MERRIVALE Primary School students had their hands full on Tuesday visiting Flagstaff Hill and the Warrnambool Art Gallery as part of Education Week.
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The youngsters firstly attended an historical printmaking workshop at Flagstaff Hill, learning the ropes of how a newspaper was made in centuries gone by and creating printing stamps of their own.
Co-organiser Jan Barkla said the learning process was a great way to involve young minds.
“It gives them the idea that to make a print, they actually had to cut bits out and that it’s only going to print the raised surface – so it’s actually quite a thinking process for them,” she said.
Students will then spend the second part of the day at the Warrnambool Art Gallery, viewing local prints, lithographs and woodcuts and using a foam block to print onto calico bags.
Mrs Barkla praised this year’s Education Week art theme, saying the collaboration between the two venues was a great way to show what the arts has to offer.
“We’ve got such good resources between the two of us.”
She and co-organiser Agostina Hawkins, from the Warrnambool Art Gallery, were rapt with a creative grant from the education department.
“We were really grateful because we couldn’t do it otherwise – it’s all free of charge. We sat down and said ‘OK, what’s something we can both do to tie in with Education Week’. It’s just great.”