The Great Art Quest 2009 Launches at Whitechapel Gallery
On Friday 11th September teachers from Glasgow, Gateshead, Exeter and London came together for a teacher training day held at Whitechapel Gallery, and launched the 2009 Great Art Quest project, sponsored by GAM.
The day was designed to give everyone involved in the project the chance to get to know one another and start to plan their individual Great Art Quests. Representatives from each of the galleries involved were on hand to discuss the exhibitions that are showing this Autumn and to plan dates for children from each school to visit and to work with a local storyteller and artist.
It’s all been very inspiring meeting people I’ll be working with.
The programme included a tour of the Goshka Macuga installation followed by a storytelling and a printmaking workshop which provided ideas for the teachers to try out in their own classrooms.
Really good, very organised, friendly, inspiring. THANKS!
Work now begins in The Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery (Glasgow), Spacex (Exeter), The Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead) and Whitechapel Gallery (London). Over the next three months children from 20 primary schools will visit their partner art gallery where works of art will be brought to life by a storyteller and visual artist who will then help the children to create their own masterpieces which The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts will display in a national finale in London early in 2010.
For more information about the Great Art Quest please visit the project page.