Making Art in Partnership with Schools exhibition

ArtHouse Jersey is delighted to announce an exhibition by some of Jersey’s schoolchildren at their HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks.

Opening on Thursday 11th April (between 10am and 4pm daily), the art show is the result of work created by Jersey’s students who have participated in the MAPS (Making Art in Partnership with Schools) project, which is delivered in partnership between ArtHouse Jersey and the Department for Children, Young People, Education & Skills (CYPES). It has been supported by the Government of Jersey through the Covid-19 Health & Social Recovery Fund.

MAPS is a training and educational programme developed in collaboration with artists and teachers to enhance the delivery and provision for art in schools. The project is now in its third year and has reached over a thousand students. This exhibition celebrates the art made by students during 2023, displays a sample of the work and describes the unique artist-led workshops through film and photography.

In Autumn 2023 the MAPS project involved eight local artists, 20 schools and 3,244 hours of student engagement with those aged five to 18. Participants visited the ‘Floating Earth’ sculpture by Luke Jerram that was on display as part of ArtHouse Jersey’s No Place Like Home project. The artists devised workshops for students on the themes highlighted by Jerram’s work including patterns in nature, reflections, perspective, space, waste, recycling, equilibrium, life on earth as well as local flora and fauna.

The experience encouraged students to consider key art concepts such as scale, perspective, form, colour, materials, documentation and also provided space to explore issues that affect islanders domestically and humans globally. These topics supported strong, cross curricular links with visual arts, science, history, maths, PSHE, citizenship and English. The workshops were later adapted into resources and made available to all local schools to extend their reach and provide teachers with a range of options to facilitate work exploring the environment and climate emergency using the creative arts as a vehicle.

ArtHouse Jersey Education Officer, Anna Shipley, said “We are incredibly proud of the work that has taken place within the MAPS (Making Art in Partnership with Schools) Project and are always glad to be able to bring the culmination of its creativity to the public in exhibition form.”