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The Makers Guild in Wales organises workshops for schools to fit in with the National Curriculum.

Please telephone our Education Officer at Craft in the Bay to discuss details - 029 2048 4611

Surface decoration techniques on clay

This workshop is available to sixth form groups studying art and design.

A professional potter will teach students how to create a fascinating array of pattern and design on clay surfaces using coloured slip. Techniques include; slip marbling, feathering, slip trailing and slip printing using newspaper and latex resist.

Students will be able to explore these processes on flat slabs of clay and will be shown examples of how they can also be applied to three dimensional clay forms.

The tutor will show how all of these techniques can be applied to course work and how designs evolve from their source material such as patterns in nature or within the urban environment

Recycled jewellery design

Suitable for Key Stages 3 upwards.

Recycling is always a popular subject and this is a wonderful opportunity to learn how to create innovative wearable designs using plastics, wire, card and fabrics. Adaptable to endless themes such as specific cultures, urban or natural environment, music, carnivals - the day can be individually designed to support your school project work.

Students will learn how to cut, twist, layer, weave, stitch and many more techniques to create colourful jewellery and accessories.

All materials will be provided although students are welcome to bring along bits of wire, thread, old beads etc that they have been collecting.

Weaving

Suitable for Key Stages 2 upwards.

An endless assortment of materials can be used in weaving - from man-made materials such as plastics and wire to natural grasses, twigs, papers and threads.

Students will be able to explore how these materials can be woven together on a simple card loom to create variations in colour and texture. Individual weavings can later be combined to create a stunning wall hanging.

Sculpture in Wire

With reference to historical and contemporary sculpture, this workshop will explore structure and form through bending and twisting malleable wire to create three dimensional forms.

Adaptable to support your school project work.
Suitable for Key Stages 3 upwards.

Constructing in Card

A versatile material (and cheap!) - this workshop will look at different ways of constructing three-dimensional forms in cardboard, such as the human figrue, animals and masks. Papier mache will be applied to add more detailed form to the sculptures and give different textures and patterns to the surface.
Suitable for Key Stages 2 upwards

Clay Sculpture

During this workshop students will have the opportunity to explore handbuilding and modelling processes in clay to create sculptural forms. Adaptable to your school projects, the workshop will look at the work of other artists in relation to the skills being covered.

Clay work can be left at Craft in the Bay for firing and returned to the school at a later date (usually allowing 2 weeks for drying and firing).

Suitable for all Key Stages

Professional Development Days

At Craft in the Bay we aim to prove teachers with access to training events in which they can learn skills in working with and applying materials and processes to further their own professional development as teachers of art and design. These skills can then be applied in the classroom with pupils and students.

Professional artists and educators are employed to deliver our training days. Teachers from all sectors of education have found these training days invaluable in providing opportunities to learn skills and making within specialist craft areas and in working alongside an artist.

The training days can be adapted to both the primary and secondary sector, or to teachers within further/higher education.

Some of the training days offered include; feltmaking, pottery, recycled jewellery, paper crafts, fabric manipulation.

We are able to take a maximum of 10 teachers per session.
Training can either occur at Craft in the Bay or at your school/college.

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