Photo credit: Crown Copyright Historic Environment Scotland
Stirling Heritage Arts Award is a year-long project in partnership with Scran, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, working with young people, aged 15+ to explore Stirling’s heritage and use it as an inspiration in their own arts practice.
We worked across art forms, creating a bespoke programme of visits, workshops and talks to inspire and progress the young artist’s leadership skills, creativity, artistic knowledge and understanding. This was structured around the framework of the Silver Arts Award.
For the Silver Unit 2 leadership project, the group made a creative heritage trail through Stirling, which is framed around a Discover Arts Award, so anyone aged up to 25 can gain an award from taking part in the trail.
The executive summary of the external evaluation, conducted by Ruthless Research can be found below, alongside the full evaluation.
We worked across art forms, creating a bespoke programme of visits, workshops and talks to inspire and progress the young artist’s leadership skills, creativity, artistic knowledge and understanding. This was structured around the framework of the Silver Arts Award.
For the Silver Unit 2 leadership project, the group made a creative heritage trail through Stirling, which is framed around a Discover Arts Award, so anyone aged up to 25 can gain an award from taking part in the trail.
The executive summary of the external evaluation, conducted by Ruthless Research can be found below, alongside the full evaluation.
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Who was involved?
Scran was our core partner from the beginning. We shaped the project together and co-curated each step. Scotland's Urban Past also played a key role in the development and delivery of the project.
We also collaborated with a wide range of Stirling based partners including The Engine Shed, The Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling Castle, other departments of Historic Environment Scotland and Stirling Council ( Creative Learning & Central Library).
Forth Valley College, Dunblane High School and St Modan’s High School have helped us with the project recruitment and supporting participants.
Media Education worked with the group on the trail’s films and animations.
Magic Torch Comics and Rachel O’Neill also delivered workshops.
Jack Stancliffe started off as project assistant and is now lead artist on the Trail.
Caroline Bray (Heritage Arts Award expert) is the project mentor, Brian Hartley from StillMotion is making a film to document the project and Ruth Stevenson from Ruthless Research is our external evaluator.
Scran was our core partner from the beginning. We shaped the project together and co-curated each step. Scotland's Urban Past also played a key role in the development and delivery of the project.
We also collaborated with a wide range of Stirling based partners including The Engine Shed, The Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling Castle, other departments of Historic Environment Scotland and Stirling Council ( Creative Learning & Central Library).
Forth Valley College, Dunblane High School and St Modan’s High School have helped us with the project recruitment and supporting participants.
Media Education worked with the group on the trail’s films and animations.
Magic Torch Comics and Rachel O’Neill also delivered workshops.
Jack Stancliffe started off as project assistant and is now lead artist on the Trail.
Caroline Bray (Heritage Arts Award expert) is the project mentor, Brian Hartley from StillMotion is making a film to document the project and Ruth Stevenson from Ruthless Research is our external evaluator.
Why did this project happen?
At See Think Make we like to learn through action. We like to try things out and work open so that others don’t need to make the same mistakes. We want to inspire people working with children and young people to use the arts and creativity throughout their work.
Regardless of the legacy, we love putting on brilliant projects that allow young people the opportunity to shine, but for this project it’s as much about inspiring others as it is about doing great work.
We wanted to demonstrate how Arts Award can be used in a heritage setting, as this hasn’t happened much in Scotland to date. If any heritage organisation is interested in developing their own Arts Award offer, we are open to share our experience and support you on the journey!
At See Think Make we like to learn through action. We like to try things out and work open so that others don’t need to make the same mistakes. We want to inspire people working with children and young people to use the arts and creativity throughout their work.
Regardless of the legacy, we love putting on brilliant projects that allow young people the opportunity to shine, but for this project it’s as much about inspiring others as it is about doing great work.
We wanted to demonstrate how Arts Award can be used in a heritage setting, as this hasn’t happened much in Scotland to date. If any heritage organisation is interested in developing their own Arts Award offer, we are open to share our experience and support you on the journey!
A word from Scran:
Scran were keen to engage with a fresh audience during the Year of Young People, to explore new ways to enjoy the digital archives and collections on offer. Arts Award provided a creative & exciting way for this to happen.
The young people participating in the project were given individual access to Scran.ac.uk to support and inspire their individual research, and artistic practice.
Following an introduction to the vast digital archives available, each young person also undertook the task of curating Stirling specific archive content, to enhance their knowledge and understating of the local heritage. This proved invaluable for fact finding during the development of the trail and especially in learning the skill of stop frame animation.
Scran were keen to engage with a fresh audience during the Year of Young People, to explore new ways to enjoy the digital archives and collections on offer. Arts Award provided a creative & exciting way for this to happen.
The young people participating in the project were given individual access to Scran.ac.uk to support and inspire their individual research, and artistic practice.
Following an introduction to the vast digital archives available, each young person also undertook the task of curating Stirling specific archive content, to enhance their knowledge and understating of the local heritage. This proved invaluable for fact finding during the development of the trail and especially in learning the skill of stop frame animation.
Is this the best it can be?
As part of our development process for the project, we used the Is this the best it can be Artworks Scotland toolkit. It supported our planning and set what could have been a tricky partnership balance on the right track. Here’s the toolkit and here’s our case study, supported by Creative Scotland.
As part of our development process for the project, we used the Is this the best it can be Artworks Scotland toolkit. It supported our planning and set what could have been a tricky partnership balance on the right track. Here’s the toolkit and here’s our case study, supported by Creative Scotland.
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