Please donate to help keep the MakerWorld doors open
Please donate to help keep the MakerWorld doors open
Interested in our groups and want to know more about us and what we will be doing in the coming term? Read on! What we have been doing: Despite a year of lockdown we have been incredibly busy in 2020-2021. We have developed and delivered 8300 art packs to children across Kirklees as part of […]
We are loving our latest ‘how to’ film presented by one of our regular young artists at The Children’s Art School. She’s only 9 but she absolutely smashed it! This film has been made to support children who have received one of our 300 Make a BUG activity packs. These packs, funded by Kirklees Council,
Watch! 9 yr old artist presents our latest ‘How To’ film Read More →
We are just loving being back with our preschoolers! Fun creativity for 2-4yr olds on Fridays at Holmfirth Tech. 10-11am and 1.30-2.30pm.
Little Art Club is back! Read More →
Join us this half term for some creative fun- all FREE! First up- we have The Big Draw at Maker World in Huddersfield, part of the Our Biennale Festival on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October: We also have 2 drop in days at Maker World on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th October: We are
HALF TERM creativity! Read More →
We have loved being part of this project with Home Valley Sharing Memories group! The project celebrates the origins of the Holmfirth Technical Instititute, which became Holmfirth Adult Education centre and is now known as the Tech . In 1984 a newspaper article in the Huddersfield Chronicle https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Huddersfield_Chronicle_(12/May/1894)_-_A_New_Technical_Institute_for_Holmfirth reported the opening of the building and
Museum of Curiosities Read More →
January 2020 is proving an exciting time for The Children’s Art School with our launch of MakerWorld in Huddersfield town centre. This project has been made possible by the generous support of One17 Charitable trust. Based in the old Outdoor World shop in the Piazza Shopping Centre we are opposite Huddersfield Art Gallery and in
Have a look at our fantastic animation created in collaboration with Sharing Memories with all the visuals created by our 11-17yr olds at The Children’s Art School. The animation is based around memories of local people who shared their stories about Hope Bank Pleasure Gardens in Honley. Many of the children came to our classes
Animation: Tales of Hope Bank Pleasure Gardens Read More →
Woven is a Kirklees celebration of all things Textiles taking place between 8th-16th June 2019 As part of Woven The Children’s Art School have been busy delivering the Future Fashion Challenge project to Kirklees schools for the festival. We have recruited 16 schools and worked with 500 children to deliver artist led workshops developing innovative
Fantastic animation created with 5 schools across Kirklees. Poetry, visual art, animation, music and sound- brilliant!
Our Biennale animation Read More →
We have loved facilitating this collaboration between artist Zoe Robertson and Phoenix Dance, Leeds for Our Biennale www..ourbiennale.org. Not only have dance and art students worked together to really challenge their creativity but the outcomes will be taken into Kirklees schools to produce new dances which will be performed at the Our Biennale finale on
Art and Dance- collaborative project Read More →