Teachers' resources

Borrow our Exploring Art Kits and support students to discover artworks, discuss ideas and draw creatively in the galleries. Kits include activity cards, clipboards, drawing materials, looking tools and handling objects.

Our Garden Sketchbooks help pupils to discover what they can see, hear and smell in our garden and to look closely for the plants, shapes and patterns they can find.

Borrow Reg, our sensory snake, to guide your group on a journey through the galleries. Made from lots of different textures Reg support’s children to explore their sense of touch with shapes and objects in his tummy to feel.

Download our exhibition notes on  Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes and explore biomorphic natures, contested terrains and landscapes of the mind.

Download our notes on our exhibition Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels  to discover Fritsch’s unique ceramic pots and the processes, patterns and presentation of them.

Listen to Katy Hessel guide you around 10 works in Wakefield’s art collection by women and gender non-conforming artists.

Discover Jamaican-born sculptor Ronald Moody and explore his large-scale figurative sculptures, shown alongside contemporaries Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and the Caribbean Artists Movement group of which he was a founding member.

Be wowed by the textiles and tapestries of South African artist Igshaan Adams that bring together weaving, sculpture and installation to explore childhood memories, cultural references and political ideas.

Explore the theme of still life through painting, sculpture, photography and ceramics and see how artists have found inspiration in everyday objects across different periods of art.

Discover the powerful figurative paintings of African-American artist Sylvia Snowden who captures the essence and emotions of her subjects in her artwork.

Travel on a journey through the fantasy landscapes of Surrealism. Spanning 100 years of Surrealism, this exhibition will bring together work from the likes of Salvador Dalí, Eileen Agar, Max Ernst and Lee Miller, alongside contemporary artists.

Be inspired by Manchester based artist Louise Giovanelli’s large-scale paintings that capture short-lived moments using amazing textures and vivid colour.

Investigate contemporary art within Wakefield’s art collection, alongside sculptures by Barbara Hepworth.

Be inspired by Barbara Hepworth’s studio environment, her tools and materials, and a unique collection of the artist’s large-scale prototypes for her sculptures.

Our garden offers a great space to continue your group’s learning throughout the seasons, exploring the planting, nature and sculptures outside

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