Creative Escape
Six playful sessions, that take students on a new creative adventure each week. Explore zine-making, found poetry, making marks that matter, mindful photography, collagraph and mono printing.
Boost your students’ creativity and confidence with our six-week Creative Escape course.
Perfection, striving and comparison is not our thing. Our goal is to create a supportive, inspiring space for students to play, make mistakes and craft unique pieces that’ll they’ll be proud of.
What’s the plan?
1 hour of creative exploring each week, for six weeks. Here is an outline of what we cover.
Week 1
Marks That Matter
In this session students play and explore making marks with a whole host of materials; from scrubbing brushes + shower squidgies to sticks, washi tape and stencils. This whole process is about using art as therapy to communicate using colour, pattern and mark making.
Week 2
Word play + found poetry
In this session, students will explore methods for creative thinking, before creating montages with words and images they find in magazines.
Perfect for generating new creative ideas and thinking outside of the box.
Week 3
Creating a mini zine part I
Today students will be playing with textures, paints, stamps and a range of resources to create the overall look of their mini zine.
This is a chance to play and explore without any demands or pressure. Anything goes.
Week 4
Creating a mini zine part II
Now it’s time to add a narrative. Students might like their zine to tell a story. But it could be anything they want to share.
A lesson, a poem, a love letter, a manifesto. They can do it with ink, stencils, pens, stamps - or all of them. There are no rules.
Week 5
Mindful photography + printing
The therapeutic abilities of art are well known, but photography has its place too. In this session, students are invited to use their smartphones as a tool for mindfulness.
Playing with objects, light boxes, filters and apps, students create a range of unique photographs.
Week 6
Collagraph printing
This is the chance for students to experiment with a tactile and playful printing process.
Using a range of textured paper and printing inks, students explore composition and colour. They’ll leave with a stylish print to take home.
What people say about our course…
“Surprisingly fun and relaxing. So nice to enjoy the colours and materials.”
“It was fun. I feel energised. I didn’t want it to end.”
“A great opportunity to let go and just play. Kerry and Polly are chilled and supportive.”
When and where?
When: Every week for 6 weeks. We can arrange times and dates to suit you and your students. Each session is 2hours. We can run a morning and afternoon session with different groups.
Where: We can deliver sessions at your school or college, or we can arrange a convenient venue. In summer term we have a small marque which becomes a pop up studio should your school or collage have out door space.
Cost: For six sessions
£480 (am or pm)
£920 (for am + pm)
