A Nagy Rajzolás (The Big Draw)

Maria and her colleagues worked with local artists and high school art teachers to provide an exciting programme for a thousand townspeople aged 3 to 83.

Drawing stations in the centre’s main hall offered a wide range of activities:

• pebble painting
• jigsaw drawing puzzles
• sand animation
• life-size family portraits
• engraving plaster casts

Everyone was invited to help construct a huge dragon, add to the Endless Drawing (fifty pastel and charcoal drawings), complete a 3-D wire assemblage, and to draw themselves on a nine-metre panoramic mural of the main square, later displayed in the Town Hall.

Participants were inspired to plan, to be creative, to communicate and to collaborate.

Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust Awards

The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust aims to increase public appreciation of the arts and music. Their awards recognise educators, artists, teachers and others who use The Big Draw to extend their audience’s perception of drawing and to engage them in innovative activities. They reward organisers whose events relate to their setting, local environment or community, show a clear purpose and good results. Individual drawings may have been used to create a collective artwork, or a public display to celebrate participants’ achievements.