Magdalene Odundo DBE is one of the greatest ceramic artists working today. Her distinctive, burnished vessels are informed by a range of art and craft traditions from around the world.
This display marks 50 years since Odundo moved from Kenya to Cambridge to take an Art Foundation Course at Cambridge School of Art.
Kettle’s Yard is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition by internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957, Beijing) in which new and existing work will be shown alongside historic Chinese objects.
Exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and the Heong Gallery, Downing College
15/03/2022
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Free
One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.
In this beautifully considered exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moments in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.
In celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee weekend, join us to make a fabulous queen bee and take her on a journey to visit the royal plants of the Botanic Garden.
Are you interested in volunteering at Kettle’s Yard? Come along to one of our Find Out More sessions to learn about the ways you could get involved and ask the Kettle’s Yard team any questions.
This session will take place in person at Kettle’s Yard, but if you would rather you can also attend virtually. Please indicate when booking your ticket if you would like to attend virtually.
FREE, booking required
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This talk offers a reconsideration of Modernism and Japanism: traditionally associated with male homosociality, expertise, intellectual authority and cultural power, this counternarrative shows how women artists, in particular queer identified women artists, formulated their own subjective, amateur, affective response to Japanese work, seeing it as a charged site through which to explore desire, embodiment, subjectivity, difference, intimacy, creativity and freedom.
MUSE, our series of practical art workshops for adults has returned to the Museum in person! Join us to visit the exhibition Hockney’s Eye and then make mixed media joiners in our studio.
Early Years Studio is a fun, creative, immersive experience for children aged 0-4. The sessions are designed with early years development in mind. Artists draw upon their expertise as early years facilitators and use the Kettle’s Yard ethos and collection to create sessions where babies, toddlers and their carers can experience and learn together.
This is a joint event between the Museum of Zoology and Cambridge University Botanic Garden. All the activities take place at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
24/06/2022
Activities are £5 per adult (which includes admission to the garden). Children age 16 & under are FREE
It's BioBlitz 2022! Book onto one of many wildlife or craft activities at the Botanic Garden!
Learning all about the mysterious world of moths at this workshop. Find out which moths have been captured by the Botanic Garden moth trap and make some moth art.
Kettle’s Yard is pleased to present Howardena Pindell: A New Language, the artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in the UK. The exhibition comes to Kettle’s Yard from Fruitmarket, Edinburgh before travelling to Spike Island, Bristol. The exhibition brings together work from Pindell’s six decade long career including paintings, works on paper and video. The exhibition tracks the development of Pindell’s artistic language, and examines her work as exemplary in articulating empowerment.
A New Language is organised by the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and Spike Island, Bristol
Join us for our new wellbeing and making workshops for adults at the Polar Museum! Meet and Make at the Museum sessions are all about giving you a supportive and social space to be creative.
Join us for our new wellbeing and making workshops for adults at the Polar Museum! Meet and Make at the Museum sessions are all about giving you a supportive and social space to be creative.
Drop-in to this workshop and have a go at taking photographs of plants using sunlight. You can also find out the story of Anna Atkins, a brilliant botanist who took thousands of photographs of seaweeds and ferns in a similar way.
Join us for our new wellbeing and making workshops for adults at the Polar Museum! Meet and Make at the Museum sessions are all about giving you a supportive and social space to be creative.
