Craft Club 2022
Are you a young person with a passion for making?
Craft Club is a programme of free workshops for young makers aged 13-16 years old.
Craft Club will be returning in January 2023. Stay tuned for more details on how to apply.
For more information contact ian@makesouthwest.org.uk
In March 2022, we launched Craft Club; a FREE, exciting 12-week programme of practical workshops for young makers.
Each week we invited a professional maker to join us, on a Saturday morning, to teach a technique from their creative specialism. A broad range of craft disciplines were represented in order to give the students an opportunity to turn their hand to as many new skills as possible.
2022 Programme
Week 1: Introduction to Arts Award
Week 2: Bookbinding
Week 3: Darning
Week 4: Exhibition Visit
Week 5: Ceramics: hand building with clay
Week 6: Printmaking
Week 7: Puppet Making
Week 8: Ceramics: making porcelain tiles
Week 9: Sketchbook Work
Week 10: Willow Weaving
Week 11: Traditional Signwriting
Week 12: Art Share / Pecha Kucha
Printmaking
Bookbinding
Puppet Making
Puppet Making
Bookbinding
Printmaking
Signwriting
Ceramics
All students of Craft Club are encouraged to take part in the Bronze Arts Award qualification which is run in collaboration with Trinity College London. The Bronze Arts Award requires participants to make a written and visual portfolio documenting their learning throughout the course and requires 20 hours of additional independent study.
We are eager to support young makers on their journey towards further or higher educational study within the creative arts and Craft Club provides a fun and informal setting to learn new skills and experiences.
Online Exhibition
We’ve collated some of the amazing pieces that the talented class of Craft Club 2022 created in this online exhibition.
2022’s Craft Club pilot was a great success, which means we will be bringing it back at the beginning of 2023 and it will become an annual, free workshop programme for young people!
For more information on Craft Club or how to apply for the 2023 programme, please use the button below to get in touch with our Learning Officer, Ian Wilkins.
Craft Club 2022 was fully funded by Arts Council England.
