CWAP

Community Art from Business Waste

The winners of the CWAP competition 2011 have been announced. To view the 1st and 2nd prize winners news article click here.

Cornwall Scrap Store and Cornwall Waste Action are working in partnership on the Cornwall Waste Art Project (CWAP) in West Cornwall.

The project will deliver twenty creative workshops using an array of waste materials, working with a range of community groups, from Falmouth to Penzance. The project is designed to promote artistic inspiration through practical activity for participants as well as the need to highlight greater public awareness about the need to re-use materials and save resources from going to landfill.

CWAP aims to provide participants with varied creative experiences, which will include traditional craft skills, being adapted to work with a wide selection of waste materials, as well as the opportunity for workshop users to develop their own freestyle creations. At each workshop, attendees will have the opportunity to select the media they want to work with, as well as be encouraged and supported to design their own work.

The idea behind CWAP is that everyone has a natural creativity, which is often neglected after childhood, it is anticipated that the project will provide the participants with the opportunity to re-experience creative activity, encourage artistic development as well as enhance individuals self-esteem.

CWAP Project Worker, Sarah Sejahtera says “This is a really exciting project, allowing us to promote waste art to a diversity of people in West Cornwall, who currently may not realise their own artistic ability or the amazing creative art and craft that can be made through re-use of waste resources”.

The project is funded through the Big Lottery Funds, Awards for All programme and is collaboration between, Cornwall Scrap Store and Cornwall Waste Action, both voluntary sector organisations who are keen to expand further other community based initiatives that highlight waste minimisation and artistic endeavours.

Gary King, Cornwall Scrap Store Co-ordinator says “We have a great Scrap Store resource centre in Pool; we are looking forward to new member groups joining us, after participating in the project. However we want other new members too, you don’t have to be involved with this project to become a Scrap Store member, its an open membership scheme available to individuals, schools, artists as well as community groups.“

The community workshops will be provided with a wide selection of reclaimed resources and materials, sourced from business in the county by Cornwall Scrap Store. Whilst participants will also be provided with their own waste art and craft resource kit, so that those individuals attending workshops can continue with creative activities at home, after the project has finished.

For more information about this project contact Cornwall Waste Action on 01209 210883 or (Aktiviere JavaScript, um die Email-Adresse zu sehen) further details about the work of Cornwall Scrap Store can be found at: www.cornwallscrapstore.co.uk