Workshops for Schools

Watery World of Islands Project, Barrow Island Primary School

Artist in Residence

Karen believes that creative opportunities should be an integral and sustained part of education. She has undertaken training with Creative Futures Cumbria for artists who work in schools and her details can be found on their website (see link below).

Recent projects have included work with Creative Partnerships to focus on Creative Development across the curriculum. (Barrow Island Primary School), where the project included sound recording, photography, making giant felt 'maps' of the Island and constructing 'buildings'.

Some other projects include:

Lancaster Girls Grammar School on a huge investigative textile work linking with the schools history department.

'Her stunning three dimensional fabric pieces were truly inspirational...... Karen presented ideas and techniques to the students with ease and genuinely inspired focused creativity in their work. Within a very short time, students were able to think beyond the ideas they already possessed to create three dimensional pieces with fabric'

Crosthwaite Primary C of E School with the Motto Project.

Mowbray Special School residential arts activity week investigating felt and the environment.

Kendal Fell Project

The Kendal Fell Project

The Kendal Fell Project involves a cluster of three primary schools in Kendal. Over the period of a year we are going out onto the Fell investigating the natural environment, looking at allotments, growing food and sustainability. All these facets are being used as springboards for creative work. The project is being documented and will include working with a writer and the creation of a 'poetry path' in the grounds of each school. Schools involved are Ghyllside Primary, St Thomas's C of E Primary and Vicarage Park Primary.

'The visit to the allotments was a great success, with many children having not seen an allotment before. This provided a catalyst for further learning back at school'.

You can download the pdf document for a full schedule of schools workshop information.

Karen writes for 'Start' magazine - a specialist magazine for teachers of Art in primary schools, and her own work has been featured in a number of journals.

www.creativefuturescumbria.org/