Artists Access to Art Colleges: Artist Quotes

AA2A artist quotes

The following quotes are taken from the evaluation forms provided by AA2A artists.

"The project was very free yet supportive. I found it very inspiring to be working again in a college environment... I think the scheme seemed perfect and could not have offered anything more, except for more hours!"

"This has been a great opportunity for me, I have made new contacts, and experimented with new facilities and techniques. Bought new materials I wouldn't have been able to justify without funding and have developed a whole new dimension to my practice."

What was the best thing about the project?

"For me, the recognition that my work gave me the status of 'artist', rather than 'teacher'."

"AA2A is a unique and worthwhile scheme which allows the artist to push a little further those ideas which may have been fermenting in their studio practice, which because of the lack of specialist equipment has nowhere to go."

"Brilliant Idea. Good for artists great for students. I'm sure it gave some life back to those deptartments that rely on full time staff without enough visiting artists/lecturers. It is essential for students to see there is life after art college, you don't have to move to London or be a teacher and you don't have to make it big, you just have to make it."

What was the best thing about the project?

"To meet the technician and to lap up the environment of an Art College again. To meet energetic students athe beginning of their artistic careers. To discover how to make felt!"

" I gained a wonderful opportunity to diversify into hospital art, and am now more challenged and fulfilled than I have ever been. Getting to know the excellent staff in terms of technical and professional support has made a tremendous difference to my long term working practice."

"I felt the college was great and very supportive of us all. Meeting other artists and discussing our own work has been a huge advantage - all the students have been great."

"I would like to express my deep gratitude and thanks for being a part of the AA2A scheme. It has been a real blessing, enabling me to complete work that would have otherwise cost me fortune... Thank you so much."