Artivity offers bespoke school workshops, ranging from one-off hour long sessions to art days and longer residencies. Our lead artist, Ellie, is an experienced primary art teacher, having worked as an artist in residence covering two primary schools in Peterborough for five years before launching Artivity in summer 2016. She has also visited many schools in her capacity as children’s book author and illustrator to run workshops based on her picture books. Ellie is a qualified arts Award adviser and is able to deliver Arts Award in schools at all five levels (more information can be found under our ‘classes’ tab and on http://www.artsaward.org.uk). 

We also work with a variety of other artists who deliver quality art sessions to schools, enabling us to offer workshops using a range of media, including drawing, painting, textiles, sculpture, collage and printmaking. We can work with groups of children to create large scale collaborative artwork for permanent display, or individual pieces. We are happy to tailor workshops to cover a particular topic, outcome or timescale. 

Below are some examples of artwork completed with Artivity by primary school children (please click on a photo to enlarge). These were projects where each child produced an individual piece of work- for examples of group work, please see Collaborative Projects.

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Holme Primary School, Cambridgeshire

We created some colourful artwork inspired by the glass sculptures of Dale Chihuly- these were a lot of fun to work on!

We also worked on a mixed media animal portrait project, creating a collaged background and then working on to it with Indian ink and white acrylic paint to produce the animal character. The children achieved some lovely results!

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John Clare Primary School, Helpston

We devised some workshops based on the National Gallery’s Take One Picture project, which the whole school took part in. Each class investigated the painting ‘Men of the Docks’ by George Bellows and produced artwork relating to the themes within the image.

The reception classes worked on some process art using paint and wax resist, around the theme of winter and water. They then learned how to fold an origami boat to add to their watery image!

Year 1 and 2 learned about the ocean liners depicted in the painting. They drew an ocean liner in oil pastel, then added colour and waves to the sea using Brusho and wax resist. They created misty skies using charcoal.

 Year 5 and 6 focused on the portrait style of artists from the Ashcan School (of shich George Bellows was a member). They created these wonderful portraits in acrylic.

 

Copthill School, Stamford

Over the course of three sessions, year 5 produced acrylic paintings based on the colourful artwork of Texas based contemporary artist Starla Halfmann.

 

Nene Valley Primary School, Peterborough

Over the course of two days, each class participated in a workshop to produce artwork on the theme of ‘Under the Sea’ for a school exhibition at the end of their Arts Week.

 

St John’s Church School, Peterborough

The students worked on a variety of different projects over several terms which culminated in a whole school art exhibition at the end of the summer term.