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As well as our fabulous swarms of buzzing bees our older groups made their very own flying machines alongside The Children’s Art School Director Chloe Williams who was commissioned to make her own fantastical flying machine. Using willow and tissue paper the groups started by creating wings or balloons: Then used junk modelling to create
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We have loved being involved in this years Holmfirth Arts Festival Parade, working alongside Bee from Handmade Parade and artist Dave Young: With the theme of Flight we had a fantastic few weeks working in the Market Hall , Holmfirth delivering our own sessions and helping out at the public workshops… We created bee
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With support from Holme Valley Parish Council we have been creating paintings to be exhibited around Holmfirth for the coming festivals. These photographs show works in progress by year 5 at Holmfirth JI and N school. Gorgeous colourful paintings which represent the festivals and the community events in Holmfirth. Look out for them in the
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Our Intermediate and senior groups really outshone themselves with this fantastic Halloween big draw! Using themselves (by drawing around each other) they used light and dark to create these skeletal/ghostly figures: Seniors started adding an accessory here and there!!
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What a great project this has been! Building, painting, drawing, collaging and printing robots… Everyone has really loved it! Little Art Club made robots… Painted robots.. and created dramatic backdrops for the robots.. Juniors made robots, painted robots…. drew their robots…. created dramatic skies… made a fabulous collage of their robots… and created their own
Only 6 weeks in to our residency and we are loving working with Huddersfield children in our studio at Byram Arcade. So far we have created a cardboard town… …with roads and buses…. ….created wonderful paintings of the Huddersfield town centre exploring architectural shapes and colours…. …. made charcoal drawings of the cardboard town created in the
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Byram Arcade, here we come! Our 6 month residency at Byram Arcade, Huddersfield starts 23rd January 2017. Read more about it here: http://www.examiner.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/new-art-school-children-open-12293529 This is the timetable: Booking is essential. It’s a half termly sign up (we follow the school terms). There are only 4 weeks in that first block. We ask for payment for the half
Another lovely project for our children and young people- the Holmfith Christmas parade takes place on 26th November at 4.30 and will be shimmering and glittering with gorgeous icy crowns, Jack Frost masks and wonderful capes depicting wintery scenes. The children and young people have embraced the opportunity to create sculpted wearables and to represent
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The Children’s Art School is expanding into Huddersfield town centre bringing more opportunities for hands-on creativity to more children and young people in Kirklees. We are very pleased to announce that we have secured funding from Kirklees Councils Arts in the Neighbourhood scheme for a 6 month residency in Huddersfield’s Byram Arcade starting in January 2017.
WOW! What an amazing day! We are so proud to have been a part of the Holmfirth Arts Festival Creature Carnival Parade.. The Children’s Art School provided the ‘Bird’ section of the parade- here they all are pre-parade but ready to go!! Little Art Club and Juniors were ducklings hatching out of eggs: Whilst their
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