The Big Draw

The Big Draw in the Bridgnorth District

The Big Draw takes place each October at over 1000 UK venues. Bridgnorth District Council took part in the national campaign in 2006 to encourage everyone to get drawing.

From the 19th to 27th October, two artists, Zoe Stanton and Mary Rose Cook, toured the district with an inflatable cube, which provides a canvas for everyone to make their mark.

From national museums to village halls, castles to shopping centres, libraries to hospitals and palaces to parks. There are events for all ages - children, adults, school groups and families - and for keen, lapsed or reluctant 'drawers'. Artists, scientists, architects, illustrators, cartoonists and designers lead workshops to show how drawing can connect generations, cultures and disciplines.

Imaginative workshops, exhibitions and talks allow everyone to explore drawing in all its dimensions, and have made the Big Draw an exciting annual celebration. Drawing can be serious, but is also fun. Best of all, its at everyones fingertips.

The campaign for Drawing is inspired by the writings of the Victorian art critic and social reformer, John Ruskin. He believed that drawing helps us to see and value the world around us. The evidence collected since the campaign began in 2000 shows how drawing encourages us to think, invent, communicate and take action.

Visit www.drawingpower.org.uk for more information.

Teachers and researchers can find out about Power Drawing, the campaign's education programme, its publications and the Drawing Research Network.

Visit www.thebigdraw.org.uk to find out about events across the UK.