Session 5 Mask Making Art Club

Fairy Croft House Summer Art Club with Jessica and Hannah
Session 5
Thursday 30th July Morning Session for ages 7-12 years
9 AM-12.30

MASK MAKING and Paper Crafts.
Using recycled materials to create 3D wearable characters.
Please bring an apron or painting shirt.
This fun art activity uses card and paper to make your own mask, or hat.
We will have plenty of card, paper, paint and tape to use, you are welcome to bring a picture of any favourite character so we can help you create what you like!

*This workshop is suitable for any ability, all materials and equipment provided. We will be using glue and paint, so bring an apron or painting shirt to protect clothing. If you don't have one, I will have some available !
Please bring a water bottle for the morning.

Do email us with any queries at: [email protected]

Some parking is available outside Fairy Croft House, in the market square, or the Common Car park or Swan Meadow carpark are a few minutes walk away.

WHO WE ARE

Jessica Pearce
Is a multimedia artist and art tutor with a degree in Art in A Community Context. Her own art practice is often inspired by the history and folklore in Essex, explored in print, installation and painting. She also delivers art workshops regularly in schools and is experienced working with neurodivergent young artists. She is a tutor with Curwen Print Study Centre and for Home Ed art students. Her ongoing participatory art project Legendary Essex, supported by Culture Essex, has co-created an archive of Essex folklore stories through postcard size art making with residents of all ages.

Hannah J Walker
Hannah Jane Walker is a poet, broadcaster and playwright from Essex. She is currently an artist in residence at Cambridge Biomedical Campus, collaborating with scientists and artist Anna Brownsted on outdoor poetic visual art installations. A similar project included a collaboration with female residents at a prison to create a large text installation on the side of Durham Library. She makes theatre that uses poetry as a way of talking.
With playwright Chris Thorpe she has written, performed and toured globally. As a creative writing workshop leader, she has worked in Rio, at national venues and with children in psychiatric care. Most recently she has begun working in broadcasting, with BBC Radio 4 and now with her own theatre poetry podcast ‘Human Resources’.
Hannah’s poetry and plays are published in magazines and periodicals including Nasty Little Press and Nine Arches Press, Forest Fringe, Penned in the Margins and Oberon