Education
CCANW organises year-round gallery talks, workshops, events and activities in its Project Space and the surrounding forest for children and adults. These relate to the changing programme of exhibitions, artist residencies and other projects. We also have a growing book and video library of titles featuring contemporary artists whose work engages with the natural world.
Information for schools visiting CCANW
Workshops for schools include discussion, reflection and hands on activity with cross-curricular links. For more information please click the pdf link: General Group Information.
Haldon Forest Park provides an ideal school or group outing combining art and recreation through the Park’s extensive cycling and walking trails. We positively encourage teachers and leaders of community groups to visit for a recce and discuss their needs with our Learning Programmes Manager, Johanna Korndorfer.
We are very happy to discuss proposals for workshops made by schools and community groups. Gallery talks are free but a charge is made for workshops. Both must be booked in advance. If you would like more information on fees and activities, please email Johanna at j.korndorfer@ccanw.co.uk
Refashioning workshop with Dartmoor-based designer, Angharad Barlow, CCANW June 2010
Current education projects
Watch This Space
CCANW is pleased to be participating in Watch this Space, a funded professional development programme for galleries, teachers, artists and gallery educators in England. During the autumn of our 2010-11 programme on Fashion, Textiles and the Environment, we will be working with secondary textiles teachers from The King's School, Ottery St. Mary and Tiverton High School to develop teaching resources and activities for school groups visiting the exhibition 'Fashion Footprints: Sustainable Approaches'.
3 Venues in a day tour
Our highly successful 3 Venues in a day Tour for Secondary Schools in collaboration with Spacex Gallery and Exeter Phoenix Arts and Media offers an activity and discussion packed day for up 30 pupils and their teachers.
Contact CCANW’s Learning Programmes Manager for details.
Arts partner with Creative Media and Arts Diploma at secondary school level
CCANW is also pleased to be a partner in the new Creative Media Diploma offered through Isca College of Media Arts in Exeter.
University of the Trees
The University of the Trees™ is an ongoing social sculpture research project created by artist Shelley Sacks. It is a hands on resource which engages school and community groups to explore their relationship to trees and to wider environmental questions. It has proved to be very popular with people of all ages. More information about the project globally can be found on www.universityofthetrees.org
Family and children workshops
We offer workshops during half-term and summer holidays. In the past, they have included birdbox making, mask-making and treehouse model making. Workshop relate to the themes of our exhibitions and can been found within our current programme.