Edition 9

WORKSHOPS

Ulrike is an experienced art teacher, having taught adult evening college classes as well as workshops for children in primary schools.

Information about new workshops for 2012 will be posted here soon. For enquiries regarding workshops for school groups, please contact Ulrike via email.

A popular workshop for school classes is the 'Book Workshop'. Participating students are guided as they write and illustrate their own short story or picture book. From this, they create a beautiful hardcover, hand-bound book.The project engages students on a number of levels:

learning to develop story writing skills;
students are challenged to think about sequential images for their story;
learning practical, basic bookbinding skills.

At the conclusion of the project, each child has their own illustrated story, bound as a beautiful hard cover book. The workshops are usually conducted over two sessions, often with a week in between. The imagination and dedication that children bring to the workshop is often a surprise even to teachers who have taught them for some time! The students' pride and delight in seeing their own story as a "proper" hardcover book is such clear testimony to the success of our workshops. If your school is interested in offering this unique workshop to your students, please contact me for further details. All equipment and materials for the book pages and cover will be supplied and are included in the workshop cost. Students need only to have their own materials for writing the story, and for drawing their illustrations.

school class

school presentation