The Barnyard (Years 1 & 2)
Children will sculpt with clay, making their favourite farm animals along with trees, plants, fences and barn buildings to install into their imaginary 3D barnyard. All creations will be fired and ready to take home at the end of term. 
Time: Monday 4-5pm 
Start Date:13th February 2012
Cost:$96 (8 weeks)

Ceramics, Kiwiana (Years 3-8)
Students will study the culture of Aotearoa and use this as inspiration for their clay creations, from jandals and kiwifruit to gumboots and busy bees. All creations will be fired and ready to take home at the end of term.
Time: Tuesday 4-5pm
Start Date: 14th February 2012
Cost: $124 (8 weeks)

'Out There' Street Art (Years 7 & 8)
We will visit graffiti sites near Youthtown, check out public artwork and visit an inner city art studio and then work towards producing a collaborative piece of urban insirped artwork which will be installed at Youthtown Central.
Time: Wednesday 4-5.30pm
Start Date: 16th February 2012
Cost: $124 (8 weeks)

Camouflage (Years 7 & 8)
Welcome to the wonderful world of wearable art! Our inspiration for design will come from exotic native birds and animals. We will search through a collection of amazing old fabrics, jewellery and junk and then select, cut, paint, print, pleat, stitch, bead and emboss to create a wearable masterpiece.
Time: Thursday 4-5.30pm
Start Date: 16th February 2012
Cost: $124 (8 weeks)

Objects & Artefacts Art House Workshops (Years 7 & 8)
Students will visit the museum to study, draw and photograph objects and artefacts that resonate with them. In the third week they will develop a small 3D clay model. In the following weeks they will experiement with clay, glass, plaster and produce a 3D sculpture.
Time: Saturday 11.30am-1pm
Start Date: 11th February 2012
Cost: $124 (8weeks)

Treasure & Pirates Saturday Art House (Years 1-8)
Embark on an intensive drawing expedition and learn all about outline, massing, shading and etching. We will comb Browns Bay Beach for treasure, followed by painting and sculpting our treasure in the following weeks. As a final project we will screen print T-shirts.
Time: Saturday 9.30-11am
Start Date: 11th February 2012
Cost: $124 (8weeks)

FUSE Ceramics Workshops (Years 9 to Adults)
Start your love affair with clay. Classes will cover hand building techniques for slabware and 3D sculptural work, throwing on the wheel for domestic pots, vases and vessels and learn how to use moulds for platters and wall plaques.
Time: Tuesday 7-9pm
Start Date: 14th February 2012
Cost: $160 (8weeks) Includes materials and firings 

Register: www.youthtown.org.nz/art

Please note the age specified for each programme of activity is in school year NOT age

For more infomation about upcoming art programmes, please contact:

Sue Clark
Art Development Coordinator  
(09) 379 5430 ext 805  
art@youthtown.org.nz

School and community groups

The art tutors at Youthtown are available to facilitate workshops for any interested schools or community groups. With specialist skills in clay, sculpture, painting, print making. We can arrange morning, evening or weekend workshops for small or large groups.

Youthtown also caters for special needs groups, corporates, early childhood centres and alternative education groups. Students can work on individual or collaborative projects depending on the objectives of the group.

For information about upcoming holiday programmes, contact:

Sue Clark
Art Development Coordinator  
(09) 379 5430 ext 805  
art@youthtown.org.nz

Art studio holiday programme

Art sessions are run as part of Youthtown’s wider school holiday programme. Attendees experiment and explore a range of artwork techniques, creating masterpieces in which they take home afterwards.

Starship holiday programme

Youthtown, in partnership with Starship Children’s Hospital, has worked to extend its arts services by establishing a holiday programme for patients, their siblings and friends. Operating from Starship’s foyer, the programme offers an exciting space where children can relax, reflect and find stimulation in what can often be a quite draining environment.

The Starship holiday programme is run with the help of our friends at KwiknEzy. Their help and support makes the work we do extra special and is much appreciated!

Fore more info about Kwiknezy, visit their website: www.kwiknezy.co.nz

For information about upcoming holiday programmes, contact:

Sue Clark
Art Development Coordinator  
(09) 379 5430 ext 805  
art@youthtown.org.nz

A review of 2010

Hillsborough School Students Visit Youthtown

Senior students from Hillsborough Primary School visited the Youthtown art studio and created four ceramic murals depicting a rooster, octopus, butterfly and tortoise for display outside the school pool.
Youthtown art tutors, Sue Clark, Liz Mertens and Magdalena O’Connor, assisted the students with their creations, along with teachers from the school.

Kadimah Students Get Creative

For the past three years students from Kadimah College in Auckland have attended art classes at the art studio to complete the technology component of their curriculum.
This year the students used wood, copper and natural resources to create a legacy piece of work for display at their school. In addition to this, students designed a hand-sized ‘Hamsa’ (a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout the Middle East and North Africa) out of clay and molten glass to take home.

Grey Lynn Festivities

For the sixth year running the Youthtown art department set up projects in the park for local children. This year we offered three different projects to ensure participating children had an amazing artistic experience.
There was face painting by Georgia Clark followed by the creation of Pohutukawa flowers with Natalie and Vincent Mason. We also organised a collaborative art project, “Pasifika Flowers for Ellen”, which has been installed in the Grey Lynn Library.

Totem Pole Creation

Children from Lincoln Heights Primary School attended clay classes in the fourth term to create tiles for a totem pole installation at their school.
They embellished tiles with cultural symbols and messages they wanted to leave behind at the school as a legacy piece. Three poles towering over the children will be installed in the school grounds this summer.

Saturday Visits from Pindrop

This group, which is now called C2 (Communication in 2 Ways), has been visiting Youthtown and attending outdoor activity days as well as art classes. During their visits students have attended clay workshops with Sue Clark and Chris Southern, producing loads of ceramic art work on the pottery wheels along with hand built pieces to take home.
They have also made lanterns with Sue Clark and Lisa Hampe and attended a drumming workshop with Fraser Bruce which was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
Numbers are growing and friendships have developed between students and staff at Youthtown. We have an exciting year planned which includes graffiti art, special effects and body art workshops.

Saturday Art House Update

In Term One students worked with their tutor Vaughan Shepherd on the ‘House to House Project’.
This was run in collaboration with a project at Artstation in Ponsonby. The children designed their own houses which became part of the community exhibition. Work for the show included pieces from local schools and community artists.

During Term Two and three the children worked on Flying Machines and designed their own toys.
In Term Four, after a trip to the Henderson Bird Barn, they drew, sculpted and painted birds.
As an extra treat for us at Youthtown they completed a large scale ‘Birdtown’ collage which will be installed at the centre.

Starship Holiday Programme Proves Popular

We’ve had a very favourable response to all of our art and craft projects at Starship Hospital this year. The programme is now well established and supported by all of the play specialists and volunteer staff.
Throughout the holidays we provided a range of activities in the Atrium and Teen Lounge for over 12 year- olds. We provided projects for different age groups which helped to fill in the time for parents, patients and siblings.

The children got to take work home and contribute to group projects that are installed in the hospital corridors.
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of Kwik’n’Ezy and also Radio Lollipop for the use of their table tennis table.

Spectrum Art Classes

This group has been attending art classes for the past two years. They’ve had hours of fun working with Natalie Vincent, Sue Clark, Magdalena O’Connor, and Maija from Finland.
This year they worked with a wide variety of art materials and contributed work to the art exhibition at Makatoa. 

Ceramics on Tuesday Nights

Our ceramics classes on Tuesday nights from 7pm to 9pm with Matt McLean are now well established and proving extremely popular.
The standard of work has improved dramatically with students returning for a second term.
Matt is a very experienced ceramics tutor and artist. He has been involved in several high profile community art works over the years and we are extremely fortunate to have him on board.

Journal Making at Storylines Festival

Our Journal Making project proved a popular addition at last year’s Storylines Festival.
Children lined up in their dozens to create a personalized A5 journal to take home and use. They chose their books from a range of colourful kitsets which included ribbons to tie their work together and stamps and stickers to decorate the outside.

Outdoor Art Round Up

The art programme attended several outdoor events at the end of last year.  Events included: Accent on Avondale, Riversdale, Owairaka and the Panmure Fun Day.
We set-up face and arm painting, airbrush tattoos, kite-making and sunhat painting workshops.  

Style Pasifika Debut

This was the first time we had attended Style Pasifika where we helped children make ‘bouncy bugs’ and provided a collaborative piece for children to add to which will be installed at Starship Hospital later this year.

OSCAR Workshops

Staff from several OSCAR programmes enjoyed two fabric workshops last year. They learnt an array of new and exciting techniques to pass on to their programme staff and children.

Eden Epsom Play centre attended Youthtown for the morning while their centre was undergoing a revamp. The children made clay bowls with Nadine on the pottery wheels and Sue helped them make a personalised hand print to hang on the wall.

Titirangi Music Festival Update

Youthtown collaborated with Lopdell House Education Programme to hold three workshops with local youth.
The first two workshops involved lantern making on Saturday afternoons and the third a group project using vinyl which was held during the Young Guns night at Zeal in Henderson.

Check out the video to see some more of the masterpieces our budding artists have been working on lately!