3rd July 2000
Hope Project visited the Museum |
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On the 3rd of July a small group of young people and staff from
the Hope Project visited the Museum. The Hope Project provides advice
and support and organises cultural activities for teenagers. The
group were able to spend time studying artifacts from the collections
of Mediterranean antiquities and talking about, for instance, Ancient
Roman warfare and mummification rituals in Ancient Egypt.
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4th July 2000
Landscore Primary School, Crediton visit to the Museum |
| On the 100 children and teachers from Landscore
Primary School, Crediton visited the Museum today. In a day-long visit
to the city the group split into three and took turns visiting the
cathedral, a local art college and looking at paintings from the Fine
Art collection with Phil Mawdsley. These included drawings and watercolours
by the Widgery's - William and F.J. - local artists who were father
and son. |
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10th July 2000
Work experience
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| Daniel, a student at St.Peters School,
began his week-long programme of work experience. This mainly involved
shadowing the Realise project co-ordinator and assisting where appropriate.
Daniel was particularly helpful in preparation for a session at Walter
Daw School demonstrating oil painting on canvas. |
12th July 2000
DfEE visit |
| Jane Sillis visited the Museum. Jane is
the Project Support Officer appointed by the DfEE to monitor Realise
as well as to provide advice and support. |
18th July 2000
Walter Daw workshop |
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 Children
from Walter Daw School were able to watch a demonstration of oil painting
on canvas at their school. Using canvas stretched over a wooden frame
- to replicate the paintings the children had seen on previous visits
to the Museum - they were then able to make their own paintings using
water based paints. This was felt to be a more appropriate medium
as Realise did not want a flood of irate parents complaining about
their child's permanently oil-paint stained school uniform! You can
see some of the results below. |
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20th and 25th July 2000
St Petrocks Day Centre for the Homeless mosaic workshop
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 A
small group of people attending St.Petrocks Day Centre for the Homeless
spent time at the Museum in the Mosaics exhibition.
With staff from the centre they collected information and inspiration
for their involvement in a city council-led mosaics project involving
community groups from all over Exeter. The following week, on the
25th, the same group took part in a practical session at the centre.
Each person worked on one, or more, small blocks of mdf which would
eventually form the finished mosaic to be displayed in the city centre.
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