Magic Lantern (charity)

Official logo designed by Jake Tilson
Magic Lantern team member, Helen Anderson, running an interactive art history workshop in Reigate, April 2016. Reported by Reigate Arts Society. http://www.reigatedfas.org.uk/OtherActivities/YoungArts.aspx

Magic Lantern is an educational charity in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Diana Schomberg in 1994.[1] The charity delivers interactive art history workshops in schools throughout England.[2]

The charity's remit is to introduce children to art and make art accessible to anyone.[3][4] Alongside its work in schools, Magic Lantern also works with adult groups in centres including prisons, hospices and homeless centres.[5][6][7]

History

Retired school teacher Diana Schomberg set up the charity in 1994 with a grant from Marks and Spencer.[8][7] Subsequent sponsors of the charity have included The Arts Society (formerly NADFAS)[9][10][11][12], the Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation[13], Newcomen Collett Foundation[14] and The Gillian Dickinson Trust.[15]

One of Magic Lantern's former team members was curator, author, editor, and educationist Ingrid Beazley.[16]

In 2010 Matthew Sanders became Magic Lantern's director.[17][18]

In 2011 Magic Lantern was awarded the Inspire Mark by LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games) for its workshop "The Olympic Games, Past and Present."[19] By the end of the project, Magic Lantern presenters had given a total of 627 of these workshops in 103 schools in 32 Local Education Authorities reaching approximately 18,800 children.[20]

Children from Rosary RC Primary School, LEA Camden, pose as the Discobolus during a Magic Lantern workshop on Ancient Greece. Reported in First News 15-21 December 2017.[21]

On 16 June 2013 Magic Lantern gave pop-up family sessions in London's Trafalgar Square as part of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year.[22]

In 2013 William Vaughan, Professor Emeritus of History of Art, Birkbeck College, London, became Magic Lantern's first patron.[23] In 2014 children's author and illustrator James Mayhew became its second.[24]

In 2016 Magic Lantern ran a series of sessions for children in the paediatric ward of the Harley Street Clinic on the subject of "Feelings."[25]

As of September 2017 the charity has nine presenters and seven trustees [2] and has presenters operating in London, Kent, Essex, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne and County Durham.

References

  1. ↑ Franks, Helen (12 October 1994). "Education: Putting on a big act for art: A new project for schools breathes life into the world's great masterpieces, says Helen Franks". The Independent. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Charity Details". Charity Commission. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  3. ↑ "Introducing children to art and galleries near you". Retrieved 2017-10-25.
  4. ↑ Sanders, Matthew (October 2015). "Frames of Mind" (PDF). Teach Primary.
  5. ↑ "Clinks". Clinks Directory.
  6. ↑ "The National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance". The National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance.
  7. 1 2 Ewing, Ed (February 2004). "Magic Moments" (PDF). The Guide. 172: 1, 2, 16–17.
  8. ↑ "Marks & Spencer ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 1998 (page 30)" (PDF). June 1998.
  9. ↑ "THE ARTS SOCIETY CHISWICK - YOUNG ARTS PROJECT". 7 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "Young Arts".
  11. ↑ "Young Arts".
  12. ↑ "The Arts Society Hampstead Heath Summer 2017 Newsletter" (PDF).
  13. ↑ "The Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation Governors' report and Annual Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2013 (page 17)" (PDF). 31 December 2013.
  14. ↑ "Grants made in 2010". 2010.
  15. ↑ "Magic Lantern". March 2012.
  16. ↑ Manwell, Ellie (17 May 2017). "Ingrid Beazley obituary". The Guardian.
  17. ↑ Pointon, Marcia (2014). History of Art: A Student's Handbook. UK: Routledge. pp. 139, 140. ISBN 0415639247.
  18. ↑ "History of Art Careers in Focus". University of Warwick.
  19. ↑ "Inspire Legacy Book: A Record of the London 2012 Inspire Programme (page 247)" (PDF). 9 September 2012.
  20. ↑ "Charity Details" (PDF). beta.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  21. ↑ "Magic Lantern Workshop" (PDF). First News. Issue 600: 25. 15–21 December 2017.
  22. ↑ "Portrait Artist of the Year – Sunday 16th June Trafalgar Square". London-Baby. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  23. ↑ "Will Vaughan". willvaughan.com. Retrieved 2017-10-29.
  24. ↑ "Biography | James Mayhew". James Mayhew - Author & Illustrator. 2013-06-27. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  25. ↑ "Psychosocial Creative Programme | Arts Health and Wellbeing". www.artshealthandwellbeing.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
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