar daytime effect is beingness held for secondary schoolhouse fine art students as well as their teachers called Meet the Artist. You tin read nearly previous Meet the Artist events as well as the processes as well as approaches for portraiture used past times unlike artists.

The artists involved are photographers or painters as well as convey typically been involved amongst the ii major competitions run past times the NPG.
Secondary fine art students as well as teachers tin run across 3 past times BP Portrait Award-winning artists through the BP Portrait Award: Next Generation project. This full-day session includes presentations past times artists, an artist-led portrait drawing activeness followed past times Q&A. H5N1 viewing of BP Portrait Award 2012 as well as a feedback session amongst artists on manus to back upward as well as encourage students’ sketchbook operate concludes an exciting day.
National Portrait Gallery Youth Forum

The Youth Forum meets on the start Th eve of the calendar month as well as is an chance for immature people to convey a vox at the National Portrait Gallery.

Facebook
This is the Facebook Page for The National Portrait Gallery Youth Forum

Podcast
The National Portrait Gallery’s Youth Forum has developed their start podcast, ‘Tune In’, responding to cardinal industrial plant as well as cardinal themes inward this year’s BP Portrait Award 2012.
  • It's aimed at other immature people as well as full general visitors
  • it's FREE as well as downloadable from the NPG website as well as from iTunes.
  • It tin too live on listened to inside the Digital Space at the National Portrait Gallery.

The NPG as well as its projects are too purpose of The English linguistic communication National Youth Arts Network (ENYAN)

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