Engage Meeting in Sheffield Monday 5 March 1.30 4.30
engage meeting in Sheffield Monday 5 March 1.30 –4.30
Present: Rachael Dodd, Yorkshire Arts Space; Kathryn Welford, Freelance; Victoria Scott, Artist at Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Claire Longrigg, Assistant Curator of Art at Scarborough Art Gallery; Pam Sandals, Education Officer at the Cooper Gallery, Barnsley; Lara Goodband, Curator of Scarborough Art Gallery and engage Rep.; Alex Woodall, Hub Learning Projects Coordinator based at The Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
Sheffield Millennium Galleries – members of the education team talking about projects
- Sharon Walker (Adult Learning Coordinator) – CREATE
Since April 2004, the Arts Council has funded this programme of workshops with artists for students aged 14 to 21 years. The programme has been designed to encourage young people to access and relate to contemporary art with talks and workshops working directly with practitioners whose artwork is on display at the Gallery. Examples of the workshops include body casting inspired by the Marc Quinn work at the Graves.
- Sam Smith (E-Learning Coordinator) Digital Workshops and My Learning Website
MyLearning.org was originally designed for Key Stage 3 pupils and was launched in Autumn 2006.
My Culture Quest only cost £3,000 and was designed by a Leeds Media company and is very popular with children.
- Alex Woodall (Hub Learning Projects Coordinator) on Tate Visual Dialogues project at the Graves
A project with 15 pupils doing GNVQ or A-Level Art or Textiles and a teacher and artist, Chloe Brown. They made trips to Manchester and London and had a residential at Boggle Hole near Scarborough. Selected works from the Graves and the Tate for an exhibition at the Graves. The pupils required a lot of guidance ‘it was hard work and a long haul’ mediating between the many partners.
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Pam Sandals, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
MLA strategic project – my learning website.
The service has done projects with year 5, 6, and 7, they worked at different sites to create posters and animate characters that will be displayed in the Gallery. This project will be put on my learning website.
Recently had an environmental art exhibition that involved working with artists.
Key stage 1 and early years project – used works from the collection to inspire story-telling sessions.
Rachel Dodd, Persistence Works, Yorkshire ArtsSpace
Creative Partnership project – trying to get off the ground, aimed at key stage 3.
Claire Longrigg, Scarborough Art Gallery
Had a successful February half term paper sculpture workshop linked to the watercolour exhibition H.B.Carter & Sons.
The next exhibition is A Victorian Master: Drawings by Frederic Lord Leighton 24 March – 3 June. There will be drawing workshops over Easter and Whit linked to this exhibition, and a series of talks.
Currently applying for money from the Arts Council to help show the exhibition Totally Tactile, Sculptures by Jan Niedojadlo, run six workshops and four educational workshops in two local schools.
Vicky Scott, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Andy Goldsworthy exhibition opens 31 March 2007 - 6 January 2008
Work will be exhibited in the Underground, Longside, Garden and Bothy galleries as well as outdoors. There will be workshops for different ages using raw materials.
Alex Woodall, Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust
Watch this Space engage project – a schools placement scheme – a report about it should be out soon.
Rachael Dodd, Persistence Works, Yorkshire ArtsSpace
Rachael gave the group a tour of Yorkshire ArtSpace and showed us the different types of studios available. The building was awarded many architectural plaudits and awards when it opened five years ago. She gave us a talk about the Residency Programme and the Education & Outreach they do. We visited the current artist in residence Paul Morrisson who described his work.