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Hands On Art Workshops, initiated by Professor Emerita Lisa Milroy, offers a programme of practical art workshops alongside a range of educational initiatives for primary and secondary school students in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, with support from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Background

In 2015 artist Lisa Milroy initiated Hands On Art Workshops with support from Vodafone Foundation, Vodafone鈥檚 charitable arm and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Hands On Art Workshops offers a programme of practical art workshops for primary and secondary school students in , Kenya delivered through video conference, mobile phone messaging and in person visits. Hands On Art Workshops is facilitated by Vodafone Foundation and UNHCR鈥檚 Instant Network Schools programme, which utilises digital video conference technology. Lisa travels to Kakuma Refugee Camp annually to deliver Hands On workshops, working with support from UNHCR. Fellow artist Stephanie Nebbia joined Hands On Art Workshops as Co-director in 2020.

Hands On Art Workshops is not a registered charity, it is an art educational initiative funded through donor support and funds raised through the Co-directors鈥� artistic practises. Hands On Art Workshops is administered by Windle International Kenya.

Aim

The aim of Hands On Art Workshops is to support and encourage creative and imaginative thinking, engagement and exchange globally and intergenerationally between artists and students. All Hands On Art Workshops are devised by artists, and based on the artist鈥檚 practice. Through Hands On Art Workshops, students can develop their creative skills through drawing, painting, performance, film, photography, object-making and writing, and aspects of functional design.

Research

Hands On Art Workshops is grounded in Lisa鈥檚 artistic practice. The programme grew out of a practical drawing workshop 鈥淓veryday Objects鈥� that Lisa developed in 2004 based on her approach to still life painting, first delivered to an after-school group at her local community centre in East London and then to secondary school students at schools across the UK.

Educational initiatives

The Hands On Art Workshops Manual: The Manual is an art educational project comprised of an ever-evolving handbook of workshops devised by artists from around the globe, designed to facilitate and promote dialogue and knowledge exchange between artists and students internationally. The Manual aligns with the aim of Hands On Art Workshops, to support and encourage creative and imaginative thinking, engagement and exchange, globally and inter-generationally, between artists and students. The Manual grew out of a series of art workshops devised by Lisa for students in Kakuma Refugee Camp during the Covid-19 pandemic, which were delivered via mobile phone messaging through the Hands On Art Workshops programme with support from UNHCR and local teachers in Kakuma.

Each workshop in the Manual stems from the contributing artist鈥檚 practice and features an introduction by the artist, the workshop title and scope, art materials required and a set of guidelines that may or may not include illustrations. Using these instructions, any workshop can be communicated and shared through email and printed locally to facilitate workshops delivered by other teachers and artists in Kakuma Refugee Camp and beyond. The workshops are designed for primary and secondary school students, and several Slade alumni have contributed workshops to the Manual. The current edition of the Hands On Art Workshops Manual is in English.

Hands On Art Workshops Scholarship: an annual scholarship that provides full fees for secondary school tuition for a female primary school learner in Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Settlement participating in Hands On Art Workshops, in support of education for girls.

Hands On Gateway Bursary: provides a one-year salary for two secondary school graduates as Hands On Coach and Assistant Coach to independently lead and support art activities in community learning centres and Art Clubs in schools across Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Settlement.听

Hands On/Slade Short Courses Bursary: enables the Hands On Coaches to join the Slade Short Courses online programmes in drawing and painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, 香港六合彩 throughout the academic year.

Annual Hands On Cultural Research Trip Bursary: enables the two Hands On Coaches to travel from Kakuma Refugee Camp to Nairobi for a week of visiting galleries and museums, and connecting with local artists.

Hands On m2 Gallery: The Hands On m2 Gallery is an art educational, non-commercial project designed to showcase the artwork from primary and secondary school students participating in the Hands On programme across Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Settlement. It also advocates the importance and value of art education, fostering imaginative thinking, innovation and creativity.

The Hands On m2 Gallery is a 2.5-metre square brick pavilion with an outward-facing 1-metre square window on each of its four walls, each window acting as the gallery. The gallery is powered by solar panels to provide nighttime illumination and has a water harvesting system for watering the trees planted around the sets of benches built into the gallery base. The gallery will present 6 exhibitions a year, presenting artwork created by participants in the Hands On Art Workshops programme led by the Hands On Coach, with support from Lisa and Stephanie. The gallery has 24/7 free access.

The Hands On m2 Gallery is based on the in London, which was conceived and designed by the late British architect Ken Taylor. The design of the gallery for Kakuma Refugee Camp was adapted by Wilfred Opundo, UNHCR Technical and Engineering. The site for the gallery in Kakuma is at a juncture that embraces the Ethiopian Community Library, the artist-run 鈥楤ole Restaurant鈥� and professional artists鈥� studios and workshops. The gallery thus contributes to the cultural and social amenities already present and active in the area.听

The inaugural exhibition 鈥楪roup Portrait 2024鈥� of the Hands On m2 Gallery took place August 2024 at the launch of the gallery. The exhibition featured 190 hand-painted self-portraits on paper and cardboard cut-outs created by each participant in the Hands On Art Workshops programme across Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Settlement. In tandem with 鈥楪roup Portrait 2024鈥�, a group exhibition 鈥楾ime and Place鈥� introduced paintings and digital prints of the Hands On Coaches past and present in the Ethiopian Community Library.

鈥業ntroduction to Watercolour鈥�: In autumn 2024, Stephanie Nebbia offered a freely accessible online course 鈥業ntroduction to Watercolour鈥� through the Contemporary Art Academy for teachers and the Hands On Coaches in Kakuma Refugee Camp.