Our next session will run on:
Saturday 04 May 2024, 1pm–3pm
Location: The Barn, Milton Keynes Arts Centre, MK14 5DZ
What to expect:
Florals For Spring
Artists have always found inspiration in flowers. They are a symbol of joy, beauty, renewal, new life and of course, spring.
Join us for our May Family First Saturday where we too will be taking inspiration from the season's superstars, flowers!
-Folk Flower painting
-Still life observation
-Seed bombs to grow our own wildflowers for the bees
£4 per participant, payable on the door
Drop-in session (no booking required)
Children must be accompanied by a supervising adult at all times.
What you've missed so far this year:
April
Did you know 15th of April is World Art Day? A day that celebrates artists and promotes the importance of art in our lives. We at Milton Keynes Arts Centre believe that everybody is creative and therefore everybody should be celebrated.
On Saturday 6th of April for Family First Saturday, we enjoyed a special afternoon during which all you artists out there made your own art materials! From a clay alternative to chalk and even egg tempera paint: a medium used by the creator of the ‘Mona Lisa’: Leonardo Da Vinci, in commemoration of whom the day was first created.
March
To mark International Women’s Day on Friday 8 March, Milton Keynes Arts Centre presented a range of art activities exploring colour and pattern through the work of historical and contemporary women artists of significance.
Inspired by the ‘soak stained’ paintings of Helen Frankenthaler, there were opportunities to paint with water; to create a collage in psychedelic colours referencing the work of Yayoi Kusama; to make three-dimensional figures using traditional African fabric designs based on characters found in Lubaina Himid’s work; and to create your own piece of Op Art, taking inspiration from the paintings of Bridget Riley.
February
With the approach of Spring, for the first of our Family First Saturday drop-ins of 2024, we invite families to create art from light. Activities include making cyanotype prints, shadow drawings and translucent abstract window hangings. In advance of Random Acts of Kindness Day on 17 February and inspired by the artist, Lee Mingwei’s ‘The Moving Garden’, families are also encouraged to make an origami flower, which they can then give to a stranger who they feel would benefit from the unexpected act of generosity.
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