Read about how New Ideas Lab project, Air Camp, amplified children’s creative and social voices.
In this interview, artist Sue Davis talks about the journey she and children have travelled making art together in ArtPlay’s Art Club.
In this interview, Efterpi Soropos discusses how she took her ‘human rooms’ practice in a new direction by creating an interactive sensory space for babies.
In this interview, Sue Giles describes how artists from Polyglot Theatre and Elbow Room used choice and reflection in workshops to explore gender identity with children aged 2 to 12.
In this interview Bronwyn Pringle discusses the opportunities and challenges of creating a public interactive exhibition through workshops with children.
In this interview artists Cat Sewell and Nancy Sposato discuss how and why they have reconfigured their interactive theatre work for children and families, The Ball Room, to create multiple aesthetic play experiences.
In our latest artist interview, Kathy Holowko shares her experiences of working with non-arts specialists like City of Melbourne Park Rangers to make a collaborative art work with children.
In this interview, read what musicians Thea Rossen and Jesse Dean learned about working with children of different ages in their New Ideas Lab project, Drip Drop Play.
Read about Sue Davis's motivations, techniques and challenges of making environmentally-themed art with children.
In early 2017, School With No Walls created Moon Broken at ArtPlay. In this interview the company’s directors Alex Walker and Hannah Liddeaux discuss what the project revealed about theatrical participation with young children and families.
The artists at Propeller Arts based their project Bunny and the UFO on playground clapping games. Read what they have to say about working with children using their own cultural treasure trove.
Theatre maker and artist Jessica Wilson has created several works at ArtPlay. Hear what she has to say about the sophisticated approaches needed in creating art with and for children. (Photo credit: Gerard Assi.)
Performance maker and clown, Shannan Lim, has a particular interest in broadening his experience in working with children. Here's what he has to say about his participation in the ArtPlay mentorship program.
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