Make Art at TAC
The Make Art at TAC program offers term-based and casual art classes run by professional artists.
I loved trying new techniques and working with a group of creative and supportive people.
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MAKING TIME WEEKLY ART CLASS FOR SENIORS
WHEN: Tuesdays 10:30am- 12:00pm
- Term one dates: Tuesday 31 January – Tuesday 4 April 2023
- Term two dates: Tuesday 2 May – Tuesday 27 June 2023
COST: $275 per term
**Receive a Family Discount of 10% when you book into more than one term-based class**
Making Time is a chance to come together with a group of people, make art and have a chat. There is an emphasis on painting and drawing throughout the 10 weeks with the opportunity to explore other mediums such as print, ceramics, mosaics and collage. Participants are encouraged to have fun and give things a go! Tea and coffee are provided and there is always a moment to grab a cuppa and make a new friend.
The tutor, Lily fosters a carefree environment, encouraging the participants to learn new skills or building lifelong passions.
*Tuggeranong Arts Centre uses Class Manager to manage enrolments for this class.
Getting set up in Class Manager is a two step process.
Step one is create your account (you only need to do this once). To set up you account and start your enrolment click here.
Already got an account? To log in and enroll click here.
Need help? For an enrolment instructions PDF click here.
*If you’re having any trouble enrolling please call us and we will assist you.
MAKE A MESS WEEKLY ART CLASS FOR KIDS AGED 6-8 YEARS
WHEN: Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30pm
- Term one dates: Wednesday 1 February – Wednesday 5 April 2023
- Term two dates: Wednesday 26 April – Wednesday 28 June 2023
COST: $255 per term
Receive a Family Discount of 10% when you book into more than one term-based class!
Make A Mess aims to get children excited about art! Under the guidance of a professional artist, participants will be encouraged to experiment, play, and have fun in the art room; creating an artwork each week as they will learn the basics of colour theory, form, perspective, negative space, and composition. The classes are friendly and warm, and the learning environment is interactive and tactile. Students are encouraged to make a mess!
*Tuggeranong Arts Centre uses Class Manager to manage enrolments for this class.
Getting set up in Class Manager is a two step process.
Step one is create your account (you only need to do this once). To set up you account and start your enrolment click here.
Already got an account? To log in and enroll click here.
Need help? For an enrolment instructions PDF click here.
*If you’re having any trouble enrolling please call us and we will assist you.
MAKE IT MATTER WEEKLY ART CLASS FOR KIDS AGED 9-12 YEARS
WHEN: Wednesdays 4:45pm- 5:4pm
- Term one dates: Wednesday 1 February – Wednesday 5 April 2023
- Term two dates: Wednesday 26 April – Wednesday 28 June 2023
COST: $255 per term
Receive a Family Discount of 10% when you book into more than one term-based class!
Make it Matter introduces children to art history as they learn about an artist each week and make their own artistic interpretation. Guided by an artist children will play with materials such as paper, paint and clay and be encouraged to express themselves through art! This class fosters a fun and inclusive environment for kids to make art and meet new people. All materials are included!
*Tuggeranong Arts Centre uses Class Manager to manage enrolments for this class.
Getting set up in Class Manager is a two step process.
Step one is create your account (you only need to do this once). To set up you account and start your enrolment click here.
Already got an account? To log in and enroll click here.
Need help? For an enrolment instructions PDF click here.
*If you’re having any trouble enrolling please call us and we will assist you.
EVERY BODY FRIDAY NIGHT MONTHLY LIFE DRAWING CLASS FOR PEPLE AGED 18+
WHEN: Third Friday of the month from 6:00pm – 8:00pm
NEXT EVENT: Next event: 17 February
COST: $22/$17 per class, includes a free drink upon entry. Bookings are essential!
UPCOMING DATES:
- Friday 17 March, 2023
- Friday 21 April, 2023
- Friday 19 May, 2023
- Friday 23 June, 2023
BOOKINGS: Click here to book for Every Body here
Facilitated by a local artist, the class will strive to be inclusive of all bodies, weight, gender and race, celebrating all expressions of self! The class is a safe space to have drinks with friends and sketch a diverse range of models. Basic materials will be provided such as charcoal, paper and pencils however you are welcome to bring your own materials to work with!
INTRODUCTION TO PAINTING – A SIX WEEK BEGINNERS PAINTING CLASS WITH LILY PLATTS
WHEN: 6pm-8pm Thursdays 23 February – Thursday 30 March, 2023
COST: $210 per term
Book for the Intro to Painting class with Lily Platts class here
Ever wanted to learn how to paint? Hoping to dust off the brushes? Join painter Lily Platts for a 6-week intensive that will take you through the basics of painting and give you the confidence to begin to discover your own self expression through paint.
You will be introduced to watercolour and acrylic paint and explore concepts such as colour theory, composition and form. Throughout the class, Lily will introduce you to artists that uses these concepts and break down the ways that you can apply this to your own work. No experience is required and all are welcome! All materials included!
The class will cover:
- Introduction to materials, quick sketching using watercolours and how to compose an image.
- Painting using tone, exploring light and dark.
- Deep dive into colour theory
- Colour mixing and learning to get the colour you want
- Exploring different ways of applying paint on the page and the range of tools used in painting
- Finding your on voice the final week will allow the artist to explore what interests them and make an image that reflects this!
DEEP DIVE INTO PAINTING – A SIX WEEK PAINTING INTENSIVE WITH LILY PLATTS
WHEN: 6:30pm-8:30pm – Wednesday 22 February to Wednesday 29 March 2023
COST: $210 per term
Book For The Deep Dive Into Painting Class With Lily Platts Class Here
Due to the success of the Intro to Painting class, artist Lily Platts is adding another class! This class is an extension on the intro class. It is also aimed at people who have artistic knowledge in other areas or who have been painting for a while and would like a space to expand on their knowledge with likeminded people.
Deep Dive into Painting will explore themes of self-expression through paint. Students will take on a 6 weeklong project that will be expanded on throughout the term. There will be opportunities for feedback by your tutor and also by your peers and aims to build confidence in creative self-expression in a fun and welcoming environment.
All materials are included!
THE CLASS WILL COVER:
- Why do we want to paint? Exploring our own motives to making.
- Exploring composition and form
- Experimenting and taking risks with paint
- Playing with the materiality of paint
- Telling a story through paint
- Final presentation and feedback on your work
Meet the teachers:
Emma Rani Hodges – Make a Mess Art class
Emma Rani Hodges’s work explores their mixed Thai, Chinese and Australian heritage. Working in mixed media, their work draws on personal narratives and inserts marginalised voices into the dominant discourse of monocultural Australia. Fluctuating between image, text and object, Hodges’s work resists easy categorisation. They combine odd material (painting, textiles, and found materials) to assert that their multiethnic identity can exist as a cohesive unified whole and challenges the view that individuals of mixed heritage are ‘caught between two worlds’. Emma’s exploration of these topics began while studying at the ANU School of Art and Design, they graduated in 2019 with honours and went on to be selected for the Hatched National Graduates show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, they have been a finalist in numerous prizes and in 2021 they won a Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship for painting. Hodges’s teaching experience includes tutoring with the Messengers program and the Make Art at TAC program here at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, previously volunteering as a teaching assistant for Hands on Studio, assisting in teaching the community planting and environmental care techniques for the Climate Factory as well as having a position teaching English to recently arrived refugees and migrants. Hodges has done this all while running their own workshops alongside particular artworks and exhibitions.
Lily Platts – Making Time Art class
Lily Platts is an artist based in Canberra. Since a child growing up on the Monaro in southern NSW, Lily has always had a fascination with the world around her. Lily experiments with the application of paint and use of colour, pushing the different ways to best express herself on the canvas. Her work uses recognisable imagery such as a chair to tell a story and give a sense of the people existing in the world Lily imagines. Lily will teach the Making Time arts class for seniors.
Lily has been teaching art classes for the last 8 years and loves sharing her passion for art. For the last two years Lily has been working at TAC as a Messenger tutor and has given her expertise in developing the new art classes that are running at the Arts Centre. Lily is teaching the seniors art class and painting intensives.
Sarah Murray – Make it Matter Art Class
Sarah Murray is an artist based in Canberra, Ngunnawal country, working primarily in drawing and painting. Their work explores a bodily experience of landscape, engaging the body within the time, space and place of the land. Sarah’s gestural and immersive works are made both in the studio and outdoors in the landscape. In which, she utilises the process of indexing, shifting grounds and changing perspectives to create an embodied impression of space, time, and place.
In 2021 Sarah graduated the ANU School of Art and design with first-class honours and since has been involved with various shows around Canberra and interstate. Including, showing at Tributary Projects and M16 Artspace in Canberra and was a finalist in the Goulburn Art Award in 2022. They have worked in education for over five years. Their experience includes running the arts program at a local out of school hours care and an internship at Melbourne art class, in which she assisted classes of all ages.
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