NOTE: Please see Special events and Free stuff to explore for more activities for this age group.
Coming up
Font Factory Intensive
Artists: Annasophia Larsen, Naasicaa Larsen, Geoff Riding
What is your favourite font? Impact, Comic Sans or Courier New? Learn about how the fonts we use on computers, iPads and smart phones are created. Can the fonts we use show if we feel excited or bored?
Welcome to the Font Factory discovery tour led by design studio Copy Boy. Not only will you learn about the history of fonts and how fonts work today, but you will learn how to make your very own!
First take recycled materials and everyday objects and transform them into original-style letters; then watch as the Font Factory turns your 3D letters into a digital font; and to finish type a message and arrange it to create a poster to take home!
Workshop includes a Font Factory booklet designed by Copy Boy with fun font facts and pics of a few of their favourite handmade letters.
Age: 9 to 12 years
Date and time: Thursday 4 April, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Cost: $15 per child
Bookings essential: book online for 9 to 12 years
Age: 5 to 12 years
Dates and times: Saturday 6 April and Sunday 7 April, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Cost: $15 per child
Bookings essential: book online for 5 to 12 years
All children under eight years must be accompanied by an adult.
Splat!
Artist: James Berlyn
At Splat!, you become the artist. Experiment with the fun Splat! apparatus on offer to make your artwork…
Catapult paint, stomp it, beat it and glitter splat it. Once you’ve had a go, make a plan to create your masterpiece and get to work. There may also be the chance to join forces with some other Splat! folk to create a group painting. Oh, and don’t forget to have fun (that shouldn’t be too hard).
When you have finished, your work will be photographed and emailed to you.
And while it’s drying it will be displayed with all the other ‘Splats’ – and may even be selected for an exhibition at ArtPlay.
Age: 9 to 12 years
Date and times: Thursday 11 April; 10.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm
Cost: $15 per child
Bookings essential: book online for 9 to 12 years
Age: 5 to 12 years
Date and times: Sunday 14 April; 10.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm
Cost: $15 per child
Bookings essential: book online for 5 to 12 years
All children under eight years must be accompanied by an adult.
ArtClub
Artist: Sue Davis
Art club is a new series of art workshops at ArtPlay. Each week explore the work and ideas of an artist and use this as inspiration to experiment with materials and techniques, while developing skills and confidence in your own self expression.
Explore a wide range of visual arts including installation art, paint, clay, earth art, photography and drawing. Learn sculpture construction using wood, plastic, fabric, plaster, cane and many other materials.
Artists’ work to be explored in this series includes Paul Yore, Andy Warhol, Andy
Goldsworthy and Claes Oldenberg. For more course details, please contact ArtPlay.
Age: 7 to 12 years
Dates and times: Saturdays 20 April, 27 April, 4 May, 11 May and 18 May; 10am to 11.30am
ArtClub is a series of workshops – you must book for all dates
Cost: $70 per child
Bookings essential: book online
All children under eight years must be accompanied by an adult.