Collaborative community project unveiled!

Collaborative community project unveiled! Working alongside The Friend’s of Sheep’s Green and students at Newnham Croft Primary School, Rowan has been involved in an exciting community project to create a new welcome sign for Sheep’s Green Learner Pool. Some of you may have already seen this in the making in a previous blog post. On […]

Walk for Rowan success!

Walk for Rowan success!         This month our student artists completed three days of sponsored walking covering an amazing 171 miles between them! This annual fundraiser took place at Midsummer Common and was to raise money for a trip to Southwold, on Wednesday 10 July, to celebrate 35 years of Rowan. It was a huge success […]

No ordinary sign…

No ordinary sign… Before Christmas we started a new and exciting project to create an entry sign and noticeboard for Sheep’s Green Learner Pool in Cambridge. This community project, working alongside The Friends of Sheep’s Green and students at Newnham Croft Primary School, focuses on the observations of wildlife from the area and the history […]

Celebrating 35 years

Help Rowan reach the beach!  Happy Birthday to us! To celebrate our 35th year we are taking a trip with all of our student artists to Southwold in July and we need your help to “reach the beach!” A HUGE thank you to everyone who donated to our bag collection. The bags have been collected by #Bags2School […]

The Fitzwilliam Museum visits Rowan

Behind the glass! This month we had Alison from the Fitzwilliam Museum visiting Rowan to show student artists a handling collection of studio pottery. It was a fantastic opportunity to see and touch items that would normally be behind the glass. Alison said: “It was a really lovely session in the pottery studio and a good number […]

Success for ‘Cambridge Seen’

Success for ‘Cambridge Seen’ Cambridge artists and Rowan student artists have helped us raise £5,500 – with potentially more to come! The ‘Cambridge Seen’ exhibition, held at Long Road Sixth Form College last weekend, proved a major success with 170 works of art up for sale.  Rosalind Morgan, chair of Rowan Trustees, said: ‘We have […]

Bench with a view

Bench with a view Looking for your weekend walk to work off those mince pies? Take a visit to Coton Country Reserve and see our recently installed bench with a view!    The bench was commissioned as a special 65th birthday surprise for a couple who regularly visit the reserve.    It was designed by student […]

Connecting Communities

Connecting Communities  Our connecting communities project has taken our student artists along the A14 to visit Milton Country Park and Hitchingbrooke Country Park to work with the local community. We completed two ceramic dragonflies that can now be seen at each park and are a great excuse to see what else the park has to […]

Connecting Communities the story so far…

Connecting Communities the story so far! Over the last few months we have been busy with our Connecting Communities project that has been funded by the A14 Community Fund through Cambridgeshire Community Foundation. Working alongside Milton County Park and Hinchingbrooke Country Park our student artists and the surrounding communities have been working collaboratively with Rowan’s ceramic art tutor Sarah […]

Rowan’s Forest School adventure has begun! 

Rowan’s Forest School adventure has begun!  For six weeks throughout the summer Rowan is running workshops every Friday for our students in the woods at Cowhollow Forest. This is a new adventure for Rowan to give our students the opportunity to get out and about and learn new skills.  On Friday 13th July we sent […]

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