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Fabulous Fun Felting with Helen O’Hara
Oct
5
12:30 PM12:30

Fabulous Fun Felting with Helen O’Hara

Anyone can learn to make felt from wool fibres. In this parent and child school holiday workshop, textile artist Helen O’Hara will teach you the art of wet felting. You’ll learn the basic techniques, make a decorated fun, felt mug-rug and then use a resist to create your very own small, felted vessel to take home.

Wed 5 Oct | 12.30pm - 2.30pm | Suitable for 5 - 10 years
$45 I $40.50 members (Child aged 8 - 10 yrs on their own)
or $60 I $54 members (Child aged 5 - 10 yrs and a parent/guardian)
Materials included - Please bring along an old towel

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Backyard Wonders - Etching and Printmaking with Gabby Loo
Oct
4
10:00 AM10:00

Backyard Wonders - Etching and Printmaking with Gabby Loo

Drawing inspiration from our very own backyards, Gabby Loo will show you how to use recycled materials to design and print an etching that celebrates biodiversity. Participants will learn DIY printmaking techniques that can be replicated at home to print their design onto recycled card and fabric. 

Tue 4 Oct | 10am - 12pm | Suitable for 6 - 12 yrs
$45 I $40.50 members | Materials included 

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Carve It Up: Wood Block Print with Kristy Scaddan
Jul
14
12:30 PM12:30

Carve It Up: Wood Block Print with Kristy Scaddan

Learn the art of wood block carving and printing with Extricate artist Kristy Scaddan. Carve your own printing plate and create an imaginative series of prints using multiple layers, stencils and repeat patterns. 

Thu 14 Jul 2022 | 12.30pm - 3pm | Suitable for 8 - 16 yrs
$60 | $54 members | Materials included
Mundaring Arts Centre, 7190 Great Eastern Hwy (Corner Nichol St) Mundaring WA

Image: Courtesy of Kristy Scaddan

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Carve It Up: Lino Print with Kristy Scaddan
Jul
5
10:30 AM10:30

Carve It Up: Lino Print with Kristy Scaddan

Learn the art of lino printing with Extricate artist Kristy Scaddan. Carve your own 10 x 10 cm printing plate and create an imaginative series of limited edition prints to take home. 

Tue 5 Jul 2022 | 10.30am - 12.30pm | Suitable for 7 - 12 yrs
$60 | $54 members | Materials included
Mundaring Arts Centre, 7190 Great Eastern Hwy (Corner Nichol St) Mundaring WA

Image: Courtesy of Kristy Scaddan

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Clay Bird Baths with Kaitlyn Elsegood
Apr
21
10:00 PM22:00

Clay Bird Baths with Kaitlyn Elsegood

Craft a bird bath from clay with Kaitlyn Elsegood in this school holiday workshop inspired by the 2022 Environmental Art Project: Backyard Biodiversity. Experimenting with a range of hand building and decorating techniques, the bird baths created will be perfect to hang in a tree and provide water to our feathered friends.

Thu 21 Apr 2022 | 10am - 12pm | Suitable for 5-12yrs
$45 | $40.50 members | Materials supplied

Image: Photograph by Rae Fallon

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Fantastic Felted Beasts with Heather Davis
Apr
12
to Apr 13

Fantastic Felted Beasts with Heather Davis

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Use 3D felting to create fantastic beasts and learn where to find them in your own backyard with Heather Davis. Colourful wool will be transformed into bees, cicadas, ladybugs, beetles and more in this in this school holiday workshop as part of the Environmental Art Project: Backyard Biodiversity.

Tue 12 Apr 2022 | 10am - 12pm | MAC* | FULLY BOOKED
Wed 13 Apr 2022 | 10am - 12pm | MJAC
$45 | $40.50 members | Materials supplied | Suitable for 5-12yrs

Image: courtesy the artist

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Natural Dyeing with Deb Wilkes
Oct
7
1:00 PM13:00

Natural Dyeing with Deb Wilkes

Learn about textile dyeing using food and other natural materials with Deb Wilkes in the school holidays. Kids will experiment with a feast of food and fabrics to make different colours as part of the Food for Thought  project. BYO a preloved, light coloured cotton T-shirt to transform into a new colour.

No nuts will be used but as we will be using food please let us know in the access requirements if there are any allergies so we can avoid problem foods.
If bringing a new shirt please make sure it is washed before hand.

Thu 7 Oct | 1pm – 3:30pm | Suitable for 7-12yrs
$5 | $4.50 members | Materials supplied but you may BYO T-shirt
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Swan View Youth Centre, Salisbury Road, Swan View WA

Image: Photograph by Monica Dahiya

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Scrumptious Still Life with Bernard Kerr
Oct
5
1:00 PM13:00

Scrumptious Still Life with Bernard Kerr

Create your own still life painting of delicious local fruit and other produce as part of the Food for Thought project. Learn about composition and how to mix colors and paint light and shade.  Local artist Bernard Kerr will show you how to use acrylic paint to create an artwork that looks good enough to eat!

Tue 5 Oct | 1pm - 4pm
$5 | $4.50 members | Suitable for 10 - 16yrs | Materials supplied
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Swan View Youth Centre, Salisbury Road, Swan View WA

Image: courtesy the artist.

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Bush Food Drawing with Julianne Wade
Oct
4
1:00 PM13:00

Bush Food Drawing with Julianne Wade

Join Whadjuk artist Julianne Wade in the school holidays to learn about local bush foods and native plants. Kids will create a delicious drawing with coloured pencils which can be entered in the Act Belong Commit Caring for Country Project.

This workshop is part of Food for Thought

Mon 4 Oct | 1pm – 3pm | Suitable for 6 - 12 yrs
$5 | $4.50 members | Materials supplied
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Swan View Youth Centre, Salisbury Road, Swan View WA

Image: Photographs by Alexander Dummer and Rebecca Mansell.

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Aboriginal Technology with Carol Foley
Sep
28
10:00 AM10:00

Aboriginal Technology with Carol Foley

Join Noongar artist and Language specialist Carol Foley in the school holidays to learn about technology and construction techniques traditionally used by our local First Nations peoples to carry food and other objects. Kids will craft an object out of natural materials and then put their construction skills to the test with an egg and spoon type race at the end.  

This workshop is part of Food for Thought and the Act Belong Commit Caring for Country Project.


Tue 28 Sep | 10am – 12pm at Midland Junction Arts Centre
OR 2pm - 4pm at Swan View Youth Centre
$5 | $4.50 members | Suitable for 6 - 12 yrs | Materials supplied
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Midland Junction Arts Centre 276 Great Eastern Hwy Corner of Cale St Midland WA
Swan View Youth Centre, Salisbury Road, Swan View WA

Image: Photo by Susie Blatchford.

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Tiny Clay Houses with Kaitlyn Elsegood
Jul
14
2:00 PM14:00

Tiny Clay Houses with Kaitlyn Elsegood

Build a house out of clay inspired by Michelle Campbell's exhibition Urban with Kaitlyn Elsegood in the July school holidays. Drawing from the houses in Michelle's paintings, their own home, or their imagination, kids will learn ceramic hand building techniques to make a small house in this fun, hands on workshop. 

Works will be decorated with coloured slips, fired and ready to pick up 4 weeks after class. Please wear closed in shoes and clothes you don’t mind getting clay on. Spots are limited!

Wed 14 Jul | 2pm - 4pm | Suitable for 7-11 yrs
$35 | $31.50 Members | All materials supplied
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Waargyl Canvas with Carol Foley
Jul
8
2:00 PM14:00

Waargyl Canvas with Carol Foley

Join Noongar artist and Language specialist Carol Foley in the July school holidays to learn stories about the Waargyl, the creator of freshwater sources and create a collaborative canvas using natural materials and paint. This workshop is part of the Act Belong Commit Caring for Country Project.


Thu 8 Jul | 10am – 12pm at MJAC OR 2pm - 4pm at MAC
$5 | $4.50 members | Suitable for 6 - 12 yrs | Materials supplied
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MJAC- Midland Junction Arts Centre 276 Great Eastern Hwy Corner of Cale St Midland WA
MAC- Mundaring Arts Centre 7190 Great Eastern Hwy Corner Nichol St Mundaring WA

Image: Derbal Yerrigan (Swan River). State Library of Western Australia

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A-maize-ing Baskets with Kate Campbell-Pope
Apr
15
to Apr 17

A-maize-ing Baskets with Kate Campbell-Pope

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Join Kate Campbell-Pope in the April School Holidays to construct a vessel or basket with fibres such as sweetcorn, coconut, banana leaves and grapevines that you won't be-leaf it's made from food. 

Selected pieces will be showcased in an exhibition as a part of the Food for Thought project.

Parents and guardians welcome, children 8 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Please wear enclosed shoes, clothes you don’t mind getting messy, a drink bottle and a nut free snack.

$5 | $4.50 members | Materials supplied
Under 10yrs | Thu 15 OR Sat 17 April | 10am - 12:30pm
Swan View Youth Centre Salisbury Road Swan View WA
OR
10+ yrs | Fri 16 April | 10am - 12:30pm
Mundaring Arts Centre
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Supported by the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries, Shire of Mundaring and Lotterywest

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Writing with Josephine Clarke
Apr
13
to Apr 14

Writing with Josephine Clarke

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Join West Australian poet and short story writer Josephine Clarke and create your own written work exploring the theme of Food for Thought: What’s for dinner?

With separate workshops for 14-17 and 18-23 year olds, these two part workshops will explore ways of thinking and writing about food and play with ways of putting food onto the page.

18 and 23 year olds will additionally look at the work of other writers and create new work, that will add flavour to how we think about what we eat. Writers will also learn techniques for editing and presenting their work for publication.

Selected pieces will be showcased in an exhibition and a short promotional film celebrating Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre, the Shire of Mundaring and Mundaring Arts Centre as a part of the Food for Thought project.

14 - 17 yrs | Tue 13 AND Wed 14 April | 10am - 11:30am 
18 - 23 yrs | Tue 13 AND Wed 14 April | 12:30 - 2pm
$5 | $4.50 MAC Inc and KSP members | BYO pen and drink bottle
Swan View Youth Centre Salisbury Road Swan View WA

Supported by the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries, Shire of Mundaring and Lotterywest

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Rope Coiled Vessels with Leanne Bray
Apr
12
10:00 AM10:00

Rope Coiled Vessels with Leanne Bray

Join Leanne Bray to learn the basket making technique of stitching and coiling in the school holidays. Using thread and a length of rope, you’ll make a colourful vessel for food whilst discovering the long history of baskets as containers for all types of produce as a part of the Food For Thought Project.

Please wear enclosed shoes, clothes you don’t mind getting messy, a drink bottle and a nut free snack.

Selected pieces will be showcased in an exhibition as a part of the Food for Thought project.

Mon 12 Apr | 10am - 1pm | 8+ yrs
$5 | $4.50 Members
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Supported by the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries, Shire of Mundaring and Lotterywest.

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Fun Fodder Forms with Todd Israel
Apr
9
10:00 AM10:00

Fun Fodder Forms with Todd Israel

Learn how to use garden and farmyard materials to create a basket perfect for picking veggies with Todd Israel. This fun school holiday workshop is part of the Food for Thought project.

Fri 9 Apr | 10am – 12pm | Suitable for 7 – 12yrs
$5 | $4.50 Members | Materials supplied
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Supported by the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries, Shire of Mundaring and Lotterywest.

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Sgraffito Snack Bowls with Bernard Kerr
Apr
7
to Apr 8

Sgraffito Snack Bowls with Bernard Kerr

Have a go at making a bowl from clay these school holidays with local artist Bernard Kerr. You’ll learn to hand build or press mould your own bowls perfect for snacks and dips as a part of the Food for Thought Project. Decorate your bowl with colourful underglazes and slips and even sgraffito techniques to scratch back into the colour.

Selected pieces will be showcased in an exhibition as a part of the Food for Thought project.

Works will be fired and ready to pick up 3 weeks after class (just in time for Mother's Day!) Please wear enclosed shoes, clothes you don’t mind getting messy, a drink bottle and a nut free snack.

Wed 7 Apr | 10am - 2pm | 7 - 11 yrs
Thu 8 Apr | 10am - 2pm | 12 - 20 yrs
$5 | $4.50 Members | Materials supplied
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Supported by the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries, Shire of Mundaring and Lotterywest.

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 Stitched Text in Textile Design with Louise Wilde Cook
Oct
10
12:00 PM12:00

Stitched Text in Textile Design with Louise Wilde Cook

Explore stitch format and design with artist Louise Wilde Cook. Participants will learn how to design and present words and phrases using a variety of stitches and techniques such as appliqué and couching. Working through a number of individual and collaborative stitching exercises, new skills will culminate into the textured stitch of a single word. Be sure to have a meaningful word or phase in mind on the day.

Sat 10 Oct | 12pm - 3pm | Suitable for 13+ yrs
$60 | $54 Members | Materials supplied

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Colour Crush Jewellery Design with ka:ke Studio
Oct
8
10:00 AM10:00

Colour Crush Jewellery Design with ka:ke Studio

Hand craft your own colourful and unique piece of jewellery with the girls from ka:ke studio! Over three hours you’ll learn to design, cut, file and finish acrylic and metal shapes to create a pair of earrings or a necklace.

Thu 8 Oct | 10am - 1pm | Suitable for 13 -20 yrs
$45 | $40.50 MAC Members | Materials supplied

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Foam Print Portraits with Jane Button
Oct
1
10:00 AM10:00

Foam Print Portraits with Jane Button

Draw and print your own self-portrait these school holidays with Jane Button. You’ll learn to transfer your portrait to a foam block for printing, bringing your drawing to life with ink. In this workshop you will use a mini printing press to make an edition of three prints to take home.

Thu 1 Oct | 10am - 12pm | Suitable for 7-12 yrs
$20 | $18 Members | Materials supplied

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Gelli Print (Fun!)damentals with Leanne Bray
Sep
30
10:00 AM10:00

Gelli Print (Fun!)damentals with Leanne Bray

Explore the creative and colourful world of gelli plate printmaking these school holidays with Leanne Bray. Using acrylic paint, we’ll make marks and patterns onto a gelli plate base, from which you can press and peel away your artwork! Leanne will give you the recipe to make your own fun gelli prints at home.

Wed 30 Sep | 10am - 12pm | Suitable for 7-12 yrs
$20 | $18 Members | Materials supplied

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From Fleece to Thread with Anne Williams
Aug
8
10:00 AM10:00

From Fleece to Thread with Anne Williams

Learn to create a thread from raw fleece with seasoned spinner Anne Williams. With Anne's instruction and some simple materials, you'll be sure to leave with a bobbin full of yarn. Anne has been spinning for many years, even competitively, and loves the versatility and sophistication of simple technology. Morning tea provided. Spots are limited!

Sat 8 Aug | 10am - 1pm | Suitable for 8+ yrs
$30 | $27 Members | Materials supplied

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Photography Field Trip with Duncan Wright: Mundaring Weir
Jul
19
3:00 PM15:00

Photography Field Trip with Duncan Wright: Mundaring Weir

Part of the Explore and Expose 2020 project

Grab your camera and join artist Duncan Wright for a photography field trip in the Shire of Mundaring. Meet at the Mundaring Weir and learn to photograph the natural and built landscape. No matter the type of camera you’re using, Duncan will show you how to prepare for and capture a great image. He can also help with any technical questions you may have.

This workshop is supported by Shire of Mundaring, the Mundaring Camera Club and NEAMI National. Participants who are residents of Shire of Mundaring or City of Swan are encouraged to enter their photographs taken into the annual Explore and Expose photography competition.

Sun 19 Jul | 3pm - 5pm | Suitable for 12+ yrs
FREE | BYO fully charged Camera

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Photography Field Trip with Duncan Wright: Boya Quarry
Jul
12
3:00 PM15:00

Photography Field Trip with Duncan Wright: Boya Quarry

Part of the Explore and Expose 2020 project

Grab your camera and join artist Duncan Wright for a photography field trip in the Shire of Mundaring. Meet at the beautiful Boya Quarry and learn to photograph the landscape with the site’s challenges of light and scale. No matter the type of camera you’re using, Duncan will show you how to prepare for and capture a great image. He can also help with any technical questions you may have.

This workshop is supported by Shire of Mundaring, the Mundaring Camera Club and NEAMI National. Participants who are residents of Shire of Mundaring or City of Swan are encouraged to enter their photographs taken into the annual Explore and Expose photography competition.

Sun 12 Jul | 3pm - 5pm | Suitable for 12+ yrs
FREE | BYO fully charged Camera

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Poster Design and Illustration with Mikaela Miller
Jul
8
to Aug 21

Poster Design and Illustration with Mikaela Miller

PART OF THE MUNDARING ENVIRONMENTAL ART PROJECT 2020

Learn to design and illustrate your own A4 poster in this three-part web series with Mikaela Miller. Follow the three tutorials and submit your poster Clean Energy design to the Mundaring Environmental Art Project exhibition for 2020!

This annual competition invites primary school aged children from the shire of Mundaring to research and promote positive environmental messages in our community.

All entries will be showcased in a virtual exhibition from which up to 16 prizes will be awarded to winning entries, including a People’s Choice Award.  Highly Commended prizes are also awarded to students for exceptional entries.

Available to watch anytime via Vimeo | Suitable for 6-11 yrs
Submit your artwork to Mundaring Arts Centre by 5pm Friday 21 August
FREE

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