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CREATIVE SATURDAY
art workshop programme for children (4-6 years and 7-10 years)
Saturday, 9 and 23 September, 7 and 21 October, 11 and 25 November, 9 and 16 December 2023, 6 and 20 January, 3 February, 13 and 20 April, 11 and 18 May and 1 June 2024, 10:00-11:30

In the new school year 2023-24, children (5+) are also invited to Saturday workshops at the Maribor Art Gallery. Through regular meetings, children enrich their knowledge and experience of the visual arts and develop their artistic skills and individual artistic expression. At two workshops a month, children learn about modern and contemporary visual arts. The added value of learning about art in the museum is that they get to know it live, face to face through paintings, sculptures and installations. We talk about the artworks, share views and ideas, and delve deeper into the artistic content through play. Children deepen their understanding and experience of art through hands-on art making - drawing, painting and sculpting. They will learn about a variety of art materials and tools, experimenting with different techniques in a way that best expresses their ideas and experiences.

The workshops are for two age groups: 4 - 6 years (led by Brigita Strnad, Museum Advisor) and 7 - 10 years (led by Sara Irman Kolar, UGM External Associate).

Goals:
- Children learn about modern and contemporary visual art;
- they get to know works of art through direct contact, which has an invaluable educational value;
- they learn about different artistic techniques, motifs and artistic laws;
- develop imagination, artistic skills, originality.

price: 4 €
info and registration: Brigita Strnad, 02 22 94 697 or brigita.strnadping@ugmpong.si

CREATIVE TUESDAY (5+)
18-25 July, 1, 8 and 22 August 2023, 10:00-12:30

Children, do you know how to listen to art? What do lines, colours and shapes tell us? In Tuesday's workshops, we will make friends with the artworks and each other as we talk about them and share ideas about their messages. Then we will express our new insights and experiences in the language of art: we will create small and large paintings, prints and sculptures.
price: 6 € (snack included)
registration: 02 229 46 93, blagajnaping@ugmpong.si

ABOUT ART, workshops in English (9+)
9-11 August 2023, 10:00-12:30

We invite holidaymakers who do not understand the Slovenian language to an active exploration of art, where they will be able to learn about the artistic and cultural heritage of our city in English. Those who wish to improve their communication skills in a foreign language are also welcome. The activity will take the form of a conversation, a game and art tasks to develop confidence in speaking in a foreign language and to learn new concepts in the field of art. The activity will also include expression in the visual and performative language - drawing, painting, movement and photography.  
The workshops will be led by Klara Zadravec, a graduate in English and art history.
price per workshop: 8€ / all three workshops: 20€
registration until 4 August 2023: 02 229 46 93, blagajnaping@ugmpong.si

ART WORKSHOP (3+) / How to draw the sound of a hammer hitting a wall
LGM, Vojašniški trg 2a
Saturday, 12 August 2023, 11:00

After watching the performance Stapelgek as part of the Summer Puppet Harbour at the Maribor Puppet Theatre, children are invited to an art workshop. We will recreate the experiences we have at the puppet show in the form of a comic strip. Instead of being on stage, the characters will come to life in frames and banners, and we will also draw in them characters for all the sounds we heard in the show. Participation is free of charge.

WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS (13+)
The Painter's Diary - a book as an art product
8, 9 and 10 August 2023, 17:00-19:30

mentor: Brigita Strnad, Museum Consultant
Young people and adults are also invited to spend the summer heat creatively in the cool shelter of our museum walls. In the Invisible Hand exhibition, we will get to know the paintings of younger artists and their varied approaches to creating a painting. Then, over the course of three afternoons, we will use a variety of painting tools and materials to translate our experiences, feelings and ideas into colours and shapes, and then bind the resulting products into an artist's book.    
price: 21€ / UGM Club: - 30%

CREATIVE WINTER HOLIDAYS
programme for children (5+)
UGM, Strossmayerjeva 6
27 February-1 March 2024, 10:00-12:30

led by Brigita Strnad, Museum Consultant and Sara Irman Kolar, UGM External Associate
price for one-day workshop: 6€ / snack included
registration: Brigita Strnad, 02 22 94 697 or brigita.strnadping@ugmpong.si

Bites into art: dots and lines from the UGM Collection
A guide to exploring the UGM Collection in the gallery and at home
(for children aged 5-10)
For our youngest visitors in the new year 2023, we have created a handbook with a number of educational activities to get to know the UGM Collection in the Gallery and at home.