25 November 2020
Michael Nash has been attending Venture Arts workshops for nearly two years. He has taken part in the Arts Award, the Cultural Enrichment Programme and he recently created the artwork used to promote our current Warm-hearts Winter Challenge.
Michael is a true Venture Arts talent and we were thrilled he agreed to get involved in created the branding for our Warm-hearts Winter Challenge, which you can see here. Michael's talents were also shown off this year when we held a lockdown Food Photography Competition back in September and Michael won first prize! We asked new marketing volunteer Steph to get to know Michael so she could share more about this skills and passions...
What do you do with Venture Arts?
Arts Award
"I’ve done lots of things at Venture Arts. To start, I did my Bronze Arts Award with Laura. I used to go to Venture Arts on Saturday mornings to work with Laura. Now because of Covid-19, I do the sessions on Zoom. I’ve done a garden painting, I did Adobe Fresco and Adobe Photoshop and Laura taught me about my Arts Award session. I like photography and digital painting with Adobe Fresco because it’s my favourite thing to do. I made a video to show other people how to paint with Adobe Fresco. I used PowerPoint to record me painting 2 cups using Adobe Fresco. Then, I used Movie Studio to make an instructional video."
Cultural Enrichment Programme
"I did the Royal Exchange Theatre and People’s History Museum Cultural Enrichment Programme. Jacenta helped me and I met Ron, Janet and Carys at the Royal Exchange Theatre and Paula, Sam and Mark at the People’s History Museum. They were very helpful, I liked ushering with Carys at the Royal Exchange Theatre and Exhibitions. Before lockdown I showed people how to get to their seats using the seat number and row at the Royal Exchange Theatre and I had to make sure that it was the right number for the people to sit. We made a video to show all the artwork and the things we did at the Royal Exchange Theatre."Warm-hearts Winter Challenge
"For the Winter Challenge, I used Adobe Fresco to create two indoor pictures and three outdoor pictures and I sent these to Katherine. I did them very carefully. The Winter Challenge is a fundraising project for Venture Arts and my artwork was used to help with the publicity."