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November
November 4th 1999
Phil Mawdsley visited The Walter Daw First School
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On November 4th Phil Mawdsley, the project co-ordinator, visited Walter Daw First School to lead a workshop. Using the information gathered the previous month on their visit to the Museum the children painted self portraits. Working under great pressure the children produced some amazing work. The variety in their work is a reflection of the diversity of the exhibition at the Museum, the effort all the children put in and the support of all the adults involved including Mrs. Gailans and Mrs. Hooper, who are both teachers at the school.
To see a selection of the childrens' work click here.
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November 15th 1999
The Park School visited the Museum
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 More than fifty secondary students from Park School, Barnstaple visited the Museum today for their first contact with the Art Access Project. With their teacher, Greg Hodgson, they spent time in the Art Gallery looking at the exhibition of portraits from the Museum's Fine Art collection Face to Face With the Past. They also visited the World Cultures galleries - which hold the Museum's stunning collection of artifacts from around the world - where the students met with Alison Hopper-Bishop, Keeper of Conservation, who spoke about her work as a conservator with specific reference to the work carried out by her department on the Uvol dance crests. These amazing objects were brought to Europe in the mid-1980's by a Dutch collector who was allowed to take them from their place of origin in New Britain, an island near Papua New Guinea. They came to the Museum in 1996 and make a stunning addition to the Pacific section of the World Cultures galleries.
  The students from Park School also spent a large part of their day in a practical workshop based on the portraits exhibition. Using notes and sketches made in the Art Gallery they produced self portraits in a variety of styles. There was also the opportunity to meet Caroline Worthington, the Curator of Fine Art, in one of the spaces in which the collection is stored when not on show.
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