Designing for the future! In this workshop students will work with a variety of materials to design, construct and create fun, imaginative inventions to reduce the e ects of climate change.

Create a stuffed soft bedtime buddy whilst learning basic sewing techniques. Use fabric paint, buttons and sequins, to materialise your loveable little bedtime friend.

Spring is here and the Arts Emporium is BACK! Featuring
3 days of creative fun this multi-modal arts programme is perfect for the holidays. Children are invited to create visual artworks, costumes, stories and music; all culminating in
a short performance for whanau and friends. Suitable for
all levels and only limited by your imagination!

Step right up! Step right up! Explore the fun of the circus in the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ using creative mixed media, painting techniques, storytelling and lots of imagination to produce beautiful circus characters painted on boards.

This workshop is now fully booked.

Let’s decorate our own cotton tote bag using simple stencilling and stamping techniques. Learn how to screen print and create your own textile printing blocks as well as marble some paper. With these gorgeous creations we will make some funky stationery items. After the workshop you will take home your own decorated bag, pencil holder, clip board, magnets
and notebooks.

Create an embellished self-portrait in this fun one day workshop inspired by modern and contemporary artists. We will learn to draw our own portrait and add layers of colour and texture in acrylic paint. Our portraits will then be decorated with patterns and designs, inspired by well- known artists and our own imaginations.

Come and make an original but functional teapot in this creative pottery class. After designing your own teapots on paper, you will shape the clay with your hands, learning about sculpting techniques in an informal way. Finally, decorate your vessels with 3D applications and colourful patterns. You can also have a go on the pottery wheel. Everything is then glazed and red so you can have a tea party at home.

This workshop is now fully booked.

Dig into a big junk pile that will make you smile. Get creative circuits ring, with glue, screws, bolts and wiring. Animals, rockets, anything at all, even stu to hang on your wall. Decorate your garden or house, creating robots, alligators, a cat or a mouse!

Come and explore the elements and principles of art through traditional Māori kowhaiwhai symbols. Using the natural environment of Corban Estate as our source of inspiration, participants will design and create their own kowhaiwhai plywood panel whilst developing their drawing, stencilling and painting skills.

This workshop is now fully booked.

This hands-on class is about shaping soft clay into a choir of birds to form a wall installation or garden sculpture. Learn about modelling techniques and how to decorate your birds with colourful slips. 3D wings and feathers will be attached to make the birds even more stunning. There will also be time for you to use a pottery wheel to throw a small vessel!

Get a bit messy turning paper scraps into slushy pulp! Learn how to make environmentally friendly, unique sheets of paper, perfect for those special letters and cards.

Create a garland to decorate your room with the wildest creatures of your imagination! In this workshop we will develop our own collection of imaginary surreal creatures, draw and paint them in ne detail using special drawing tools, bright watercolours and Indian Ink, then put them together in a string garland to adorn our rooms or windows.

Make a portrait of yourself from soft white clay. In your portrait, you can be anything! Maybe a tiger or a fairy, a Māori warrior or just your gorgeous self! After designing on paper you will learn how to shape the soft material into a unique wall plaque. Colourful slips are then used to paint your clay portrait.

Join this very exciting arts group which explores and experiments with 3D sculptural creations of all kinds. Working with all sorts of materials, both hard and soft, participants will be encouraged to design and then create artworks using sculptural techniques such as modelling, assembling, carving and even casting. Creations might be practical inventions or aesthetic artworks.

Inspired by the colours and perspectives in the bush paintings of Australian artist William Robinson, we will use oil paints to make our own playful versions of NZ nature. We will look at how he changes the usual perspective of a scene and layer up our paintings to create bush artworks that are half imagined, half real. Learn to work with oil paints in this fun programme.

Choose your favourite landscape and characters to be inspired by! You will shape soft clay into a plant container adorned with 3D applications and colourful slips which tell the story of your ‘wild west’ heroes. Use your imagination and explore a variety of pottery techniques, which will help you to realize your unique designs in clay.