For Your Students
– Tailormade Workshops
Do you have a vision for how you’d like to work with an artist in your school? It may be an unusual art form that you’d like the children to experience, a specific theme that you’d like to explore through a creative lens, an installation for the school grounds, or a project to raise the confidence of a targeted group. Daisi will identify the best-placed artist to respond to your vision and work with school and artist to develop a project that meets your needs and even takes your ideas to a new level.
Tailormade workshops can last for as little as a day or extend to a week and beyond, depending on the outcomes, number of students and, of course, your budget.
Read on below for further information and inspiration from past projects…
Process based workshops
One-off experiences that build confidence, practical skills and creativity
Imagine the freedom to experiment … When you host a workshop in which the process, experience or skills are the primary focus, not only do you find that your project costs less, but you invite creativity to take centre stage. From felt making to breakdance, and animation to storytelling, music and drama, Daisi artists offer an array of awe-inspiring techniques, imagination and insight that can connect with children in a completely different way to their daily learning.
Temporary Displays and Performances
Short projects with a tangible outcome
Working with a Daisi artist to create a temporary display or performance can be a rewarding opportunity for children to see how their contribution can lead to a collective outcome. It allows the ‘voice’ of participating students to shine and opens the door to a vast range of possible art forms, without requiring the durability of a permanent exhibit.
Outdoor or Permanent Installations
More ambitious projects with a lasting presence in the school
Daisi artists have extensive experience of working with schools to create permanent displays in and outside the building. Such installations enable the school community to create something together, and to communicate the unique identify of the school through a welcome message, sense of peace or representation of the school values.
Outdoor or permanent displays come with a specific set of considerations. As well as engaging students across the age range, they require durable materials, careful installation and sufficient planning time.
About our Artists
Daisi works with talented, professional artists across all art forms – from animation and environmental sculpture through to music, dance, drama, visual arts and literature – to bring high-quality, creative and exciting experiences into a broad range of settings across Devon and Torbay (and beyond), in schools and in non-formal education, youth and community settings.
Daisi artists have been carefully selected for their balance of creative practice and education experience, are DBS checked and supported by Daisi to create robust activity plans and risk assessments. We regularly review how we work with schools to provide continued access to inclusive arts education, support mental health and wellbeing, and to encourage class cohesion.