Pop-up Art School Success
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:16:00 GMT
Monday 21st November saw another hugely successful Pop-Up Art School at the University of Huddersfield. Organised by PGCE Senior Lecturer Sarah Williamson, this was the eighth pop-up and, like two previous ones, it was a contribution to the prestigious Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Held in Heritage Quay, the theme this year was built around the work of the celebrated instrument maker Harry Partch and the composer Claudia Molitor. The pop-up explored this through engaging with music via art, media and crafts. Facilitated by the University’s School of Education and Professional Development’s PGCE Art, Design and Music programme, activities included sound sculpture; instrument making; a giant wall painting; sound art; bag and badge making; poetry; and a very popular Pop-Up Art School graduation photo booth - amongst many others.
In addition to our own colleagues and students, participants this year included children from Mount Pleasant Primary School; Reinwood Junior School; a group of learners from the Entry Level 1 Life Skills course at Kirklees College; and members of the TEF team from the Department of Education who were visiting the University.
The pop-up provides a fantastic learning opportunity enabling all to enjoy community engagement ‘full on’, with ambition, the associated risk, and the power of activity based creative informal learning. Participants are inspired by ‘first hand’ experience of the potential for learning to break free from the confines of the textbook and the relative rigidities of the classroom.
Watch what Alex Laurence from Weekly Wind-up captured at the event.
