Ama Niang

Category: SIP

  • Exhibition Summary/Catch Up

    Exhibition Information Flyers

    It was my job to make the flyers explaining the exhibition, which was quick to do since already had our design language confirmed and I had already written up the exhibition statement.

    Schools Reaching Out

    We gave the library workshop flyer and they passed them out to schools, we got some interest from that but not enough. Since my colleague was in charge of workshop reach out she emailed and visited the schools, this ended up getting us more workshops.

    Monday Set Up

    We set up the exhibition on Monday, we had got everything missing printed and headed to the library. We agreed on the layout before hand so we just got to installing. Once it was up we didn’t like one section so we switched some things up and landed on the final layout. It went very smoothly.

    Tuesday Private View

    We had our private view last Tuesday, I was really nervous before because I had never hosted a private view let alone been to one. It turned out super well, people were looking at the pieces, amazing feedback. I am super happy with how it turned out.

    Friday Two Workshops

    We had our first two workshops Friday, they turned out great. Lots of amazing work from the children and it was nice to see their responses to the work in the exhibition.

    Overall Experience

    I have really enjoyed curating an exhibition, the workshops were also very fun. It was interesting to do something different and I had never thought that this was something I would be doing this year. It was also informative and helped me learn about curating and what that process is like.

  • Progress on Getting Everything Ready

    We have confirmed with the venue our dates for setting up the space and our private view.

    I have applied to multiple grants and I am just waiting for them to review my application.

    We meet the practitioners, we will be having a call with them soon to fully confirm the workshop schedules and to look at and help them with the content.

    We are doing well with getting things done early, so that we have less stress closer towards the date.

  • Unity Without Uniformity Progress

    We have been able to secure a venue for our exhibition, and we have the dates confirmed (mid May). This means we have been able to work on getting the exhibiiton ready.

    We have split up the tasks we need to complete to get the exhibition ready:

    So far we have made good progress and decided on our social media promotional material, I can’t share the social media posters for the exhibition just yet but when I can I will add them.

    I have been applying for available grants/funding opportunities I have found in the Streatham, and reaching out to local community groups to ask if they would be willing to have our flyer up in their centres/ on their socials.

  • Reflections on your SIP

    Which of the Climate, Racial, Social Justice principles does your idea align with?

    Our SIP is about cultural justice and the importance in embracing diversity so it would fall under racial justice and fostering futures thinking.

    What will be the next steps for your project?

    We have managed to find a venue (still in the process of confirming with this venue). Our next steps are to contact schools in the local area, finalise our social media, and finalise our workshop itinerary!

  • Social Media Branding

    For the exhibition, we are now working on the social media branding whilst we are working on securing a venue. These are some mock ups I’ve done for possible posts.

    The exhibition has been moved to April so we have some more time to work things out.

  • On track

    To update, whilst waiting for the bounce fund to open we have started with our exhibition branding. We are deciding on font, ‘logo’, and colour pallet. Currently we are thinking of a neutral pallet with a red colour accent.

    Before we break up for Christmas I would like to have decided what workshop activities we want to host, what practitioners we want, are we doing a private view and if so who are we inviting, making list of schools around possible venues.

  • Theme, Narrative, and Branding

    Right now our exhibition ‘Unity Without Uniformity’ is still a big work in progress.

    So far we’ve:

    -emailed venues

    -decided our theme

    -applied for an Art England grant

    What we want to get done this month:

    -decided number of pieces to display

    -email Chelsea for printing quote

    -branding

    -exhibition statement

  • Unity without Uniformity

    My SIP is going to be an exhibition I am putting together with another DPS student who I am doing my placement alongside of.

    We are doing holding an exhibition for UN Social Justice Day, 20th Feb. It is going to be a 2 week exhibition. We have chosen the theme of Unity Without Uniformity. The exhibition will display work from the Never Such Innocence archive.

    So far we have come up with our idea and emailed multiple venues that we are interested in. I have applied for a grant from the Arts Council England, if we get this grant we will be able to hire a venue, otherwise we have to try and get one for free.

    Next up we have to work on strengthening the exhibition narrative, creating a statement, and out branding for the promotional material.