N.E. Arts was established in 2006 to bring together art, education & personal development in a fun, accessible way. Using interactive workshops we provide entertaining & informative activities for people of all ages & abilities. Beginning with an assumption that everyone has an inherent value & ability to develop our workshops facilitate personal change. In addition to art based workshops, we can also develop specific workshops to meet your needs. In the beginning there was Aboriginal Art….

We offer a wide range of community arts workshops either as a programme or as a single event. We can manage & deliver a programme of community arts workshops including primitive arts workshops from around the globe.

Personal Development

Suitable for all ages, backgrounds & abilities, our Personal Change workshops are designed to be fun, inclusive, interactive & accessible. Through them we are able to facilitate positive changes in self-esteem, aspirations & confidence. By working with our audience we create a supportive context in which the participants can self-realise change.

• Aboriginal
• Navajo
• Shona Rock Art
• Columbian
• Inuit
• Navajo Art
• Northumbrian Cup & Ring rock art
• Pop Art
• Cartography

Benefits

• Accessible to people of all ages & abilities
• Community Inclusion in your project or initiative
• Targeting specific groups
• Providing learning opportunities in an informal setting
• Opportunities for Community participation

Australia has a long history of visual arts, starting with the cave and bark paintings of its indigenous peoples.

• Modern Aboriginal artists continue the tradition using modern materials in their artworks.

• Aboriginal art is the most internationally recognisable form of Australian art.

• Several styles of Aboriginal art have developed in modern times including the watercolour paintings of Albert Namatjira; the Hermannsburg School, and the acrylic Papunya Tula "dot art" movement

• Everyone is an artist

• Images of “Dreaming” / Journeys / Animals / The Land

• Aboriginal art is expressing how you feel

• Aboriginal art is spiritual / mystical / ceremonial

• Aboriginal art is about patterns & shapes

• "dot art" is easy – accessible & creative

Pop art exploded on to the scene in the fifties and sixties. The world was changing and so were people's ideas about art.

Pop artists wanted to bring life and art closer together, so they drew normal objects that were important to ordinary people.

Burgers, sweets and cans of pop - all your fave stuff was turned into pop-tastic masterpieces.

Some of the oldest art in Africa is to be found in Zimbabwe. The Art presents the shamans’ privileged view of the trance dance and of the spirit world to which they are transported. This workshop gives an overview of the rock art in it's context & allows participants to explore their symbols & to try to create their own.

Thousands of prehistoric rock carvings are found on boulders and rocky outcrops in many parts of Britain and Ireland. This rock art is an important component of our historic environment but it is also one of the more mysterious and poorly understood aspects of our past. The carvings are concentrated mainly in northern England, Scotland and Ireland. Almost a thousand rock art panels are so far known in Northumberland.

This workshop celebrates the arts heritage of Northumbria & in doing so will inspire participants not only to produce their own work,but also to visit the art in situ - providing excellent fieldwork opportunities.

• Inuit is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic coasts of Siberia, Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Labrador in Canada, and Greenland.

• The Canadian Arctic has been populated for more than 4,000 years

• Contemporary Inuit Art is deeply embedded in a culture which has survived the cruel and harsh Arctic environment for thousands of years.

• Modern Inuit artists continue the tradition using modern materials in their artworks.

• Everyone is an artist

• Images of “Dreaming” / Journeys / Animals / The Land

• Inuit art is expressing how you feel

• Inuit art is spiritual / mystical / ceremonial

• Inuit art is about symbols patterns & shapes

• Inuit art is often used by Shamen’s

•Navajo art uses symbols and signs to represent their ideas, beliefs, dreams, and visions. It is often associated with healing & is performed in ceremonies by medicine men to produce sand paintings

•The Navajos have a complex series of healing ceremonies, or chants.

• Ordinarily, on each of these nights, the Singer (medicine man) directs the making of a sandpainting that illustrates an allegory used in the ceremony

Several thousand years ago indigenous cultures in the northern part of South America shared a complex system of shamanic beliefs with Central American cultures. Close to 800 rock art sites have been identified. This workshop looks at the symbols, signs & emblems used in the rock art & invites participants to enage with the art & create their own.

This workshop explores the evolution of maps & how they are both the product of the map maker as well as the person for whom the map is intended. It engages the audience using well known maps and encourages them to devise a lifestyle map or "map of me" using the principles of cartography & the use of abstract images.