Welcome to Stirchley Art Room...

Hello and welcome to our new website!

​As well as blogging occasionally, we'll be using this website to share news about what get up to and any future projects we are planning. You can also find more information about Sarah and myself, and the ideas and ideals behind Stirchley Art Room.

I thought I'd start the blogging off with a brief history of how we got to where we are now.

Sarah and I have worked together for about 5 years, as secondary school art teachers, and previous to that we have worked in arts and education in various different roles. Through our work in school though we have had the opportunity to be involved in a lot of exciting community and public art projects, including working with Longbridge Public Art Project, Longbridge Light Festival, as well as developing our own school based public art project.

Following much discussion about our shared interests and ambitions in community arts, we decided to ‘go for it’, and in April this year made the decision to establish a community art project in Stirchley, a place we both know and love, and one with an already buzzing community and arts scene. 

From our very first conversations with local tradespeople, artists and residents, we have been encouraged in our ideas and made to feel very welcome by the vibrant, friendly and creative Stirchley community.

Since April, Stirchley Art Room has come a very long way. We have been awarded funding from UnLtd, an organisation working to support social enterprises like us get up and running. We have been working closely with Stirchley Library and Friends of Stirchley Library (FoSL),  delivering a series of drop-in art workshops in the library for the whole community. We have also applied for and succeeded in getting funding from the National Lottery to enable us to do a feasibility study into transforming the first floor of Stirchley Library into a fully accessible community space. (More news of this to come shortly).
We are currently also partnering with Friends of Cotteridge Park to deliver activities as part of their fantastic Bushcraft Science Club.

These are exciting times for Stirchley Art Room!

Please do visit again to keep up to date with what we are doing, and feel free to use the contact page to get in touch with any queries or suggestions. 

​Many thanks for reading! 
Nicki 

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