BIG DRAW
BIG DRAW 2015 Here we go! its the Big Draw weekend! Really Hope you can Join us: 3rd October 1-4pm 4th October 12-4pm here’s what we’ve got so far:
Summer workshops 2015
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.
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Holmfirth Arts Festival-finale!
Big thanks to Holmfirth Arts Festival! The Owd Towser was the perfect place for the installation of The 180 Boggards and Jenny Green teeth puppets made by local 8-14 year olds! The project has not only engaged children with the Arts through making, music and poetry but has also engaged them with local history .
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Colour and scale
How lovely to walk in to all this colour in the studio!I love it when our Art School children work BIG! The large boards in this photo are work in progress by children aged between 9 and 12. Based on using the letters of HOPE BANK WORKS to create a composition and using colour theory
Sound track for Holmfirth Arts Festival
Holmfirth Arts Festival Installation update Wow! wow! wow! I heard the sound track today which Charlotte Watson has created for the installation at the Owd Towser……its amazing!! Made entirely of recordings of the children at the schools we visited the soundtrack layers the children’s voices saying words and phrases they have used to describe their
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Wanted posters for Holmfirth Arts Festival
Wanted posters for Holmfirth Arts Festival… look out for them around Holmfirth during the Arts Festival Our Senior Art Clubs and the Arts Award students have been busy drawing mug-shots of the dastardly Holmfirth boggard to be used in Wanted posters for the Holmfirth Arts Festival. Using charcoal and rubbers and exploring light and shade
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Holmfirth Arts Festival project update
Holmfirth Arts Festival….project update Only a few days to go before the start of the Holmfirth Arts Festival so here’s a sneaky preview of the Jenny Greenteeth and Boggard puppets hanging in the Owd Towser… Come and see it all finished and hear the amazing soundtrack … soundtrack and puppets created by the children from Scholes
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Juniors in national exhibition
Great news! The lovely ‘Dinosaur world’ created by Saturday Juniors (big print and collage featuring erupting volcanoes and added dinosaurs) has been selected to be part of a National Touring Exhibition! To find out more click this link: http://www.engage.org/genartupdate Well done Juniors!.. here’s the piece in the making….
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Our aims
Welcome to The Children’s Art School! I am thrilled to be able to announce that The Children’s Art School is now a charitable organisation. This means we can really start to get serious about promoting the value of art education for children and young people. The aims of The Children’s Art School are to promote
Holmfirth Arts Festival
‘WANTED ‘ for HOLMFIRTH ARTS FESTIVAL 2015 This project sees 200 local children imagining local folklore characters, Jenny greenteeth and the Holmfirth boggard. Artist Chloe Williams, musician Charlotte Watson and poet Victoria Garbutt have worked with 5 local schools and children at The Children’s Art School to create 200 puppet heads and to write and record
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