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The Wallace Collection’s Exploring Identity: Armour and Printmaking Workshop

The Wallace Collection, London

Enjoy this fun hands-on workshop from The Wallace Collection where your students will discover the links between armour and printmaking and create their own block-printing design.

Suitable for: KS2

Subjects: Art & Design, PSHE

Type: At Venue

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Why did people wear armour? What can we learn about people from what they wear? And what links armour and printmaking?

Find out in this hands-on workshop. Through object handling, observation and discussion, your class will discover the shapes and patterns on display in their amazing armouries. In the studio, students will explore and express their own identity through creating a bespoke block-printed design.

Please note 4 weeks’ advance booking required.

Key Information.

Suitable for: KS2

Ages: 7-11

Subjects: Art & Design, PSHE

Topics: Careers, Knights, Materials, Patterns, Shapes, Team Building, Armour, 15th Century, 16th Century, Block-Printing

Type: At Venue

Duration: 2.5 hours

Cost: Free for UK Schools

Dates: Available from Summer term 2023

SEND: Yes - suitable for students with SEND

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About The Wallace Collection.

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Discover their range of free, interactive onsite workshops, online sessions and resources for teachers and students. The Wallace Collections’ curriculum-linked workshops for KS1-KS5 help students think critically, build their knowledge of art and cultures, and develop their creativity.

Workshops use their breath-taking collection of paintings, sculpture, arms and armour, and decorative arts to support learning in Art and Design, History, English and more. They also offer a range of downloadable resources with accessible information and materials for teachers.

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