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.
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.
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.
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.
More Making and Drawing projects for children Make, Build, Create and Drawing Projects for Children, BlackDog Publishing 2015/2016
Inspired by Rio 2016, the AccessArt Friday Club made dolls from modroc and wire, exploring costumes and personality!
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.
Enjoy these chairs!
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 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.
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.
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.
Teenagers look at pieces of chalk and flint and explore the physicality of rocks and geological processes with graphite and plaster.
This adaptable resource shares how we transformed Barbie dolls using paper, fabric, modroc and paint. We had great fun researching and designing costumes and exploring appropriate materials. By Paula Briggs
