The Museum of Cambridge proudly displays works by three young local artists from Long Road Sixth Form College and College of West Anglia in its temporary exhibition, “Educating Cambridge.”
Since October 2024, the Museum of Cambridge has been working with three art students from local colleges in their ‘Head StArt’ project, which aims to create opportunities for young artists in Cambridgeshire.
Supported by the Museum’s Collections Officer, the students explored art, education and Cambridge social history in a series of workshops. During the workshops, the students had the opportunity to see objects not on display from the Museum’s collection, including a series of sketchbooks documenting the life of a teenage girl from 1899 – 1912. Alongside this, the students took part in multiple sketching tasks inspired by the Museum’s displays and collection in the current temporary exhibition “Educating Cambridge”.
Through this series of workshops, the students were able to connect with their local social history museum and be inspired by themes of art and education. Over the Christmas period, the students took time to create unique pieces of work responding to the exhibition, to be proudly display within “Educating Cambridge” in the final month of the exhibition.
Working with the Collections Officer, the artists installed and curated the artworks into the exhibition with each piece adding something new to sections of the exhibition. The artworks vary from acrylic painting, watercolour, to digital illustrations and cover themes of activism, women in education and Victorian schooling.
These pieces are now on display in the exhibition until the 24th March 2025 and
This project was generously supported by Museum Development South East, Art Fund and PEM Charitable Trust.
Photo Credit for cover photograph and end photo: Hannah West, PEM