Sculpture Skills
Site: Leeds Art Gallery
Key stages:
KS1, KS2
Subject areas:
Art
This workshop is led by museums staff.
What's involved?
Investigate different materials and ways of making three dimensional art in the Gallery and then make an imaginative sculpture from card, paper clips, elastic bands and string.
This workshop will foster understanding of three dimensional art, introducing useful vocabulary.
Pupils share their ideas about sculpture and then in small groups investigate the many different materials and ways of making it in the Gallery and when appropriate outside on Victoria gardens. Returning to the Studio they manipulate and change simple materials - card, paper clips, elastic bands and string - to make artwork that says something about the world in small groups. The workshop concludes with a presentation of outcomes and whole group discussion of things that are interesting in the sculptures.
The workshop:
- develops understanding of three dimensions
- identifies sculpture as being about anything and made from anything
- emphases that materials have specific qualities
- encourages problem solving by trying something new and taking risks
- shows how art can communicate ideas
- celebrates creativity and imagination
For more information, contact the Learning & Access Officer on 0113 247 8248 or 0113 347 8254.
Art and Design: 1. Exploring ideas; 2. Investigating and making, 3. Evaluating and developing; 4. Knowledge and understanding; 5. using a range of materials.
Cost: £55 per class
Maximum numbers: Class of 30
