Art and Global Citizenship

           

In 2004 RISC began working in partnership with the Art dept at the University of Reading Institute of Education and in 2006 with the October Gallery. The aim of these partnerships is to develop and disseminate ways of delivering Global Citizenship (GC) through art and design in primary and secondary schools.

The starting point is our own research in schools in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, which shows that many pupils hold narrow and stereotypical views of people and places around the world. These ideas are reinforced within many curriculum areas, including art and design.
 
The partnership with Reading University involves student teachers researching the work of contemporary artists from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Pupils from local primary schools visit the studios, working with the students and creating artwork inspired by these contemporary artists – sculptors, painters, mixed media and performance artists. The artists chosen challenge stereotyped ideas about art, and also raise GC issues through their work – identity and belonging, sustainability, peace and conflict, media and representation, and community. We plan to develop an online archive of students’ research in the next year.

The partnership with the October Gallery focuses on the work of contemporary artists exhibiting at the gallery and provides teachers at KS2&3 with online resources to support them in embedding GC through the art curriculum and through cross-curriculum projects.

The artists featured so far are:
            Hassan Massoudy, a calligrapher from Iraq
            Julien Sinzogan, a painter from Benin
            Romuald Hazoume, a mask-maker from Benin
            Nnenna Okore, a sculptor from Nigeria
            Huang Xu, a mixed media artist from China
            Rosanna Raymond, a performance artist from New Zealand
These materials can be downloaded from www.octobergallery.co.uk/participate

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