Mansfield Museum is to set up a new creative project to help women who have been victims of domestic abuse.
Creative Women Together will be a therapeutic project that will see women at risk develop an understanding of fine art through engaging with the museum’s collection of ceramics, paintings and jewellery over the next two years, starting in the new year.
The news comes during 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, an annual international campaign that runs until 10 December. Mansfield District Council lit up the Bentinck Memorial in the Market Place orange on White Ribbon Day – 25 November – in support of the campaign.
The project will involve women appreciating and understanding more about the items in the collection and participating in creative activities to develop their own artistic work.
The sessions, which it is hoped will help about 50 women already identified by support services, will take place in libraries, community halls, family hubs and social spaces around the district as well as at the museum itself.
Creative Women Together is being…
