Lower East

Teaching & talking

We love to teach and talk about how to communicate! Last week the lower east core team went to the Danish island Bornholm to work with the students from the ceramics and glass programme at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. We met a group of dedicated students eager to learn – and exited to take new steps with their projects.

Our focus was to dress the students up to go out there and tell the world how great they are in what they are doing. We worked on how to on one side trusting your gut feeling and your intuition, and on the other side how to be disciplined, operate within systems and learn the needed communication tools. Also looking at how to find and develop your story and tell it – at the same time you still are developing your project and your art.

We were looking at different communication ‘platforms’; websites, facebook, blogs, instagram, postcards, business cards, handouts and all that jazz’. The students worked alone and in groups. We believe in working in teams, believe that what you don’t know some in your network may wan’t to help you with – we opened a lot of doors, talked about  a lot of opportunities – and left the island again… Now the students keep up the good work… Keep your ears and eyes open for that!

We’ll be back!

 

 

Communicating glass and ceramics

The rest of the week Lower East will be teaching the students from “The Craft – Glass and Ceramics programme on Bornholm“. We are very much looking forward to work with the students on “how to communicate your project“.

The programme is a part of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation.

In our teaching we are planning to focus on, on one hand the original story, the story of the student, the expression of the artist, and on the other hand all the communication disciplines, the tools, and looking at how to work with discipline.

It’s gonna be fun – we keep you posted!