In May this year I visited Winnall Community Club and ran a textile workshop with the youngsters. Spread out over 2 sessions, (One at the Winchester Colour Factory and the other at Winnall Community Centre) we created a 3D wall hanging depicting Winnall.
The youngsters let loose with fabric crayons and learnt how to sew on the sewing machine, they had a go sewing buttons and designing the banner.
I am so impressed with all the hard work. The wall hanging is how proudly hung in the community centre.
It’s been quiet around here lately, but there are big plans in the pipeline to set up an ArtStart Saturday Club for youngsters and an ArtSTART Arts Award Centre for 11 – 25’s, both at The Tower Arts Centre, Winchester.
ArtStart is registered as an Arts Award Centre and trained to deliver this programme, but it can’t provide a base for young people to come to us, so we don’t have regular clients. Not having a base also makes it hard for people to find us and see what we are doing. We are planning a taster day for both of these projects, in September and hope they prove to be popular!
ArtSTART always loves going mobile for one off activities and of course helping out other clubs by providing cover/support when needed.
Last week we went to Winchester School of Art to help deliver a print workshop with AimHigher Children in Care as part of their Spring Event. The day was lead by WSA print technician and supported by ArtSTART.
There were about 15 youths ranging from the age of 13 – 20 and lots of mentors so it was a very busy day! We got stuck into monoprinting and mirror writing (And testing if it worked when printed – The writing should appear as normal but you have to write backwards. This was hilarious and even I couldn’t do it properly!) We made a group print, printed a variety of leaves and the workshop ended with a tour of the school. It was a terrific day and here are the photos to prove. Thank you to WSA for inviting us!
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New! Textile Art and Design Workshops at The Colour Factory, Winchester for children age 9 and over.
Day: Friday’s 4:10 – 5:30pm
Venue: The Colour Factory – Opposite River Park Leisure Centre.
Teacher: Professional artist and craft maker Donna Vokes. Donna holds a full CRB and regularly works within schools and art centres to deliver art workshops as a freelance teacher under the name of ArtSTART.
Course Information: Sessions involve sewing by hand, having a go on a sewing machine, learning how to sew buttons on, designing items to make, pattern cutting and fabric painting. Activities are suitable for beginners as well as advanced and are tailored to suit different ages.
Activities include making: Scary Pumpkin and Ghostly Lampshade, Trick or Treat Pumpkin Bag , Stuffed Felt Skeleton/Ghost, Stylish Puffy Pillowcase Cover, Cool Chunky Woolly Warmer, Cheeky Face Canvas Bag.
More information here: Textile club
Hello Parents,
I hope you’ve had a great summer. Art club will be starting up next week. Art Club has been running for two years now and numbers have been down this year. To take a break and make a change, I will be delivering Stitch Club to those over the age of 7, on Wednesday’s as an after school club rather than during Monday lunch time. After school club offers a full hour as opposed to 30 minutes during lunchtime club’s thus offering greater value for money at only £5 per child per week. This is just to trial the idea. If your child is keen to join art club, please register your interests by email. donnavokes@hotmail.com or post your comments here on our blog.
The dates for Stitch Club are as follows:
Starting on Wednesday 22nd Sept 3.30 – 4.30 and ending on 20th October. This 5 week course is £25.
Booking forms are available to download below. Please click on the link.
If you are new and haven’t already filled in a media release form, please download the form below.
MASTER Parent media release form – general
As ever, it’s always a pleasure to work with the children. New faces are always welcome. I look forward to seeing you!
What will we be creating?
We will be getting ready for Halloween, making a stuffed felt skeleton/ghost, trick or treat bag as well as designing our own lampshades and puppets.
This year ArtSTART visited St Bede School in the centre of Winchester to work with 45 children over two days. The children were split up into 5 groups and each had a workshop in flag making.
We experimented with using fabric crayons directly onto the flags. These were later ironed and attached to a rod. Some children used a mixture of drawing and sewing skills and all the children created beautifully illustrated flags representing this years theme, Winchester Myths and Legends. The children also draw a picture each which were then sewed onto two large banners.
The children took part in a procession along with other local schools and together we walked through the city proudly waving our flags and banners.
It was a pleasure to work with the school and it’s students who all behaved so well and worked so hard.
Information for Sparsholt Primary School Parents – Keep an eye out for Club booking forms coming out to existing members next week. These forms are for clubs starting after the Easter holidays. Alternatively you can print off the forms here – See Sparsholt School clubs in the menu bar.
