Workshop Wednesdays - Summer 2025

Our weekly artist-led workshops allow you to get creative, 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!  

See below for a full breakdown of workshops.

23 April: Clay Creations with Emily Hett

Get your hands messy with our Clay Creations workshop! Explore fun hand-building techniques with air-drying clay, learn how to create unique textures and patterns, and shape your own masterpiece. Whether you're a beginner or experienced, you'll receive personal guidance to bring your ideas to life. Come join us for a hands-on, creative experience! 

Emily Hett Art creates vibrant, playful artworks inspired by nature to spark moments of joy and explores how colour and form can evoke positive emotions. Emily studied Fine Art at Loughborough University and works from her garden studio in the Midlands, designing new patterns, creating ceramics, and collaborating on projects that bring joy to homes and communities. 

www.emilyhettart.co.uk @emilyhettart

30 April: Collaborative Body Sculptures with Natalie Zervou-Kerruish 

Part of the Global Illuminations Procession preparation workshops with Together at Warwick

Explore the potential of body sculptures and create collaborative pieces to wear as costumes that join together for the Global Light Procession in November 2025. Using malleable materials, you’ll form experimental shapes to poke arms, legs or heads through and attach to someone else, before lighting them up. A fun and joyful experience! 

Natalie Zervou-Kerruish is an artist and researcher interested in the wordless language of sculpture and movement. Theatrical, tactile and playful, her work is conscious of the impact the human body has in relation to sculpture and space. 

https://nataliezervou.co.uk/ @startingwithart

7 May: Sculpture with Natalie Zervou-Kerruish

Make your own sensory sculptures inspired by themes within the summer exhibitions in the Mead Gallery, such as identity, place, home, history, community, heritage, relationships, archive, politics. These soft sensory sculptures will act as conversation pieces, a great way to focus on yourself and your emotions through art and creativity! 

Natalie Zervou-Kerruish is an artist and researcher interested in the wordless language of sculpture and movement. Theatrical, tactile and playful, her work is conscious of the impact the human body has in relation to sculpture and space. 

https://nataliezervou.co.uk/ @startingwithart

14 May: Mascot Making with Tat Vision 

Part of the Global Illuminations Procession preparation workshops with Together at Warwick

Join artist Tat Vision for a hands-on workshop where you'll design and create your own mascot for the Global Illuminations Procession in November 2025. Using cardboard, fabric, and other materials, you’ll craft a unique creature and bring it to life by gluing fabric to shape an eye-catching animal mask. Get creative and be part of this vibrant parade!

Tat Vision is a Birmingham-based artist, performer, and costume maker specializing in papier-mâché masks, felt-tip pen art, and cabaret comedy. Best known for his Four Lads in Jeans bronze statue and prop work for Joe Lycett’s TV shows, his bold and playful creations span art, performance, and design.

www.tatvision.com @tat_vision

21 May: Textiles – Connect-Cushions with Cov Cloth

Let’s relax and reflect on the people, places, and passions that matter to us, through the crafting of a ‘mini connect-cushion’. Feel a sense of calm and belonging as you select threads that resonate with you as you make and customise a mini cushion with personal touches like initials, images or shapes. Together we’ll transform textile waste into meaningful symbols of connection to treasure or gift. 

Adele is a Coventry-based practitioner, founder of COV CLOTH- a Coventry non-profit reimagining textile waste to create good in the City! 

@covcloth

28 May: Songwriting with Megan White

Come along to this songwriting session where you’ll engage in a variety of tasks to learn the basics of lyrics and rhythm. Working with an instrumental track and inspired by objects and different media, you’ll devise your own song considering melody, rhythm and lyrics. 

Megan White is a vocalist and songwriter from Northern Ireland, now based in Birmingham. Her practice focuses on lyric writing, melody, harmony and storytelling. She uses literature, poetry, film and objects to evoke emotion to craft her songs and develop meaning. 

4 June: Pride Celebrations – Placard Making 

More information to follow. 

11 June: Get Creative with Pride 

Join us for a student-led session celebrating all things Pride. More information to follow. 

18 June: Printmaking with Taiba Akhtar 

Join this printmaking workshop which takes inspiration from the Mike Silva exhibition in our Mead Gallery who uses his work to capture moments, morning light and evening stillness. You’ll draw your own landscape on a foam plate, paint with printing ink and hand burnish on to tissue paper. 

Taiba Akhtar is an Artist, Printmaker and Technician fulfilling her passion of printmaking, education and creativity. You may have met Taiba when she was Print Technician during The Future Is Today exhibition in the Mead Gallery.

www.taibaakhtar.com @taibaart

25 June: Clay Creations with Emily Hett

Get your hands messy with our Clay Creations workshop! Explore fun hand-building techniques with air-drying clay, learn how to create unique textures and patterns, and shape your own masterpiece. Whether you're a beginner or experienced, you'll receive personal guidance to bring your ideas to life. Come join us for a hands-on, creative experience! 

Emily Hett Art creates vibrant, playful artworks inspired by nature to spark moments of joy and explores how colour and form can evoke positive emotions. Each piece is designed to be decorative, with abstract shapes and patterns that radiate energy and abundance. Emily studied Fine Art at Loughborough University and completed a year-long residency at the Manufacturing Technology Centre, where she developed a passion for pattern. Now, she works from her garden studio in the Midlands, designing new patterns, creating ceramics, and collaborating on projects that bring joy to homes and communities. 

www.emilyhettart.co.uk @emilyhettart

Supported by Together at Warwick