National Curriculum Subject Areas: Art and Design Length of session: 90-120 minutes Maximum group size: 32
Learning Outcomes
• Learn how museum displays can control how cultures or communities are represented.
• Learn printmaking processes and how to draw effectively in a museum space.
• Learn how contemporary makers have expressed identity in a visual way.
• Develop understanding of composition.
Session Outline
This is a hands-on printmaking session where students will reflect on how we shape our identities. They will discover how communities have been represented in the Pitt Rivers Museum and how the use of problematic language on museum labels is a legacy of Britain's colonial past.
Students will then work to create a large scale 'label' that reflects their identity by using printmaking processes, collage and drawings done directly in the museum.
