Spotlight on the Street
Taking a deeper look into the heritage of one street in the JQ. As artists we have explored the heritage and our contemporary connections to 3 streets with local children and young people ; Vittoria Street, Regent Street, and Albion Street.
Connection and sense of place through creative exploration.
Vittoria Street 2019
Individually we each worked with a local group to make an installation for the street. Tina with the Fire Station Nursery to make chains using scrap matierials. Deborette with Core Academy to explore the button making heritage through design and fabrication of air dry clay button packs. Kirsty with JQ Academy to create lino cut assay marks prints, paper cut portraits and maps exploring students connection to the JQ.
Regent Street 2020 - JQ MAKES
Due to be delivered as COVID-19 hit we pivoted delivery and created 100 make at home packs for the children and young people we were due to work with. These packs had an activity book with how-to guides, heritage reference material and all the tools and resources to make everything in the book. This included stitched, laser cut pennants, air dry clay charms, zines and more. The pupils of St. George’s Primary were invited to participate in Explore Arts Award thanks to additional funding from Arts Connect.
Albion Street 2021
This iteration sees us expand our reach to include local residents and test a hybrid approach to engagement with the children and young people of Fire Station Nursery and JQ Academy.
Hosting activity during Birmingham Heritage Week and beyond we are exploring new approaches thanks to additional match funding from Arts Connect, Civic Square and GBSLEP.
Spotlight in the Street is a commissioned project by JQ Townscape Heritage through funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.