21st Century Kids Summer Festival On Tour in Cooktown - Kids Drawings

On Saturday 15th January as part of Kids Summer festival On Tour Artist Jorge Méndez-Blake's 'Discover Treasure Island' invited kids to listen to a CD of swashbuckling sounds and draw a picture that illustrates what they are hearing. Artist John Pule, writer and poet whose art works often combine words and images, invited kids to engage with Niunean legends and culture by responding to the artist’s word paintings. 

These are the drawings that the kids of Cooktown did.

‘21st Century Kids Summer Festival on Tour’ is a regional program of the Queensland Art Gallery, supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments, administered by Arts Queensland. ‘21st Century Kids on Tour’ is proudly supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation. The Children’s Art Centre is sponsored by Santos. 

Kids Summer Festival Performance Art Video

As part of 21st Century Kids Summer Festival On Tour in Cooktown on Saturday 15th January 2011 the 'Cooktown Catastrophic Crazy Kids or CCCK'as named by kids and Cooktown Art present this short Performance Art Film.

All materials and ideas for art activities supplied to Cooktown School of Art Society Elizabeth Guzsely Gallery by Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art.  See http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/travelling/regional_services/21st_Century_on_Tour

One activity proposed by New Zealand artist Campbell Patterson, who makes videos of himself that are funny, odd and fascinating,  invited kids to watch his video, ‘Lifting my mother for as long as I can’, then complete the challenges and think of  funny activities they could perform.  As a result the kids thought up the activities that we filmed and made into this performance art video.

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You will be able to read about the different art activities we had on the day on the Cooktown Art Blog which features our most recent arty news at http://cooktownart.blogspot.com

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All Video music tracks Royalty free and courtesy of Jason Shaw http://www.youtube.com/user/audionautix and http:// www.audionautix.com Released under Creative Commons license 3.0 - You are free to use the music (even for commercial purposes) as long as you credit “Jason Shaw @ audionautix.com”.  Music must be part of some other created works. No further permission is required.  

‘21st Century Kids Summer Festival on Tour’ is a regional program of the Queensland Art Gallery, supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments, administered by Arts Queensland. ‘21st Century Kids on Tour’ is proudly supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation. The Children’s Art Centre is sponsored by Santos.

21st Century Kids Summer Festival On Tour in Cooktown DONE - See Results!

21st Century Kids Summer Festival On Tour in Cooktown on Saturday 15th January 2011.

Kids made their own bird species using shredded paper and bird templates created by the artist..  These pictures show the wonderful results of a little imagination.  Each bird in it's nest was labeled with the birds name, habitat, foods eaten, and behaviours. Australian artist Fiona Hall translated her interest in the migratory patterns of birds and nest-making into a hands-on activity. I had a fun day assisting with this kids art activity.
See more birds nests and birds on Cooktown Art Facebook album and the Cooktown Art Blog.

 

 

 An art activity by artist Tony Albert invited all earthlings to become honorary citizens of the Alien Nation — but not before passing the citizenship test! Those who complete the test and become citizens receive a special Alien Nation citizenship certificate and card to show that they are part of the Alien Nation.

Artist Tony Albert's Alien nation embassy (still) 2008.  First commissioned by the Children’s Art Centre for ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’ with the support of Gina Fairfax 2008. Courtesy: The artist and the Queensland Art Gallery Supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation 2010

Kids used Indian artist, Bharti Kher's specially designed bindis to decorate themselves.

Artist Jorge Méndez Blake invited kids to listen to a CD of swashbuckling sounds and draw a picture of what what they where hearing.

Artist Jorge Méndez-Blake Discover Treasure Island 2010 Commissioned by the Children’s Art Centre for ‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade'. Courtesy the artist and the Queensland Art Gallery supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation 2010 .

New Zealand artist Campbell Patterson had kids think of funny activities they could perform.  The kids were enthusiastic and the short video clips will be made into a performance art film to be uploaded to Cooktown Art Blog and Youtube!

Artist and poet John Pule had the kids drawing word paintings in a collaborative way on large art paper.

Inspired by a Brazilian tradition, artist Rivane Neuenschwander invited visitors to select and tie people’s wishes to their wrists. According to the tradition, the wish is granted when the ribbon eventually falls off.

Some put ribbons in their hair which looked great as well!

‘21st Century Kids Summer Festival on Tour’ is a regional program of the Queensland Art Gallery, supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments, administered by Arts Queensland. ‘21st Century Kids on Tour’ is proudly supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation. The Children’s Art Centre is sponsored by Santos.

Nest & Bird Art Activity Kids Summer Festival in Cooktown

21st Century Kids Summer Festival On Tour in Cooktown on Saturday 15th January 2011 when kids made their own species of bird using templates and shredded paper.  These pictures show the wonderful results of a little imagination.  Each bird in it's nest was labeled with the birds name, habitat, foods eaten, and behaviours.

See more on Fayes4Art Blog and Cooktown Art Facebook Albums and stay tuned for more posts and videos on this blog.

‘21st Century Kids Summer Festival on Tour’ is a regional program of the Queensland Art Gallery, supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments, administered by Arts Queensland. ‘21st Century Kids on Tour’ is proudly supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation. The Children’s Art Centre is sponsored by Santos.

FREE Kids Summer Festival ART in Cooktown THIS Sat 15 January!

Artist Tony Albert's Alien nation embassy (still) 2008.  First commissioned by the Children’s Art Centre for ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’ with the support of Gina Fairfax 2008. Courtesy: The artist and the Queensland Art Gallery Supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation 2010

Artist Justine Cooper's The call of the wild (still) 2006 First commissioned by the Children’s Art Centre for ‘The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ 2006 Courtesy: The artist and the Queensland Art Gallery Supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation 2010

Artist Romuald Hazoumè's Workshop for MIB (Made in Brisbane) 2010 Gallery of Modern Art, 29th September 2010 Photograph by Natasha Harth.

Artist Jorge Méndez-Blake Discover Treasure Island 2010 Commissioned by the Children’s Art Centre for ‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade'. Courtesy the artist and the Queensland Art Gallery supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation 2010 .

‘21st Century Kids Summer Festival on Tour’ is a regional program of the Queensland Art
Gallery, supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State
and Territory Governments, administered by Arts Queensland. ‘21st Century Kids on Tour’ is
proudly supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation. The Children’s Art Centre is
sponsored by Santos.
 
21st Century Kids Summer Festival On Tour Website

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