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Scrapstore (Educational workshop film)

Children reflect on the Scrapstore scheme and it's impact on their learning and play. This is one of over 30 films made by year six pupils during the 'Malin Bridge Mash-up' a 3 month workshop residency with Malin Bridge Primary School. The project was led by Lovebytes, a Sheffield based digital arts organisation and Dr Becky Parry, a researcher from the University of Leeds. Funded by First Light the project was developed with the Institute of Education with the aim of researching children’s film production practices at home and at school.

June 2013 Malin Bridge Primary School, Sheffield

Our Cinema (Educational workshop film)

A selection of animated film experiments made by children aged 8-12 yrs using stop motion and pixellation techniques at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield.

National Youth Film Festival 2013

Sonic Pattern – Mattias Jones

Mattias Jones spots and draws patterns, including tessellations, space filling curves and tiling patterns, by hand or via handmade robots. He often works in collaboration with psychologists, mathematicians and musicians, across multiple media.

10.30am – 5pm, Wednesday 17th June 2015 Electric Works, Sheffield

Eileen Adams: Agent of Change

NAEA Gallery (26 Sep–15 Dec 2015)

This exhibition showed how revolutionary initiatives have prompted change in art, design and environmental education, taking art out of the gallery into school grounds and onto the street.

Recorded 27 October 2015 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Herbert Read & Alec Clegg: A Revolution Realised

NAEA Gallery (31 Jan–29 Mar 2015)

Two of the most influential educators of the 20th century - Herbert Read, English anarchist, poet, literary critic and co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Sir Alec Clegg, Chief Education officer for the West Riding of Yorkshire (1945–1974).

Recorded 25 March 2015 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Eileen Adams Drawing Conclusions: The Educator’s Response

Eileen Adams speaks about her work as the Director for Power Drawing and using additional references from the Learning Through Drawing Collection, considers the potency of drawing as language and as a key element in the education of children.

Recorded 27 May 2017 at NAEA (National Arts Education Archive)

Developments at Bretton Hall - Mark Finch, Rushbond

Mark Finch – a Director of Rushbond plc – reports on the progress of the conversion of Bretton Hall into a luxury hotel in Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He outlines the proposed structure of buildings for the new project and the demolition of most of the 1960s buildings.

Recorded 13 May 2017 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Bretton Marbles - David Hill

Introduced by Professor John L. Taylor (Principal of Bretton Hall College from 1983 to 2001). Dr David Hill (professor of fine art at Bretton Hall during the 1980s and 1990s) tells how his research revealed that 'The Bretton Marbles', two objects which were displayed in prominent positions at Bretton Hall from the 1960s onwards and used as plant pots and ash trays, were in fact valuable antiquities.

Recorded 13 May 2017 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Philip Rawson: Philosopher-Sculptor-Educator

Piers Rawson speaks about his father's multi-faceted art collection, which includes work in 2D and 3D, figuration, landscape, the oriental and erotic, calligraphic forms, aesthetics, philosophy, letters and publications, and his personal library of 3,000 books, magazines and pamphlets, now housed at the NAEA in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Recorded 23 May 2015 at the NAEA Gallery

Art Educated 1

The National Arts Education Archive was established in 1985 to provide a documentary trace of the development of arts education in the UK and worldwide, by collecting children’s and students' work and the papers, letters and work of key educators and artists in the visual arts, music and language. YSP has managed the Archive since 2009. This material, comprising more than 100 catalogued collections, is based in the purpose-built Lawrence Batley Centre on the former Bretton Hall College campus and is available to researchers, lecturers and the general public by appointment on Mondays and Tuesdays each week.

Recorded 2 April 2016 at NAEA (National Arts Education Archive)

Art Educated 2

The National Arts Education Archive was established in 1985 to provide a documentary trace of the development of arts education in the UK and worldwide, by collecting children’s and students' work and the papers, letters and work of key educators and artists in the visual arts, music and language. YSP has managed the Archive since 2009. This material, comprising more than 100 catalogued collections, is based in the purpose-built Lawrence Batley Centre on the former Bretton Hall College campus and is available to researchers, lecturers and the general public by appointment on Mondays and Tuesdays each week.

Recorded 14 May 2016 at NAEA (National Arts Education Archive)

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