The John Blanke Project in the form of a workshop -John Blanke Live !-  has been taken in to prison and the schoolroom to inspire and encourage.
 
A typical John Blanke Project Live! workshop is in four parts over two and half hours:

Part 1 Presentation
An introduction to the Black presence in Renaissance Europe through the history of  John Blanke and his image compared to the images of the Black St Maurice and  the Black Magus or King from the Adoration scene.

Part 2  Presentation
The John Blanke project  is introduced as multidisciplinary venture of art, music and poetry

Part 3 Participation
Invited to draw John Blanke as they imagined he might look using pencil or charcoal on  a piece of A4 paper, Finishing by writing a sentence beginning with the statement I imagined John Blanke as…

Part 4 Symposium
Each member of the workshop presents their imagined John Blanke to the rest of the group.