Facilitated by experienced artist Cläre Basel - explore connections between artworks and objects from our collection and discover new-found connections between one another.
Creative Connections is for adults aged 65 and over.
Looking for a cosy space to be creative, unwind and meet new people? Join us at the Fitz for our monthly Crafternoon, your chance to slow down, get creative and draw inspiration from our collection.
In October's session we're delving into the art of storytelling and inviting you to create a myth of your own. Bring an idea for a story with you or make something up on the day – then transform your myth into a visual artwork, inspired by our Greek Gallery, room 21.
Facilitated by experienced artist Cläre Basel - explore connections between artworks and objects from our collection and discover new-found connections between one another.
Creative Connections is for adults aged 65 and over.
Discover how a working-class artist brought Arts and Crafts ideals into a domestic space in Cambridge, and how the David Parr House preserves William Morris’ legacy through craft, social history, and everyday life. Annabelle Campbell, Director of David Parr House, shares this lunchtime talk exploring a remarkable local home.
Join Rowan Bain, Principal Curator at the William Morris Gallery, for a lunchtime talk exploring how the Morrises shaped ideas of home and identity. Discover how interiors, craft and global influences informed their lives and work, and how these ideas continue to shape how we think about living today.
Explore the vital role of women in the Pre-Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts movements with Karen Livingstone, Deputy Director and Senior Curatorial Adviser for 'A Call to Art', in this Lunchtime Lecture. Drawing on recent research, this talk highlights the creativity, ambition and influence of women, including Kate Faulkner and May Morris, within these transformative artistic circles.
Join Dr Suzanne Fagence Cooper for a Lunchtime Lecture exploring William Morris' environmentalism. Discover how his art, writing and ideas responded to the destruction of the natural world caused by industrialisation, and how his vision of a more harmonious relationship between people and the natural world continues to resonate today.
Join Dr James Lin for a guided tour of our display 'An Enamel Revolution: China and the World' in Mandarin Chinese, jointly organised by Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Discover the remarkable stories behind the beautiful objects on show and trace the development of new enamel techniques in the 1600s, from innovative Chinese workshops experimenting with colours and materials to the striking tableware exported to Europe. Along the way, explore how artistic ideas, techniques and technologies travelled across continents through networks of trade and exchange.
Join Dr James Lin, curator of our 'An Enamel Revolution: China and the World' display, to learn how Chinese workshops revolutionised enamel techniques through experimentation with materials and colours in the 1600s. Discover the stories of the striking and beautiful enamelled objects featured in the display, including those on loan from our partners at the Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Find out how the new techniques developed by Chinese craftspeople travelled through trade to meet growing demand in Europe.
Get to know Debbie Yeboah - artist, researcher and educator - in this Meet the Artist talk. Yeboah's dynamic practice explores identity, the body and historical silences, and this event draws on her exhibition 'Renaturation: Fractured Identities, Future Selves'. Expect insights into Ghanaian cultural resistance, healing, and art’s possibilities to reimagine the self.
