Contemporary Kids: Let’s Make Clay Stick Sculptures!

The free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities. 

This workshop involves making clay stick sculptures based on sensory prompts. Learning from the artwork In A New Land … Be Longing, 2017 by Nurgul Rodriguez, children think of how to physically shape words, sounds and emotions. Shapes are promoted by words (coat, apple); textures are prompted by sounds (rain, waves) and colour is prompted by emotions (happy, sad).

Sunday, January 15, 2022 | 12:00-2:00 PM

For children ages 4-12.

Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child. 
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

About the artist: Nurgül Rodriguez

Nurgül Rodriguez is an artist with an interdisciplinary practice and a PhD student at Werklund School of Education. She has an active individual practice of disciplines and media including porcelain, installation, handmade paper, printmaking, three-dimensional pieces, and more recently socially engaged and collaborative projects. Her work is social, political and personal with a focus on issues of immigration, diasporas, borders and cultures. She explores becoming a diasporic individual during identity formation within a new culture. Nurgul settled in Calgary in 2009 after many nomadic years of living in Turkey, the United States and Spain with her family. She currently lives in Calgary making, writing, teaching, collaborating and always learning.