Workshops with the Students

 Gosh it has been a real whirlwind of a time, and in amongst it all we ran workshops with two classes of the High School Students.

Working with their teacher, I had asked them to consider the four questions that are being asked at the Museum. So they did some mind maps of those questions and came up with some words.

We worked with luggage tags and made an accordion book with a pouch to hold them. They each had eight luggage tags, and we had heaps of options for paper and writing.

They followed the examples I had like this.

This approach is really similar to one of the pieces in the exhibition The Emigrants; where I had recorded thoughts about what the woman would be trying to achieve in her new home - the things that would help establish home, rather than just the building of a house. By collaging different papers, different images, different things associated with the place and home it felt like we were helping create home.

They did some marvellous creative and inspiring work - here are just a few of them:

They worked so hard and so well! Most folk finished maybe 4 tags, and their teacher is going to keep working with them to complete their artists' books.

We also had the pleasure of talking with them again when they visited the exhibition through the week. 

It is always so energising (and at the same time tiring!) working with young folk making art - their ideas, creativity and imagination; as well as their sense of design, colour and thinking always amaze me.

Their thank you to me was a fabulous luggage tag!

Thank you Mrs Wilkinson and Farr High's S1 & S2 classes.