Newsletter 2015 Winter, Term 3

Welcome to Term 3!

We hope you enjoyed the holidays as much as we have here at Young at Art.  We are extremely proud of the work our students have produced Auckland wide these holidays.

TERM 3 AFTER SCHOOL CLASSES

We are excited to be commencing our Ponsonby after school classes this term in Ponsonby Community centre on Tuesday afternoons.

Classes will commence in Pukekohe and Ponsonby for Term 3 week commencing Monday 27^th July (2nd week of term as usual).

As usual our existing student’s places roll on to the next term unless I am informed otherwise.

 

Pukekohe  – After school Art class details:

     Monday  (6 years+)  3.30pm – 4.30pm  WETA workshop

     Tuesday (9 years+)  3.30 – 4.30pm HOME studio   

     Tuesday (10 years+) 6.30-7.30pm  HOME studio   

     Wednesday (6 years+) 3.30pm – 4.30pm  HOME studio   

 

Ponsonby – After school Art class details:

     Tuesday (5-9 yrs)  3.30 – 4.30pm Ponsonby Community Centre

     Tuesday ( 9-14 yrs) 4.45-5.45pm  Ponsonby Community Centre

 

For more information or if you would like to reserve a place for your child please email: anna@youngatart.co.nz, bookings are essential as places are limited.
CLAY Workshop – Nathan Homestead, Manurewa

We are also excited to be offering classes from a new venue at Nathan Homestead, Manurewa.  We will be kicking off with a 4 x week CLAY course commencing Monday 27^th July, 4.00-5.30pm (7 yrs+)
SATURDAY WORKSHOPS – Pukekohe

We are fortunate to have guest tutor Susan Louie for term 3 offering a specialist glass casting workshop in our home studio.  We will also be offering an acrylic painting workshop and getting our new printing press into action with a dry point etching workshop.

Workshop: GLASS CASTING (9 years plus)
Tutor: Susan Louie
When: Saturday 8th August, 10am-12.30pm
Where: Young at Art Home Studio, 29 Roulston Street, PUKEKOHE
Cost: $45.00

Workshop: PRINTING WORKSHOP, Dry point (7 years plus)
Tutor: Anna Molineux
When: Saturday 29th August, 10am-2pm
Where: Young at Art Home Studio, 29 Roulston Street, PUKEKOHE
Cost: $40.00

Workshop: ACRYLIC PAINTING, Apples (8 years plus)
Tutor: Anna Molineux
When: Saturday 18th September, 9am-2pm
Where: Young at Art Home Studio, 29 Roulston Street, PUKEKOHE
Cost: $50.00

 

Adults Studio Time

Looking for a creative space for your art projects? Then come along to our home studio space on a Friday open studio session for adults 9.30-2.30pm. Tea and coffee provided, large easels and supervised use of our printing press available. Please supply your own art materials.
Cost: $20 per session (or $150.00 for 9 x week term commencing Friday 31st July)

PRESCHOOL SESSIONS – ‘ARTFUL SPLODGERS’ are now available for Term 3!
When: Tuesdays, 10.00-11.00am, commencing Tuesday 28th July
Cost: Term 3, 9 sessions $85.00
Who: Children aged 3-5 years old, parent/caregiver also to attend
Where: Young at Art Home Studio, 29 Roulston Street, Pukekohe

 

Feedback

We love to receive your feedback to ensure we are on the right track, positive or negative it all helps us grow.  We are offering a $5.00 discount on our Spring holiday classes to anyone who completes the following feedback form in the next 10 days. Please click link below to complete the form:

Link for feedback form

Recycled Treasure

We love to create projects from other people’s unwanted treasures.  Please let us know if you have anything exciting in your garage or shed which you would like to dispose of our way.

In particular this term we are on the look out for ice cream container lids (our paint palettes) and jam jars please.

Arty Parties, Face Painting & Entertainment

Don’t forget we also offer ‘Arty Party’s’, face painting, fairy, glam or gore parties, balloon twisting & other entertainment through Magical Masquerade Professional Face Painting.   www.magicalmasquerade.co.nz.
Bookings are essential for all of the above classes as we limit sessions to small numbers.

For more information please contact Anna on anna@youngatart.co.nz

 

 

 

Christmas is coming! Term 4 Newsletter 2014

WOW!!!  What an awesome spring holidays we have all had. Full of creative workshops and also our exhibition opening in Franklin Art Centre.

Our tutors and I are extremely proud of all of our student’s wonderful work and we’re thrilled to receive so much beautiful work back for the exhibition this year.

The students exhibition runs from Thurs 9th October to Thursday 23rd October.  Please feel free to go along and check it out and invite others to attend too!
 

TERM 4 AFTER SCHOOL CLASSES

This term we will be kicking off with a Halloween project with our crafty tutor Cherie (as I am away for our first week of classes).  When I return we will be straight into hand print portraits, two point perspectives, followed with a Christmas dimensional piece of art.  We will also be working on our Christmas collaboration for the Santa Parade.

Classes will commence in Pukekohe for term 4 on Monday 20th October – the 2nd week of term as usual. 

If you would like to reserve a place for your child please email as soon as possible as we do have a waiting list for some classes.

 
After school Art class details:

• Monday and Wednesday groups (6 years +) 3.30pm – 4.30pm
• Tuesday group (9 years +) 3.30 – 4.30pm

Please contact Anna on 09 238 1939 / mob. 0297 712 923 to register for this class, places are limited.

If you are interested in after school classes in any other areas please contact us to see what arrangements can be made.


NEW Additional older student class for 2014 – Due to popular demand we are looking to start a later art class for older children on a Tuesday for 2014 (6.30-7.30pm).  Please contact us with your expression of interest if this is of interest to you for term 4.

Clay Course – Children and Adults
We will be holding the following clay class during term 4.  Please contact us as soon as possible to book as places are limited.

     Children’s Clay two day workshop:
     Saturday 29th November & Saturday 6th December
     10am-2pm $70.00*

     Adults Clay two evening workshop:
     Thursday 27th November & Thursday 4th December,
     7pm – 9pm.  Cost $80.00*
     *Includes all materials and kiln fees
 

Adult Time out sessions
The time out sessions have now moved to Wednesday evenings 7-9pm and commence on Wednesday 23rd October.  Feel free to bring along your own project to work on in creative company.  Contact us for more information.
 
 
Santa Parade – Pukekohe
Pukekohe Santa Parade this year will be held on Sunday 7th December at 2pm.  We will be working on a collaborative project during term 4 but would also love all our other students to come along and join us in the parade.
 

Arty Parties, Face Painting & Entertainment
Don’t forget we also offer ‘Arty Party’s’, face painting, fairy, glam or gore parties, balloon twisting & other entertainment through Magical Masquerade Professional Face Painting  (our sister company). www.magicalmasquerade.co.nz.

Recycling
We love to recycle at Young At Art!  We are currently on the lookout for metal coat hangers for our sculpture project but always love to receive anything exciting to set us off on a creative challenge.


For more information please contact Anna onanna@youngatart.co.nz or phone: 0297 712 923.

Best Regards,
Anna Molineux
Young At Art Ltd
Ph. 09 238 1939 / Mob. 0297 712 923
Website: www.youngatart.co.nz
Email: anna@youngatart.co.nz

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WELCOME TO TERM 3, 2014 – NEWSLETTER

We hope that you all enjoyed term 2 and the busy holiday workshops with us.  We are delighted to have had so many new faces joining our familiar ones too.

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Term 3 after school classes
We will be diving into term 3 with silk screen printing, surreal skylines, our artist study will be Miro (Sculptures) and we will be continuing our drawing studies.

Classes will commence in Pukekohe for the term 3 on Monday 28th July the 2nd week of term as usual.  If you would like to reserve a place for your child please email as soon as possible.

If your child was registered last term they will be automatically re-registered for this term.  Please let us know ASAP if they do not require their place this term.

After school Art class details:-

• Monday and Wednesday groups (6 years +) 3.30pm – 4.30pm
• Tuesday group (9 years +) 3.30 – 4.30pm

We only have a couple of places available for these classes at present.  Please contact Anna on 09 238 1939 / mob. 0297 712 923 to register for this class, places are limited.

If you are interested in after school classes in any other areas please contact us to see what arrangements can be made.

Clay course or Home school classes
If you are interested in a clay course or in arranging classes for home school students please contact us to discuss options further.

Students Exhibition dates
We have the dates set for our Young at Art 2014 exhibition from 10th October through to 22nd October.  Opening night for our student family and friends will be on Thursday 9th October.  This exhibition is open to all Young at Art students (old and new) who have produced work with us in the last year in after school, home school or holiday’s workshops.   We will email more exhibition information in September.  Please could you keep your children’s artwork stored safely in the meantime.

Arty Parties, Face Painting & Entertainment
Don’t forget we also offer ‘Arty Party’s’, face painting, fairy, glam or gore parties, balloon twisting & other entertainment through Magical Masquerade Professional Face Painting  (our sister company). www.magicalmasquerade.co.nz.

Cathy Davies – Exhibition
The very talented Cathy Davies, who is an amazing local artist, will be holding an exhibition of her own work. We would love to see you at this opening!

Recycling
We love to recycle at Young At Art!  We are currently on the lookout for metal coat hangers for our sculpture project but always love to receive anything exciting to set us off on a creative challenge.

We wish you a creative and warm winter term.

Best regards,
Anna Molineux
Young At Art Ltd                                                            
Ph. 09 238 1939 / Mob. 0297 712 923
Website: www.youngatart.co.nz
Email: anna@youngatart.co.nz

Counting down to the Young @ Art exhibition at  the Community Gallery, Franklin Arts Centre, Pukekohe – opening 26th September to Friday 11th October. This is open to all students current and past all mediums (including clay, sculpture etc), term time. holiday and home school.

If your child would like to exhibit their work please bring along to the Weta workshop Mon-Wed between 3-5pm or Thurs 3.45-5pm. We would love to show as much art work as possible. Opening night for all will be Thursday 26th September 5pm – 6.30pm. Looking forward to seeing all your guys work again.

Anna

p.s. if you cannot make drop off times please call me on 0297 712 923 to arrange another time :0)