the Great North Snow Dog

a naked unpainted Great Snow dog

Our PGSE student - now employed by the college inspired some of us students to get involved and submit a design for the great north snowdog - http://www.greatnorthsnowdogs.co.uk/ . 

This initiative is one of a long line of similar events that have been done all over the country by a company called Wild in Art.   http://www.wildinart.co.uk  

This Newcastle initiative supports St Oswalds Hospice and artists from anywhere can submit a design and be part of the experience.  Our tutor and mentor put the final design together from work we submitted and last week we got the news that the design had been accepted and it had been selected by a sponsor.  Today we went to meet the sponsors - an engineering firm NBS based in the Old Post Office opposite the cathedral.  the company are quite large and employ a large number of local people and they did explain what they did - I'm a bit hopeless, but my understanding is NBS work with architects and building companies to ensure they have the means and software to design and build effectively. They are currently expanding the business and are keen to be more community involved and see this as an excellent opportunity to build networks across Newcastle especially with local colleges. 

The Great Snow North Snow dog is an exciting project to be involved in, it will require some fun project work to get a our snow dog up and painted over the summer ready to be displayed on the snow dog trail in September/October.   Our design is fab, We wanted a snow dog that was about Newcastle, its heritage, history, current dynamics and also the surrounding area.  We are not allowed to share the final design until the grand reveal but it truly reflects Newcastle and ties very nicely into an engineering theme.

I'm looking forward to being part of the painting event and then having the Snow dog on show - not quite sure where just yet - I'll keep all informed.