Shakespearean Sock Puppets
How to make textile and wood sock puppets using Shakespeare’s Macbeth as inspiration.
Textiles in Primary School
Inspired! Psyche’s Resilience by The Fitzy Peters
Natalie Bailey shares the pupils’ Inspire journey and their response to the Renaissance painting of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo Del Sellaio at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge as well as her reflections on the transformative impact that the project had on the children and how Art can support healing and wellbeing.
Making the Gift of Home this Winter
The AccessArt Village in the Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge and how to celebrate community, creativity and home.
Making Papier-Mache Marionette Puppets Inspired by Characters in a Historical Painting
Year three children make marionette puppets to tell the story illustrated in of “Penelope with the Suitors” by Pintoricchio in 1509 with their teacher Jan Miller.
Pop-Up Puppets Inspired by a Historical Painting
Year three children design and make pop-up puppets inspired by the story in the painting “Penelope with the Suitors,” by Pintoricchio (1509), working with their teacher Jan Miller.
To Construct…
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The AccessArt Village and How a Small Idea can be Big
Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt leads year nine students from Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls on a collective drawing and collage experience exploring the #AccessArtVillage in BRG Brentwood Road Gallery. Students absorb this stunning collection of sewn houses and inspired by thread and stitches, make their own creative responses.
Sensory Spaces: An Autism-Friendly Project
To Connect At the beginning of the project it was important to take time getting used to each other, the learning space and the surrounding environment. Below is a list of considerations you may find helpful to use in your own learning spaces. Be aware of the daily sounds, smells and other textures of life […]
To Conceal….
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Teachers Play with Plasticine to Make Prints in the Education Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
This post follows on from Gathering Marks and Tearing Paper to Appreciate Prints by Goya, Turner and Cornelius at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Monoprinting Inspired by Goya, Turner and Cornelius in the Education Room, and shows how teachers used Plasticine to print textures. The session was facilitated by Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Paperback Figures: Collaged, Relief Sculptures
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