WWF-UK and RSPB are excited to deliver this art themed webinar with the Art Fund, exploring the exciting world of mini-beasts, and how they can inspire art and creativity.
Title: Exploring Our Wild Isles: Creatures and Creativity
Date Recorded: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Time: 35mins talk with 10mins Q&A
Audience: 7 – 11 yos in school or home education
Special guest host: WWF Ambassador Cel Spellman
Bugs get everywhere! Join us as we get creative and explore how mini-beasts have scuttled and slithered into paintings and museum collections. You'll learn why invertebrates are so important to the planet and humans, and how they are still a source of inspiration and wonder for artists and museum curators today. Also find out more about Art Fund’s Wild Escape in the lead up to Wild Isles.
The Wild Escape
The Wild Escape is an exciting new project uniting hundreds of museums and schools in a celebration of UK wildlife and creativity. Taking place from January to July 2023, The Wild Escape invites primary school children (ages 7-11) to find a favourite animal in their local museum and create an artwork imagining its ‘escape’ back to its natural habitat. The pictures and stories children create will be brought together in a collective work of art that imagines a better future for the wildlife on our doorstep, launched online and in museums on Earth Day.
Wild Isles
Wild Isles is a new landmark natural history series, co-produced by WWF and RSPB, that will reveal a previously unseen wild side of the UK – and show why our isles are so important globally for nature. Presented by WWF Ambassador and celebrated naturalist, Sir David Attenborough, the series will explore and celebrate the UK’s four key habitats – grasslands, woodlands, freshwater, and marine.
Celebrity host Cel Spellman will be joined by scientist Ellie Dimambro-Denson and artists Kevin Dalton Johnson and Mollie Ray, and together they’ll lead a live lesson exploring:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Recognise and recall facts about minibeasts, their importance, and their habitats
- Understand some of the threats faced by UK nature
- Understand actions pupils can take at home and at school to help nature thrive
- Explore how art can be influenced by the beauty of the nature world