Jim Morris - artworker
❝ the Leather Museum’s favourite artsworker ❞
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some recent work:
MONSTER MASKS @ THE MUSEUM
Young visitors turn themselves into monsters
using recycled card
Walsall Museum
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FUNGUS FUN DAY @ Sarehole Mill
Young visitors and their families
make Fungus Fun Hats using recycled sugar paper
In the courtyard at Sarehole Mill
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CIRCUS STARS
Young visitors and their families make
‘Circus Star’ glove puppets
using recycled card
‘Drop-in’ at Walsall Leather Museum
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MORE IMAGINARY MONARCHS
Youngsters make multi-coloured ‘Imaginary Monarchs’/Pitta Puppets,
‘Peace Horse’ and Clown Puppets
Walsall Leather Museum
for how to make the Pitta Puppets
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WALSALL WAR HORSES
Young visitors and their families make
‘Peace Horse’ Puppets
using recycled card
as part of Walsall Museum’s commemoration of
the outbreak of the First World War
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BUTTERFLIES at the MILL
Young visitors and their families make BIG butterfly puppets
using bamboo and recycled plastic ribbons
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PARTY BUTTERFLIES
Young visitors and their families turn paper cups into Butterfly Puppets
Drop-in workshop at Walsall Leather Museum
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ROAMIN’ SOLDIERS
Young visitors create their own Roman Soldier puppets
using recycled card and paper plates
Lunt Roman Fort - Baginton, Coventry
( linked with the Roman Empire - Power & People Exhibition at The Herbert )
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PUPPETS at ELGAR’S BIRTHPLACE
Inspired by Elgar’s “Wand of Youth”,
young visitors make their own puppet characters:
Fluttering Fairies...
Party Butterflies...
Talking Giants...
Drop-in Workshop day at Elgar’s Birthplace Museum
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QUICK ON THE DRAW
Young visitors sharpen their drawing skills -
with Jim’s artgames inspired by
Ed Emberley, Jessie Eckel and Mr+Mrs Potato Head
Walsall Leather Museum
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MONKEY BUSINESS
Young visitors make and wear ‘Dancing Monkey’ body-puppets
Walsall Leather Museum
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DRAWING LOTS
Adults’ Drawing Workshop Day
20 participants ‘meet’ a host of artists - and take on challenges inspired by them
Walsall Leather Museum
❝ Really enjoyed today’s adult drawing session. Very inspirational. ❞
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JUST LIKE ALICE - A CURIOUS INVITATION
Young visitors and their families
turn hundreds of envelopes into
puppet characters
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
(linked with the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ exhibition)
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JUICE-RASSIC PARK
Young visitors make Dinosaur Puppets from recycled juice cartons
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
(linked with the Dinosaurs Uncovered exhibition)
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MASKS at the MUSEUM
Young visitors turn themselves into monsters
Walsall Leather Museum
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OLYMPIC PICK & MIX
Young visitors tackle an artgames try-athalon -
Olympic Pixels, Animal Olympic Puppets and Everyone’s a Winner portraits
Wednesday Workshop at Walsall Leather Museum
for how to make the Pitta Puppets
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ROBOT OLYMPICS
Young visitors build their own Robots -
faster, bigger, stronger... and slower, smaller and gentle:
Wednesday Workshop at Walsall Leather Museum
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FUNNY BUNNIES
Young visitors and their families make Easter rabbit puppets from recycled paper
at the Family Fun Day
Walsall Leather Museum
inspire·imagination·through·creation blog
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CYLINDER CITY
A fantastical new city...
Add any building you like - as long as it’s made of cylinders.
Young visitors and their families build a new Coventry.
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Cylinder City being built on YouTube
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Do the Mask... Do the Monster Mask!
Young visitors at Aston Hall turn themselves into monsters
Angie Wootten has written about the workshop in the Dramatic Expressions blog
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MAKING FACES at ASTON HALL
Young visitors make their own ‘two-face’ puppets
- a drop-in workshop at Aston Hall
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FUN METAL JACKETS
Young visitors and their families design their own ‘heavy metal’ jackets
a ‘drop-in’ workshop at Walsall Leather Museum
(linked with the ‘Home of Metal’ exhibition)
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METAL PATTERNS
Young visitors make symmetrical ‘heavy metal’ album covers
Walsall Leather Museum
(linked with the ‘Home of Metal’ exhibition)
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FUNKY CHICKENS
Youngsters and their families make carnival head-dresses
Easter Family Fun Day at Walsall Leather Museum
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WORK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN
Youngsters and their families build pyramids together
(using Darcy Turner’s amazing newpaper-rolling machine)
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
click here to see the slideshow on YouTube
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DRAWING:THE JOURNEY
adults drawing day workshop
Walsall Leather Museum
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LITTLE MONSTERS!
Young visitors make Little Monster puppets
The Museum of Cannock Chase
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This was a Pocket Money Puppets workshop
to find out how you can
book a FREE workshop
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FLOWER POWER
Young visitors and their families turn paper cups into fantastic flowers
Walsall Leather Museum
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ROMAN COIN PORTRAITS
Young Emperors and Empresses mint their own giant coins
Lunt Roman Fort
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CRACKIN’ CREATURES
Youngsters turn wallpaper egg-shapes into wildlife
Walsall Leather Museum
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POST ROOM PUPPETS
Youngsters turn envelopes and junk mail into puppet characters
Walsall Leather Museum
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WALSALL LUCKY BAGS
Families turn paper bags into Puppet characters
Walsall Leather Museum
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EASTER TANGRAM
Families hatch new creatures from Tangram Eggs
Walsall Leather Museum
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PUPPETS FROM THE PAST - Part One
family puppet-making workshops - inspired by medieval puppets
Priory Visitor Centre - Coventry
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PUPPETS FROM THE PAST - Part Two
family puppet-making workshops - inspired by medieval puppets
Priory Visitor Centre - Coventry
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DO THE MASK...
...DO THE MONSTER MASK
Mask-making for Halloween
Walsall Leather Museum
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HAUNTED HELMETS
Young visitors and their families create helmet-wearing skulls
for Halloween
Lunt Roman Fort - Coventry
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FISH TAILS & FISHY TALES
Youngsters make Fish Puppets and Fishy Stories
Walsall Leather Museum
- with Kate Blamire
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ASTON BUTTERFLIES
Youngsters make Bamboo Butterflies
to help celebrate the re-opening of Aston Hall
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ONE HUNDRED WINDMILLS...
Young visitors and their families make and decorate silver windmills
Day-long drop-in workshop - Walsall Leather Museum
...plus DOUGHNUTS and COFFEE
Young people experiment with ‘coffee-stirrer’ structures
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RECYCLED ROMANS
Youngsters create their own Roman Puppets
2 days at Lunt Roman Fort - Coventry
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VICTORIAN TANGRAM EGGS
Youngsters ‘hatch’ unique shadow puppet characters from silver eggs
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
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Got an idea/request for a project or workshop?
e-mail: jim@artgames.co.uk
to make it happen
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e-mail: jim@artgames.co.uk
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