INSPIRE 2020
AccessArt has been delighted to have worked with Kate Noble, Miranda Stern, Alison Ayres, Sarah Villis and Holly Morrison, from the Fitzwilliam Museum Learning Team, to inspire primary school teachers, in and around Cambridgeshire, to use the Museum Collection to support their pupils’ learning and creative development.
The aim of this series is to give teachers the confidence to work in museum spaces, responding to objects and sharing ideas.
The focus of this workshop is on painting ‘The Story of Cupid and Psyche’ by Jacopo del Sellaio, an Italian painter working in Florence, Italy in the 1400s. However, the resources below can be adapted to any painting in your local gallery or museum.
Below you will find a series of activities usd to explore the painting, starting with CPD for teachers run by AccessArt and the Fitzgerald Gallery in Cambridge, followed by a series of resources exploring the impact of the project in schools.
The collection of resources below was used by teachers during the Inspire 2020 Programme, running throughout 2019. Find out how this ambitious project affected schools across Cambridge. Read more about the impact of Inspire 2020 here.
Inspire 2020 Programme Goals
Inspire: Teachers
Talking Points: The Story of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo del Sellaio
Start by exploring the narrative behind the painting ‘The Story of Cupid and Psyche’ in this “Talking Points” written by Kate Noble.
Introduction for Participating Teachers and Educators
Find out how teachers used drawing, collage and making to explore Jacopo del Sellaio’s Cupid and Psyche at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Find out more here.
Introduction for Participating Teachers and Educators
This post shares how teachers interpreted the processes involved in using egg tempura, a medium used during the Italian Renaissance, as part of the CPD programme for Inspire 2020. Explore Egg Tempura here.
Inspired: Students
Inspired! Psyche’s Resilience by The Fitzy Peters
Natalie 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. Explore here.
INSPIRED! ‘THE TREE’ BY YEAR ONE AND TWO AT HAUXTON PRIMARY SCHOOL
This post shares pupils’ Inspire journey and all that they learned in response to looking at the Renaissance painting at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and where Science and Art can meet.
Inspired! Re-Creating Cupid and Psyche in Mixed Media by Year Fives at Linton Heights
This post shares the pupils’ Inspire journey and how they worked together exploring mixed-media on a large scale making a creative response to the Renaissance painting at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Read more.
Inspired! Making at Linton Heights Junior School
See how Anna Campbell integrated this project across different subjects to progress pupils’ making skills throughout the year groups. Find out how.
Resources on AccessArt
AccessArt Drawing Prompt Cards
Drawing in the National Curriculum
Feeling Through Drawing
Ten Minutes, Five Times a Week
Tools: Introducing Sketchbooks and Self-Directed Learning
Sketchbooks in Primary Schools
Developing Your Sketchbook Approach
Making Sketchbooks at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Tools: Introducing Themes and Storyboards
AccessArt Collection: Resources which Support Literacy
Drawing Storyboards with Children by Paula Briggs
Illustrating Stories: Creating a Storyboard and First Dummy Book
Illustrating ‘The Jabberwocky’
Page to Panel – How to Make Manga
Tools: Colour
Colour Wheel for Infants and Juniors
EXPLORING PRIMARY COLOURS AND PROGRESSING WITH PAINT
Exploring Watercolour at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge with AccessArt
How to Make Beautiful, Liquid Drawings Inspired by Degas
Tools: The Figure
AccessArt Collection: Drawing from a Live Model
Self Portraiture Photography by Anna Linch
Spotting Potential and Nurturing a Young Talent
Tools: Nature and Landscape
Layers in the Landscape by Emma Davies
Wax Resist Autumn Leaves by Rosie James
AccessArt Collection: Trees, Forest and Landscape
Tools: Collage
Gathering Marks and Tearing Paper to Appreciate Prints by Goya, Turner and Cornelius at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
From Drawing to Collage to Casting by Louise Shenstone
Jo Allen and Rachael Causer at Ridgefield Primary School
Tools: Materials led Exploration
AccessArt Collection: Houses, Homes and Architecture
MAKING SCULPTURAL INTERPRETATIONS OF 18TH CENTURY PORTRAITS AT THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM
Making a Lyre Inspired by the Ancient Greeks
Conclusions
Inspire 2020 is not about static endings but about discovery, open experimentation and play.
The end point might just be a snap shot of a long process and not a final conclusion.
We hope that Inspire 2020 will give schools plenty of time and scope to play and find new avenues to explore, led by the children’s and teachers’, inspirations, fed by great art and hands-on creative processes.
We hope that along the way new skills and ideas will be cemented and creativity will be embedded as a resource to draw from for life.
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