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  • The Nature of Sligo: Kids Own Publishing

    Created 2008-11-13 by Christine Mackey

    Location: Rural - Co. Sligo

    Duration: 2008-11-13 to 2008-11-13

Project Outline

I am currently on a residency in Sooey National School as part of The Nature of Sligo, through Kids Own Publishing. Specific references and methodologies will be drawn from a number of completed projects that focused on `drawing` as a way of re-visualising the cultural and social aspects of `landscape`.
The work will also be informed by the writings of Anna Botsford Comstock (September 1, 1854August 24, 1930), who was a US artist, educator, conservationist, and a leader of the nature study movement. In 1934,  Cornell University Nature-Study Department in America published the Handbook of Nature Study a collection of all of her writings and studies.
This publication can be read as individual lesson plans on how to see nature so for example the dense index includes a number of the following: What Nature-Study Is, Relation of Nature-Study to Science, Nature-Study and Object Lessons, Nature-Study and Museum Specimens, Lens, Microscope and Field Glass as Helps, Uses of Pictures, Charts, and Black- Board Drawings, The field Notebook and Excursion, Correlation of Nature-Study with Language Work and Drawing and How to Use This Book.
I intend to re-invent a number of lesson plans as written by Comstock in an Irish context and to reconfigure them through an expansive notion of drawing as an interdisciplinary activity sutible for both children and adults.





Project Details

  • Location: Rural
  • From date: 2008-11-13
  • To date: 2008-11-13
  • Length: 16 days including contact, process and studio time.
  • Participants in total: 15
  • Age range of participants:
    8-11
  • County(ies):
    Sligo
  • Related Organisation(s):
    Kids Own
  • Funding Bodies:
    Kids Own

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