A commitment to making art accessible to all underlies Toya's involvement in education over the last fifteen years.
That involvement has taken many forms, from community groups, to schools, charities and further education establishments. It has involved working with people of a wide range of ages and expertise levels.
Toya is a freelance artist facilitator who has worked with many organisations and galleries including House of Illustration, where she has for over ten years and has more recently joined the education team at The Courtauld Gallery and Institute. She also works as an Associate Lecturer at Canterbury UCA.
That involvement has taken many forms, from community groups, to schools, charities and further education establishments. It has involved working with people of a wide range of ages and expertise levels.
Toya is a freelance artist facilitator who has worked with many organisations and galleries including House of Illustration, where she has for over ten years and has more recently joined the education team at The Courtauld Gallery and Institute. She also works as an Associate Lecturer at Canterbury UCA.
OUR SCHOOL VALUES
CHILDREN & THE ARTS AND HOUSE OF ILLUSTRATION
Toya worked with three classes for a half day session each to produce an illustrated guide to help understand the school's values. Pupils came up with their own understanding of these values each class worked with a different medium to created a final printed booklet to use as a school resource.
CROSS CURRICULAR WORKSHOPS
Opportunities for making and drawing can often be the first things to be cut in the pressured timelines (and budgets) of the current education system. Making these activities work across a variety of subjects can provide valuable learning opportunities and ensure that children get access to vital practical skills and the chance to express themselves through a visual language.
The images above are the outcomes of a in-school workshop with a Yr 4 class. Their topic was Crime and Punishment and these images were produced by groups of children, inspired by the work of Laura Carlin to illustrate and imagined nursery rhyme crime scene of their own invention.
Other cross curricular project examples are shown below:
The images above are the outcomes of a in-school workshop with a Yr 4 class. Their topic was Crime and Punishment and these images were produced by groups of children, inspired by the work of Laura Carlin to illustrate and imagined nursery rhyme crime scene of their own invention.
Other cross curricular project examples are shown below:
TEACHER CPD
Toya has been co-delivering and delivering on a variety of CPD offerings for nearly ten years. The images here are from whole day INSET and CPD sessions delivered at House of Illustration. Whilst the focus of these sessions are tailored to the requests of the schools the overarching aims are to empower teachers with the confidence and skills to deliver accessible, practical and creative illustration techniques to use across the curriculum.
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OUTREACH AT QUEEN'S PARK COMMUNITY SCHOOL
Toya designed and delivered three whole day outreach projects on behalf on The Courtauld Gallery with Yr8 students at Queen's Park Community School.
The day was designed to explore, invent and illustrate creation stories using Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve (part of the Courtauld's collection) as a starting point for discussion.
Students began the day experimenting with mark making, using ink and brushes and sticks, before creating a tiled whole class transcription of the painting.
The day was designed to explore, invent and illustrate creation stories using Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve (part of the Courtauld's collection) as a starting point for discussion.
Students began the day experimenting with mark making, using ink and brushes and sticks, before creating a tiled whole class transcription of the painting.
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This led in to a discussion of the themes, ideas and techniques within the painting. Group research into a wide range of creation and origin stories from many different cultures and time periods. Finally students worked to design and create their own real or invented stories to be told sequentially in individual concertina books.
CELEBRATING KS2 SKETCHBOOKS
WORKSHOPS: ILLUSTRATING TEXTS
Workshops focussing on illustrating particular poetry or prose can be a great way to explore, understand and question text while developing the practical skills required to do so. The illustrations above explore the metaphorical language used by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Yr 10 drama students worked in ink to produce literal portraits of the characters and were then encourage to used watercolour expressively to visualise the imagery conjured in some of their speeches.
OUTREACH AT THE COLLEGE OF NORTH WEST LONDON
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Toya worked with two groups of students as part of their English course to collaboratively produce some animated books on topics of their choice in a project organised by House of Illustration. The first, smaller group chose to make a book on the topic of problems they or others faced as teenagers, exploring their ideas through collage before making and animating their finished book. Other supporting activities included writing and responding to 'problem page' letters.
GALLERY VISITS
This gallery visit introduced Yr 4 children to the work of Corita Kent at the Corita Kent : Power Up exhibition at House of Illustration. Children spend half an hour in the galleries looking at the work, sketching, focussing on using typography as image and taking inspiration from the circus alphabet series. This was followed by an hour long practical session in the gallery's workshop room where participants created their own classroom display based on their current school topic of Mayan glyphs.
