The gallery offers skill development and discussion sessions to inspire and use artwork in cross curricular study and classroom practise. These sessions help you gain confidence in art skills and using an art gallery with your group.
A session can last anything up to 4 hours depending on your availability, and can be weekday, weekend or twilight. Sessions can be booked at your convenience, minimum groups numbers apply.
Bookable now:
T: 01922 654411
The gallery can offer sessions in drawing, painting, printing techniques, discussing contemporary and modern art, using an artwork to inspire cross curricular work, Teacher Taster Time to explore the gallery, how to use it and what goes on behind the public face.
The Artist Teacher Scheme is a continuing professional development course run in partnership between The New Art Gallery Walsall, Ikon gallery and Birmingham City University. It offers teachers opportunities to reappraise, reinforce or re-engage with their own thinking. The scheme encourages personal development for teachers by extending awareness of the richness and complexity of contemporary fine art practice and the diversity of thinking and influences which inform it.
- Stage 1: Summer School is one week at the beginning of the summer holidays
- Stage 2: Saturday Schools, Eight day long sessions over September through to July ending with an exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall.
General benefits of the scheme:
- Renewing or increasing your confidence in introducing contemporary thinking and practice into your own activity as an artist
- Acquiring and enhancing knowledge and skills
- Generating new ideas
- Increasing the satisfaction you gain from your re-invigorated creative practice and, as a result, the effectiveness of your work in your own studio and in education
- Developing professionally important networks of artists, gallery and museum professionals and academic staff in higher education
- Opportunities for further research
The course is open to:
- Teachers of art and design with a graduate qualification in art and design who currently work in primary, secondary, further or higher education
- Artist educators with a graduate qualification in art and design who work in schools, museum and gallery education or other institutions where art and education are central to practice.
