Art and Design
Art, Design, Textiles & Fashion for creative students at BTEC, AS/A2 Level
The museum in Leeds offers a range of innovative and creative educational workshops for students of art and design. This multicultural collection can provide inspiration for a huge range of topics, themes and processes to be researched and re-interpreted.
- Students can express themselves in new and inventive ways.
- Uses a range of media including: textiles, printmaking, metal & wire work, card, collage and clay.
- Challenges passive attitudes.
- Raises awareness of past and current trends.
- Examines historical and social contexts.
- Considers changing ethics and attitudes of artists & designers over time.
- Explores diversity and identity within a global framework.
The following represent a few of the themes underpinning our collection. Please contact us to discuss your student’s projects and we will create a bespoke session for your students.
We specialise in creating bespoke sessions – just ask us!
Corsets and Contours
Lively exploration of the attitudes towards gender, sexuality, prestige and power as laid bare in fashion, costume, portraiture, armour & clothing. Including Elizabethan court dress, Victorian corsetry and Tudor codpieces.
Goth – that’s Gorgeous!
Extravagant consumption through the ages explored via the iconography of warfare – rare medieval manuscripts, armours, costumes and ephemera.
Headdresses
Exploration of the structure, shape and form of headwear across a variety of global cultures and traditions, exploring personal identity, self-representation and self-expression.
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Sessions can be adapted for a variety of abilities and age ranges. Our flexible collection offers a wide range of opportunities for engaging with the past. Contact us to discuss your requirements.
To Book
All sessions last 90 minutes, for a minimum number of 15 students.
Our sessions are £6 per student, with one adult free per ten students.
Tel: 0113 220 1888
Email: educate.leeds@armouries.org.uk
