✺ WE ARE FAMILY ✺ @arnolfiniarts ✺
POSTERS ⫸ A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
We are currently working on an exciting project celebrating the art education archives of the Arnolfini, concluding with an exhibition “Enjoy Yourself” next year.
This May half term, we invited children and their families to design playful posters showcasing past and imaginary exhibitions alongside Karen and Alice’s cherry picked activities that have been provided by the Arnolfini over the past 50 years.
Teen takeover! In spirit with the series of children’s workshops run in 1982 by students on the Art Teachers Diploma course, under the supervision of their tutor, Edward Phelps, these sessions were run by GCSE art students Peggy, Bea and Dulcie from Ashton Park School, with guidance from Karen and Alice. The students were inspired by their ongoing portfolio’s of work for their exams, looking at shape, composition, photography, typography and layout design to create stunning collage poster designs.
It was an introduction to techniques used before the aid of computers, with many materials used, such as; Letraset transfers, collage, layering, stencils and hand drawn fonts.
Drawing inspiration from Ivan Chermayeff, Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Hannah Hoch, Zdenek Seydl, Kurt Schwitters Aleksandra Nieps, @edcherverton, @johnbennettcollage, @klawerzeczy @damienpoulain @MariaLundström
Inside Feelings poster >> @claireowenillustration ✨👌🏻
BIG thank you to @johnbennettcollage for the top tips given to the students beforehand and @edcherverton for the nod to his printable colouring sheets for little hands!
A collection of posters created over the two days are on display in the Community Space on the 2nd floor.
#letsmakeartuk #letsmakeartkids #wearefamily #ArnolfiniArts #kidsmakeart #madebykids #artmakeschildrenpowerful #everyoneisanartist #artisforall #Bristolhalfterm #Bristolkids #freetodoinBristol #teentakeover
✺ WE ARE FAMILY ✺ @arnolfiniarts ✺
POSTERS ⫸ A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
We are currently working on an exciting project celebrating the art education archives of the Arnolfini, concluding with an exhibition “Enjoy Yourself” next year.
This May half term, we invited children and their families to design playful posters showcasing past and imaginary exhibitions alongside Karen and Alice’s cherry picked activities that have been provided by the Arnolfini over the past 50 years.
Teen takeover! In spirit with the series of children’s workshops run in 1982 by students on the Art Teachers Diploma course, under the supervision of their tutor, Edward Phelps, these sessions were run by GCSE art students Peggy, Bea and Dulcie from Ashton Park School, with guidance from Karen and Alice. The students were inspired by their ongoing portfolio’s of work for their exams, looking at shape, composition, photography, typography and layout design to create stunning collage poster designs.
It was an introduction to techniques used before the aid of computers, with many materials used, such as; Letraset transfers, collage, layering, stencils and hand drawn fonts.
Drawing inspiration from Ivan Chermayeff, Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Hannah Hoch, Zdenek Seydl, Kurt Schwitters Aleksandra Nieps, @edcherverton, @johnbennettcollage, @klawerzeczy @damienpoulain @MariaLundström
Inside Feelings poster >> @claireowenillustration ✨👌🏻
BIG thank you to @johnbennettcollage for the top tips given to the students beforehand and @edcherverton for the nod to his printable colouring sheets for little hands!
A collection of posters created over the two days are on display in the Community Space on the 2nd floor.
#letsmakeartuk #letsmakeartkids #wearefamily #ArnolfiniArts #kidsmakeart #madebykids #artmakeschildrenpowerful #everyoneisanartist #artisforall #Bristolhalfterm #Bristolkids #freetodoinBristol #teentakeover
✺ Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood ✺ @arnolfiniarts ✺
⫸ GALLERY GUIDE
⫸ ARNOLD ART CART
⫸ EASTER WORKSHOPS
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our We Are Family sessions. It was truly inspiring and heartening
to welcome so many grandparents, mothers, fathers, siblings, carers, aunts, uncles, cousins - all getting creative with each other.
Inspired by @Marlene_Dumas work in Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, we invited families to a celebration of collaboration by children and their carers. Drawing inky layers and adding colour and pattern, taking it in turns to lead drawing games and having fun with ways of seeing things. These sessions were less guided than usual and it was exciting to see where the materials took them.
There was also a dedicated space for mothers to make a notebook for their ideas and children to make mini books for collages whilst adults had quality time to be creative themselves.
Gallery guide - we are fortunate to work with people of all ages and stages of life. We recognise the child inside all of us and for this exhibition, we are finding playful ways to connect with the works in the show.
We are struck by the power of the self portraits in The Temple in a landscape where the artist mother is not a recognised cultural figure. We meet many artist mothers in our We Are Family workshops at Arnolfini and work with them in small but significant ways to help ease the challenges and barriers they face in accessing their own creativity. We often do this through reframing what creativity looks like when pressures on time to make and reflect are reduced and by setting up collaborative activities for mother and child to do together.
More information and to download a copy - bio link 🔝
Free accessible activities - our art cart, Arnold, is stocked with worksheets, manilla paper, self-adhesive vinyl, magazine pages, beautiful pencil crayons and more. Help yourselves to make a simple book for drawings and thoughts along
✺ Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood ✺ @arnolfiniarts ✺
⫸ GALLERY GUIDE
⫸ ARNOLD ART CART
⫸ EASTER WORKSHOPS
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our We Are Family sessions. It was truly inspiring and heartening
to welcome so many grandparents, mothers, fathers, siblings, carers, aunts, uncles, cousins - all getting creative with each other.
Inspired by @Marlene_Dumas work in Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, we invited families to a celebration of collaboration by children and their carers. Drawing inky layers and adding colour and pattern, taking it in turns to lead drawing games and having fun with ways of seeing things. These sessions were less guided than usual and it was exciting to see where the materials took them.
There was also a dedicated space for mothers to make a notebook for their ideas and children to make mini books for collages whilst adults had quality time to be creative themselves.
Gallery guide - we are fortunate to work with people of all ages and stages of life. We recognise the child inside all of us and for this exhibition, we are finding playful ways to connect with the works in the show.
We are struck by the power of the self portraits in The Temple in a landscape where the artist mother is not a recognised cultural figure. We meet many artist mothers in our We Are Family workshops at Arnolfini and work with them in small but significant ways to help ease the challenges and barriers they face in accessing their own creativity. We often do this through reframing what creativity looks like when pressures on time to make and reflect are reduced and by setting up collaborative activities for mother and child to do together.
More information and to download a copy - bio link 🔝
Free accessible activities - our art cart, Arnold, is stocked with worksheets, manilla paper, self-adhesive vinyl, magazine pages, beautiful pencil crayons and more. Help yourselves to make a simple book for drawings and thoughts along
✺ LET’S MAKE ART ✺ ART CLUBS ✺
Art For Schools is Let’s Make Art’s multimedia arts provision for schools in Bristol and beyond. We currently provide art clubs at the following schools; Ashton Gate, Southville Myrtle, St Peter's Primary and Begbrook Academy.
We only have a few spaces left at;
Friday ⫸ St Peters
Monday ⫸ Southville
Tuesday and Thursday ⫸ Ashton Gate
Begbrook and Southville (Thursday) are sold out - we do have a waiting list open for both.
⫸ Find more info about Let’s Make Art and Art For Schools please go to - https://linktr.ee/letsmakeartuk
⫸ To book your child's place at one of our Art Clubs please go to - https://buytickets.at/letsmakeartuk
Last term we explored all of this; oil pastels to decorate capes, assemblage art, writing and illustrating story books, making painted papers to create collages inspired by Eric Carle, designing pencil cases, mirror and symmetry artworks, Posca pens on photographs, colour theory by Josef Albers and boosting imaginations and creativity with drawing games in sketchbooks!
Founders, Karen and Alice, are Creators in Residence at Arnolfini and are committed to creating environments where children of all ages and abilities can express their creativity with confidence. Creative subjects in our national curriculum are becoming increasingly marginalised and they believe most children aren’t receiving adequate opportunities for expressing their creativity in the classroom. With over 30 years of educational experience between them, they endeavour to create unique and fun ways for all children to produce high quality artwork. They are passionate about the importance of creative subjects in schools and they truly believe that studying and participating in art supports learning in other subjects.
Each year we enter children’s artworks to the Royal Academy Young Artists Show and have had four successful applicants. Art leads - please get in touch if you would like us to provide an Art Cl
✺ FEBRUARY HALF TERM ✺
⫸ Elias Sime: Eregata እርጋታ
⫸ WE ARE FAMILY - Tues 13 & Wed 14 11am – 1pm and 2pm – 4pm
⫸ @arnolfiniarts
FREE, no need to book, just drop in (donations welcome)
Elias uses found objects and natural materials in his sculptures and collages. Our accompanying engagement programme invites children and their families to @arnolfiniarts to enter his world.
Join us this February half term where we’re going to be focusing on collections and printing organic patterns in relation to Elias Sime’s work.
Elias Sime is known for his intricate artworks made from everyday objects. These objects are carefully chosen and collected over years. Elias is interested in the time it takes to collect, store and make the artworks as well as the previous lives the objects have had and the communications they’ve carried.
One special place Elias goes to find and collect materials for his art is the Menalesh Tera Market in Addis Ababa. Menalesh Tera translates as ‘What do you have?’ Let’s Make Art also has a special place they visit to find interesting objects and collections for their workshops, @scrapstorebris in Bristol. Alice and Karen like the way they never know what they will find and how what they find dictates what is made.
Join us in a joyful celebration of collecting and collections, printing and drawing inspired by Elias Sime’s processes
Make your own printing blocks and add colour and Zoma inspired patterns to posters of the Arnolfini
Add your own collections with Furby coloured pencils to A0 posters of a curiosity cabinet on the wall.
Print with collections of found objects
Explore the patterns made by collections of highly textured found objects by making rubbings
In the words of Jeremy Rees, founder of Arnolfini; Come and “enjoy yourself”!
More information in our bio link 🔝
#letsmakeartuk #wearefamily #EliasSime #Zoma #Ethiopia #Arnolfini #ArnolfiniArts #kidsmakeart #kidsactivities #creativekids #ki
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