PAST EXHIBITION ARCHIVE

Family Faces
In collaboration with Haringey Education Services

14 February - 4 September 2005
Studio Gallery
Admission free

Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund

Families taking part in a Family Faces workshop at the Gallery

Family Faces is the second exhibition in the Reaching Out, Drawing In programme of community education projects. Developed in collaboration with Haringey Education Services, the Gallery worked with families from seven schools in the London Borough of Haringey. All the families participate in the Parental Involvement programme, which encourages family learning. Based on the theme of family portraiture and inspired by portraits from the Gallery's collections, the groups worked alongside ceramicist Matt Sherratt to create sculptures representing their own families.

The work of the families, explained through their own words and stories and a selection of the portraits that inspired them, are displayed side by side in this exhibition. Family Faces will also include activities and interactives for families visiting the exhibition.

Reaching Out, Drawing In is a key part of the National Portrait Gallery's educational and outreach work over the next three years. The project will enable the Gallery to undertake a sustained programme of new audience development and to give wider access to the Gallery's collections. In particular, the project aims to engage non-user groups including young people, disabled people and minority ethnic groups. Using a series of six exhibitions in the Studio Gallery as a focus, each of the displays will arise directly out of working with community groups and organisations. The displays will be accessible and promoted to all visitors to the Gallery. Reaching Out, Drawing In has been made possible by the generosity of the Heritage Lottery Fund, which has supported the project with a grant of £312, 500.

The schools involved in Family Faces are Crowland Primary, Chestnuts Primary, Highgate Primary, Kurdish & Somali Community Supplementary School, North Harringay Primary, South Harringay Infant and Stamford Hill Primary.

Following on from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, Family Faces will go on display at Bruce Castle Museum in Tottenham.

Links
- Touring Exhibition Venues
- Family Faces web feature
- Reaching Out, Drawing in
- Bruce Castle Museum
- London Borough of Haringey
- Heritage Lottery Fund

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