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londonprintstudio projects
  londonprintstudio develops projects promoting visual and graphic arts education. We regularly work in partnership with other organisations. If you belong to an organisation and have a project proposal that you think may be suitable, please tell us about it.
Email info@londonprintstudio.org.uk

Examples of londonprintstudio projects are outlined below.		  
2007 ACAIA with Queen’s Park Community School.
 Students Young Brazilian artists from Sao Paulo, two art teachers, a social worker, a psychologist and a Print Studio Coordinator from londonprintstudio, with Queens Park Community School, worked together to teach and exchange different art techniques. The aim of the Cultural Exchange was to demonstrate the crucial role art can play to motivate young people to overcome very serious hardship. 		 
2005-06 I’m A Curator with Queen’s Park Community School.
Students worked with londonprintstudio Gallery Coordinator to develop an exhibition of prints in londonprintstudio gallery. The students explored curating, marketing and sales strategies and printmaking techniques. Selected prints created by GCE and BCSE students using the facilities at londonprintstudio were exhibited in the gallery space. 		 
2005-06 What’s Important to Me, in partnership with Photoworks Westminster.
Following a very successful photographic project with Photoworks Westminster and an exhibition at londonprintstudio, students from North Westminster Community School developed photoshop and design skills to produce digital images from photographic portraits. The images were presented in a notebook as a record of the project.		  
2004-05 I’m a Designer, in partnership with Connect Youth, British Council.
londonprintstudio developed and ran a graphic design training programme for young adults who had no previous training or experience of working in design. As part of the project the group addressed Connect Youth’s need to improve its marketing and communications strategy to young audiences. This informal and supportive programme developed the participants' design, communication and team-work skills. The trainees designed a series of posters, which were subsequently printed and distributed nationally, to promote Connect Youth’s programmes.
2000 Our World Tomorrow  A programme of forty-eight artists’ residencies in local schools. Students explored ideas of social change, which might occur between 2000 and 2020. 2,000 children participated in the project. Each of them created a book about their own hopes and fears, as a record for the future.  
2000-02 Our World Today: A large-scale international public art programme, of exhibitions from: Ireland, Brazil, Spain, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Kosovo, Morocco. The work was exhibited in londonprintstudio’s gallery window and twenty-five other local sites including schools, cafes and sports centres. A number of artists’ residencies in schools accompanied the project.  
1999 Alphabetland Childrens Book by Artist Randy Klein and pupils of Wilberforce Primary School. Randy Klein ran a series of creative workshops with students looking at language and communication. They developed pictures and text for a children’s story book. Alphabetland Book was published by londonprintstudio and distributed free to all children in two local primary schools. The project was funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Queen’s Park URBAN.
1998 The Paddington Development Trust  was set up through Westbourne 2000. The Trust established a close working partnership between community organisations, the local authority and the private sector. In 1999 it successfully gained £13 million from the Single Regeneration Budget grant for regeneration in North Westminster and has attracted support from a broad range of trusts and sponsors.  
1997 Westbourne 2000 London Print Workshop was instrumental in bringing together local arts and voluntary organisations with the intention of building closer working links between them. The Studio became the lead organisation coordinating the activities of Westbourne 2000 a local consortium working to a joint regeneration agenda.  
1994 UK Brazil Printmakers Exchange In 1994 London Print Workshop organised an artists exchange which enabled five Brazilian and five British artists to visit each others countries, work in printstudios and organise exhibitions.  
1991 Illuminating Shadows. A Manual on Photography and Disability by Ray Cooper. Researched and produced by London Print Workshop, this manual provides detailed descriptions of adaptations to assist people with disabilities to work with cameras, studio and darkroom equipment.  
1989 J'ouvert. A national touring exhibition and print publishing project in which artists, performers and costume designers created limited edition prints on the theme of carnival.  
1982 North Paddington Farm. A fifty acre working farm in Somerset was established by Paddington Printshop to facilitate closer links between the neighbourhood and the rural environment. Local people are able to visit, live and work on the farm.  
1981 Bustop. The world's first audiovisual bus shelter, designed and built by Jay Talbot and John Phillips was located outside Paddington Printshop. Bustop displayed a community newspaper, postcards and posters. During the day the Bustop played music and at night showed films and slides.  
1977 Meanwhile Gardens. Paddington Printshop assisted artist Jamie McCullock to transform a derelict area of land along the side of the Grand Union Canal into a community park called Meanwhile Gardens  
1976 The Factory (now Yaa Asantewaa Arts Centre). The Studio was originally based in The Factory and helped to establish it as one of the first multicultural arts centres in London.  



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