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We have loved being involved in this years Holmfirth Arts Festival Parade, working alongside Bee from Handmade Parade and artist Dave Young: With the theme of Flight we had a fantastic few weeks working in the Market Hall , Holmfirth delivering our own sessions and helping out at the public workshops… We created bee […]
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With support from Holme Valley Parish Council we have been creating paintings to be exhibited around Holmfirth for the coming festivals. These photographs show works in progress by year 5 at Holmfirth JI and N school. Gorgeous colourful paintings which represent the festivals and the community events in Holmfirth. Look out for them in the
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We are very excited to announce that The Children’s Art School has been given a £46, 000 Grants for the Arts Award by Arts Council England to deliver a Kirklees Children’s Biennale (that’s a bi-annual Arts Festival !) Supported by and on behalf of the Kirklees Cultural Education Partnership the Biennale will reach hundreds of
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Our Intermediate and senior groups really outshone themselves with this fantastic Halloween big draw! Using themselves (by drawing around each other) they used light and dark to create these skeletal/ghostly figures: Seniors started adding an accessory here and there!!
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Great work being produced at our evening class for high school kids and grown ups. This 6 week course aims to develop observation skills and to enable students to create the illusion of 3D using light and shade as well as begin to understand composition . We are exploring drawing and painting, using pencil,
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We have loved being part of the Honley Feast Parade in collaboration with Rhythm Sticks. With a nod to the history of Honley Feast when the day would start with a circus parading through the streets Katie Mallard from Rhythm Sticks led a samba band wearing hand-made costumes-(lions and giraffes ) and children from Farnley
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A great day full of energy and creativity at Unity Day in Hyde Park, Leeds. Supporting University of Huddersfield and their Rotor project we offered children and families the chance to get creative with cardboard and to visualise their community by drawing each other. Thanks to the School of Art, Design and Architecture at
As part of our Byram Arcade residency Oaks Primary School, Huddersfield brought 15 classes to experience making large scale artwork. Each group had an afternoon with us in our studio and the results were fantastic. Each Year group had a different theme.. Yr 4’s were exploring the theme ‘Pollution Solution’ We made a BIG
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The Dragon of Castle Hill All our young artists at Byram Arcade have loved making and creating dragons over the last few weeks! Our Saturday Art School groups all contributed to creating this fantastic charcoal back drop… The big 2d dragons were made collaboratively… and involved a lot of splashing, pouring and dripping of paint…
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What a great project this has been! Building, painting, drawing, collaging and printing robots… Everyone has really loved it! Little Art Club made robots… Painted robots.. and created dramatic backdrops for the robots.. Juniors made robots, painted robots…. drew their robots…. created dramatic skies… made a fabulous collage of their robots… and created their own