Auckland City Art Gallery September/October 2009 School Holiday Programme

Posted at 9:45am on Tuesday September 8th 2009 by Chris
Filed under: School Holiday Activities

The Auckland City Art Gallery runs a school holiday programme every school holidays. This blog post has information about the school holiday programme for the September/October 2009 school holidays.

Costs etc

$12 per child which includes all materials and light refreshments. Limited to 25 per workshop.

Self Portrait with a Favourite Toy

This programme is for children aged 5 to 10.

These holidays we get inspired by Rita Angus’s famous portrait of her friend’s twin girls so bring along your favourite toy so we can photograph it and then show you some great techniques to paint yourself with the toy. So claim a space on the lounge room wall.
The painting will be on gesso cardboard and we may use some mixed media, like fabric as well.

This programme runs from 10am to 12pm on the following days:

Self Portrait with Hat

This programme is for children aged 10 to 13.

Lots of artists have painted themselves wearing a hat. Certainly Rita Angus did. So bring along your strangest weirdest and hopefully most favourite hat. We will then photograph yourself in the hat and use this as the starting point for a self-portrait painting. The paintings could be large and will be on special painting board

This programme runs from 10am to 12pm on the following days:

A Story of my life

This programme is for children aged 10 to 13.

In the painting Donna Nobis Pacem, Rita Angus cleverly combined a range of symbols and imagery to create a rich narrative of someone she greatly admired. We are going to create an amazing artwork, that tells the story of your life through an a array of media using the style of Angus’s work as inspiration.

This programme runs from 10am to 12pm on the following days:

Please note

Classes may be documented and images used by the Gallery for publicising children and family activities. Please let Gallery staff know if do not wish your child to be filmed or photographed.

More information

Click here to go through to the Children and Families - School Holidays programme page on the Auckland Art Gallery website for more details and to book a place for your child.