Tuesday 24 March 2015

Manchester Art Gallery- 19/3/15

Manchester Art Gallery is all about the visual arts and how they teach but a different kind of teaching as to what school teaching is like.
They are passionate about education and art  gallery education, thinking about exactly what education means to them? it being a life long type of education..
Learning team go by Learning is important
- schools/colleges/univercitys
-familys (all ages)
-communities
-volenteers (learning)
-health and well being (the essence, connecting with ourselves)
Gallery Exhibition..

how are we going to reverse the negative reports of art and creativity ?
(look up AQA- the examining board)

STARTER TASK, A NUMBER OF WARM UP QUESTIONS..
EXAMPLE-  ARE YOU IN OR OUT?
                    UP OR DOWN?
                    GREY OR GREEN?
                     CITY OR COUNTRY?
THE LIST GOES ON..
This got us up moving around, we had the chance to express our opinions even if we weren't asked personally.

LOOKING AT ONE PIECE OF WORK
-YOU CHOOSE A LINE
-FOLLOW THE LINE
-THE LIGHT AND THE DARK SIMILARITY
-FIND SOMETHING IN THE PAINTING THAT YOU THINK NO ONE ELSE HAS SEEN
You can change the pace of this task, give people enough time to take something in, everyone has there own opinion.
Dont over push anyone
coloured pens are a great way to do any kind of activity....
organisation is very important....
group work expresses different opinions
quick tasks help reduce pressure

CHOOSE WORDS IN A GROUP TASK THAT REFLECT ON THE PAINTING
(SPIDER DIAGRAM FORM)  
TO FINISH OF MAKE A SENTENCE FROM THE BEST WORDS

GETTING US TO THINK ABOUT SOMETHING (FOCUS)
A PAINTING IN THE WEST OF THE ROOM,
SALFORD, MANCHESTER, THIS PAINTING COULD BE ANYWERE?
-DULL, POLOUTION, ISSOLATED, RUN DOWN, NOBODY THERE, HARD PLACE TO LIVE, DIFFICULT, NO POTENTIAL, DEPRESSING, NO LIFE, NO HOPE, COLD, WINTERY, INDUSTRIAL WASTELAND, SMALL, NOTHING THERE,
THEN WE HAD TO DRAW FROM THE WORDS DESCRIBING THE PAINTING,
EVERYONES PICTURE MAPS WERE DIFFERENT BECAUSE WE ALL GOT A DIFFERENT PAINTING IN A DIFFERNT LOCATION
INTERESTING WHEN WE PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER

THE IDEA OF GOING AROUND IN A CIRCLE THROWING WORDS OUT ABOUT THE IRELAND
BUILD UP A PICTURE TO SELL THE IRELAND
(AN ENERGY TASK, A GOOD WAY TO END A LESSON)

The best thing to do is one or two activities well and dont overload with too many.
have a good range of things that get included to always keep the teacher involved (for the case of kids being naughty for a number of reasons) and to have no expectations for anything.






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