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