A Celebration of Artscaping

Fullscope partners Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination hosted a special event at Storey’s Field Centre to celebrate everyone who has supported the charity to facilitate more opportunities for children and young people across the county to have precious arts in nature experiences. The event also championed the growing evidence base that this work can be generative for good mental health.

There were hundreds of children's voices there - I can't think of any other exhibition I have ever been to that featured so many young stories.

Visitor to Event

Through detailed pop-up displays created by the CCI artists, CCI shared artworks made in bespoke school projects. They were joined by project partners, including Fullscope - we shared our model for co-production - and scientist Dr Jen McGaley from Crop Science Centre, who has collaborated with CCI on mycelium inspired projects and colleagues from the new Rudd Centre at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education.

Artscaping has had a huge impact on the individual, on children who struggle to self-regulate. It gave those children time to talk, space to explore and be creative, with one-to-one time with adults. The transformation on individual children has been remarkable and something which, without the capacity building this project gave us, we wouldn’t have been able to achieve.

David Aston, Wilburton C of E Primary School

Talks from our academic and school partners championed the importance of Artscaper practice. Headteachers highlighted the importance of Artscaping being used as a methodology to intervene early to support children’s wellbeing, so that children that often sit slightly below the threshold for external mental health interventions could be supported to prevent issues escalating.

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