Creativity and art need ideas and skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creativity and art need ideas and skills

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture

Project Summary

With our project we enable the participants to expand their artistic abilities and skills with regard to arts and crafts or the performing arts and to be creatively themselves.
Artistic forms of expression are shaped by traditions, materials available in the region, and special features of the landscape. They manifest themselves in a special material and form language. We would like to contribute to the preservation of old handicraft techniques.
The participants should get to know different materials and languages of form as well as special artistic design techniques, which are applied in the regions to glass, wood and metal, and expand their knowledge.
To achieve this goal, artists from the three countries have been recruited who will apply such special techniques in their work and teach the participants.
In Germany, a goldsmith will present the enamelling technique, a very old traditional craft technique. In Thuringia the enamelling technique has a long tradition. In the artists’ workshops in the city of Erfurt, participants will have the opportunity to familiarise themselves with this technique and to apply it.
In France, knowledge in metalworking/metal art is taught. An artist makes sculptures from scrap metal. The participants will get inspiration for their own work.
An artist with Down’s syndrome (Trisomy 21) shows the participants her special paintings and explains the knotting technique she uses to create tapestries.
The participants experience how inclusion is put in practice. This is a special experience that the participants gain and which is helpful for them in dealing with disabled people.
The project participants will build a bridge from the visual arts to the performing arts and rehearse a performance under the direction of an artist.
In Austria, the project participants will acquire knowledge in artistic wood design. A visit to the workshop of a wood sculptor in Tyrol is planned. Austrian sculptors are known for their naturalistic representations of wood sculptures.
It is planned to document the works of art created by the project participants together with selected works by the artists in a virtual presentation. This will give members of the association and interested parties an insight into the work of our partners’ artists and the results of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 49300 Eur

Project Coordinator

Performance Art Theaterproduktion Thüringen e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Lienzer Sängerbund 1860
• Eurocultures en Corbières