Saturday Art Clubs – Spring 2024/25
Little Artist Club
Dates:
Saturday 11th, 18th, 25th January
Saturday 1st, 8th, 15th February
Saturday 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th March
Saturday 5th, 12th April
Times: 10.00am – 11.15pm
Ages: 4 – 6 years
Facilitated by local artists Brid Colloton and Jeni Roddy, the Little Artist Club and Saturday Art Club unlock your child’s imagination with exciting art activities! Whether your budding artist loves painting, drawing, constructing, storytelling, or exploring new crafts, these clubs inspire creativity and build confidence. Each fun-filled session includes hands-on activities to encourage self-expression while continuously building new skills.
Each term we visit the current exhibition in the Arts Centre where children can enjoy becoming art detectives looking for clues as to how and why the artist made their work. These discussions build creative thinking skills and can inspire new ways to make work.
In the older classes, we delve deeper into new and old materials and techniques and experience ever more perceptive discussions around the hows and whys of art.
Spaces are limited, so book today and let the artistic journey begin!
Saturday Art Club
Dates:
Saturday 11th, 18th, 25th January
Saturday 1st, 8th, 15th February
Saturday 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th March
Saturday 5th, 12th April
Times: 11.30am – 12.45pm
Ages: 7 – 12 years
Facilitated by local artists Brid Colloton and Jeni Roddy, the Little Artist Club and Saturday Art Club unlock your child’s imagination with exciting art activities! Whether your budding artist loves painting, drawing, constructing, storytelling, or exploring new crafts, these clubs inspire creativity and build confidence. Each fun-filled session includes hands-on activities to encourage self-expression while continuously building new skills.
Each term we visit the current exhibition in the Arts Centre where children can enjoy becoming art detectives looking for clues as to how and why the artist made their work. These discussions build creative thinking skills and can inspire new ways to make work.
In the older classes, we delve deeper into new and old materials and techniques and experience ever more perceptive discussions around the hows and whys of art.
Spaces are limited, so book today and let the artistic journey begin!
Jeni Roddy
Workshop Facilitator
Bríd Colloton
Workshop Facilitator
The Saturday Art Clubs are facilitated by artist Brid Colloton and Jeni Roddy. Read More
Art & Play Workshops – For parents & Toddlers
For: Parents & Toddlers
Ages: 0-3 years with parental participation
Date: Thursday 3rd April, 10.45am-12.00pm
Our Art & Play workshops aim to connect parents and guardians to the current exhibitions in the Arts Centre while allowing 0–3-year-olds explore the works on display and related materials afterwards. The series provides a safe, fun space for babies and their parents/guardians to play and connect with the arts and with each other.
Through the workshops, participants will experiment with a variety of sensory delights. From finger paint to collage, we will explore all sorts of hands-on techniques, perfect for developing motor skills and encouraging creativity.
Our Art & Play Workshops, devised by Laura Larkin in 2023, are facilitated by artist Laura Flood. Read More
Laura Flood
Workshop Facilitator
Easter Camps 2025
Calling all children – join us this Easter for a camp that explore the sounds of Spring…
Dates: Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th April
Times: 10am – 1pm
Ages: 4 – 6 years
Dates: Thursday 17th and Friday 18th April
Times: 10am – 2pm
Ages: 7 – 12 years
Spring is hear!
How do we see sounds? Inspired by sounds of Spring and chirping of new life all around, our young artists will evolve sound creatures first in 2D and then into 3D clay models. Exploring sound through drawing and making is a wonderfully fun way to connect to our senses, environment, and inner rhythm. We’ll listen to interesting sounds extracted from nature, and there will be fun activities as the children come up with their own sounds for us to draw.
Make sure to book early and listen out for interesting sounds in your environment you can tell us about.
Previous Workshops 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!
For further information on our workshop programme please email Laura at visual@wexfordartscentre.ie. Wexford Arts Centre’s opening hours are Tuesday – Saturday from 10am-4.30pm.
