Thursday 21 February, 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 3.30pm
There are plenty of patterns everywhere in RAMM particularly in the special exhibition, Petal Power . We hope they will inspire you to make your own patterns in this activity.
Tickets are £2 and available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours.
Pattern Design for Art, Fashion and Textiles Course
This course will focus on understanding pattern and design. Sketch and develop ideas to build a portfolio of patterns and textile designs from which to create new and exciting surfaces. WEA course C3523996.
Journey through the collections at RAMM, discussing the historical, geographical and creative ideas that tell the story of the object. Then respond through drawing to...
Dr Keren Protheroe, design historian and co-curator of the Petal Power exhibition, looks at how an increasing number of women by the 1910s were exploiting their art education to go on and forge careers designing fashionable, floral fabrics.
Tickets are £4.50 (£3) and available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours (10am-5pm, Tuesday to Sunday).
Friends Lunchtime Lecture: Darwin and the Natural Historians.
Darwin anticipated that On the Origin of Species (1859) would lead to a revolution in natural history. This talk by Dr Angelique Richardson, from the University of Exeter, will discuss Darwin in reference to RAMM’s natural history collection, one of the most significant in the country. The lecture starts at 1.10pm and tickets are £3 available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during RAMM opening hours. www.rammuseum.org.uk
This new display of RAMM’s own art includes city views, 20th-century Devon landscapes and striking portraits. Fascinating prints and drawings reveal Exeter before the bombings of the Second World War changed the city forever.
The exhibition features John Constable’s newly identified portrait of the poet William Wordsworth. On show for the first time will be a large contemporary landscape painting of a scene in East Devon donated by the artist Robert Organ in 2011.
Haydn: Quartet Op.64 No.6 Mendelssohn: Quartet Op.44 No.2 Beethoven: Quartet in F minor Op.95 “Serioso”
Winners of the 2011 Royal Overseas League Elias Fawcett Award for an outstanding chamber music ensemble, the Castalian String Quartet have rapidly gained a reputation in festivals and concert halls in the UK and abroad.
The Quartet has toured in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden as well as performing in the Wigmore Hall and recently broadcasting live on BBC Radio 3.
Tickets are £16, £14 conc available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392...
