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Another inspiring term of sculpture classes has drawn to a close, and it's time to celebrate the artistic journey that our students embarked on. In Term Three, 2023, we allowed our students to choose the animals they wanted to sculpt, resulting in a menagerie of creative masterpieces.
Young...
I am proud to announce that Art Box Workshops students have been awarded yearly prize winners since 2016 for the threatened species children's competition.
Art Box Workshops have entered the following artwork for this year's competition.
Little Penguin mixed media prints, term two, Tuesday...
Wild at Art 2022 Prize
I am proud to announce that Art Box Workshops students have been awarded prize winners since 2016.
Art Box Workshops have entered the following artwork for this year's competition.
Turquoise parrot: Mixed media prints created by term two's Monday afternoons art class 6 -...
Term three sculpture classes are one of our student's favourite creative activities of the year.
Native Australian Birds was the theme for this year. Our youngest students, aged six to eight years old, enjoyed learning how to draw then sculpt Kookooburras, Goulden finches and Cockatoos.
Our older...
Thank you to our term two art students who had worked so hard creating such beautiful artworks on their chosen threatened species.
Our student-created an individual artwork and also joined the whole class to create one group artwork.
Each year our students enter their artworks into the ...
Concertina Books of Threatened Species
Our teenage students had the opportunity to create a concertina book to display the threatened species that they were most concerned about, descriptions of each artwork from top to bottom.
The barrier range dragon by Lucinda
Lucinda chose The Barrier Range...
Cool Owls of Sydney
We chose the Powerful Owl because we thought it looked cool, being so large with its massive claws and being able to catch and eat such large prey such as possums.We love the fact that this giant Owl lives so close to our homes in Sydney, but unfortunately, the...
Turtles Need Bellinger River To Be Kept Clean
Our students fell in love with the Bellinger River snapping turtle and were sad with the thought that they could become extinct because of the Logging that is commencing on the headwaters and tributaries of three important N.S.W rivers; Kalang,...
Brolga Gathering on Limited Wetlands
Our younger students chose the Brolga Crane, as it is one of Australia's largest and most iconic birds. The name comes from the Aboriginal language Gamilaraay, which they are called Burralga.
Our art class was fascinated watching their courting dance, and...
Fungus Threatens Frogs
The Corroboree Frog is found in south-eastern NSW and the ACT. It is a very tiny amphibian weighing only 3 grams and no bigger than 3 cm. Although small in size they have very unique patterns; bold yellow and black longitudinal stripes on its top, sides and legs and...
Art box Workshops has been invited to exhibit at North Sydney councils 'In Transit' art space during the North Sydney Children's Festival in October.
This years theme is Animalia, and we have been developing workshops that represent North Sydney, showcasing animals in our local area, so...
Drawing and painting your favourite things
Term one art classes start with teaching our primary school students the fundamentals of drawing and painting. This year our student's learned how to draw and paint their favourite personal objects.
In the first four couple of weeks, our students...