Campaign for Drawing
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The Campaign for Drawing has the aim to get everyone in the UK drawing
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An annual program of more than 1000 events and organizations that shows drawing is the perfect medium for observation, self-expression and fun. Wide-ranging events and themes for all ages span art and science.. The 2008 events in October focus on science
, and will be based at University College London
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The Big Draw proves that drawing can be an enjoyable public
activity as well as a private passion. It is inspired by the Victorian
artist and writer, John Ruskin
. His mission was not to teach people how to draw, but how to see. An educational charity
, the Campaign demonstrates that drawing is a life skill: an essential tool for thinking, inventing and communicating. Its publications for teacher
s and other educators provide evidence that drawing supports formal and informal learning
..
The Campaign for Drawing has decided to celebrate its 10th Anniversary by conducting an exhibition show at the Idea Generation Gallery in Shoreditch, London between 8–20 September 2009.
Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
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An annual program of more than 1000 events and organizations that shows drawing is the perfect medium for observation, self-expression and fun. Wide-ranging events and themes for all ages span art and science.. The 2008 events in October focus on science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, and will be based at University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
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The Big Draw proves that drawing can be an enjoyable public
Public
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individuals, and the public is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science,...
activity as well as a private passion. It is inspired by the Victorian
Victorian era
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...
artist and writer, John Ruskin
John Ruskin
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
. His mission was not to teach people how to draw, but how to see. An educational charity
Charitable organization
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A...
, the Campaign demonstrates that drawing is a life skill: an essential tool for thinking, inventing and communicating. Its publications for teacher
Teacher
A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...
s and other educators provide evidence that drawing supports formal and informal learning
Learning
Learning is acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves.Human learning...
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The Campaign for Drawing has decided to celebrate its 10th Anniversary by conducting an exhibition show at the Idea Generation Gallery in Shoreditch, London between 8–20 September 2009.
Patrons
- Quentin BlakeQuentin BlakeQuentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, RDI, is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well-known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.-Education:...
CBE - Lord Norman Foster
- David HockneyDavid HockneyDavid Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....
CH - Sir Richard MacCormac
- Andrew MarrAndrew MarrAndrew William Stevenson Marr is a Scottish journalist and political commentator. He edited The Independent for two years until May 1998, and was political editor of BBC News from 2000 until 2005....
- Sir Roger PenroseRoger PenroseSir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College...
OM - Gerald ScarfeGerald ScarfeGerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI, is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker...
- Posy SimmondsPosy SimmondsRosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE is a British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of children's books. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the cartoons Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe , both later published as books...
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