Way back in October Y4KA had the privilege to work with a fantastic artist. Jane McCracken enjoys working with different mediums and introduced the children to using coloured pens to create their artwork. After overcoming their initial hesitancy, with a lot of encouragement from Jane, of not being able to rub out mistakes, the children did a fantastic job of creating their works of art.
Jane had teamed up with the Born Free Foundation and the Great North Museum (Hancock) to raise awareness of the real threat a lot of animals around the world have of becoming extinct, by creating an exhibition of children’s artwork.
Schools from across the North East and around the world have taken part and now the exhibition is ready at the museum to be viewed.
Excitement does not fully describe how our children were feeling last week when they finally got the chance to not only meet Jane in person for the first time, the art class had been done via zoom, but to see their own piece of artwork on the walls at the Hancock.
The exhibition is open to be viewed across the summer holidays and it would be fabulous for as many of our families as possible could visit the museum to view it.
