Evaluating the MCA's Art Parcel for primary school children

We’re working with the MCA to evaluate the Art Parcel, an at-home art-making kit for primary school children in NSW, designed for the NSW Government’s Creative Kids vouchers.

Produced in collaboration with MCA Collection artists Raquel Ormella, the parcel was designed to get kids thinking creatively and talking about the issues that matter to them.

Patternmakers conducted a questionnaire and focus group with Art Parcel buyers, and also provided Art Parcels to five externally-recruited participants for a paired interview with themselves and their children. We’re also speaking to social workers and school principals who recieved free Art Parcels from the MCA to disseminate through their organisations.

Image: MCA Art Parcel, 2021. Photograph: Jacquie Manning.