The Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth is collaborating with the local Creative Collisions youth arts and culture network on Crafting History, a Heritage Lottery Fund-backed project that uses artist residencies to highlight skills traditionally associated with the area.
Each residency features workshops, gallery visits and professional development sessions for teachers, with artists helping to create original works inspired by the museum’s collection.
In the first residency during the summer, Sally Hirst led a project based on local printmaking that included experimentation with different techniques such as jelly and photopolymer printing. This autumn, Anita Bruce is working with the young people to explore the textile industry of the town, and future residencies will look at woodworking, basket making, ceramics and glass making.
All the craft work produced in the residencies will be displayed in an exhibition in summer 2017, says Meg Barclay, a learning assistant at Time and Tide, which chronicles the history of the town in a former Victorian herring curing works.
“We hope that as the project progresses the same young people will continue to return to take part in the different residency workshops, bringing their friends as well. They will also have a sense of pride and ownership of the museum through the exhibition of their own original work which they can show to their family and friends.”
Each residency features workshops, gallery visits and professional development sessions for teachers, with artists helping to create original works inspired by the museum’s collection.
In the first residency during the summer, Sally Hirst led a project based on local printmaking that included experimentation with different techniques such as jelly and photopolymer printing. This autumn, Anita Bruce is working with the young people to explore the textile industry of the town, and future residencies will look at woodworking, basket making, ceramics and glass making.
All the craft work produced in the residencies will be displayed in an exhibition in summer 2017, says Meg Barclay, a learning assistant at Time and Tide, which chronicles the history of the town in a former Victorian herring curing works.
“We hope that as the project progresses the same young people will continue to return to take part in the different residency workshops, bringing their friends as well. They will also have a sense of pride and ownership of the museum through the exhibition of their own original work which they can show to their family and friends.”