Cloth of Gold

Creative Collaboration
Archive

Text only site list

This site is separated into nine sections which are shown below with a short description if necessary. Where a site page contains tables a link to an alternative text-only version appears at the foot of the page.

The sections are:

1. Galleries This page links you to three Cloth of Gold galleries:

  • The Primary School Gallery
  • The Secondary School Gallery
  • The Teachers Gallery

    2. SPECIAL SCHOOLS PROJECTS Cloth of Gold work extensively with young people with disabilities in schools and in other community settings. The special school projects at both primary and secondary level are designed to ensure full and active participation of all pupils. Featured here are:

  • THE VALE PROJECT
  • THE CROSS BOROUGH PRINT PROJECT
  • LIGHT, COLOUR, TOUCH multimedia project

    3. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS Cloth of Gold run creative arts projects in both Primary and Secondary schools. Residencies range from one day workshops to arts development initiatives stretching over a number of terms. Featured here:

  • The primary school section: - ST. PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, the PETER PAN PROJECT (The Glades), the recent ST. STEPHEN'S PRIMARY SCHOOL RESIDENCY (Westminster), and examples of work from other primary school projects in the PRIMARY SCHOOL GALLERY.
  • The secondary school section - the ST. GEORGE'S PROJECT and "SEEING JAZZ" at Morpeth Secondary School. Also examples of work from other secondary school projects in the SECONDARY SCHOOL GALLERY.

    4. ART AND LITERACY Cloth of Gold have collaborated with writers and poets on various projects over the last 12 years. Since the launch of the government's Literacy strategy the demand for creative projects that stimulate literacy learning has increased. This has provided the opportunity for COG to develop further collaborations with writers and poets. Featured here:

  • TURNER ON THE SEINE SCHOOLS PROJECT
  • INSPIRATION AFRICA!

    5. REFUGEE PROJECTS This section features information on two of the larger refugee projects entitled Westminster and Where Rivers Meet. From this page you can also access the Flash presentation of Where Rivers Meet.

    6. I.C.T. PROJECTS

  • Cloth of Gold developed a computer programme (COGPROG©) that emulates the screen printing processes they use in the classroom on the computer. The programme, devised by the programmer Chris Thompson, enables pupils to design their banner vitually prior to printing it on fabric. VIST THE COGPROG© SITE TO FIND OUT HOW IT WORKS. COGPROG was used in the INSPIRATION AFRICA! project.
  • In 1999 Cloth of Gold and the education department of the Horniman Museum secured two-year funding from the DFEE for an exciting series of school based Art, ICT and Literacy projects called Inspiration Africa! which ran from 1999-2001. See Section 9 for further details.
  • The RICHARD CLOUDESLEY/BARBICAN PROJECT involved an artist and website developer from Cloth of Gold working with four pupils from Richard Cloudesley special school over an eight week period (Spring 1999). The pupils worked from the exhibition of photographs at the Barbican Centre "Africa by Africa: A Photographic view" using new information and communication technologies.

    7. INSET AND TRAINING Cloth of Gold offer a diverse range of training programmes both independently and as part of residencies and projects working with primary staff teams and co-ordinators, secondary art specialists and special needs teachers, trainee teachers, governors, youth workers, playleaders and young people. Our training is focussed around practical participation demonstrating processes that can be effectively applied in the participants own field of work.)

  • TEACHERS' GALLERY
  • YOUTH TRAINING - GALLERY 37

    8. PUBLIC ART PROJECTS (Examples of Public Arts Projects) including documentation of
  • CHILDRENS DISCOVERY CENTRE

    9. INSPIRATION AFRICA!. In 1999 Cloth of Gold and the education department of the Horniman Museum secured two-year funding from the DFEE for an exciting series of school based Art, ICT and Literacy projects called Inspiration Africa! which ran from 1999-2001.

    The project exhibited at the Horniman Museum (July 2001 to October 2001). The projects were inspired by the Horniman Museum's new 'African Worlds' exhibition -the only permanent gallery in Britain dedicated to African related cultures. Each project aims to explore and expand pupils' reaction to African objects, encouraging and stimulating a range of exciting creative responses that develop ICT, Art and Language skills as well providing an increased respect for African culture. The INSPIRATION AFRICA! Website is situated on this site.

    To Cloth of Gold archive site with images