ABSTRACT
The aroma of freshly ground coffee beans floated over from the cafe and mingled with a faint odour of paint and mustiness. Painting Words takes place once a fortnight on a Monday morning, and it is usual to have about twenty meetings every year. Its original membership has both determined its timing and restricted any further members to those that are available at that time of the week and day. In the case of the Painting Words group, who engage with and respond to art work in order to write a piece of fiction, these relations are indeed complex and multiple. The small Painting Words group is, in other words, indicative of broader national and international museum pedagogies focused around creativity and ownership. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
