DOI issue:
No. 90 (August, 1904)
DOI article:Scott, E. N.: Co-ordinated art education at Burslem
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26962#0175
Art Education at Burslem
POTTERY PANEL BY ALFRED HILL
taught as part of the student’s elementary education.
Recognising these facts, and realising the impor-
tance of a sound art education in the interests of
the ceramic industry, the
Burslem School Board in-
augurated some few years
ago a scheme of co-ordina-
tion, analogous to that
already adopted in a few
of the largest towns. In
the first place, the Board
appointed Mr. Stanley
Thorogood, A.R.C.A., the
head of the Burslem School
of Art, to formulate the
scheme and to undertake
the entire supervision of
the art instruction of the
town, Mr. H. Wallace being
selected as the art in-
structor of the elementary
schools. Under the direc-
tion of these gentlemen the
elementary work has been
developed to a degree of
excellence which has won
for it the high commenda-
tion of art inspectors and
deputations from various
parts of the country, whilst
further evidence of its excel-
lence is found in the fact that numerous
examples have been selected for the St.
Louis Exhibition, as well as specimens of the
School of Art work.
With regard to the methods adopted, it
is interesting to observe that at Burslem the
greatest possible attention is paid to the most
elementary work of the scholars. The in-
fants commence by outlining simple forms in
sand, and then proceed with drawing on
diminutive blackboards, by which means
they learn the use of the arm and wrist, and
obtain greater freedom than drawing on the
desk allows. This instruction leads up to
drawing on paper in coloured chalk, and
before leaving the infants’ department the
children are taught the use of the brush and
pencil in drawing common objects, elementary
flower forms, and simple patterns; whilst a
knowledge of form is developed and object
lessons made more interesting by the model-
ling in clay of commonplace objects. By
these means the training of hand and eye,
and the development of the sense of colour, which
are aimed at throughout the schools, are com-
menced.
BY HARRY PARR
133
ALMS DISH IN COLOURED GLAZES AND LUSTRE
POTTERY PANEL BY ALFRED HILL
taught as part of the student’s elementary education.
Recognising these facts, and realising the impor-
tance of a sound art education in the interests of
the ceramic industry, the
Burslem School Board in-
augurated some few years
ago a scheme of co-ordina-
tion, analogous to that
already adopted in a few
of the largest towns. In
the first place, the Board
appointed Mr. Stanley
Thorogood, A.R.C.A., the
head of the Burslem School
of Art, to formulate the
scheme and to undertake
the entire supervision of
the art instruction of the
town, Mr. H. Wallace being
selected as the art in-
structor of the elementary
schools. Under the direc-
tion of these gentlemen the
elementary work has been
developed to a degree of
excellence which has won
for it the high commenda-
tion of art inspectors and
deputations from various
parts of the country, whilst
further evidence of its excel-
lence is found in the fact that numerous
examples have been selected for the St.
Louis Exhibition, as well as specimens of the
School of Art work.
With regard to the methods adopted, it
is interesting to observe that at Burslem the
greatest possible attention is paid to the most
elementary work of the scholars. The in-
fants commence by outlining simple forms in
sand, and then proceed with drawing on
diminutive blackboards, by which means
they learn the use of the arm and wrist, and
obtain greater freedom than drawing on the
desk allows. This instruction leads up to
drawing on paper in coloured chalk, and
before leaving the infants’ department the
children are taught the use of the brush and
pencil in drawing common objects, elementary
flower forms, and simple patterns; whilst a
knowledge of form is developed and object
lessons made more interesting by the model-
ling in clay of commonplace objects. By
these means the training of hand and eye,
and the development of the sense of colour, which
are aimed at throughout the schools, are com-
menced.
BY HARRY PARR
133
ALMS DISH IN COLOURED GLAZES AND LUSTRE