School Holiday Activities
Artist Workshops 2008
Heide offers a variety of artist workshops every school holiday period. Supervised by art educators, these hands-on activities are designed to provide children with opportunities to engage with contemporary artists and art practices, use their imagination and learn art-making techniques, often in response to Heide’s exhibitions.
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Looking at landscapes School Holiday Activity, July 2008
Sidney Myer Education Centre,
Heide Museum fo Modern Art
© Heide Museum of Modern Art
Birds of a feather SOLD OUT
Tuesday 23 September 2008
10.00am–12.00noon
Children will be inspired by the birds that flock to Heide during spring in this drawing and sculpture workshop with Education Officer, Stephanie Karavasilis. Using inks, pastels and lightweight modelling materials, participants will learn how to create beautiful birds in both two and three dimensions. Children may bring a photograph of their favourite bird.
Tickets: Child $20, Heide Member/Concession $16
Code: EE048
Suitable for 5–10 year olds
Monumental
Thursday 25 September 2008
10.00am–1.00pm
This workshop begins with a guided tour of a selection of Heide's unique outdoor sculptures, including Ronald Upton's Stages 1, 2, 3 (1981). Inspired by the shapes and techniques of the forms encountered, children will learn how to create their own monumental sculptures from a wire armature and papier-mache.
Children are requested to wear old clothes/smock and gardening gloves to protect their hands during work with wire and pliers and to bring a box to take home finished sculptures.
Tickets: Child $25, Heide Member/Concession $20
Code: EE049
Suitable for children 10 years and up
Alice in Wonderland SOLD OUT
Tuesday 30 September 2008
10.00am–1.00pm
Melbourne illustrator Fleur Harris will explore the story that has inspired artists for decades, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, in this book-making workshop. Using collage, illustration, typography and simple book-binding techniques, children will create a collage that opens into a free-standing, concertina-style book. The workshop includes a tour of Order and dissent: works from the Heide Collection featuring Charles Blackman's Alice (1956).
Tickets: Child $25, Heide Member/Concession $20
Code: EE050
Suitable for children 8 years and up
Still life to abstraction SOLD OUT
Thursday 2 October 2008
10.00am–1.00pm
Through a range of structured activities, children will learn the processes and techniques of Melbourne contemporary artist Anna Caione, who uses collected mementos n her tactile works. Beginning with drawing exercises of still life objects, painting and collage, participants will discover how to transform their imagery into abstracted works. Children are requested to bring paper mementos, such as tickets, wrapping paper, receipts or pages of second-hand books.
Tickets: Child $25, Heide Member/Concession $20
Code: EE051
Suitable for children 7 years and up
Bookings & information:
T 03 9850 1500
education@heide.com.au
