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Chrissy Cottrell

Creative Marketing Manager

Chrissy Cottrell is a creative marketing professional specialising in brand strategy, content marketing and customer engagement. As Creative Marketing Manager at Specialist Crafts, she leads content and brand initiatives that connect products, creativity and learning. Outside of work, she maintains an active creative practice with a particular passion for mixed media and printmaking, exploring materials, techniques and experimental processes, bringing both industry knowledge and hands-on experience to her content.

Our Latest Posts

Art and Social Justice: Creative Activism in the Classroom

  From cave paintings to street murals, art has always been a way of speaking when words fall short. For today’s students, facing the realities of climate change, inequality and identity, creative activism offers both a safe space and a powerful platform. When art becomes activism, lessons move beyond skill to meaning, giving young ...

Teaching Colour Intentionally: Moving Beyond the Wheel

  Most students meet colour in art through the wheel. They learn their primaries, secondaries, complementaries and it’s a useful tool, but a blunt one. Colour in the classroom too often becomes a set of formulas rather than a vehicle for expression. For students who live in a world saturated with digital colour palettes, teaching colour ...
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