Take a sea and sky painting tour of the galleries. Afterwards learn how to create your own mixed media seascapes in pastel, chalk, paint and pen on paper.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL. To register your interest tel: 01223 332904 or email: education@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk. Places will be confirmed on receipt of payment.
Study aspects of the Fitzwilliam’s studio ceramics collection to create a hand-built pot. Learn about balance and scale and how to create various forms. Please bring a sturdy container to take your clay work home with you.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL. To register your interest tel: 01223 332904 or email: education@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk. Places will be confirmed on receipt of payment.
Find out more about the intriguing world of Tudor and Stuart England through coins and medals, and make your own graphite images of portraits and power in the Studio.
Exhibition: Making a Nation: Money, image and power in Tudor and Stuart England
Explore works in the Whistler & Nature exhibition to fuel ideas of your own. Back in the Studio, experiment with a reduced palette, learn about colour mixing and how to use acrylic medium to build layers, then create a rich atmospheric painting on board.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL. To register your interest tel: 01223 332904 or email: education@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk. Places will be confirmed on receipt of payment.
Join artist Sarah Evans to develop your drawing practise and strengthen your ideas and skills for developing your portfolio for GCSE, A-Level, Foundation courses or Degree.
We will also be joined by Chris Draper, Head of Illustration and member of the admission team at Anglia Ruskin University, and Rosalind Harrison, Sector Leader for Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Cambridge Regional College. They will give two short talks on Foundation courses and degree course and spend time with you to help shape your portfolio for successful submission.
Expeditions to far-flung places to collect specimens sound like the stuff of adventure stories, but still take place today. This international expedition lasted 18 months, and sought to provide the first detailed biological survey of Henderson Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and work on Pitcairn itself, once home of the mutineers from HMS Bounty.
Learn about his time in Cambridge and the lasting impact of the friendships Darwin made here. Booking essential.
