Projects with Greifswald

This June project leader Kjersti spend a week in lovely Greifswald in north-east Germany. Greifswald is a Hansastadt and the birthplace of the famous painter Caspar David Friedrich. A delegation from Løten spend a couple of days with meetings in January to plan some common projects with Munch and Friedrich. You can read about that here, here and here.

A beautiful windmill in Eldena, Greifswald

The projects will have young people as the target group and Kjersti had meetings with the municipality about the content of the projects and how to finance them with EU funding and other funding. Very good meetings, and it will be great for Løten to continue working with Greifswald even when Kjersti quits her job in September.

A nice collection of hard working ladies in the German summer sun:

Kjersti, Nadine, Anett and Melanie

The culture department also arranged a jazzfestival when Kjersti was there. In Eldena in Greifswald, there is an old monastery, or the ruins of one anyway. Sometimes they use this as a concert arena, and when the dark came, it was really spectacular! A good way of using cultural heritage!

Jazz festival in Eldena

Greifswald is really worth visiting. Lovely beaches nearby, good looking buildings, zoo, nice people… Some more photos from this summer:

Greifswald

Munch-nettverket lever videre

Siden 2006 har kommunene med tilknytning til Edvard Munch hatt et nettverk. Målet med nettverket var å få til et nasjonalt jubileum i 2013, noe vi klarte fint. Nå går vi videre og setter i gang et forprosjekt for å finne ut hvordan vi skal arbeide videre sammen. Nettverket består av følgende aktører: Løten kommune, Vågå kommune, Vestby kommune, Fredrikstad kommune, Moss kommune, Vestfoldmuseene/Horten kommune, Kragerø kommune, Munch-museet (Oslo kommune) og Nasjonalmuseet. Sist samling var i Kragerø sjømandsforening. Gode avgjørelser i strålende omgivelser!

Since 2006 the municipalities with connections to Edvard Munch had a network. The main target was to create a national celebration in 2013, Munch’s 150 birthday, which we did! Now we are moving on with the project. Last meeting was in Kragerø sailer’s club – good decisions in nice environment!

Kragerø sailer’s club

The network in Kragerø art school

Kragerø

Harald Bothner – head of culture in Kragerø

Kragerø kunstskole

I forbindelse med arbeidet med Edvard Munch kunstfestival, har vi besøkt mange spennende miljøer. Et av de siste er Kragerø kunstskole som ligger rett ved der Edvard Munch malte solen og har med andre ord en fantastisk utstikt!

When working with Edvard Munch art festival, we have visited several exciting enviroments. One of the last ones is Kragerø art school that are situated next to where Edvard Munch painted «The sun» for the university aula.

View from the working room at Kragerø art school

Kunstskolen er kun tre år gammel og fungerer som en forskole til høyere utdanning innen kunstfag. De jobber prosjektbasert med både tradisjonelle og mer utradisjonelle teknikker. Blant annet har de anskaffet en 3D printer for å kunne ekspirimentere digitalt og se hvordan det blir i skulpturform. Her er en utskrevet ugle som blir vist til vår gode venn Unn Bostad fra Vågå kommune.

The art school is only three years old and is a preschool to higher education in visual arts. They work in projects with traditional and untraditional techniques. They have bought a 3D printer to experiment digitally and see how it will be in real life. Here is a printed owl shown to our good friend Unn Bostad from Vågå.

A printed owl

Kunstskolen har søknadsfrist i disse dager, så sjekk den ut om du eller noen du kjenner har lyst til å ta utdanning innen kunstfag!

Kragerø art school

Edvard Munch kunstfestival – Edvard Munch art festival

20. mai vedtok kommunestyret i Løten å etablere en biennale i Løten – Edvard Munch kunstfestival for ungdom. Festivalen skal være internasjonal og foregå som et seminar for ungdom i alderen 13-20 år som har en kunstner i magen. Deltakerne må ha grunnleggende ferdigheter innen tegning og være motiverte for å jobbe med kunst en hel uke. Festivalen vil foregå på Klevfos Industrimuseum og i området rundt Munch-senteret og Engelaug. En kunstfestival i Mucnchs fotspor! Første festival vil være i august 2016, og nå kommer det til å bli et intensivt arbeid med  å få lagt et godt program, markedsført det og søke eksterne midler til etableringen.

 20 May, the board meeting in Løten decided to establish an international art festival for youngsters aged 13-20 in Løten – Edvard Munch art festival. It will be a biennial and the first festival will be in august 2016. The students must have some skills in drawing and they must be motivated to work as artists for one whole week in Løten by the Munch center and Engelaug – in Munch’s footsteps. Now a big job is waiting for us to create the program, do some marketing and apply other institutions for money to the establishment.

One of the drawings Edvard Munch did in Løten when he was 18 years old

Festivalen skal ha et faglig innhold, og målet er at deltakerne skal bli både inspirert og få nye kunnskaper om kunst. Og ikke minst vil vi at de skal bygge sitt eget nettverk, både med hverandre og med profesjonelle kunstnere.

The model shows what skills we plan that the students should get during their stay in Løten. Get new ideas, learn new skills, meet professionals, get new ideas, new knowledge, get inspirited etc.

Denne saken kommer vi tilbake til på bloggen etterhvert som det skjer utvikling i planleggingen. Følg med!

We will come back to this on the blog when we know more!

Pensjonisttur til Munch-museet

Det jobbes jevnt og trutt med Munch i Løten selv om jubileet er over. Onsdag 27. mai, reiste 52 pensjonister med buss til Oslo i et samarbeid mellom Den kulturelle spaserstokken i Løten og Løten frivillig sentral. Målet var utstillingen Van Gogh + Munch og turen var en stor suksess! Etter utstillingen dro bussen videre på sightseeing rundt i den vakre hovedstaden vår. Les mer om utstillingen på www.munchmuseet.no

We are working with Munch all the time in Løten even if the anniversary year is over. 27 May, a group with 52 elderly people traveled by bus to Oslo to visit the Munch museum and see the exhibition Van Gogh + Munch. Success! Read more about the exhibition on the museums websites. After the show, the bus moved on to a sightseeing in beautiful Oslo!

Last post from Greifswald

We had very good meetings with our colleagues in Greifswald municipality monday and tuesday. We met with mrs. Anette Dahms and Mrs. Anett Hauswald from the International department and the cultural department. From Løten project leader for Munch, Kjersti Sandvik, and culture consular Nina Halvorsen participated together with our head of business, Svein Frydenlund. You can see a photo of all of us near the beautiful monastery ruins in Greifswald:

From left: Anett Hauswald, Nina Halvorsen, Kjersti Sandvik, Svein Frydenlund and Anett Dahms

We are working with different projects due to art and young people, and hopefully this was the start of several years of cooperation between Løten and Greifswald.

Greifswald is a very beautiful Hansa city and worth a visit! Look at the beautiful marked place on the photos below:

At last, but not least, the beautiful Rathaus (city hall). Quite a few of this buildings are several hundred years old as the whole city. Nice cafes and restaurants and a beautiful Caspar David Friedrich center and museum as you can see in the earlier blogposts.

Greifswald day two

Don’t smoke!

Meetings with Greifwald municipality and tour to Caspar David Friedrich Zentrum all day. We also got to see the beautiful region museum! Good guides everywhere and we learned a lot. Now we will meet again tomorrow to discuss projects we could do together. Some pics from today:

C.D.Friedrich Zentrum

Greifwald – birthplace of C.D.Friedrich

A delegation from Løten is in Greifswald, Germany, right now to see what they are doing to show the world their great son, the artist Caspar David Friedrich. And outside the city hall the Norwegian flag is welcoming us!

This seems to be a beautiful town even in the dark, and we are looking forward to see a lot more tomorrow!

The Munch project in Løten continues

This post will be in English only due to our world wide followers and our new German friends.

The municipality of Løten will continue the Munch project and the work with children, youths and art. We will work together with the other Munch places and the Norwegian museums with big Munch collections such as the Munch Museum, The National museum and hopefully KODE in Bergen. These museums have the three largest Munch collections in the world! All the Munch places met at Staur farm in Stange and decided to continue working together

The Munch municipalities at Staur in Stange

Løten is also looking up how to continue working with art and children, and right now we are looking into the possibility to arrange an International art festival for children and young people. Next week we are traveling to Greifswald in Germany to visit the hometown of the famous artist Caspar David Friedrich. The National museum in Oslo had an exhibition with Friedrich and J.C.Dahl last fall, and you can see some photos from this wonderful exhibition on their website.

Friedrich>Frau in der Morgensonne (photo from wikipedia)

We look forward to meet the people working with Friedrich and other art projects and discuss if we can work together on some projects and how to do it. We will take lots of photos on our trip to keep you updated!

God jul – Marry Christmas