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VOTE FOR CHLOE WILLIAMS! Chloe is the Founder and Director of The Children’s Art School and has been nominated for a Community Arts Award in the Yorkshire Choice Awards! The nomination is for her achievements with MakerWorld and Our Biennale. The awards are determined by public vote. The more votes we get for Chloe, the greater the chances
We are delighted to be delivering Our Biennale again this year, supported by Arts Council England, Kirklees Council, KYOM23 and Little Lives. Our theme is Magnificent Me! This is an opportunity for children to take over the streets, make a noise, be heard, be seen and look magnificent! We want children and young people to feel that they have a right
Our Biennale – ‘Magnificent Me!’ Read More →
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 so delighted to be collaborating with Kirklees Museums and Kirklees Culture Declares on this project for Our Biennale. The project started with our children and young people drawing one of a shortlist of five birds at risk in our area: cuckoo, twite, ring ouzel, curlew and yellow hammer. Writer Rob Cowen chose the cuckoo
Kirklees Cuckoo- a WithNature2020 project Read More →
In October 2020 we reopened our Maker World space in Huddersfield’s Piazza shopping centre and launched Our Biennale! This first event was a weekend of drop-in workshops as part of The Big Draw – the world’s largest drawing festival. Under the theme ‘The Big Green Draw: A Climate of Change’, we invited families into a story-telling experience
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In the last few weeks we have worked with 330 children in 5 schools across Kirklees to create an animation around the theme of Darkness and Light; another project for Our Biennale www.ourbiennale.org 4 primary schools ( Marsden I and N, Birkby Juniors, Hillside Primary and Holmfirth JI and N) initially developed ideas through poetry
Our Darkness and Light Animation Read More →
With support from the Penistone Line Partnership the first station to hang paintings for the Great Kirklees Railway Exhbition is Honley. 30 paintings are now exhibited along the platform at Honley Station depicting Castle Hill, Honley, The Penistone Line and the Tour de France. Both colour and imagery reflect the theme of Darkness and Light
Paintings now exhibited at Honley Station Read More →
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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We had some lovely busy workshops this half term creating collaborative collages all about Huddersfield Parks (the artworks are all ready to be used on the Parks departments new vans!) Some lovely colour through printing brightened up our grey and wet half term! And everyone loved making bird masks.. …..we had some lovely painted jackdaws
Spring Half term workshop fun! Read More →
Summer creativity 2015! We are offering workshops for school aged children- fun, messy and creative! To book a place contact Chloe on 07806334728 or leave a message here.
Summer workshops 2015 Read More →