Leadership Project
LEADERSHIP PROJECT – THE TREASURE HOUSE ART MAGAZINE
MY PROJECT
A MESSAGE FROM MELANIE
“HI STUDENTS, THIS YEAR, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE GOOD IF ALL THE ARTS AWARD STUDENTS WORKED ON A LEADERSHIP PROJECT TOGETHER AND IF IT WAS SOMETHING THAT COULD SHOWCASE THE ART WORK OF EVERY ARTIST AT THE SCHOOL. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS FOR WHAT THAT COULD BE?”
WE DECIDED AS A GROUP TO CREATE AN ART MAGAZINE FOR STAFF, STUDENTS, AND THE PECKHAM COMMUNITY THAT WOULD BE LAUNCHED AT THE END OF TERM WITH AN ART EXHIBITION, PRIVATE VIEW AND PARTY.
MY ROLE IN THE PROJECT: EDITORIAL DIRECTOR / TALENT LIASON
I am really happy to be involved in this magazine. I have done a bit of work with the creative writing website The Mechanics’ Institute Review Online in the past and I really enjoyed emailed authors and being part of something that would be shared publically. Because I have a bit of experience, we decided I should be one of the main content editors and also that I should be in charge of commissioning work for the magazine.
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
We talked a lot about leadership in the first meeting. There are lots of people working on the magazine but I am one of the oldest and I have experience so I wanted to take to opportunity to push myself further and be senior leader on the project. I think a senior leader should:
- Lead by example, work hard so that others will be inspired to work hard
- Take the initiative on ideas, go ahead and make decisions without checking with teachers
- Encourage others to be involved, and make them feel good about themselves
- Listen to the ideas of others and incorporate them
- Understand that everyone has a different range of skills and help them to contribute at the right level for them
PROJECT AIMS AND OUTCOMES
This was a group project. We met with Sue Tyley, a magazine publisher, and she told us it was very important to have a vision statement for a magazine that we could all agree on. It would help us to know what content to put in the magazine and let us know what kind of tone to take.
Melanie recorded our meeting on the board:
GOAL: TO CREATE AN ART MAGAZINE TO SHOWCASE THE WORK OF TREASURE HOUSE STUDENTS AND OTHER ARTISTS THAT WILL ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO MAKE ART OF THEIR OWN.
You can see all of the minutes of the Treasure Art Magazine Meetings here
WHAT I WILL NEED FROM OTHERS
There are a lot of us involved in the project. These are the roles we agreed on in the first meeting:
- Project Director and administrator – Melanie
- Managing Editor – Kristin
- Head of Design – Aidan
- Events Management – Savannah
- Editorial Directors – Prince and Alice
- Head of Research – Prince and Savannah
- Social Media – Prince
- Finance Officer – Kristin and Aidan
- Head of Photography – Emily / Kristin
- Talent Liaison – Alice
JUDGING THE SUCCESS OF THE PROJECT AND MONITORING PROGRESS
In meeting three, we set criteria for judging the magazine. We will use this when we come to evaluate the magazine at the end.
- We complete the magazine by the end of the summer term
- We involve every student in the school in the magazine and the events
- We observe people reading the magazine at the launch party
- We get positive feedback from the launch party
- The magazine incorporates the ideas and personalities of everyone who works on it.
We will have weekly or fortnightly meetings to discuss the magazine but we know that covid might disrupt us so we might have to do some of this by email.