Sculpture in Primary School
Teachers Explore ‘Line and Shape’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge with AccessArt
In the spring and summer of 2016, Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge to create and deliver a series of InSET sessions (in-service-training) for primary school teachers.
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.
Making Giant Withie Lanterns
With ‘festivals of lights’ in November and December, teenagers at AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing class had a fun time constructing giant lanterns out of withies and wet-strength tissue paper.
Doodling with Stuff
Paula Briggs shows how to create a safe environment fo pupils to explore a range of materials which they would be able to manipulate and transform.
Supersized Jewellery
More Making and Drawing projects for children Make, Build, Create and Drawing Projects for Children, BlackDog Publishing 2015/2016
Rio 2016! – Sporty / Sunbathing Dolls
Inspired by Rio 2016, the AccessArt Friday Club made dolls from modroc and wire, exploring costumes and personality!
Steampunk Robots: A Kitbash Sculpture Unit
This resource, by Esmé Dawson, shows the processes students went through to create a robot sculpture that could live in a steampunk world. The main technique used was ‘kitbashing;’ the art of making a sculpture by taking bits out of broken plastic toys or using found and recycled objects.
Take a Seat Gallery
Enjoy these chairs!
Brushes, Rollers and Dabbers – Year 4 Pupils Use Mixed Media to Make Mark Making Tools
to explore constructing in mixed media and using inventiveness and innovation to create painting tools, which would later be used to paint a Communal Drawing of the River.
Making Mini Food
Making mini meals from Sculpey or Fimo clay takes good eye sight and nimble fingers! Here are some tips and tricks I have learnt along the way.
Perseverance, Determination and Inventiveness: Building Nests
Year 4 pupils from Comberton Village College and Cambourne Village College feeder schools met for a Gifted and Talented Sculpture Masterclass led by AccessArt at Bourn Primary Academy. The session centred around an exploration of the materials and construction methods we might use to build inventive, sculptural nests.
Astronaut Paper Body Casts by Gillian Adair McFarland
A non messy, big impact project in a day on the theme of space exploration to fit with Tim Peake going to the International Space Station.
Water and Rock: Teenagers explore building drawings with graphite and modroc
Teenagers look at pieces of chalk and flint and explore the physicality of rocks and geological processes with graphite and plaster.