Workshop Wednesdays Spring 2025

Our weekly artist-led workshops allow you to get hands on with creativity, meet new people, and take some time for yourself to unwind.  

Drop in every Wednesday afternoon and learn a new creative skill, and experience clay, printmaking, music, and more!  

Schedule:

15.01.25 - Literary Collagraphy (Read It, Imagine It, Glue it, Print it)

Artist: Ania Bas

Be inspired by a sentence from one of the dazzling novels to create a bespoke collagraph: a print made from collaged materials attached to a board. When inked and printed, the shapes and textures of the materials create interesting surfaces and effects.

This workshop connects to The Future is Today: Prints and the University of Warwick, 1965 to now exhibition and invites participants to create their own collagraphs. Participants will be invited to draw a line of text from a box (a sentence from one of dazzling novels pre-selected by Ania) to be inspired to create an ‘illustration’ reflective of the sentence’s mood or feeling. 

22.01.25 - Make Your Mark

Artist: Taiba Akhtar

Join Akhtar in exploring organic cutouts using the trace monotype method transcribing thoughts and feelings via identity, belonging and the environment. 

Taiba Akhtar is an Artist, Printmaker and Technician fulfilling her passion of printmaking, education and creativity working at the Birmingham School of Art and a Casual Front of House member at Ikon Gallery. 

Akhtar’s residencies involve Start The Press! And Disruptive Impressions deconstructing parallels between languages, their interchangeability and personal resonance.

29.01.25 - Lunar New Year: Collaborative Prop Making

Artist: Frances Yeung 

Join artist Frances Yeung to create a collaboratively made snake prop to celebrate and represent the broad East Asian communities on campus. This prop will play a key role in the Global Light Procession in November 2025, part of the university’s 60th-anniversary celebrations.

05.02.25 - Literary Collagraphy (Read It, Imagine It, Glue it, Print it)

Artist: Ania Bas

Be inspired by a sentence from one of the dazzling novels to create a bespoke collagraph: a print made from collaged materials attached to a board. When inked and printed, the shapes and textures of the materials create interesting surfaces and effects.

This workshop connects to The Future is Today: Prints and the University of Warwick, 1965 to now exhibition and invites participants to create their own collagraphs. Participants will be invited to draw a line of text from a box (a sentence from one of dazzling novels pre-selected by Ania) to be inspired to create an ‘illustration’ reflective of the sentence’s mood or feeling. 

12.02.25 - Un-Block

Artist: Rumbi Savanhu

Inspired by African Block printing techniques and Ndebele patterns join us in making cards for loved ones or decorate tote bags and clothes

19.02.25 - Textiles, textiles, textiles! 

Artist: Adele Harrison

Adele Harrison leads Cov Cloth, a Coventry Circular textile project, reimagining textile waste to do good in the City.

Come and share Cov Cloth’s dreams to promote ‘less landfill, more creativity’ by discovering ways to change the way we use textiles in our lives through fashion & living.

26.02.25 - Monoprinting 

Artist: Niall Singh

Come and learn some monoprint techniques with Niall, Inspired by The Future is Today exhibition in the Mead Gallery. This workshop will take place in the Mead Gallery’s pop up print studio! 

05.03.25 - Music Workshop

Artist: Music Centre

Come and join Warwick Arts Centre’s Music Team in this collaborative music making workshop. 

12.03.25 - Create in Clay

Artist: Emily Hett

Explore the therapeutic process of working with clay and learn different techniques to make your own vase, bowl or sculpture!

Emily Hett is a ceramicist based in the midlands, she makes vibrant joyful works both sculptural and functional inspired by nature.