The Purpose and Value of Art Education

What is the purpose and value of art education in the 21st Century? Foley makes the case the Art’s critical value is to develop learners that think like Artists which means learners who are…

Cindy Foley on Tedx talks about whether it is about teaching art or teaching to think like an artist?

Using Sketchbooks to Inform Larger Work

Building Stories by June Nelson

Painting on Glass

Shoe La-la Project by Lala Thorpe

Sketching from a Source and Using Photocopies to Develop a Sketchbook Approach

Shrinkle Spaces

Making Sensory Drawings by Gillian Adair McFarland

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Pathway: Exploring pattern

This is featured in the 'Exploring Pattern' pathway

This is featured in the ‘Exploring Pattern’ pathway

Talking points: Shaheen Ahmed

Persia by Shaheen Ahmed

talking points: Louise Despont

Louise Despont

The Cardboard Project by Andee Collard

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Visual Arts Planning Collections: Cardboard and paper

cardboard detail 3b

CARDBOARD ENGINEERING CHALLENGE

Drawing feathers

Page to Panel – How to Make Manga by Irina Richards

Creating Decorative Designs From Birds: Mark Making, Texture and Pattern by Andrea Butler

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Pathway: Making Birds

Featured in the 'Making Birds Pathway'

Featured in the ‘Making Birds Pathway’

Talking Points: Inspired by Birds

Fulmar Petrel from Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon

Intuitive Art- Freedom to Paint by Natasha Day

Quick Clay Figurative Sketches

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Year 4 Whitchurch Primary School
Year 4 Whitchurch Primary School
Year 4 Whitchurch Primary School
Year 4 Whitchurch Primary School

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Pathway: The Art of Display

This is featured in the 'The Art of Display' pathway

This is featured in the ‘The Art of Display’ pathway

talking points: What is a plinth

Yinka Shonibare's message in a bottle, Photograph by Feggy Art

talking points: Thomas J Price

Ordinary Men: Interview with Thomas J Price https://vimeo.com/366788282

Layers in the Landscape by Emma Davies

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Visual Arts Planning Collections: Cardboard and paper

cardboard detail 3b

concertina landscapes

Drawing feathers

diary of a sculptural sketchbook

The Walk into Geddington Chase, from Wood Street, Part One’. Geddington Chase, Northamptonshire Cartridge Paper, Watercolour, Pencil, Chalk Pastels, Staples. 2013

Making Big Monotypes with Sheila Ceccarelli

Working WITH and IN the Landscape by Frances Hatch

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The Cathie Family, Ages 8, 10, 12
Year 5, Sutton Valence Preparatory School
Year 5, Sutton Valence Preparatory School
Year 5, Sutton Valence Preparatory School

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Pathway: using natural materials to make images

This is featured in the 'Using Natural Materials to Make Images' pathway

This is featured in the ‘Using Natural Materials to Make Images’ pathway

Talking Points: Frances Hatch

Inspired by the Guillemot egg

Talking Points: Anna Atkins

Spiraea aruncus (Tyrol) by Anna Atkins Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2004

Talking Points: What is a cyanotype

Cyanotype of Gorse

Talking Points: Artists as explorers and collectors

artists as collectors

Sketchbooks: Drawing Someone Drawing Something

Tomorrow, Today by Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope

From Drawing to Collage to Casting – Mural Design with Primary Schools

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Creative Days Bedford
Creative Days Bedford
Creative Days Bedford
Creative Days Bedford
Creative Days Bedford

Newspaper Heads by Sharon Gale