The Fitzwilliam Collection

Since 2016, AccessArt has teamed up with Kate Noble, education officer at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the education team, to deliver CPD (continued professional development) for primary school teachers in Cambridgeshire.

The aim of the sessions is to empower teachers to use the museum’s collection and experience hands-on making to inspire creativity in the classroom as well as develop a creative community of artists, educators, and teachers locally.

Beyond that, we hope that these resources, enriched with images of objects and paintings from the museum’s collection, and packed with creative ideas, will inspire you from wherever you are.

With many thanks to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and Kate Noble for this ongoing collaboration.

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Inspired by Jacopo Del Sellaio\'s Cupid and Psyche

Inspire: A Celebration of Children’s Art in Response to Jacopo del Sellaio’s Cupid and Psyche

The Fitzwilliam Museum and AccessArt teamed together to offer free CPD (Continued Professional Development for Teachers), focusing on one painting, Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo del Sellaio, resulting in Inspire, an exhibition of art made by primary school children. Inspire celebrated creativity in Cambridgeshire schools and championed the on-going importance of cultural learning and the visual arts for all children and young people. See this collection of resources sharing the Inspire story told by teachers, pupils, and the Inspire Team.

Inspired by Edgar Degas

Three Resources Inspired by the exhibition Degas A Passion for Perfection

Exploring printmaking, drawing, and sculptural processes inspired by Edgar Degas.

Teachers Explore ‘Line and Shape’ in the Museum

A Collection of Creative Responses to Objects and Paintings

Here museum education in the galleries is married with practical, hands-on learning in fine art disciplines including drawing, printmaking, sketchbooks, collage, and sculpture.

All Resources Follow the links below to see all resources created in collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum Education Team

Creating Comics inspired by museum collections

By Irina Richards Irina Richards is a comics artist, illustrator and educator from Cambridgeshire. Irina enjoys telling stories of everyday experiences and challenges through comics; her art is inspired by history, folklore, nature and poetry. In this post, Irina shares her recent project she did with Young Artists, focusing on creating comics inspired by online […]

Detail from Flowers in a Glass Vase, by Jan Davidsz. de Heem (c) The Fitzwilliam Museum

Be Inspired by Flowers in a Glass Vase by Jan Davidsz de Heem

This resource looks at ‘Flowers in a Glass Vase’ by the Dutch painter, Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606-1684), on permanent display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and how it might inspire your own creative responses and experimentation with colour.

Year 5 pupils at Linton Heights make Light boxes

Inspired! Making at Linton Heights Junior School

Anna Campbell shares how a whole school engaged with making projects integrated across subjects in response to the Renaissance painting of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo Del Sellaio at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and how she used the project to progress pupils’ making skills throughout the year groups.

Close up of the suitors - kirsty webb - inspire

Inspired! Re-Creating Cupid and Psyche in Mixed Media by Year Fives at Linton Heights

Year Five teacher, Kirsty Webb, shares her pupils’ Inspire journey and their response to the Renaissance painting of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo Del Sellaio at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the benefits of having a full immersion into materials and working together as a class on a shared project.

Studio - Colour - Fitzwilliam Cupid and Psyche

Inspire 2020: Introducing Colour and Egg Tempera on a Gesso Panel

This post shares how egg tempera was used as a medium in the Italian Renaissance and how teachers interpreted the processes involved in the teaching studio at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge with AccessArt and the Fitzwilliam Education Team, as part of the CPD programme for Inspire 2020

Six, ten year old children - called the Fitzy Peters from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, posing in front of a mannequin as part of the Inspire Project with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and AccessArt - photo by their teacher Natalie Bailey

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.

Year One boy at Hauxton Primary School drawing leaves with pastels with Pamela Stewart for Inspire

Inspired! ‘The Tree’ by Year One and Two at Hauxton Primary School

In this post, Pamela Stewart shares the submission by Hauxton Primary School, Cambridgeshire for Inspire: A Celebration of Children’s Art in Response to Jacopo del Sellaio’s Cupid and Psyche by Year One and Two pupils in ‘Owl Class’.
It shares the pupils’ Inspire journey and all that they learned in response to looking at the Renaissance painting at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

WILLINGHAM BOYS COLLAB PAINTING (1) Inspire Fitz

Cupid and Psyche: How a Fifteenth-Century Renaissance Panel Became the Most Loved Painting in Cambridgeshire

Sheila Ceccarelli tells the story of how Cupid and Psyche, painted by Jacopo Del Sellaio, an Italian Renaissance artist, came to become the most loved painting in Cambridgeshire. Inspire is an exhibition of art made by primary school children and celebrates the creativity of our local schools. It champions the on-going importance of cultural learning and the visual arts for children and young people. A chance also to see Del Sellaio’s Cupid and Psyche on display next to the children’s work.

Psyche is blown off the hill by Zephyrus the wind - a detail in a painting by Del Sellaio of Cupid and Psyche painted in 1473

The Story of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo del Sellaio (1442 – 1493) 

In this post, Kate Noble, Education Officer at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge shares the story of Cupid and Psyche as depicted in the 15th Century painting by Jacopo Del Sellaio. This is one of a series of posts from Inspire: A Celebration of Children’s Art at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Looking at Cupid and Psyche by Sellaio in The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

Inspire 2020: Teachers

This post is based on CPD (Continued Professional Development) sessions in February and March 2019, hosted and delivered by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in collaboration with AccessArt, for Cambridgeshire teachers participating in Inspire 2020 Project.

Making Sculpture Inspired by Degas

This resource explores sculpture by French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917)and shows how hands-on sculptural processes can be facilitated in a classroom. This resource was created in collaboration with AccessArt and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Study of Two Standing Dancers, charcoal drawing by Edgar Degas made circa 1889.

How to Make Beautiful, Liquid Drawings Inspired by Degas

This resource looks at drawings by the French artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917), and how to enable the production of beautiful, ‘inky drawings’ in the classroom. This resource was created in collaboration with AccessArt and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

"L'Avenue du Bois" - The Avenue of Trees in the Bois du Boulogne, by Degas, Edgar; French artist, 1834-1917; Black carbon ink on India paper, height 118mm, width 161mm, circa 1880.

Making Monotypes Inspired by Degas

This resource shares how Edgar Degas made his ‘inky drawings,’ or monotypes, and how the process of mono-printing can be further explored in the classroom – In collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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.

Gathering Marks and Tearing Paper to Appreciate Prints by Goya, Turner and Cornelius at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

This post shares how Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, enabled teachers to enter into the intricacies of prints made by Turner, Goya and Cornelius in a Temporary Exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in summer 2016: 1816: Prints by Turner, Goya and Cornelius.

Making Sculptural Interpretations of 18th Century Portraits at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

This post shares how Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, enabled teachers to explore making three dimensional interpretations of two dimensional 18th Century portraits.

Using Drawing to Get Closer to 18th Century Portraits at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

This post shares how Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, used drawing exercises to take a closer look at 18th Century portraits

Making Sketchbooks at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

This post shares how Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, enabled teachers to make sketchbooks and explore them as a physical space to connect and collect ideas and observations from museum collections.

Using Sketchbooks, Drawing and Reflective Tools in the 20th Century Gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

This post shares how Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, enabled teachers to explore 20th Century paintings and sculpture, through using sketchbooks & drawing as tools for looking and remembering.

Thoughtful Drawing and Mark Making in the Armoury at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

This post shares how Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, enabled teachers to explore armour through discussion, drawing and mark making.

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