What People Say
CCI practitioners seem to have a unique way of exposing people to artistic process, using carefully structured creative enquiry to share their contemporary artistic practice in the most democratic of ways.
We used the dice to explore and talk about every painting and in the process talked in detail. My daughter wanted to go round all of them and repeat it. It was such a strong tool. We shared really complex conversations.
The Education department at Kettle's Yard has worked closely with Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination for many years and has benefited hugely from the quality of their thinking, working and engagement with families.
The knowledge, experience and inspiration CCI has been able to share has been exceptional.
What I’ve gained now I’ve seen it actually work is I would be encouraged to actually give them a problem and say ‘’ there you go, work as a group and see what you come up with – I’m not going to talk so much about end products – I’ve already tried it last week – I left the resources for them to find – they loved the freedom – it was much more open ended.
It makes you rethink everything and kind of question are you really doing it in the best way you can.
It’s made me tune in more to the children and who they are and how they like to learn.
This was not the usual approach, not historical. It was lively, more fun and there was more stuff to do. You could do stuff. Having objects made it different. They created more interactions with the art and encouraged dialogue. It helped you communicate with the work and the artists. Normally you stand and look so feel separate and distant but this was like a bridging thing that helps you cross that line.
Our amazing sculptures show all our hard work. Now we are very tired but we have made a great difference to the school.
I will remember that it takes a lot of hard work and dedication to make something amazing from nothing.
I feel as though I can achieve what I want to do.
The children tried and retried and changed the process and had a great sense of achievement and they carried that enthusiasm right back to the classroom so when we embarked on the poetry it wasn’t like ‘ohh poetry’ it was like’ ah, I know what I’m going to write’ so the impact was immediate . To think we had 60 children in there, possibly 6 or 7 with major emotional and behaviour problems and we only had one minor incident across all the days – even the most disaffected children were in there, hands on, completing tasks, working on a task all because of it - so the impact is boundless
I have not been before and we would have left a long time ago (probably 1.5 mins after we arrived) if this hadn't been on offer…
