Saturday Art Clubs – Winter 2024
Little Artist Club
Dates:
Saturday 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th September
Saturday 5th, 12th October
Saturday 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th November
Saturday 7th, 14th December
Times: 10.00am – 11.15pm
Ages: 4 – 6 years
Autumn is in the air and our Little Artist Club is bursting with activities inspired by the season. We will keep young minds engaged and little hands busy as they work with a wonderful array of new and recycled materials.
Exploring the seasonal changes as the days get colder and shorter, children will have an opportunity to make their visual stories come to life with mini theatre’s teeming with woodland characters. Creating birds from clay and trees from cardboard, small hands will be very busy pinching, patting, rolling, and of course, dapping and sponging with paint.
The children will also be introduced to the artwork on display in the galleries.
Saturday Art Club
Dates:
Saturday 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th September
Saturday 5th, 12th October
Saturday 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th November
Saturday 7th, 14th December
Times: 11.30am – 12.45pm
Ages: 7 – 12 years
The Saturday Art Club returns this season to offer children the opportunity to learn about a range of visual art processes with a focus on drawing which is considered the most fundamental of all art activities.
In a fun environment, children will be encouraged to explore the various methods of mark-making using a range of materials including pencil, pen, paint, pastels and charcoals. Various methods of drawing will also be explored, from looking at basic doodles to applying tone and perspective. Learning to draw enhances motor skills, hand-eye coordination and confidence, especially when the children see their work develop with every class.
Children will also be introduced at a number of key figures from art history as well as the artwork on display in our galleries during the season.
Jeni Roddy
Workshop Facilitator
Bríd Colloton
Workshop Facilitator
The Saturday Art Clubs are facilitated by artist Brid Colloton and Jeni Roddy. Read More
Culture Night 2024
Culture Night: Art Workshop !
Date: Friday 20th September, 5-6pm
Ages: 6-10 years
Admission free but booking is essential
Calling all children! Join us this Culture Night for a workshop led by artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín on her exhibition Edge of Range at Wexford Arts Centre. Laura will introduce children to large-scale drawing on compostable materials. The exhibition will be the starting point for creative, process-led activities such as glow in the dark mark-making experiments, seed germination, and botanical drawing.
Edge of Range focuses on the cotton weed plant which is a distinctive species recognized by its dense covering of white, cottony hairs and yellow flower heads. At present, the cotton weed plant is in a perilous state all across Europe. The exhibition traces the story of this near extinction through a sculptural installation and wall-based works.
Culture Night: Exhibition Talk
Date: Friday 20th September, 7pm
Admission free but booking is essential
For Culture Night, Wexford Arts Centre will facilitate a late gallery opening from 5-8pm, offering more time to enjoy the current exhibition of Edge of Range by artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín. The exhibition focuses on the cotton weed plant and traces the story of its near extinction through a sculptural installation and wall-based works.
Laura Ní Fhlaibhín is an artist from Wexford. She is a Gilbert Bayes Royal Society of Sculptors Award U.K. recipient 2024 and has been awarded the 2025 Derek Hill Foundation residency at the British School of Rome. She was the recipient of the Goldsmiths Almacantar Bursary 2019, and was awarded the Next Generation Award 2020 from the Arts Council of Ireland.
Halloween workshop 2024
Calling all children – join us this Halloween for creepy crafty fun…
Date: Thursday 31st October
Times: 10am – 11.15am
Ages: 4 – 6 years
Times: 11.30am – 12.45pm
Ages: 7 – 12 years
Finding inspiration from spooky Victorian parlour games we will get creative making weird and wonderful puppets from fun drawing games. These puppets will get a chance to tell their eerie stories in our supernatural mini theatre!
Children can play magician, creating Victorian optical illusion toys ‘Thaumatropes,’; a simple disk featuring a different picture on each side and attached to a piece of string. When the twirled rapidly the card rotates to reveal the complete image! Come along and find out how it works. You’ll be spinning with excitement…!
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