Penny May's Creative Space

I am a trained High School Art Teacher and was lecturing at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts before moving to Blayney 2 years ago. At the moment, I am
am working towards going back to teaching both within the high school context and to the broader community. My intention is to build and develop an interest in art to school aged children by holding art workshops during the

Easter School holidays to children aged 7-18. The art workshops will be quite structured and as numbers will be limited to a maximum of 15 students per day, the lessons and art space environment will be very controlled. As the Soldier’s Hall has running water, electricity, a toilet, it is an ideal location to provide children a space and opportunity to create artworks. I will be charging each student $30 per session, however, this will not cover all outgoing expenses such as hall hire, public liability insurance and art materials. This project is more of an experiment about creating opportunities for children to explore new mediums and materials and learn about themselves and the broader world in which they live in. It also provides me a way of gauging whether there is in interest from the wider community for me to continue doing holiday workshops in the future and if so, possibly look into getting a more permanent premise to run weekly art classes to all age groups.