Creative Family Learning / Studio Time

12/04/2010 by James.

I ran a really enjoyable couple of professional development days over the Easter Holidays, for the learning and outreach team at Salisbury Museum, exploring participant-led, creative approaches to learning in a Museum context.

The sessions explored the relevance of creative learning for foundation stage children, before looking at examples of creative child-led learning in practice, through projects I’ve run with museums in the past, and the work I’ve carried out with 5×5x5=creativity, schools and pre-schools.

We looked at the relationship between the parent and child, how we can support parents to develop confidence in their own creativity, and how a lack of confidence in some parents can impact on their children.

Amongst all the interesting discussion and theory we also made plenty of room for hands-on sessions, which enabled the group to put themselves in the shoes of the participants, exploring the museum and documenting their experiences and each other in creative ways.

Now that things have quietened down again, and before they get busy again in the summer term, I’m taking some time to be in the studio and to get out exploring and collecting. I’m looking at how the smaller object-based pieces that I create can be displayed/grouped/collected together in gallery or domestic or outdoor environments, and how collections such as these may be read by a viewer.

I’m also continuing to make photographic pieces which gather together found imagery and objects, and exploring ways of exhibiting these as single prints, books or online, and have included a few of those here.

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