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Through experienced programming that is tailored to your needs
and abilities in a friendly social environment, you’ll meet people, learn
skills that you can transfer to all areas of your life, and most of all, have
fun!
We offer programs for beginners to advanced (ages 16+), including workshops and exhibitions. Develop your teamwork skills, concentration or ability to communicate with others in a supportive group environment.
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Group, one-on-one and customised workshops are available across Brisbane and online.
Join one of our regular group sessions, or ask about how we can tailor a workshop to suit you.
Mondays 12.30pm - 2:30pm at Fortitude Valley
Workshop: Open Studio workshop (focus on Watercolour)
Location: Wesley Arts - 136 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
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Payment options include NDIS funding.
Come and explore mark-making with artist Christine Butler exploring a range of media. This is a weekly process of experimentation, getting to know different visual arts techniques to find what really works for you. Then creating some significant works.
Facilitator:
Christine Butler
Christine runs “The Little Art Cottage” with art classes in many different mediums. Known for her bold and lively scribble dog portraits scratching and scribbling many layers.
Mondays 1pm – 2:30pm at Rocklea
Workshop: Visual arts workshop
Location: 6 Pegg Road - Rocklea QLD 4106
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Payment options include NDIS funding.
An enjoyable and social creative workshop series, filled with various art experiences suitable for beginners through to more advanced.
Develop diverse skills using various mediums to create both 2D and 3D objects.
From mixed media paintings on canvas to clay creations, the facilitators are there to guide and support you as you delve into diverse practical projects while gaining and expanding your knowledge of various art techniques.
Facilitator: Julie Gallo
Julie provides relaxing and holistic experiences in her sessions providing support to create beautiful artworks from paintings to sculptures. Specialising in sustainable art, she is often foraging for organic materials with participants. Julie also works in various community art settings as well as playing and recording music.
Tuesday 10am - 1pm at Fortitude Valley
Workshop: Ceramics workshop
Location:
Wesley Arts - 136 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
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Payment options include NDIS funding.
Through this introduction to hand-building ceramics program, participants will develop skills and knowledge in working successfully with clay to design and make their own functional, creative ceramic pieces. With expert technical support and guidance to explore individual self-expression throughout the creative process, participants will work at their own pace to learn hand-building construction (eg slab building, coil building, pinch pot methods) and decoration techniques (eg painting with underglazes, imprinting and carving textures etc) while making a project of their own unique design
Throughout each session participants will participate in a positive community activity with opportunity to develop their social and communication skills, as well as having the experience of successfully turning an idea into a finished project, increase individual confidence and independence while having fun and being creative.
Facilitator:
Rhianon Vichta
Rhianon is a ceramic artist, an art therapist and creative all-rounder. She has more than 30 years of experience working in the community sector as an art therapist, counsellor, trainer, manager, evaluator and researcher in areas such as homelessness, substance use, disability, diversity and social programs that make a difference. Her ceramics classes combine her passion for the benefits of creative self-expression and the importance of social connection with the joy of playing with clay. Rhianon is the maker of Happy Heart Ceramics.
Tuesday 1:30pm - 3:30pm at Fortitude Valley
Workshop: Clay work workshop
Location: Wesley Arts - 136 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
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Payment options include NDIS funding.
Throughout each session, participants will be involved in a positive community activity with the opportunity to develop their social and communication skills, as well as have the experience of successfully turning an idea into a finished project, increasing individual confidence and independence while having fun and being creative.
Facilitator: Kim Peatey
Kim has a keen interest in all types of art, but after her sons were diagnosed with autism, she started up her own business so she could work around her boys' additional schooling and therapy sessions. Kitty K Designs was born. Kim found her niche with Paper Cut Art, and the business gradually branched out to Polymer Clay Jewellery and more recently upcycled Plastic Jewellery.
Wednesdays 10am - 1pm at Fortitude Valley
Workshop: Open studio workshop (focus on printmaking)
Location: Wesley Arts - 136 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
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Payment options include NDIS funding.
We are happy to offer you support with whatever projects have captured your imagination or, if you'd like, we can facilitate your journey into the wonderful world of printmaking.
We can help with lino cut prints, gelli printing, screen printing, as well as a variety of experimental print-making explorations using recycled materials.
1:1 sessions (for people from pre-school to beyond retirement)
As a mental health professional and art therapist, the workshop facilitator Liz Abel uses a range of art-based tools within a counselling context to help people of all ages explore and understand challenges in their lives.
Liz is bound by codes of ethics and conduct that strictly uphold confidentiality standards and by mandatory reporting laws. In simple language, this means that anything that happens in the 1:1 therapy session remains strictly confidential, except under specific circumstances, which will be discussed in your first 1:1 session.
Facilitator: Liz Abel
Liz is a weaver, eco-dyer and book binder who dabbles in a variety of media with curiosity and enthusiasm. She believes deeply in the power of art to bring about and support personal (and systemic) change. As an Art Therapist she uses a range of art-based tools within a counselling context to help people of all ages explore and understand challenges in their lives. Using art in this way can allow issues to be accessed from gentler standpoints.
Wednesdays 3pm – 4:30pm at Albany Creek
Workshop: Painting and sketching workshop
Location: Albany Creek Uniting Church Hall - 652 Albany Creek Road, Albany Creek
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Payment options include NDIS funding.
An enjoyable and social creative workshop series filled with various art experiences. Develop diverse skills using various mediums.
Our facilitators are there to guide and support you as you delve into diverse practical projects while gaining and expanding your knowledge of various art techniques.
This workshop runs only during school term.
Facilitator: Terri Horner
Terri runs numerous visual art and crafting workshops for Wesley Arts as well as assisting in office administration.
Fridays 10am – 12pm at Fortitude Valley
Workshop: Building up art skills open studio (morning session)
Location: Wesley Arts - 136 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
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Payment options include NDIS funding.
Building my art workshop gives both the experienced and budding artist the opportunity to work on developing new skills and to grow current ideas.
The studio is equipped with all manner of art supplies to encourage your creativity to flow.
In a friendly and social environment, making art and making friends go hand-in-hand.
Facilitator: Kim Peatey
Kim has a keen interest in all types of art, but after her sons were diagnosed with autism, she started up her own business so she could work around her boys' additional schooling and therapy sessions. Kitty K Designs was born. Kim found her niche with Paper Cut Art, and the business gradually branched out to Polymer Clay Jewellery and more recently upcycled Plastic Jewellery.
Fridays 1pm – 3pm at Fortitude Valley
Workshop: Building up art skills open studio (afternoon session)
Location: Wesley Arts - 136 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
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Payment options include NDIS funding.
Building my art workshop gives both the experienced and budding artist the opportunity to work on developing new skills and to grow current ideas.
The studio is equipped with all manner of art supplies to encourage your creativity to flow.
In a friendly and social environment, making art and making friends go hand-in-hand.
Facilitator: Kim Peatey
Kim has a keen interest in all types of art, but after her sons were diagnosed with autism, she started up her own business so she could work around her boys' additional schooling and therapy sessions. Kitty K Designs was born. Kim found her niche with Paper Cut Art, and the business gradually branched out to Polymer Clay Jewellery and more recently upcycled Plastic Jewellery.
Exhibitions and professional workshops to support and promote talented artists in Brisbane and beyond living with mental health issues, physical or intellectual disabilities or experiencing homelessness and social isolation.
Wesley Arts offers a range of creative career pathways that include 1:1 career support mentorships, residencies, exhibition and performance opportunities and music/art-practice development. These programs are supported by the NDIS and are open to all ages over 15. In addition to our all-ages programs, we also have a dedicated school leaver career pathway (SLES) on offer specifically for young adults aged between 16 – 22. For more information, simply contact us.
