Testing the water : young people and galleries / edited by Toby Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Toby.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tate Gallery Liverpool.

Arts and youth.

Youth--Services for.

Youth.

Museums--Educational aspects.

Museums.

Physical Description:

168 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press : Tate Gallery Liverpool, 2000.

Summary:

Tate Gallery Liverpool has established a reputation for its approach to youth audience development through Young Tate, a programme for young people aged between 14 and 25. Young Tate, which started in 1994 and has been supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, provoked great interest from gallery professionals in the UK and overseas, and has been the subject of a number of case studies and research. This book, which responds to a growing demand for information about relationships between galleries and their young audiences outside formal education, reflects on Tate Gallery Liverpool's role in creating a workable strategy for sustainable youth programming. Each chapter contains a Story and a Case Study directly related to Tate Gallery Liverpool's work with youth audiences. David Anderson, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Ullrich Kockel, Gaby Porter and Sara Selwood have contributed essays, which expand on themes uncovered in the narrative, from the perspectives of Gallery and Museum Education, Ethnography, Cultural Studies and exhibition and gallery management practice.

Contents:

Young People and Art Galleries 17

Ten Things Young People Say about the Experience of Art Galleries, and Ten Changes Young People Ask of Art Galleries / Jane Elliot 20

With Visitors in Mind: The Museum with Permeable Walls / Toby Jackson 22

Setting the Scene 1989-1994 31

Youth Arts Weekend, September 1993 / Naomi Horlock 36

Beyond L'Amour de l'Art: Youth, Cultural Democracy and Europe / Ullrich Kockel 39

Learning Curve 49

Memories of the Young Tate Advisory Group / Soraya Lemsatef 55

Museums, Galleries and the Business of Consulting with Young People / Sara Selwood 63

Working with Young People 71

Two-day Summer Project, July 1995 / Gary Clarke 83

Integrated Management / Gaby Porter 85

Curating with Young People 93

Working with Curators: Comments from Young Tate Display Group Members 102

Opening Up the Curatorial Space / Lewis Biggs 108

Taking on More 117

BBC Radio Merseyside's Young Tate Debate 126

Learning in Art Museums: Strategies of Interpretation / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill 136

Taking Stock 147

Young Tate Web-site / Liza Lemsatef 153

Young Tate Workshop Leaders' Training Course / Emilia Eriksson, Anitha Darla 156

The Shape of Things to Come? / David Anderson 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references.

ISBN:

0853239045

OCLC:

42790946