{"id":56635,"date":"2025-08-10T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56635\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:19:06","slug":"how-a-cambridgeshire-woman-brought-modern-art-into-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56635\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Cambridgeshire woman brought modern art into schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each county&#8217;s library service stored the artwork &#8211; which could be paintings, drawings, sculptures or textiles  &#8211; and then loaned them out to schools on rotation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Cantus said the idea was &#8220;every term, there would be something fresh to look at&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The school could use a painting of, for example, a tractor, to teach about farming, the weather, machinery &#8211; or art,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scheme caught on and <a href=\"https:\/\/nataliebradbury.co.uk\/writing\/pictures-for-schools-forgotten-but-not-quite-gone\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collections of art to lend to schools, external<\/a> were established by many authorities, including Rochdale, Manchester, Carlisle, Southend, Great Yarmouth, Derbyshire, Lancashire, the West Riding, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Cantus said: &#8220;Most of the children would never have had the opportunity to go to museums, there were no school trips, so the idea was to bring museum-quality art to schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each county&#8217;s library service stored the artwork &#8211; which could be paintings, drawings, sculptures or textiles &#8211; and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-56635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}