It's Good To Be You Artist Residencies
Exploring, celebrating and promoting positive emotional health through creativity.
It's Good To Be You is an arts and health project by Dudley Public Health and Creative Health. During 2011 artists worked in seven Dudley schools to plan, design and create artworks for their school with artists, focusing on key emotional health and wellbeing messages. Click here for more information about these residencies. Dudley Public Health, Dudley Association of Governing Bodies and Creative Health CIC have teamed up to offer It's Good To Be You Artist Residencies. This project provides a unique opportunity for a primary and a secondary school to promote emotional wellbeing and mental health to children and young people through a visual art project delivered by experienced, professional artist.
About the Artist Residency Projects
The residencies offer two winning Dudley schools the opportunity to develop and deliver a new visual art project with artists Laura Hickman (for primary schools) and Rich Franks (for secondary schools). Each school group will be taken on a creative journey exploring and discussing key emotional health messages in depth, promoting wellbeing, inspiring creativity and leading to a piece of artwork that can be enjoyed by the whole school and displayed for as long as the school wishes.
How to Apply
Artists Laura and Rich have produced invitations that invite you to apply for their residency project, schools will be selected for the project based on their creative responses to the invitation. Your response needs to tell us about you, the group you are working with and why you want to have an artist in residence at your school. Be creative with your response and involve the children and young people in it, any art form will be accepted – you can make a short film, write letters, draw pictures or take photographs – its up to you!
You will also need to complete the application form providing additional information about you, your school and your It's Good To Be You project.
To get started, download the application form and artist invitation for your school here:
It's Good To Be You is an arts and health project by Dudley Public Health and Creative Health. During 2011 artists worked in seven Dudley schools to plan, design and create artworks for their school with artists, focusing on key emotional health and wellbeing messages. Click here for more information about these residencies. Dudley Public Health, Dudley Association of Governing Bodies and Creative Health CIC have teamed up to offer It's Good To Be You Artist Residencies. This project provides a unique opportunity for a primary and a secondary school to promote emotional wellbeing and mental health to children and young people through a visual art project delivered by experienced, professional artist.
About the Artist Residency Projects
The residencies offer two winning Dudley schools the opportunity to develop and deliver a new visual art project with artists Laura Hickman (for primary schools) and Rich Franks (for secondary schools). Each school group will be taken on a creative journey exploring and discussing key emotional health messages in depth, promoting wellbeing, inspiring creativity and leading to a piece of artwork that can be enjoyed by the whole school and displayed for as long as the school wishes.
How to Apply
Artists Laura and Rich have produced invitations that invite you to apply for their residency project, schools will be selected for the project based on their creative responses to the invitation. Your response needs to tell us about you, the group you are working with and why you want to have an artist in residence at your school. Be creative with your response and involve the children and young people in it, any art form will be accepted – you can make a short film, write letters, draw pictures or take photographs – its up to you!
You will also need to complete the application form providing additional information about you, your school and your It's Good To Be You project.
To get started, download the application form and artist invitation for your school here:
It's Good To Be You application form
Please make sure you read through the Frequently Asked Questions below before completing your application form and response. These will help you with your application and provide a lot of information about the project.
Once your response to the invitation and application form is complete, send it to Katy Woods at katy@creativehealthcic.co.uk by 23 March 2012. If you are posting your response, please email Katy for further information.
Deadline for submissions: Friday 23 March 2012
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It's Good To Be You Artist Residencies
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the It's Good To Be You messages that I need to choose from?
You can select an It's Good To Be You message from the list below. If you are selected for the project you can change your mind about this once you have consulted with the artist to develop your project:
Get involved and make a contribution
Eat well and keep physically active
Keep in touch with family and friends
Have fun but remember to stay safe online
Do something creative and learn a new skill
Ask for help and talk about your feelings
Value yourself and know when to take a break
If my school wins, what happens next?
If your school is selected for the project, the artist will visit your school to have a consultation meeting with the staff, children or young people involved to work out the detail of your project, talk through the workshops that they will deliver and arrange the dates. The artist will then start work in your school with your group.
How long will the artist be in residence?
5 days in total: one day a week for five weeks or five days in a one-week block.
Does a member of staff need to be present at all the meetings and workshops?
Yes, it is very important that the member of staff submitting the application takes responsibility for the project as a whole and is present at all the workshops and any meetings.
When will the residency project start?
The project will start on or soon after 23 April 2012.
When does the residency project need to be completed by?
The whole project needs to be completed by the end of the Summer term 2012, the week before the final week of term.
What happens when the project has finished?
The project is the beginning of a process and staff will be encouraged to develop the ideas from the project in different ways once the residency project has been completed.
Where can I find more information about It's Good To Be You?
You can find out more about It's Good To Be You from the case studies produced following the first stage of the project. Click here to see the case studies.
Can Special Schools or Departments apply?
Yes, the artists will be able to work with children and young people of all abilities.
How many children or young people can be in one group?
6 – 10 children or young people can be in one group.
Where will the project workshops take place?
The workshops must take place in a safe space at your school which is suitable for art workshops.
Can more than one group apply from the same school?
Yes, any number of groups can apply from the same school.
Do the artists have experience of working on arts and health projects in schools?
Yes, both artists have a lot of experience of working with schools on arts and health projects in addition to other work with schools. To find out more about each artist and their previous experience, click the links to their websites.
Are the artists CRB checked?
Yes, both artists are CRB checked and have their own public liability insurance.
How do the children and young people get involved?
Children and young people can get involved right from the very beginning and should be involved in your school’s response to the invitation. The successful school will have a consultation with the artist to work out the detail of your project, how it will run and how the children and young people will be involved.
Will the whole school get to see the final product or just the group who are working on it?
The artists will work with the group to develop and produce projects that the whole school can access and enjoy.
Can other members of staff apply for the project or just teachers?
Any member of staff can apply for the project but they must be the member of staff who will be running the project if you are successful.
Who do I contact if I am stuck with my application?
Contact Katy Woods, Creative Health Coordinator on katy@creativehealthcic.co.uk or call 07903 447370 during office hours only.
It's Good To Be You Artist Residencies is a project by Dudley Public Health, Dudley Association of Governing Bodies and Creative Health CIC.
You can select an It's Good To Be You message from the list below. If you are selected for the project you can change your mind about this once you have consulted with the artist to develop your project:
Get involved and make a contribution
Eat well and keep physically active
Keep in touch with family and friends
Have fun but remember to stay safe online
Do something creative and learn a new skill
Ask for help and talk about your feelings
Value yourself and know when to take a break
If my school wins, what happens next?
If your school is selected for the project, the artist will visit your school to have a consultation meeting with the staff, children or young people involved to work out the detail of your project, talk through the workshops that they will deliver and arrange the dates. The artist will then start work in your school with your group.
How long will the artist be in residence?
5 days in total: one day a week for five weeks or five days in a one-week block.
Does a member of staff need to be present at all the meetings and workshops?
Yes, it is very important that the member of staff submitting the application takes responsibility for the project as a whole and is present at all the workshops and any meetings.
When will the residency project start?
The project will start on or soon after 23 April 2012.
When does the residency project need to be completed by?
The whole project needs to be completed by the end of the Summer term 2012, the week before the final week of term.
What happens when the project has finished?
The project is the beginning of a process and staff will be encouraged to develop the ideas from the project in different ways once the residency project has been completed.
Where can I find more information about It's Good To Be You?
You can find out more about It's Good To Be You from the case studies produced following the first stage of the project. Click here to see the case studies.
Can Special Schools or Departments apply?
Yes, the artists will be able to work with children and young people of all abilities.
How many children or young people can be in one group?
6 – 10 children or young people can be in one group.
Where will the project workshops take place?
The workshops must take place in a safe space at your school which is suitable for art workshops.
Can more than one group apply from the same school?
Yes, any number of groups can apply from the same school.
Do the artists have experience of working on arts and health projects in schools?
Yes, both artists have a lot of experience of working with schools on arts and health projects in addition to other work with schools. To find out more about each artist and their previous experience, click the links to their websites.
Are the artists CRB checked?
Yes, both artists are CRB checked and have their own public liability insurance.
How do the children and young people get involved?
Children and young people can get involved right from the very beginning and should be involved in your school’s response to the invitation. The successful school will have a consultation with the artist to work out the detail of your project, how it will run and how the children and young people will be involved.
Will the whole school get to see the final product or just the group who are working on it?
The artists will work with the group to develop and produce projects that the whole school can access and enjoy.
Can other members of staff apply for the project or just teachers?
Any member of staff can apply for the project but they must be the member of staff who will be running the project if you are successful.
Who do I contact if I am stuck with my application?
Contact Katy Woods, Creative Health Coordinator on katy@creativehealthcic.co.uk or call 07903 447370 during office hours only.
It's Good To Be You Artist Residencies is a project by Dudley Public Health, Dudley Association of Governing Bodies and Creative Health CIC.
