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TEN
198 - Contemporary Arts and Learning, London, United Kingdom
The film was written and produced by a group of young people who attend the Urban Vision programme at 198 Gallery. It is based on their interpretation of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, formulated in 1957.
From the very beginning, the young people involved in the project explored the real meaning of the rights of the child by examining issues surrounding child labour, child soldiers, child abuse of a physical, psychological, emotional or sexual nature, and the marginalization
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Inside / Outside
Abbot Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Kendal, United Kingdom
Planning was carried out with the artist and teacher prior to the visit. The pupils had some lessons at school around the subject of 'space' before their visit to the Gallery. The project was based on an exhibition at Blackwell by Felicity Aylieff, called 'Sense and Perception' and consisting of large-scale, tactile ceramics.
On arrival at the Gallery, the pupils explored ideas of internal and external spaces by looking at objects such as vessels, fruit and seed pods. They then explored the exhibition of
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mindscaping kingston mills
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON, World - America, North
"mindscaping kingston mills" was a collaborative project among the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the Creative Arts Program at Queen Elizabeth Collegiate and Vocational Institute, and two Kingston artists, Robert Mulder and Kristi Allik. It was stimulated by Mulder and Allik’s multi-media installation, "Fragrances of Time and Space: Block D", which was on view at the Art Centre from 9 February to 11 May 2003. Through sound and visuals, Mulder and Allik produced an imaginative exploration of three periods o
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'Ossian' Stones and Images
An Tuireann Arts Centre , Portree, United Kingdom
Although the Arts Centre had worked with the School before, pupils had never actually visited the Centre because of transport and cost issues (the School is on the Isle of Rassay off the coast of Skye). The project was planned with the Headteacher to link in with a local history project currently underway in school, and the Cultural Co-ordinator and local writer contributed to the project in relation to local history. The artist was also involved in planning the activities.
Pupils spent a day at the Gall
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Pot Doodle
Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom
Building on a new relationship between Arnolfini and Hengrove Community Arts College and Post-16 Centre (a specialist Visual Arts College), this project explored the definitions and possibilities of drawing - from sketches and graffiti to movement through space and obsessive mark-making.
Pot Doodle aimed to extend pupils and teachers understanding of art practice in general and drawing and mark-making in particular. It was important that the project demonstrated to all involved new ways of using contempo
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'Art House" exhibition of children's work
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Blackburn, United Kingdom
The project tried to involve and motivate children in the arts world.
It gave the children different artistic motivations, which help them to express themselves with their artworks.
The project wanted to show the museum as a place which could be enjoyed.
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The Unveiling
Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
The project took place against the backdrop of a 6-week exhibition, The Veil, organised by inIVA at Bluecoat and Open Eye galleries in July 2003. This exhibition, through the work of 20 contemporary artists of Islamic and non-Islamic backgrounds, examined the symbolic significance of the veil. Through video, photography, drawing and performance, the artists challenged the way Western perceptions of Middle Eastern and North African women have been framed by the veil and its connotations.
The project involve
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The Furniture Project
Chisenhale Gallery, London, United Kingdom
The Furniture Project has been developed by furniture designer Andrew Farrow, Tower Hamlets Youth Offending Team, Chisenhale Gallery and Signs of life (Bromley by Bow Centre). Young people will work with a team of artists, educators and youth workers to develop artwork based on their experience of Chisenhale Gallery's sculptural installation 'Deep Heat T-Reg Laguna'.
Using a wide range of materials including glass, rubber, marble, metal, plastic and sound Gary Webb has produced a new series of eight sc
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Writespace
City of Sunderland Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA), Sunderland, United Kingdom
The Writespace Project set out to engage Key Stage 2 pupils in thinking and writing creatively.
The project had two key phases - Phase one featured pupils from Hudson Road School working in response to the “r+d” exhibition, and phase two involved pupils from St Mary's school responding to the Tapio Wirkkala exhibition.
Phase 1 involved pupils from Hudson Road Primary School who worked in the gallery during July 2003, phase 2 brought pupils from St Mary's RC Primary School into the NGCA during Novemb
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Language of Art
Creative Partnerships Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
The Language of Art is an emerging project exploring how museums and galleries can support language learning and cultural awareness through the school linking programme between Nottingham and Madrid. It is responding in part to the National Languages Strategy that states that each primary school must teach a foreign language by 2009. It is a partnerships project between Nottingham LEA, the Comunidad de Madrid, MNCARS (the Reina Sofia), Nottingham Castle Museum and Creative Partnerships Nottingham.
Ther
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Painting Spaces
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, United Kingdom
This project began with Kjell Torriset's installation of 340 paintings, developed as a site-specific piece for the iconic modernist building - the De La Warr Pavilion. An artist was allocated to each school; 2 days were given to planning and evaluation and 3 to working with the children at the Pavilion and in school. The project culminated with an exhibition of the three classes' work made in response to Kjell's installation.
This was an opportunity for the De La Warr Pavilion, on the brink of refurbish
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The Callingwood Project
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, World - America, North
According to the Vision Statement and Purpose of The Edmonton Art Gallery:
"The Edmonton Art Gallery creates welcoming and engagin environment where people are motivated to transform their understanding of the world by connecting with the visual arts... As a learning institution, the EAG is dedicated to creating, acquiring and sharing knowledge in connection with visual art and life experiences."
In keeping with this vision statement, and in conjunction with the gallery exhibition 'Carole Conde and Ka
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engage in the Foundation Phase, Carmethenshire
engage Cymru, Tenby, United Kingdom
The project offered the children the chance to explore processes and ideas inspired by an exhibition, with the themes focusing around the marks we make or leave behind us, including tracks, trails and shadows. Activities emphasised exploratory processes rather than dictated end-products.
This case study forms part of the evaluation of a three year (2006-9) action research programme to explore the role of artists and galleries in delivering the Foundation Phase curriculum in Wales, involving artists, gal
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Splice of Life
FACT, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Initially 30 Key stage 3 pupils from each of the schools involved (Holly Lodge Girls' College, The Buecoat School and St John Bosco) attended gallery sessions at FACT exploring the use of film in exhibitions by Kristen Lucas and Zilla Leutenegger. They also attended workshops in film-making where they learnt about storyboarding, framing, shot and camera angle. 5 pupils from each school were selected to attend a four-day 16mm filmmaking workshop conducted by found footage filmmaker Craig Baldwin. Workshop pa
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Street Matters
Gasworks, London, United Kingdom
Street Matters led by Barby Asante with additional support from Red Leader Industries was a project which saw pupils exploring issues and ideas around regeneration and the constantly changing face of the city. The project resulted in pupils each making their own screensavers and learning basic skills in flash animation.
The project was developed in order to enable pupils to think positively and creatively about their environment within which they live. Vauxhall is currently undergoing significant regene
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Streetwise
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
A portrayal in video, paint and photography of life in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne inspired by the exhibition Out of Place which addressed the viewer's relation to place and its representations, and the sense of dislocation from place as well as belonging in place, through photography, sculpture, installation and conceptual art.
Aims & objectives:
o Increased learning within the subject area
o Increased cultural understanding and respect and tolerance for others
o Positive attitudes to the
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"The Tree" Wall Hanging
Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington, United Kingdom
Creation of handmade felt wall-hanging influenced by the annual open theme of "The Tree". The wall-hanging was exhibited in one of the main temporary exhibition rooms at the gallery, at the school and the the sponsor's head offices.
The project consisted of 2 artist-led workshops and a six week exhibition.
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Connect4
Impressions Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom
Connect4 is a cross artform interpretative project, bringing together two York primary schools with professional writers and visual artists to make connections between Impressions and York Art Gallery's exhibition programmes. The project aimed to develop pupils verbal, written and visual literacy skills during the project and in future school work. It also aimed to increase pupils and teachers' confidence in visiting galleries and interpreting artworks, and of working in a range of media across subjects inc
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"Hard Facts" exhibited in Civic Centre Main Street Ballymun, Dublin
Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum, Lisburn, United Kingdom
The finished product was a conceptual and decorative piece of 26 mosaic slabs which, depicted the reality of Travellers' issues and statistics that existed in 2003.
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4R dismissal
Lewes Pupil Referral Unit, Lewes, United Kingdom
Year 11 students from the Lewes Pupil Referral Unit worked with artist Jane Lyster to compile a mobile phone archive in response to a visit to the East Sussex Record Office. As part of their GCSE art studies, and with links to the history and citizenship curriculum, the students investigated local history and personal identity through the study of an early twentieth century police register. The students and their teachers were introduced to archive staff and their work which includes conservation and rese
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UCre8
Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
From recycled material totem poles inspired by the Society of Wildlife Artists to screenprinting designs from the Originals 07 exhibition, UCre8 was designed to inspire young people (age 5-18), considered at risk of being marginalised and excluded to engage in the visual arts. The project is run by the Federation of British Artists Education Department, which works in partnership with Stag Lane Pupil Referral Unit and Brent Youth Services. The ongoing 18-month programme (started in July 2006) uses the galle
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Private I, public eye
Manchester City Galleries, Manchester, United Kingdom
Key Stage 3 pupils from four Manchester schools worked with artist, Chara Lewis, to explore issues relating to identity and citizenship. Professional Development was provided for participating staff at the start of the project ensuring that they gained a basic understanding of digital media. The first two schools used Tom Hunter's photographic interpretation of Pre-Raphaelite paintings as a starting point, exploring the portrayal of people and landscapes, focusing on how they have changed with the develo
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peg119 - a photographic and sound installation for key stage 1
Museum of Croydon, Croydon, United Kingdom
peg119 encouraged each child to explore, be inspired from and create out of and within a space, place and subject so familiar as to be overlooked each and every school day; the school cloakroom. Using photography the children created imagery around stories buried deep in coat pockets, found colours within conversations of this social place and recalled the sounds from every silent corner. The final material was brought together in an installation based in a cloakroom using projection, prints, sound and sc
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Art Reactors 03.
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Peacock's Children and Youth programme is closely linked with the artwork exhibited in the gallery and created in the workshops.
Children looked at Contemporary artistic practice and they made decisions about how they wished to create and present their own work, using Peacock's multi-media workshop facilities.
The final works were then exhibited in the gallery.
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Neighbourhood Watch
Photographers' Gallery, London, United Kingdom
How can the simple act of taking a photograph help break down social barriers? Five young people aged 13 - 16 years living at Vale Royal House in central London set out with artist Frances Kearney and their youth workers to find out.
Their project is a response, in part, to Garry Winogrand's street photographs. Where Winogrand could be accused of exploiting his subjects without their consent to produce a body of published and displayed work, Neighbourhood Watch instead focussed on building positive rela
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Laid Table
Photographers' Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Artist Michèle Fuirer worked with Londoners' appetites, enthusiasms and ingenuity in the preparation of different foods. Her aim was to construct a large-scale, digital photographic still life, or Laid Table. A convention from 17th century painting, the laid table conveyed philosophical and symbolic meaning through the depiction of formally displayed food.
Michèle's process of working involved contributors in sharing stories, memories and ideas about the significance of particular ingredients and dishes
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Visual Thinking Strategy activities programme from education department, Picasso Museum, Malaga.
Picasso Museum, , Spain
AIMS.
The educational department’s goal is to communicate ideas, emotions and enjoyment to the visitor. They look for a variety of links between the artworks and the visitors. The approach begins with a debate with the visitors about their opinions of the artworks.
The educational strategy is based on the Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS), which enables the development of critical reflection and the visitor’s ability to find meaning and pleasure in the artworks.
The educational department promotes debate
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Wearable Art Show
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, United Kingdom
50 participants aged 14 - 17 took part in this one month project in which they interviewed Nahem Shoa (and another artist) and created 'wearable art' in response to his paintings. Their work was then presented as a fashion show at the gallery and local leisure facility during the arts festival.
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Brush Off
Pump House Gallery, London, United Kingdom
15 children from a local secondary school worked with their teacher, a dance education worker and a musician in a week of sessions inspired by the gallery exhibition. This resulted in an evening of dance/music performance in the gallery for family and friends.
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Palm Mapping
Pump House Gallery, London, United Kingdom
The group spent a day at the gallery during Simon Faithfull's exhibition 'Vanishing Point' of work concerned with creating personal maps of places and journeys, often using new technologies. After looking round the exhibition with Simon Faithfull and Russell Martin, an artist educator, they discussed the work on show and the artist's ideas. The pupils were then shown how to use palm pilots and were given an opportunity to practice.
The pupils split into four groups, with a palm pilot each as well as sket
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Silver Surfers - Multimedia Project 1998-2000: Promoting Positive Images of Ageing
Site Gallery (MAP) Ltd., Sheffield, United Kingdom
Silver Surfers was a collaborative project between Agewell in Sheffield, Age Concern Sheffield and Site Gallery, in which a group of older people worked with a community based artist to explore and challenge stereotypes of ageing. Using photography and new technologies older people in various community settings were encouraged to produce visual work which described how they felt about their age, the ageing process and attitudes to old age, which culminated in the making of an interactive CDRom and exhibitio
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Transit
Statens Kulturrad (The National Council for Cultural Affairs), Stockholm, Sweden
From autumn 2004 till end of 2005 the project Transit will take place at Bildmuseet in Umeå. Transit is a language development project combining language learning and art education. The Transit project is aimed at adults who have Swedish as a second language. Using contemporary art as a starting point, the project intends to develop different exercises that will make language instruction more interesting and simultaneously awaken interest in contemporary museum as a meeting place. The groups visit the museu
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ART ECO
Stour Valley Arts Ltd., Challock, United Kingdom
Of particular importance throughout the project has been our aim to work equally with both an artist and an environmentalist - thereby giving the pupils a broad experience of art and nature. The pupils worked with artist, Mark Nelson, countryside officer, Jason Adams and SVA's education officer, Nicholette Goff. The pupils were brought to King's Wood on three different visits to compare changes in the landscape in winter, spring and summer. They saw deer roaming the forest and visited the reptile habitat wh
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Sculpsonic
Study Gallery, Poole, United Kingdom
The day was planned around the exhibition 'Kinetic' and the aim was to provide a series of creative challenges for pupils and their families to design and make three sculptural works that either made sound or investigated new ways of drawing. The project was led by artist Andy Kirkby and facilitated by gallery staff.
The pupils worked in three groups in response to three different creative challenges: To design and make a sound sculpture from assorted scavenged junk and building materials; To create a pe
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From Here to There
Study Gallery, Poole, United Kingdom
Aims:
o To initiate a sustainable working & creative partnership with a local secondary school
o To provide creative opportunities for GCSE students to engage with exhibitions, exhibiting artists and the gallery
o To extend and enrich students' own creative practice
Objectives:
o Increased awareness of The Study Gallery, how it works and the complex relationships between artist, exhibition, gallery and audience
o Increased self confidence and self esteem through decision making and ownership of the pr
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Access Tate
Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
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• To provide an introduction to the collections at Tate Britain and Tate Modern for care staff to use with adults using health, supported housing and social services
--- who it was for
• Access Tate is for care staff working in the voluntary and statuary sectors throughout London and within travelling distance of London
--- what learning was involved
• Participants reported having achieved learning objectives in using the gallery as a learning resource, accessing the
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Wallworks
The Brindley, Runcorn, United Kingdom
As Visual Arts Development Officer for the borough of Halton, my work covers the programming of the The Brindley art centre’s gallery space, alongside developing projects with artists and engaging members of the local community in the visual arts. Working within the pristine white space of an art gallery can be a privilege, it can also, from time to time, be limiting when you want to explore creativity. Re-decorating turned out to be the perfect opportunity for us to invite three groups of children and youn
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Stained Glass Windows
The World of Glass, St Helens, United Kingdom
Pupils researched church window sand designed their own to correspond with their school houses, producing 4 large stained glass panels plus supporting work. Work was exhibited in the gallery and curated by the pupils themselves.
The project lasted 2 years.
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At Home with Art
Towner Art Gallery & Local Museum, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
The project was based around the gallery's temporary programme of exhibitions looking at works of art that reflect or manipulate the domestic environment, playing with expectations and the familiar environment.
The project took place over two days and was based in the school as taking the pupils out of school would have been problematic because of their range of needs. A work of art from the gallery's permanent collection was taken into the school by the artists and shown to the pupils. Images of other
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Visually Impaired and Signed Tours
Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Tullie House's Visually Impaired and Signed Tours linked to Tullie's overall Museums and Galleries Month programme, which aimed to offer accessible and informative events for all sectors of the community. The aim of this Get it Together project was to show historic buildings and Tudor culture and documents to groups of people who normally feel excluded. Through these special guided tours, it was hoped to make the Museum Service and record office more accessible to people with disabilities and to develop fut
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On-Site
Wingfield Arts, Eye, United Kingdom
Wingfield Arts has recently installed six newly commissioned sculptures for permanent display at its College Yard home. This project enabled young people to work entirely on site at College Yard to explore these sculptures as a starting point for the creation of their own three -dimensional site-specific work. The project focused on year 8 pupils and aimed to achieve the following outcomes with reference to Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum for Art:
o Understand how made objects can influence and ch
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Movement in Colour
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
The children who took part were all non-readers with short attention spans and were selected to take part in the project to build confidence and encourage them to express themselves through art. Both teachers specialise in Special Educational Needs and teaching the deaf. The project was based on 'Rainbow', a temporary exhibition for children based on colour.
The group spent one day at the gallery. The artists introduced them to the exhibition 'Rainbow' and to a particular screenprint by Bridget Riley, lo
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Collecting Blake and Beyond
Young At Art, London, United Kingdom
The project was inspired by London Institute exhibitions of Peter Blake's commercial work and collections from his studio, which included rock and roll paraphernalia, and objects archived by colour. Artist Ruth Franklin combines printmaking, assemblage and ceramics alongside a personal passion for Arsenal football team. Consistent themes expressed in diverse mediums that lent themselves to working across the three schools. Students explored how artists use collected objects and images as source of inspirati
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