VerbalEyes: finding a voice through art

VerbalEyes is Tate Britain's schools outreach project exploring visual and verbal literacy with contemporary practitioners using the Tate collection.

VerbalEyes works with over 400 children and their teachers from seven primary schools in the London boroughs of Newham, Greenwich and Westminster. Two classes from each school work with artists and writers over the course of two weeks, visiting Tate Britain, investigating art and language and creating a final piece of artwork. The final pieces from all the projects are displayed in a special VerbalEyes Exhibition at Tate Britain, which is launched with a celebratory Family Day in early June.

Continuing professional development for school staff is a key part of the project and the focus for each school's project is conceived collaboratively by the artists, writers and teachers. Each school takes part in a whole school teacher training day as part of the project.

Tate Britain would like to thank the young people, the teachers, school staff, LEA advisors, volunteers and the artists for all their creativity and inspiration, enthusiasm and ideas, hard work and commitment.

Thanks also to Tate & Lyle for their generous support.

The participating schools this year were:

Greenwich:	Cherry Orchard School and Ealdham Primary School
Newham:	Drew Primary School, Grange Primary School and Scott Wilkie Primary Schools
Westminster:	Burdett-Coutts CE Primary School and Soho Parish CE Primary School

For queries about VerbalEyes, to take part as a school
or artist, please contact
Harriet Curnow, Curator: Schools Projects
harriet.curnow@tate.org.uk
020 7887 3964.

Further information on VerbalEyes (PDF format, 38KB)