families first, barber institute of fine art, april - sept 2015
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A programme of Family-friendly events at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.TRANSCRIPT
APRIL - SEPTEMBER 2015
SUMMER ART SCHOOLS11AM – 12.30PM: AGES 4 – 8 YRS | 1.30 – 3PM: AGES 8 – 12 YRS£25 per child. Children attend all three half-day sessions.
SUPER SCULPTURE: HEADS & FACES4, 5 & 6 AUGUST
DAY ONE: Explore the galleries and learn to draw heads and faces.DAY TWO: Make your portrait into a modroc sculpture.DAY THREE: Get painting to finish off all of your artwork in style!
BECOME A PRINTMAKER!: LANDSCAPES18, 19 & 20 AUGUST
DAY ONE: Explore our galleries and create your own landscape collage.DAY TWO: Experiment with mono printing on top of your collage and create a collagraph plate.DAY THREE: Print your collagraph using the press and create a landscape using poly-block printing.
Top tips for drawing your favourite Barber painting!
Draw the weird and wonderful sculpture on our University sculpture trail.
Learn about perpective and challenge yourself to draw our galleries!
Explore the old and new buildings on campus and make your own architectural drawings.
Panoramic drawings from high up on campus – draw what you can see miles away.
2 August
9 August
16 August
23 August
30 August
HOW TO BOOKFor further information on
any of our events, visit www.barber.org.uk/learning.
To book workshops please contact 0121 414 2261 or
[email protected], Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm.
No bookings can be taken at weekends.
For weekly updates about
events, ‘Like’ us on Facebook – Families
First at the Barber Institute. ACCESS/FACILITIES
Level access is available if you cannot manage the stairs at the main entrance, but please phone in advance to make arrangements. Gallery shop, light refreshments, WC, lift and baby-changing facilities are available. Breast-feeding is welcome throughout the building.
By TrAINUniversity station, a 10-minute walk from the Barber, is served by trains from Birmingham New Street, Lichfield and Longbridge, Cardiff and Worcestershire. Check train times and buy tickets at www.thetrainline.com
By BUSThere are frequent buses from the city centre past the bottom of Edgbaston Park road (61 and 63 operated by National Express West Midlands).
By CArNorth East Car Park (off Pritchatts Road) is a five minute walk away. Charges apply Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 4.30pm.
THE BArBEr INSTITUTE OF FINE ArTSUniversity of BirminghamEdgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TSGeneral Enquiries – 0121 414 7333Workshop Bookings – 0121 414 2261Website – www.barber.org.uk
ADMISSION TO GALLErIES AND ALL EXHIBITIONS IS FrEE
OPENING HOUrSMonday – Friday: 10am – 5pm; Saturday/Sunday: 11am – 5pm(Closed Good Friday 3 April)How To Find USThe Barber Institute is located in south-west Birmingham, approximately three miles from the city centre, at the East Gate of the University of Birmingham, off Edgbaston Park road.
FREE parking is available on campus around the Barber outside these times
and all day on bank holidays.
SUMMER TASTER SUNDAYSCome along for a creative taste of what we do all year round!Explore the Barber and the University campus with our artists in these creative drawing workshops.11AM – 12 noon: 4 – 8 YRS | 12.30 – 1.30PM: 8 – 12 YRS£3 per child, booking essential.
ROMAN COINS AND MEDALSwEdnESdAY 8 & THURSdAY 9 APRiL
11AM – 12.30PM: 4 – 8 YEARS | 1.30 – 3PM: 8 – 14 YEARS
Hear legendary tales of ancient rome & design your own roman-inspired coins to take home!
£15 PER CHILD – CHILDREN ATTEND BOTH HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS.
SPECIAL EVENTS
COMMUNITY DAY: ART EXPLORERS!SUndAY 6 SEPTEMBER 11AM – 4PM
Become an Art Explorer at this year’s Community Day! Enjoy tales in the galleries with our storyteller and step back in time as you see artists come to life! Hunt
down your favourite artworks in our gallery explorer’s treasure hunt, create your own ‘krazy kaleidoscope’ and make an arty pin-badge to take home.
Fun for the whole family!
FREE, DROP IN ANY TIME. ALL AGES WELCOME.
BARBER YOUTHAGEd 13 – 18 And inTo ART?
Join BARBER YoUTH! TUESdAYS, 4.30 – 6.30PM
Come along for a free taster session. For more information call Alex on 0121 414 2261
£5 per session. Booking essential.
HOW TO BOOKFor further information on any of our events,
visit www.barber.org.uk/learning. To book workshops please contact 0121 414 2261
or [email protected], Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm.
No bookings can be taken at weekends.
11AM – 12.30PM: AGES 4 – 8 YRS | 1.30 – 3PM: AGES 8 – 12 YRS | £5 PER CHiLd; BooKinG ESSEnTiAL.CREATIVE SUNDAY WORKSHOPS
SUNDAY 13
SUNDAY 20
SUNDAY 27
Heritage Heroes
2 sides to every story
3D Music
Celebrate Birmingham Heritage Week, making modroc sculptures of local heroes.
What happened next? Draw a ‘before & after’ Barber story on a double-sided panel like our De Beer painting.
What would music look like in 3D? Explore colour, texture & form in this workshop with a live musician.
Make modroc sculptures of the University’s heroes – scientists, explorers…even Lady Barber!
Learn about our amazing De Beer double-sided panel & make your own, illustrating a ‘before & after’ Barber story.
Listen to live music & make a matching sculpture inspired by The Stravinsky Fountain in Paris.
SEPTEMBER
APRIL 4 – 8 YEARS 8 – 12 YEARS
SUNDAY 12
SUNDAY 19
SUNDAY 26
Barber Bags
Shields & Coats of Arms
Spring Scenes
Decorate totes with Barber scenes using fabric pens & crayons.
Design your own coat of arms to go on a modroc shield.
Venture outside the Barber and draw the plants, flowers and trees of spring.
Design a tote featuring a Barber work, using fabric pens, crayons & stamps.
Inspired by the Barber’s own coats of arms, design a modroc shield.
Discover nature in our collection then venture outside to make your own drawings.
JUne
SUNDAY 7
SUNDAY 21
SUNDAY 28
Opera comesto life!
Printed patterns
Bold self-portraits
Celebrate the student opera by drawing performers in full costume & hearing them sing!
Search the Barber for unusual patterns then design & make your own patterned print.
Create a colourful self-portrait, using collage & oil pastel to form layers & texture.
Study our opera singers in their costumes, drawing different poses with soft pastels.
Explore the patterns around the Barber. Design, & produce your own patterned lino print.
Compose a collage & oil pastel self-portrait. Experiment with colour blending, creating textures & shadow.
MAY
SUNDAY 3
SUNDAY 10
SUNDAY 17
SUNDAY 24
SUNDAY 31
Simian Selfies
Strange sculptures!
Textile idol dolls
Crazy caricatures
Relief soap carving
Make your own New Art West Midlands - inspired simian soft sculpture using fabric and buttons.
Create fun sculptures using everyday objects like inflatables & straws.
Inspired by Lucy Dore’s idols, create your own textile doll.
Draw your own wacky caricatures with pencil & chalk.
Make sculpture with an unusual but easy to carve material: soap!
Design & construct a soft sculpture, turning yourself into a 3D simian!
Work with artist Kathleen Fabre to create conceptual sculptures using unexpected materials.
Who’s your idol? Make your own textile doll by drawing onto fabric & sewing together.
Learn to draw imaginative caricatures using pencil, ink & chalk.
Learn relief carving techniques to recreate the Barber’s finest sculptures in soap.
JULY
SUNDAY 5
SUNDAY 12
SUNDAY 19
SUNDAY 26
Clay Characters
Painting faces - up close & colourful
Drypoint printing
Sandy seascapes
Model a head using clay, inspiredby sculptor Frank Dobson.
Inspired by painter Matthew Smith, create a colourful, up-close portrait.
Make a textured drypoint print using etching & scratching techniques.
Paint a seaside holiday (imaginary or real), using coloured sand in your paint.
Learn about the sculptures of Frank Dobson to create your own stylised bust in clay.
Study faces up-close & create a portrait using acrylic paint, whilst learning about colour theory.
Create a detailed drypoint print using cross-hatching to create light & shade.
Discover texture painting & create a seascape inspired by artists Eugène Boudin & Gwen John.
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MISS CLARA’S SPECIAL DAY!SATURdAY 2 MAY 11AM – 3PM
Celebrate Save the rhino day, as Anna Conomos launches her new children’s book Clara: The Rhinoceros Who Wanted to be a Film Star, inspired by our own
sculpture! Accessorise Miss Clara in our art workshop and watch Miss Clara-
inspired films curated by Flatpack Festival. Hear exciting tales in the galleries and go on the hunt for animals and exotic lands
in our paintings.
FREE, DROP IN ANY TIME. ALL AGES WELCOME.