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Yvonne Humble has now moved on to pursue other interests and Rosetta is now Headed by Sanaz Amidi, Trisha McCauley, Systems Administrator and Steve Marriott.

Our mission at RAC is to support and develop individuals in creative and artistic fields. Our aims and objectives include:

• Promote and make the arts present and accessible to all within Newham
• To instill a positive attitude towards learning that shows it to be a life long process.
• To stimulate curiosity through learning projects tackling unfamiliar problems.
• To recognise individual talents and develop their creative capacity.
• To provide its services without discrimination on the basis of race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, political and religious beliefs, social class, disability and age.
• To enable students to acquire the necessary education to earn a living or to enter skilled occupations/professions or to enter Higher Education.
• To maintain Centre as a caring community with relationships based on tolerance and goodwill.
• To foster habits of responsibility – self discipline – taking initiative – endeavour -individual judgement.

We provide a wide range of vocational and non-vocational art education courses including City & Guilds and AS/ A Levels in:

• Ceramics
• Textiles
• Costume Design
• Fashion
• Photography
• Drawing
• Watercolour
• Oil Painting

We also support the Professional Development Group (PDG). The PDG are a group of resident artists who have spent many years developing their artistic skills and are now embarking on a professional career within the Creative Industries. They are currently working on Free Works of Art for Local Businesses and recently exhibited at Like What I See, Holborn. An event in collaboration with Ernst and Young to help raise funds for the Princes Trust Charity.

The project is designed to give PDG members experience of working with a commercial client to present and discuss their portfolio of work and be commissioned a piece of artwork based on the client’s wants and needs. The agreement is that the work is exhibited for at least one month at business premises in order to promote the artists work.

Useless Art?

RAC is also working in partnership with University of East London, New Deal for Communities and Rial Café. With representatives from each organisation forming The Useless Art Group (UAG) created this year to encourage the arts to flourish by developing facilities, premises, resources and ongoing arts programmes mainly within Newham. With a view to involve and empower the whole community, reflect and celebrate cultural diversity, improve the quality of life and contribute to social inclusion strategies.

UAG has so far been successfully running a series of exhibitions at The Hub in Star Lane, Canning Town. Which currently features an exhibition on Post Colonialism: In Progress with work by Raymond Daley, Gary Tennant (RAC student) and Helen Weekes.

Further details about Rosetta Art Centre can be found on our website: www.RosettaArts.org email info@rosettaarts.org or contact Sanaz Amidi or Trisha McCauley on 0207 511 1117. RAC is a non-profit organisation, supported by its Members and Newham Community Education and Youth Services.