Artist Run Workshops in Schools

Workshop Category: Textiles

Weaving, Felt making, Embroidery, Collage, Screen printing, Dying, Silk painting, Batik.

Mary

Mary

Tactile project: exploring the use of our senses & how we interpret this focusing on the tactile quality of felt making – accumulating a series of pieces to make a wall hanging.
Protection project: exploring issues of protection (our homes, bodies, friends, families). Focus on the protective qualities of felted fabric, its history and its uses. Finally making a 2d or 3D clothing piece

Lucy

Lucy

Workshops for junior age groups introducing aspects of paper making, texturing, scenting and colouring.

Sally

Sally

Paper making and paper sculpture workshops tailored to suit the age/ability group and adapted to suit to a theme.

Sarah

Sarah

All batik workshops use water- soluble dyes that are heat fixed, equipment complies with Heath and Safety. All materials and equipment is provided.

Lucy

Lucy

Using either one or more of the following processes to make a final piece, weaving, screen printing and felt making.

Andrew

Andrew

Batik workshops aimed at 14+ age groups experimenting with wax resist and discharge dying techniques and collage.

Sarah (165)

Sarah (165)

Weaving, felt making. Weaving workshops using the Brinkley Loom and creating woven lengths using natural materials. Felt making workshops to create individual pictorial felt pieces or a large communal hanging.

Suzanna

Suzanna

Embroidery, hand dying and block printing of fabrics. Colouring fabrics using dying and printing techniques and producing collages experimenting with layering of fabrics to produce additional colour, form and depth.

Alison

Alison

3D & textiles workshops working with found and recycled materials. Each workshop is tailored to the age/ability group and can be designed to fit a theme.