Holiday Workshop: Expressive Gestures: Painting and Mark-Making
Tuesday 4 August, 10am-2.30pm
In this workshop for 11-16 year olds, join artist Damaris Athene and discover new and experimental painting techniques to create flower paintings inspired by you and your emotions.
Explore the Kettle’s Yard house and current exhibition Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today, discovering how different artists express themselves through their paintings. Join artist Damaris in the Clore Learning Studio and get expressive using charcoal mark-making and acrylic paints.
FAQs
We don’t suggest that parents should stay for the workshop.
Kettle’s Yard workshops are planned for children to engage with creativity independently. Our artists, staff and volunteers are on hand to provide support throughout the workshop and we foster a warm and welcoming environment.
If your child is anxious and you would like to stay whilst they get settled at the start, that is fine. Please do let us know this beforehand if you are able.
Kettle’s Yard Artist Facilitators carefully plan activities to suit certain ages and abilities and we kindly ask for this to be respected.
Our workshops for 7 – 11 years require participants to be able to work independently and be in a group with children of different ages for a period of 3 hours. From our experience, younger children find this very challenging which can impact their, and other children’s, experience. Children over 11 years may find the activities not challenging enough for their abilities.
For the 11 – 16 years workshops, these often reflect some more challenging or complex ideas and content from our exhibitions or collections which may be unsuitable for younger children.
For workshops happening from 10am – 12.30pm there is no lunch break. We do have a mid-morning break and provide simple snacks, but participants are welcome to bring their own. We do ask that these do not contain nuts.
For workshops from 10am – 2pm or beyond, there is a planned break for lunch, but lunch is not provided. We ask that participants bring their own packed lunch and we will ensure there is clean space to eat together.
Please do let us know about any additional needs or allergies when booking to enable us to best support your child during the workshop. If we have any further questions, we will be in touch.
Unfortunately we are unable to provide refunds for places cancelled by participants. We are happy to exchange places if you know of another child who would like to come in their place. Please do get in touch to let us know.
Access
During this workshop, you will explore the galleries at Kettle’s Yard and spend time in the Clore Learning Studio, both of which are accessible via lift. There are also wheelchair accessible toilets on the ground floor and in the Clore Learning Studio.
You will also explore the Kettle’s Yard house. We regret that around three-quarters of the house is not accessible to wheelchair access, this is due to the historic nature of the building. The ground floor extension area of the house is, however, accessible for wheelchair users with a ramp. There is no lift in the house.
If you have any questions, please email mail@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk.
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