As we get back into the swing of things in term four at school, let’s look back on some of the brilliant artistic experiments and creations that you made during our September—October school holiday programme, Art Through the Ages | Toi Puta Noa i Ngā Tau.
Flip through this photo gallery to see tamariki repeat the feats of Michelangelo, create miniature masterpieces, learn about traditional Chinese painting and much more!
Tradtional Chinese painting workshop at Karori Library!
Special guest, Courtney Johnston, the Chief Executive of Te Papa, and librarian Mary, open the exhibition of Miniature Masterpieces created by tamariki. You can check it out in the Waitohi link space!
Tamariki made miniature masterpieces at Miramar Library, check out the exhibition!
Playdough sculpture spectacular at Te Awe Library!
Painting vertically like Michelangelo, at Miramar Library
Under the tables at Mervyn Kemp (Tawa) Library – more painting like Michelangelo!
Tamariki at Johnsonville Library share their artwork after a tradtional Chinese painting workshop
Japanese woodblock print inspired colourful creations at Karori Library
Steve Mushin leads a brilliant workshop at Johnsonville Library as part of the Festival of Ultrawild Design!
Our heritage & history specialist librarian Gábor shows tamariki an ancient tome at our illuminating Medieval manuscripts event at Ruth Gotlieb (Kilbirnie) Library!
Miniature masterpieces on display at Te Awe Library!
Just a couple of the beautiful popsicle frames made by tamariki at Mervyn Kemp (Tawa) Library!
Wellington City Libraries and Community Spaces would like to give a massive thanks to Qianxiang Liu for leading three traditional Chinese painting workshops, and to our wonderful community librarian June for helping organise these! Thanks also to Gábor, our heritage & history specialist librarian for running workshops about manuscript illumination at two lucky library branches!
We are grateful to maverick inventor Steve Mushin for leading hilarious design and drawing workshops which explored ludicrous sounding, scientifically possible ideas to rewild the world! Keep an eye out for Steve’s upcoming book Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth, published by Allen & Unwin NZ.
Thanks to everyone who came along and helped make our programme so special! We hope to see you all again next holidays, or hopefully before then at your local library branch! To find out about our regular programmes, special events, and holiday happenings, make sure to keep an eye-out on the kids’ blog, and our Facebook page, or our events calendar.
Mā te wā!