Useful Links and Resources
We want everyone to continue to enjoy creating and making, so here are some useful resources and links to inspire and motivate you:
Artlift Participants
Current Artlift Participants and Move On group leaders who’ve been given a password by their Artlift artist, can access course resources here:
Local
- Gloucestershire Resource Centre – arts and crafts ideas on our local Scrapstore’s Facebook page
- Cinderford Artspace – an online gallery and tutorials on their website and Facebook page
- Gallery McKee – watercolour tips from local artist Paul McKee
- Roses Theatre Tewkesbury – lots of creative ideas on the theatre’s Facebook page
- Look Again – this Mindful Photography company has been offering tasters (e.g. a free seven-day taster ‘Re-frame Your Now’ programme)
National
- The MARCH Network’s ‘Creative Isolation’ resource – a list of creative ways to support mental health at home during these uncertain times
- Firstsite – register to download activity packs with contributions from UK artists including Antony Gormley, Sarah Lucas and Grayson Perry
- Do, Think, Share – sign up for free daily creative challenges with #64millionartists
- Bored Panda – have compiled a list of virtual museum tours
- Open Culture – free museum colouring books to download and print
- Royal Academy’s Family How to Activities – worldclass exhibitions and creative activities for all ages
- Emily Hett – you can download, print and colour in free drawings and sign up for the artist’s art tutorials
- The Space’s Culture to your Couch – bringing cultural content like theatre and opera into your home
- Art Branches Facebook group – daily arts challenges
- Arts for Health Milton Keynes – a selection of arts activities to help you feel good
This is just a start. There are so many organisations providing online resources and ideas. We hope that you’ll find inspiration and ideas here to help you get through this difficult time and the winter ahead.