Project background
Established in 2006, Creative Spark is a celebration of our students' achievements within the creative disciplines, featuring their high-quality work. It's an extension of the traditional art school degree show concept, with students' work - mainly final year students - exhibited at a number of locations across the University's City Campus at the end of the academic year.
Since 2006, Creative Spark has grown and it's now a highlight in the University's calendar. Involvement spans an increasingly wide range of creative disciplines from The Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences and the Faculty of Development and Society.
The 2012 event included students' work from design and technology • engineering • fashion • furniture and product design • graphic design • interior design • metalwork and jewellery • product design • architecture • animation • computing • digital media production • film and media production • film and visual effects • games design • photography • research • fine art • creative art practice.
Find out more at www.shu.ac.uk/creativespark
Creative Spark 2013 is scheduled to take place from 8-22 June with the launch event on Friday 7 June. In keeping with the ethos of Creative Spark - students at its heart - students will have the opportunity to enter the Project Spark competitions
The vision
To be
- an integral part of Sheffield's cultural fabric
- the North of England's best and biggest annual showcase for young creative talent across all the creative disciplines
Aims
- encourage recruitment to our creative courses
- build on the University's profile as a creative institution
- raise awareness of the event internally amongst the University community of more than 36,000 students and 4,000 staff, and externally to the general public in the Sheffield City Region and creative arts 'opinion formers'
- encourage visitors from a range of target audiencesto attend (details below)
- help facilitate effective engagement with schools and colleges
Key messages
- Students are at the heart of Creative Spark. Through their hard work, talent and creativity, they bring it to life.
- Creative Spark is big in scale and in quality, boasting more than one thousand original exhibits from the creative leaders of tomorrow. It's spread across various locations on our City Campus and across over 20 disciplines - including a fashion show on opening night.
- Sheffield has a long and proud heritage of endeavour, creativity and craftsmanship. Sheffield Hallam and its graduates have played a key role in reinforcing this reputation, and in writing Sheffield's future
Target audiences
- students
- prospective students
- staff
- family and friends of exhibiting students
- media
- general public
- industry
- influential city stakeholders
