Developing Workshop into Communal Art Studio
The juststudios project is an exciting development where we are leasing and developing a corrugated iron barn/workshop to utilise as a large communal art studio for our courses and community sessions.
We hope to be able to deliver a creative hub open to those committed to developing their art practice.
We invite anyone who is in a position to do so to make a ‘donation’ as the funds will go towards developing and securing this permanent venue for justlife.art.
MAIN COMMUNAL STUDIO FOR JUSTLIFE.ART COURSES AND COMMUNITY SESSIONS
The first barn/studio footprint is 840 square feet, with a mezzanine over about one quarter of the space with double height roof. This would be the main studio for justlife.art courses and collaborative creative community sessions.
We have already insulated the barn with 4 inch celotex and faced with 9mm plywood. Next will be building a floating floor, and installing bi-folding doors.We hope we will be able to complete the works to this barn sometime in 2025. So we can commence running our sessions here. In the meantime it is where we store our equipment and materials and prep boards with gesso for oil painting etc.
STUDIOS TO RENT AT LOW COST
In the future we hope to be able to secure and develop other units in the area towards creating low cost art studios. .
This would provide much needed studio space for artists living in Penwith of which many are struggling to locate an available studio as there is a complete lack of them in the area.
We would look to allocate the studios in a representational way, for example some of the studios might be for people who identify as having a disability, some for those form the LGBTQIA+ community, some for those from black, asian or ethnic minority groups, etc.
The rest being for the rest of the community, something like this.
Priority will be given to those with strong commitment on being involved in the running of justlife.art and the community hub.
OTHER FEATURES
ACCESS
There is a large car park too making things easy for accessibility. .
COMPOST TOILET
We will be creating a disabled access compost toilet.