Sara Downham-Lotto 2025 Training community art facilitators who support healing trauma through art in under-resourced communities. Early spring 2025, Sara ran a day-long training session for the community art facilitators team at the...
Sara Downham-Lotto 2023 Introducing concept of visual art as an aid to peacebuilding pedagogy and practice to students of Peace & Conflict Studies. Visual Arts for Peace, was a 2-month project Sara...
Sara Downham-Lotto 2022 As Peace Studies Masters students, we had been exploring metaphors that can symbolise aspects of conflict engagement and/or peacebuilding. I (Sara) chose play, and facilitated a 10 minute...
Sara Downham-Lotto 2021 November - December 2021 saw Sara take the Arts Lab concept to Senegal, to work with Talibé street children at Maison de la Gare* in Saint-Louis. Unpacking the...
Matt O’Halloran & Sara Downham-Lotto with Significant Seams - Summer 2021 Arts-based holiday programme for vulnerable teenagers, inspired by nature and collaboration. 'Exploring making, ecology, and connections between individuals, community and...
Matt O'Halloran - Winter 2020-21 Exploring perceptions of good and evil with prisoners 'I am an illustrator about to complete a 2-year part time M.A. at Arts University Plymouth in the UK....
'The residency and the final exhibition provided a great opportunity to experiment and explore how audiences engage with my work.'...
Sophy D'Angelo - Summer 2020 The Great Sketchbook project was a Covid-19 response online course offering continued connection and creativity for 8-13 year olds working from home in lockdown who would ordinarily...
Painting with 150 teenage dancers in the space of 3 hours, collectively we came up with some home-grown pictorial choreographic dance notation ...
Sara Downham-Lotto & Chris Sargent - March 2018 - October 2021 Reducing self harm and suicide in male prisoners. Transforming spaces inside and outside prison with artist-prisoner collaborative artwork. ‘The project encourages inclusivity...