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Drammen is a city with a lot of graffiti and street art, and we have one of Norway's largest legal graffiti walls down by the harbour. But what is graffiti? And what is street art?

The students get a small introduction to some of the visual expressions in the public space, with a focus on the original, namely graffiti. Graffiti is simply pure writing. We look at how the script first became part of the cityscape in the USA, and how this spread to Norway. We will deal with different types of graffiti, fonts, and the students will learn to build their own "piece" in the workshop afterwards. We want the students to become more aware of what exists of various non-commercial expressions in the public space, as a counterweight to advertising which otherwise characterizes the city visually. One goal is that the students will learn to "read" these artistic expressions. Then it can be more exciting to walk around the city! The streets become like a free gallery! 

Junior high school, 8th grade

Municipalities: Drammen

Contact person
Hilde Julsrud: 48 95 75 48
formidling@drammens.museum.no

Orientation meeting for teachers

Discontinued on known programs.

Practical information

  • For whom: 8th step in Drammen
  • Duration: 1h 30 min
  • What: dialogue-based communication with PowerPoint, and creative work in the workshop
  • Method: dialogue, creative workshop

This is an offer through The Cultural Schoolbag, which means that attendance is mandatory.

Anchoring in the Curriculum

  • After 10th grade
  • Arts and crafts: -visualize form using freehand drawing.-analyze how identity and place belonging are communicated
    in art and integrate cultural references in their own creative work
  • Our goal: Get to know graffiti and street art. Look at different techniques and tools.
    Create your own work in our workshop, inspired by what we have looked at.

Before the museum visit

  • Prepare students for their visit to the museum. Talk a bit about how to behave as a visitor to galleries and museums.
  • Talk to students about what graffiti is? What is StreetArt? Have they seen any street art in their local area?

After the museum visit

  1. Practice writing their name in different graffiti styles. Go to YouTube and watch more instructional videos.
  2. Make an exhibition of the "piece" you made at the museum.
  3. Make street art in the schoolyard! In this way, one can leave positive traces in one's immediate environment. Here are some tips: All students knit a patch each, which is sewn together and forms a blanket for a bench, possibly they sew together around a tree, bike rack, etc. Weave thread, cloth strips into metal fences around the schoolyard.
  4. Go in and find street art from Drammen and the whole world inside this map: https://drammen.streetartcities.com/

The cultural schoolbag Drammens Museum autumn 2023

Roadmap Graffiti, 8th step Drammen and Frydenhaug

Contact person
Hilde Julsrud: 48 95 75 48
hsj@drammensmuseum.havdur.design

–Change of day and time must go through the contact person at Drammens Museum.-
Brandtsgård buss AS: 93 49 86 78

Buses are ordered by the museum to the schools that are furthest away. Bus picks up at school approx. 20 minutes before the program starts at the museum.

Scheduled time applies to arrival and departure Drammens Museum, Marienlyst.

Last updated 08/23/23 MI

Figures from last year

Mon 16 Oct
0900 – 1030 Welcome class Kjøsterud (20) (8th-10th grade)
1130 – 1300 Gulskogen (28) NO BUS

Tuesday, Oct. 17
0900 – 1030 Gulskogen (28) NO BUS
1130 – 1300 Gulskogen (27) NO BUS

Wed 18 Oct NB Time
0900 – 1030 Børresen (25) NO BUS
1030 – 1200 Børresen (25) NO BUS

Thu 19 Oct NB time
0900 – 1030 Børresen (25) NO BUS
1030 – 1200 Børresen (25) NO BUS
1200 – 1330

Mon 23 Oct
0900 – 1030 Svensedammen (23)
1130 – 1300 Svensedammen (25)

Tuesday, Oct. 24
0900 – 1030 Svensedammen (21)
1130 – 1300 Svensedammen (24)

 Wed 25 Oct
NB other times!
0930 – 1100 Galterud (27)
1130 – 1300 Galterud (29)

Thu 26 Oct
0900 – 1030 Svensedammen (25)
1030 – 1200 Svensedammen (26)
1200 – 1330 Galterud (30)

Mon. Oct. 30
0900 – 1030 Kjøsterud (27)
1130 – 1300 Kjøsterud (27)

Tuesday, Oct. 31
0900-1030 Kjøsterud (27)
1130 – 1300 Kjøsterud (26)

Wed Nov 1
0900 – 1030 Kjøsterud (26)
1130 – 1300 Frydenhaug (15 + 15) 2 small wheelchairs

Thursday 2 Nov NB times
0900 – 1030 Marienlyst (20) NO BUS
1030 – 1200 Marienlyst (30) NO BUS
1200 – 1330

Mon 6 Nov
0900 – 1030 Marienlyst (30) NO BUS
1130 – 1300 Marienlyst (30) NO BUS

Tuesday 7 Nov
0900 – 1030 Marienlyst (30) NO BUS
1130 – 1300 Marienlyst (30) NO BUS

Wed 8 Nov
0900 – 1030 Marienlyst (30) NO BUS
1130 - 1300

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