19 September 16:00 – 17:00
Online
FREE
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Join this unique CLPL for Primary School teachers in the Scottish Borders, as we celebrate the William Gillies: Modernism and Nation exhibition at Hawick Museum. This Royal Scottish Academy Touring Exhibition is open until 20th October, and offers local children an opportunity to see paintings, drawings, photographs and objects from the artist’s career.
This CLPL will begin with an introduction from Sandy Wood, Head of Collections at RSA. We will then hear from the Hawick Museum team, about how your school can make the most of your visit.
Finally, you will have the opportunity to take part in a focussed lesson on William Gillies’ artwork, using Art UK‘s flagship visual literacy programme The Superpower of Looking. The Superpower of Looking is an innovative and inclusive programme that seeks to transform the visual literacy skills of primary school children across the UK, taking the world of art and images as its starting point. Using a set of free teaching resources, children will gain an essential superpower: the ability to really ‘see’ – to critically observe, analyse, question, interpret, and empathise. Children will become visually literate in the image-dominated world around them.
If you are unable to make this bespoke CLPL session, you can view Art UK’s William Gillies online resource which includes teachers’ notes to download, and a high-resolution zoom function.
More information on the exhibition: https://www.liveborders.org.uk/exhibitions/gillies-modernism-and-nation/
More information on the Superpower of Looking: https://artuk.org/learn/the-superpower-of-looking
