Arts Pioneers is a monthly art club based at the Fitzwilliam Museum for young people aged 11-19 of mixed abilities. We offer a friendly, supportive and flexible environment to enable young people to work with professional artists and develop their art skills and express their creativity. Assisted by support workers and museum educators, the group explore the over half a million art works and objects, participating in lots of different fun art activities.  

Members of the group work towards an Arts Award, a nationally recognised qualification that supports young people to develop their creative practice and leadership skills. More information about Arts Award

If your child is interested in attending please contact your Social Worker or Disabled Children’s Early Help Co-ordinator, to see whether you can use your personalised budget to join the group. More information about short breaks funding. If you are not in receipt of funding, there is a self-referral form.

If you would like to have an informal chat about the group please speak to Marie mfk25@cam.ac.uk or 01223 332898/ 07707282822. We offer free taster sessions which Marie can organise for you. 

 

What's On

Museum of Cambridge
22 Aug 2022
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Museum of Zoology
04 Aug 2022
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Meet our butterfly explorers past and present and find out more about these amazing animals with trails, hands-on activities and makes in the Museum.

Museum of Zoology
12 Aug 2022
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Explore the animals of Africa with stories and play for under 5s.

Museum of Classical Archaeology
03 Jun 2022
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See the classical world through the eyes of the Danish art collective Guirlanden.

28 Jul 2022
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Get inspired by the Museum's Lego exhibition and make your own collage townscape.

04 Aug 2022
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A tie-dye craft session for families.

18 Aug 2022
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Use tools and objects to create texture and shape in the family clay workshop.

25 Aug 2022
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Discover how watercolour pens can be used to create some amazing effects. 

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
03 Aug 2022
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Immerse yourself in the world of colour and create your very own paper stained glass window.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
10 Aug 2022
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Immerse yourself in the world of colour and weave your own paper creation.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
17 Aug 2022
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Join us to uncover the meanings of colour in African cloth.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
24 Aug 2022
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Immerse yourself in the world of colour and create your own spinning colour wheel.

Cambridge University Botanic Garden
17 Aug 2022
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Come along and drop-in to this workshop at the Botanic Garden to make your own flower crown.

Cambridge University Botanic Garden
24 Aug 2022
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Come along to this activity at the Botanic Garden and make your own lavender bag to take home with you.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
04 Aug 2022
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Hands on demonstrations exploring the mysteries of magnetism and the causes of earthquakes

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
18 Aug 2022
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Hands on demonstrations exploring the mysteries of magnetism and the causes of earthquakes

Cambridge University Botanic Garden
06 Aug 2022
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden
12 Aug 2022
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden
12 Aug 2022
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Kettle's Yard
07 Aug 2022
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A Studio Sunday Special for families with a child about to start school. Siblings welcome!

Kettle's Yard
12 Aug 2022
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Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Howardena Pindell: A New Language with writer Jamie Danis.

FREE, come along

Kettle's Yard
26 Jul 2022
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Early Years Studio is a fun, creative, immersive experience for children aged 0-4. 

Kettle's Yard
13 Aug 2022
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Join us in the Clore Learning Studio for the launch of CoLAB

FREE, everyone welcome, drop-in

Kettle's Yard
20 Aug 2022
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Artist Kaitlin Ferguson has transformed the Clore Learning Studio into a creative research lab and would love for you to join her. You will learn new art techniques and skills and explore new ways of creative thinking in a safe and supported space.

Kettle's Yard
23 Aug 2022
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Join artist Kaitlin Ferguson in the Clore Learning Studio for a free, interactive workshop about the relationship between art, technology, and waste.

Kettle's Yard
26 Aug 2022
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Artist Kaitlin Ferguson has transformed the Clore Learning Studio into a creative research lab and would love for you to join her. You will learn new art techniques and skills and explore new ways of creative thinking in a safe and supported space.

Kettle's Yard
27 Aug 2022
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Artist Kaitlin Ferguson is mid-way through her CoLAB residency. Drop in and see how things are progressing, what thoughts and reflections other visitors to CoLAB have shared and what has been created so far.

Kettle's Yard
30 Aug 2022
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Join artist Kaitlin Ferguson in the Clore Learning Studio for a free, interactive workshop all about how art and technology work together.

Kettle's Yard
21 Aug 2022
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Join us in our Clore Learning Studio for a free, practical art making workshop exploring ideas about accessibility and academic research in the city.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
19 Oct 2022
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Join curator Richard Kelleher for an exclusive introduction to the exhibition Defaced!, an exploration of the fascinating yet conflictive relationship between money, authority, and protest.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
02 Nov 2022
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Hilary Powell, artist and contributor to the Defaced! exhibition, talks about her artistic practice: making visible visceral hidden stories and structures, combining material and meaning in collective acts of salvage and experimentation. Her work plays with ideas of value - who, what and where society overlooks, and why.

 

The Fitzwilliam Museum
02 Nov 2022
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Join us for an exciting discussion about the relationship between defacement and protest, with a fantastic panel: exhibition curator Richard Kelleher; British Museum curator Tom Hockenhull; collector Tim Millet; and artists Paula Stevens Hoare and artist Hilary Powell. This event is part of the exhibition Defaced!

The Fitzwilliam Museum
10 Nov 2022
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Join curator Richard Kelleher on an exclusive tour of Defaced! Money, Power, Conflict, where you will explore some of the objects and artists that have told stories of political struggles, justice, and protest for the last 200 years.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
09 Nov 2022
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Join us for an in depth look at the illuminated manuscripts on display in the Rothschild Gallery this autumn. All from medieval Britain, they tell the story of 500 years of creativity and innovation, revealed by the scientific and historical research of our MINIARE team.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
30 Nov 2022
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Enjoy the Fitz after hours with drop-in creative workshops, live performances, and drinks.

The Polar Museum
05 Sep 2022
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Join the Polar Museum team for a Touch Tour and explore a range of objects from polar history. 

The Polar Museum
05 Sep 2022
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Join the Polar Museum team for a Touch Tour and explore a range of objects from polar history. 

Wisbech and Fenland Museum
25 Aug 2022
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Make your own dinosaur habitat in a jar

The Fitzwilliam Museum
16 Nov 2022
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Join curator Richard Kelleher on a tour of Defaced! Money, Power, Conflict, where he will share his exclusive highlights from the exhibition.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
05 Nov 2022
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Join Stu Hanna in this exciting song writing course (4 sessions) inspired by our new exhibition Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest.