SUMMER ART SCHOOLS
11AM – 12.30PM: (AGES 4 – 8 YRS ) | 1.30 – 3PM: (AGES 8 – 12 YRS) £25 per child. Children attend all three half-day sessions.
SUPER SCULPTURE: HEADS & FACES
BECOME A PRINTMAKER!: LANDSCAPES
DAY ONE: Explore the galleries and learn to draw heads and faces. DAY TWO: Make your portrait into a modroc sculpture. DAY THREE: Get painting to finish off all of your artwork in style!
DAY ONE: Explore our galleries and create your own landscape collage. DAY TWO: Experiment with mono printing on top of your collage and create a collagraph plate. DAY THREE: Print your collagraph using the press and create a landscape using poly-block printing.
4, 5 & 6 AUGUST
18, 19 & 20 AUGUST
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TS General Enquiries – 0121 414 7333 Workshop Bookings – 0121 414 2261 Website – www.barber.org.uk ADMISSION TO GALLERIES AND ALL EXHIBITIONS IS FREE Opening Hours Monday – Friday: 10am – 5pm; Saturday/Sunday: 11am – 5pm (Closed Good Friday 3 April) How to Find us The Barber Institute is located in south-west Birmingham, approximately three miles from the city centre, at the East Gate of the University of Birmingham, off Edgbaston Park Road.
SUMMER TASTER SUNDAYS Come along for a creative taste of what we do all year round! Explore the Barber and the University campus with our artists in these creative drawing workshops.
11AM – 12 NOON: 4 – 8 YRS | 12.30 – 1.30PM: 8 – 12 YRS £3 per child, booking essential. 2 August
Top tips for drawing your favourite Barber painting!
9 August
Draw the weird and wonderful sculpture on our University sculpture trail.
16 August
Learn about perpective and challenge yourself to draw our galleries!
23 August
Explore the old and new buildings on campus and make your own architectural drawings.
30 August
Panoramic drawings from high up on campus – draw what you can see miles away.
HOW TO BOOK For further information on any of our events, visit www.barber.org.uk/learning. To book workshops please contact 0121 414 2261 or education@barber.org.uk, Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm. No bookings can be taken at weekends.
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By Train University station, a 10-minute walk from the Barber, is served by trains from Birmingham New Street, Lichfield and Longbridge, Cardiff and Worcestershire. Check train times and buy tickets at www.thetrainline.com By Bus There are frequent buses from the city centre past the bottom of Edgbaston Park Road (61 and 63 operated by National Express West Midlands). By Car North East Car Park (off Pritchatts Road) is a five minute walk away. Charges apply Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 4.30pm.
FREE parking is available on campus around the Barber outside these times and all day on bank holidays. ACCESS/FACILITIES Level access is available if you cannot manage the stairs at the main entrance, but please phone in advance to make arrangements. Gallery shop, light refreshments, WC, lift and baby-changing facilities are available. Breast-feeding is welcome throughout the building.
APRIL - SEPTEMBER 2015
ROMAN COINS AND MEDALS
11AM – 12.30PM: (AGES 4 – 8 YRS) | 1.30 – 3PM: (AGES 8 – 12 YRS) | £5 PER CHILD; BOOKING ESSENTIAL. APRIL
4 – 8 YEARS
8 – 12 YEARS
WEDNESDAY 8 & THURSDAY 9 APRIL 11AM – 12.30PM: 4 – 8 YEARS | 1.30 – 3PM: 8 – 14 YEARS
SunDAY 12
Barber Bags
Decorate totes with Barber scenes using fabric pens & crayons.
Design a tote featuring a Barber work, using fabric pens, crayons & stamps.
Hear legendary tales of ancient Rome & design your own Roman-inspired coins to take home!
SunDAY 19
Shields & Coats of Arms
Design your own coat of arms to go on a modroc shield.
Inspired by the Barber’s own coats of arms, design a modroc shield.
SunDAY 26
Spring Scenes
Venture outside the Barber and draw the plants, flowers and trees of spring.
Discover nature in our collection then venture outside to make your own drawings.
Sunday 3
Simian Selfies
Make your own New Art West Midlands inspired simian soft sculpture using fabric and buttons.
Design & construct a soft sculpture, turning yourself into a 3D simian!
Sunday 10
Strange sculptures!
Create fun sculptures using everyday objects like inflatables & straws.
Work with artist Kathleen Fabre to create conceptual sculptures using unexpected materials.
Sunday 17
Textile idol dolls
Inspired by Lucy Dore’s idols, create your own textile doll.
Who’s your idol? Make your own textile doll by drawing onto fabric & sewing together.
Sunday 24
Crazy caricatures
Draw your own wacky caricatures with pencil & chalk.
Learn to draw imaginative caricatures using pencil, ink & chalk.
Sunday 31
Relief soap carving
Make sculpture with an unusual but easy to carve material: soap!
Learn relief carving techniques to recreate the Barber’s finest sculptures in soap.
Sunday 7
Opera comes to life!
Celebrate the student opera by drawing performers in full costume & hearing them sing!
Study our opera singers in their costumes, drawing different poses with soft pastels.
Sunday 21
Printed patterns
Search the Barber for unusual patterns then design & make your own patterned print.
Explore the patterns around the Barber. Design, & produce your own patterned lino print.
Sunday 28
Bold selfportraits
Create a colourful self-portrait, using collage & oil pastel to form layers & texture.
Compose a collage & oil pastel self-portrait. Experiment with colour blending, creating textures & shadow.
Sunday 5
Clay Characters
Model a head using clay, inspired by sculptor Frank Dobson.
Learn about the sculptures of Frank Dobson to create your own stylised bust in clay.
Sunday 12
Painting faces - up Inspired by painter Matthew Smith, close & colourful create a colourful, up-close portrait.
Study faces up-close & create a portrait using acrylic paint, whilst learning about colour theory.
Sunday 19
Drypoint printing Make a textured drypoint print using etching & scratching techniques.
Create a detailed drypoint print using cross-hatching to create light & shade.
Sunday 26
Sandy seascapes
Paint a seaside holiday (imaginary or real), using coloured sand in your paint.
Discover texture painting & create a seascape inspired by artists Eugène Boudin & Gwen John.
Sunday 13
Heritage Heroes
Celebrate Birmingham Heritage Week, making modroc sculptures of local heroes.
Make modroc sculptures of the University’s heroes – scientists, explorers…even Lady Barber!
Sunday 20
2 sides to every story
What happened next? Draw a ‘before & after’ Barber story on a double-sided panel like our De Beer painting.
Learn about our amazing De Beer double-sided panel & make your own, illustrating a ‘before & after’ Barber story.
Sunday 27
3D Music
What would music look like in 3D? Explore colour, texture & form in this workshop with a live musician.
Listen to live music & make a matching sculpture inspired by The Stravinsky Fountain in Paris.
£15 PER CHILD – CHILDREN ATTEND BOTH HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS.
MISS CLARA’S SPECIAL DAY! SATURDAY 2 MAY 11AM – 3PM Celebrate Save the Rhino day, as Anna Conomos launches her new children’s book Clara:The Rhinoceros Who Wanted to be a Film Star, inspired by our own sculpture! Accessorise Miss Clara in our art workshop and watch Miss Clarainspired films curated by Flatpack Festival. Hear exciting tales in the galleries and go on the hunt for animals and exotic lands in our paintings. FREE, DROP IN ANY TIME. ALL AGES WELCOME.
COMMUNITY DAY: ART EXPLORERS!
MAY
JUne
SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 11AM – 4PM
Become an Art Explorer at this year’s Community Day! Enjoy tales in the galleries with our storyteller and step back in time as you see artists come to life! Hunt down your favourite artworks in our gallery explorer’s treasure hunt, create your own ‘krazy kaleidoscope’ and make an arty pin-badge to take home. Fun for the whole family! FREE, DROP IN ANY TIME. ALL AGES WELCOME.
BARBER YOUTH
Aged 13 – 18 and into art? Join Barber Youth! TUESDAYS, 4.30 – 6.30PM Come along for a free taster session. For more information call Alex on 0121 414 2261 £5 per session. Booking essential.
HOW TO BOOK For further information on any of our events, visit www.barber.org.uk/learning. To book workshops please contact 0121 414 2261 or education@barber.org.uk, Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm. No bookings can be taken at weekends.
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