Today saw the start of The Great Art Quest - a project I am doing with The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts, and MK Gallery. It involves working collaboratively with another artist and four primary schools in Milton Keynes. We started the project today by having a CPD day with teachers from each of the schools, talking through our plans with them for our work with the children, doing a gallery tour and a mini-workshop. My role as a workshop facilitator will be to create some visual responses to the current exhibition at the Gallery, by An-My Le, with the children from each of the schools. We are focusing on the themes of landscapes, people and adventure. Using collage, photography and drawings, the teachers created these lovely samples, building imaginary scenes with bits of paper and magazines, then inserting a photograph of themselves into the scene and finally overlaying a layer of acetate which could be drawn onto. The teachers really responded well to the idea and especially loved the acetate - simple things! Really looking forward to seeing what the children produce.
