Coventry Arts week: From Scribbles to Masterpieces
Tuesday 1 July - Sunday 31 August 2025 | Available During Opening Hours
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1 July 10.00am – 31 August 4.00pm 2025
An exhibition of Coventry schools’ artwork, exploring the stages of children’s art development.
Drop In | Included with Admission
In 1947, Dr Viktor Lowenfeld published his famous text, Creative and Mental Growth, which argues that there are six clearly defined stages of artistic development and that these stages can be witnessed in the artworks of children. It is a universal theory about how children, on average, grow and develop in art. Children all over the world, regardless of race, socioeconomic factors and culture go through these stages, although these can be fluid and dynamic and children may proceed at different rates.
In this exhibition we group artwork made by the children of Coventry made in response to the theme of Community, into the six stages of artistic development to understand and illustrate the different stages and understand children's art development.
