Annual Affordable Arts Fair

It has been another successful Affordable Arts fair, for our Extended Diploma Art and Design students. The fair took place between Friday 9 – Thursday 15 November in Old Market, Hereford, and as part of their current unit, ‘Engaging with an Audience’, the students were tasked with designing and making quality affordable products for public sale.

The fair which takes place every year, enables students to develop their enterprise and employability skills and showcases their talents in producing a whole array of exciting products from t-shirt designs and cards to plant pots and unique decorative homeware. It provides them with a hands on experience in making and selling their work and the students benefit from excellent workshop facilities and working with staff who have their own practices outside of the college.

It is a great opportunity to see the variety of work being produced by our students and a great enterprise experience from them.

As a result of the fair this year where £3,400 was taken, £400 was raised for charity, representing 12.5% of the takings. A student vote has seen the charities People in Motion and CLIC Sarget benefit equally – they both received 29% of the votes.

A great achievement for all the students involved. If you would like to see more of their work, follow @hereford_college_of_arts_y2 on Instagram.