A summary of the work done in the past year

1. DMAG CODENAME JOINED
UP
ONE YEAR GONE – ONE YEAR
TO GO

2. CONTENT
• KEY OUTPUTS
– Main achievements
– A few stats
• KEY OUTCOMES / HIGHLIGHTS
• WHAT NEXT?

3. OUTPUTS: management,
coordination and
admin
• Steering and
planning meetings
• General financial
and other admin
• Shared DMAG
documents with
management team
and evaluator
• Interviewed and
appointed an
evaluator; this is
helping us to be
more self reflective
• Various feedback
and evaluation
forms designed and
used

4. OUTPUTS: management,
coordination and
admin
• Met with and appointed all
the artists
• 3 young/emerging artists
commissioned
• Nearly all artists regularly
work or live in Kent
• supported artists in their
meetings with the
partners
• Appointed Kevin Joyce
(discovered and inspired
by Sarah) to help with
digital aspects of project

5. OUTPUTS: management,
coordination and
admin
Mindmap…Remember this?

6. OUTPUTS: Website
• New website design for DAD:
www.dadonline.eu
• Regular project updates on
home page
• Created dmag.dadonline.eu
address to make it easier to visit
project pages
• Map to website added to
provide overview of partner
locations

7. OUTPUTS: Website
• Individual sections for
partners with image for
each partner

8. OUTPUTS: Website
• Blog posts in partner
sections by each
individual artist

9. OUTPUTS: Marketing
including social media
• Facebook group set up to
provide information about the
project:
https://www.facebook.com/grou
ps/Dovermuseumsandarts/

10. OUTPUTS: Marketing
including social media
• Links to artist’s blog posts and
news on artist’s progress

11. OUTPUTS: Marketing
including social media
• Workshops also advertised
across Facebook and Twitter
and places bookable via
eventbrite

12. OUTPUTS: Marketing
including social media
• Active Facebook group
members: partners, artists,
participants …

13. OUTPUTS: Marketing
including social media
• Active Facebook group
members: partners, artists,
participants …
• We need to grow
membership – please join if
you haven’t already

14. OUTPUTS: Marketing including social media
Development of consistent branding
- Leaflet for volunteers at partner venues explaining the project – available for you to take
with you today

15. OUTPUTS: Marketing
including social media
• Development of consistent
branding
• Project “business card”
Kevin’s idea)
• Please take some and
help promote the
project

16. OUTPUTS: Drawing
and Stitching
workshops
• Marcia Teusink demonstrating
one point perspective –
different drawing techniques
covered at each workshop so
participants coming to more
than one always learn
something new
• Workshops so far:
• Dover Museum (4 Oct
2014)
• Drop Redoubt (19 Oct
2014)
• PWRRQR (12 Nov 2014)
• Aylesham (4 Feb 2015)
• Sandwich Guildhall (7
March 2015
• St Margarets (21 March
2015)
• Artists encouraged to attend
workshops at their venue

17. OUTPUTS: Drawing
and Stitching
workshops
• Rosie James leading the
stitching workshops
• Drawing and Stitching
workshops generally run on
the same day allowing
drawings to be used for
bunting designs and allowing
participants to make a day of it
– only Dover museum run on
different date (22 Nov 2014)
• N.B. From feedback received we
realise we need to make the
connection between the
workshops clearer
• Upcoming workshops
(drawing & stitching)
• Deal – 18 April
• East Kent Railway - 9 May
• Transport museum – 27
June

18. Drawing workshops

19. Drawing: Dover Museum

20. Drawing: Drop Redoubt

21. Drawing: Sandwich Guildhall

22. Stitching workshops

23. Bunting for PWRRQR

24. Bunting for Aylesham

25. Bunting for Drop Redoubt

26. Talks and events
• Presented project at
• North Kent Museums
network
• Gateways to WW1
event at University of
Kent
• Events
• Organised an artists’
networking event;
opportunity for artists to
share experiences, and
realise they are not
alone; was also an
opportunity for them to
see how they might link
across with each others’
work
• Museums networking
event to follow if wanted
• Artists currently
planning or delivering
public facing events at
and with their venues

27. Souvenirs
• Discussed souvenir
development with Esther
Coombs – she has started
to discuss ideas with artists
and to do market research
with the museums
• Survey card for visitors
designed and produced by
Esther Coombs – research
into souvenir she will be
designing to go across the
whole project
• Please take your cards
with you today – the survey
starts straight away

28. What we have been doing / What we have learned
• Some changes from the original bid
– Digital cataloguing: rather than use Dover Museum’s system for all
partners, we have gone for a more bespoke solution. Sarah Corn has led
on this and together we have appointed Kevin Joyce to find out what
works currently for all the partners, what stage they are at on their “digital
journey” and how best to improve their skills and digital offer/interface
with the public
– Resource box – terminology was confusing so this is now referred to as
an artwork
– St Margaret’s Bay Museum and St Margaret’s history society now treated
as one, with one artist
– Deal Town Council on board as partner (Deal Maritime Museum not
ready to participate)
• Learning
– Importance of personal contact
• between Stitch and draw artists, particpants and volunteers to get everyone
enthused – e.g. Aylesham
• Between DAD and partners
• Within the management team
– We have improved our communications and marketing by using clear
language that everyone can understand (thanks to Neil, Valerie and Fay)
– Importance of support at the right moment – brokering contact between
artists and their venues
– Working with a project evaluator has been challenging but has helped us
reflect on and articulate our learning
– We use feedback to improve processes and communication

29. CONTENT
• KEY OUTPUTS
– Main achievements
– A few stats
• KEY OUTCOMES / HIGHLIGHTS
• WHAT NEXT?

30. OUTPUTS: A few key stats

31. CONTENT
• KEY OUTPUTS
– Main achievements
– A few stats
• KEY OUTCOMES / HIGHLIGHTS
• WHAT NEXT?

32. IMPACT/OUTCOMES
• “having the drawing workshop first was brilliant
and unexpected how one could transfer the one
to the other and come up with something really
interesting”
• “Meeting some of the ex-miners in Aylesham was
such an eye-opener – and hearing some of their
stories. Particularly that some of the miners who
were black listed after the general strike in 1926
came down to Kent to work in the mines – and
where “thus” a bunch of some of the most
militant miners! ”
• Many participants at the
drawing and stitching
workshops are visiting the
venues for the first time
• Many new to DAD as well as to
the venues
• Participants report on learning
new skills with excellent
practitioners
• Some of the volunteers have
taken part in the workshops and
in all cases the volunteers have
introduced the museum and the
WW1 connections to the group

33. IMPACT/OUTCOMES
Participants are learning about the
venue’s connection to WW1 –
Volunteers always at workshops to
explain WW1 context

34. IMPACT/OUTCOMES
• Ex-miners and participants
meeting each other
• Story telling
• Visitor diversification? More
women at some of the partner
venues through the drawing and
stitching workshops

35. IMPACT/OUTCOMES
Volunteers getting involved

36. IMPACT/OUTCOMES
The artists are starting to make
connections and engage with the
wider community:
• Nicole Mollett had a presence at
the 1940s weekend at the Pines
Gardens
• 9 Young people from Astor
College for the Arts involved in
Peter’s project

37. IMPACT/OUTCOMES
• Gabor Stark discussed his
project with volunteers and
visitors at East Kent Railway
(22 March 2015) (approx. 25-30
people)
“I've got very positive responses
from the EKR volunteers and the
site is a proper material quarry/ a
sculptor's paradise... “
• We got a fantastic welcome
from all the volunteers at EKR –
they all knew about the project
and felt involved

38. IMPACT/OUTCOMES
• Young people involved in
Peter’s project – Link to Astor
College for the Arts
• Artists linking with national
organisations – National Mills
Trust, National Portrait Gallery,
Tate Britain, Gateways to the
First World War (UKC), Imperial
War Museum
• Artists linking with each other
Thank you all for the links too and the amazing images
Gabor!
To those that I promised links i'll pass them on and I
welcome more links/image if you are happy to share 
Peter - thanks so much for the book list, that's greatly
appreciated.
Cathy, glad to hear you'd a good meeting today with The
White Mill folks - I really want to be at the national mill
weekend, please do keep me posted on that.

39. CONTENT
• MANAGEMENT REPORT
– What we have been doing / What we have
learned
• KEY OUTPUTS
– Main achievements
– A few stats
• KEY OUTCOMES / HIGHLIGHTS
– What impact have we had? Key Achievements
– A few quotes
• WHAT NEXT?

40. WHAT NEXT?
• Matthias Koch will be
starting his project in late
Spring
• Artists will be completing
artworks, developing
souvenirs and getting
involved in partner events:
• Bakers, Makers and
Brewers Fair at White Mill
for National Mills
Weekend (Cathy Rogers)
• Miners festival (Louisa
Love)

41. WHAT NEXT?
• Bunting making will be
established

42. WHAT NEXT
Looking ahead:
• Visitor surveys during
month of July with each
venue collecting data from
100 visitors. (forms have
been designed)
• Baselining of partners’
digital resources and
identifying needs
• Supporting partners in
creating stronger digital
links with the project
• Artists will be developing a
digital ‘tool’ that will be easy
to use by non-specialists
and which will increase
reach of project

43. WHAT NEXT
Looking ahead:
• Discussions with Richard
Morsley at Betteshanger
Sustainable Country Park
regarding use of new
building (future miners’
museum) for final exhibition
of DMAG artwork, including
musical works presented by
Peter Sheppard Skaerved
• Betteshanger Sustainable
Country Park as potential
outlet for sale of souvenirs
• Linking with the Cultural
Destinations Dover Pilot
project, aimed at building
cultural tourism

44. GET INVOLVED
• Come to meetings and suggest topics you’d like covered
• Join and post to our Facebook group @Dovermuseumsandarts
• Follow us on Twitter @DoverArts and use #DMAG #codenamejoinedup
• Retweet our tweets and let us know your Twitter and Facebook
accounts
• Visit the project page on the website dmag.dadonline.eu and read the
artists’ blogs
• Let us know about your events by emailing
clareandjoanna@dadonline.eu or posting to Facebook
• Contact Anne Edwards anne.partington-omar@hotmail.co.uk or Sarah
Corn Sarah.Corn@brighton-hove.gov.uk for extra support

45. Thank you
clareandjoanna@dadonline.eu
www.dadonline.eu