Dulwich Picture Gallery Education Department
Overview •Schools •Public Programmes •Community Engagement and Outreach •Facts and Figures
Schools Programme
First Steps into Art Tours
Primary School Children 5-7 years • Personal teaching throughout • ‘Sensory Resource Bags’: full of props to touch, try on, smell and experience • Small groups
Discovery Tours
Primary School Children 7-11 years
• Dialogue about Old Master paintings
• Draw directly from the paintings
Storytelling
All ages • Storytelling in Gallery, grounds with our Resident Storyteller • Chapel
Dramatic Art
Primary School children 7- 11 years old • Interpretation through performance
Writing and Imagination: Literacy through Art
Primary School Children 5-7 years old
• Literacy Specialist: listening, speaking and writing skills • Paintings inspire children to tell their own stories
Explore Buildings Architecture Programme
All ages • Built Environment Education • Sir John Soane’s unique building • Hands-on, materialbased approach
Art Science
Ages 7 and upwards • Looking at the Old Masters through the lens of science and history • Demonstration workshop led by professional artist
Art Skills Studio Workshops
7 years and upwards • Free artist-led workshops using quality materials and teaching technique
Artdays- Schools Outreach
All ages • Artists in schools: follow-up workshops • Offering 60 Art Days each year- every year for 10 years
Life Drawing Workshops
Secondary School Students 15 – 18 years old • Art school style teaching and portfolio development • Working from a model
Work Experience Students • Year 10 Schools Work Experience: students work alongside members of the Education Team in two-week placements • Southwark Gifted and Talented Internships: Year 10 and 11 students are selected through an application and interview process. They receive a bursary upon successful completion of their internship
Schools Events and Partnerships
• Southwark Reading Festival: a week-long celebration of stories and art. Authors and Illustrators speak to schools groups alongside special literacy-through art sessions in the Gallery and Sackler Centre. • Southwark Summer University: Specialist art courses for teens over the summer holidays with our professional teaching artists
Innovation and Growth: projects in development
• Youth Website: A forum for dialogue about visual art for teens • Sacred Spaces: Religious studies through the lens of art and architecture • Gallery Explainers: Teens trained to speak to the public about works in the gallery
Public Programmes
Courses for Adults: Watercolour •Watercolour courses for all abilities and ages •Watercolour Club
Courses for Adults: Tuesday Foundation Classes •Courses: oil painting, portraiture, landscape for beginners, printing
Courses for Adults: Wednesday Workshops •Arts and Crafts such as - Japanese Woodblock Printing, Ceramic Tiles and Mosaic Making and Batik Textile Design
Courses for Adults: Saturday Art School •Courses in: e.g. Portrait Painting in Oils, Comic Illustration, Colour Theory and Life Drawing Masterclass for the more experienced student
Courses for Adults: One-Day Taster Workshops Popular Taster courses: e.g. low-relief modelling, pastels, pen and ink drawings, life drawing and many more
Courses for Adults: Study Days and Lectures • Saturday Study Days and Lunch with art historian: Surrealism, Greek Myths & Legends, Pop Art, Genre Painting, The New York School • Curator’s Special Lecture and Evening View • Temporary Exhibition Study Days • Contextual Lecture Annual Series Next series 2009/10: That Was the Sixties That Was…
Special Lectures: Changing Perspectives •
Series of special lectures for Autumn 2009 to examine changing views, attitudes and practices in the art world; past present and future
Lecture topics include: •
Collecting as a Vehicle of Immortality
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The Artist’s Studio in Britain 1640-2010
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The Royal Image: Past, Present and Future
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Changing 19th century attitudes to Female Sexuality in Medicine, Music & Art
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Private privilege into public benefit: the changed role of the British historic house
Courses for Young People: 15-18 Portfolio Development
• Portfolio Development for exam students Recommended by Time Out London for Top Teen Cultural Activities in the Capital, Jan 2009
FREE Two-day Masterclass for 16-18 years •Running in association with NADFAS London this two-day FREE Masterclass is ideal for anyone thinking of applying to art college
Courses for Young People: 11-14 years •After school workshops: for young artists •Courses: Designing Textiles, Paper Cuts, Papier-Mâché, and SilkScreen Printing
Courses for Young People: Saturday Art Extravaganza •7-10 year olds •Mosaics, Printing Landscapes, T-Shirt Design and Decoration, Rag-Rug Hearts, Mail Art
Families: Artplay and Holidays •Sunday drop-in workshops for adults and children • Family Holiday workshops •Art in the Garden- summer programme
Community Outreach and Social Engagement Programmes
Learn Together Art Club: In the Community •Parents/carers and under fives •Storytelling and art sessions both out in the community and back at the Gallery • Partnership with Sure Start centres • Demonstrating learning together • Run by Early Years specialist and professional artist
Learn Together Art Club
Learn Together Art Club: at the Gallery • Learn Together Art Club
Urban Youth: Kennington Kids
• Weekly evening drop-in art workshops on estate youth clubs • Summer workshops – offsite and at the Gallery
Kennington Kids: Raw Urban Exhibition
“It’s great when you bring young people with few opportunities into a Gallery like this which they wouldn’t dream of being a part of in the normal course of events. And then to see them become the star players.” Professor John Pitts Author of ‘The Changing Face of Youth Crime’ and ‘Working With Young Offenders’
City Hall Kennington Kids: Raw Urban Exhibition
House of Lords Kennington Kids: Raw Urban Exhibition
Urban Youth: Projects in Development •
Crime prevention: Working with primary school children at risk of exclusion/ gang involvement
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Partnering with organisations helping young people make positive life changes
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Photography workshops for NEET young people
Good Times: Art for Older People • Enriching life for older people. •
Working with over 50 partner sites.
• A free and wide ranging programme of opportunities for all to get involved .
Good Times: Practical Workshops Practical Art workshops at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Including Prescription for Art
Good Times: Intergenerational
• Bringing young and old together • Breaking down stereotypes
Good Times: Intergenerational
Joining in with celebration events.
Good Times: Practical Workshops Offsite
• Visiting 2 or 3 different partner sites each week • Sharing the collection out in the community • Teaching skills • Building relationships
Good Times: Offsite
New partnerships within the community
Good Times: Lectures • Both on and offsite • Special exhibition lectures at the Gallery • Art appreciation talks off site
‘Gets me out of the flat and out of myself’ Older participant, Dulwich Mead
Good Times: Tours and Tea
Good Times: A Pioneering Programme • Inquiries from other institutions • Research dissemination document in progress by Oxford Institute for Ageing
Bespoke Programmes: Bespoke Gallery Experiences for community groups who request a partnership
Community Outreach
And did you know… • Dulwich Picture Gallery is an independent gallery and receives no central Government funding. • The Education programmes at Dulwich Picture Gallery offer high quality at very low cost: our FREE Schools Programme costs £1.50 per head to run each year, at no cost to the taxpayer. • All of our Social Engagement Programmes are FREE for participants. • A record 38,000 visitors- over 31,000 personally taught, and 7,000 indirect participants- were served by the Education Department in 2008-09. This is 25% of total visitors to the Gallery.