Events and Public Programs
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Artists Forum: HEADwaters
Saturday 13 April from 3:00 - 6:00pm
Headwaters explores the natural beauty of Clarence River and its surrounding environment through painting, works on paper, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and performance. In the outstanding exhibition Clarence Valley artists Fiona Nicholls, Annie Roberts, Theresa Edwina Borook, Margot Grant, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal, Malcolm King and Julie McKenzie embarked on a three year long project that responds to the natural beauty of Clarence River and its surrounding environment. The resulting exhibition is a mesmerizing tribute to the grandeur of the Clarence River and features painting, works on paper, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and performance. Come along to the gallery to hear this lively group of artists discuss their exhibition.
Entry to this event is free of charrge, a FoGG paybar will operate and light finger food will be provided.
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Art After School Term 1
Clay Monsters + Wind chimes with local artist and teacher Cassandra-Lyn Palmer
Tuesday 19 February - 12 April 2019 (8 weeks) from 4:00 to 5:30pm
Join our Art After School Clay Play program for 8 sessions where you will learn to create basic pinch pots and have fun designing and making a Clay Monster as well as wind chimes to take home after the last class. The course is for beginners and intermediate students using hand building, coiling, surface and glazing techniques.
Cost is $130 per student and includes all materials, firing and glazing. Bookings are essential as places are limited.
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Face Off: Drawing the Human Portrait with local artist Lorina Dufty
Wednesday 20 February - 10 April 2019 (8 weeks) from 4:00 to 5:30pm
Join our Art After School drawing program for 8 sessions and learn lots of new skills on how to draw all the different parts of the human face. You will get to experiment with different drawing techniques to explore 'faces' using pencil, charcoal, pastel and ink and take home a large portrait work on quality artists paper (A1) using all the skills gained in each session.
Cost is $130 per student and includes all materials as well as a sketchbook for exercises and your final finished portrait. Bookings are essential as places are limited.
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Clay Play for 5 - 9 Year Olds with Cass Palmer
Thursday 17 - 21 March 2019 (3 weeks)
This series of workshops for budding young artists is about having fun with clay while learning about this unique material. In this workshop children will create pinch pots and coil bowls to hold their own special succulent plants to take home after the last session. Students will be guided by local artist and art teacher Cassandra-lyn Palmer, who will help them to develop skills, coordination and confidence with clay to expand their creativity and imagination. Works created in these classes will be glazed and fired.
Cost is $60 per student and includes all materials, firing and glazing. Bookings are essential as places are limited.
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Workshops for Artists
I Hate Networking - workshop for creatives
Wednesday 13 March 5:30 - 7:30pm
Networking is a vital skill if you work in the creative industries, but many practitioners also consider it to be the stuff of nightmares. Sweaty palmed wankers in suits all trying to out-do each other in the bragging department? NO THANK YOU! I HATE NETWORKING is an event (lubricated with drinkies) that combines the educational elements of learning how to network with an opportunity to practice the skills in a safe and friendly environment, all the while embracing the discomfort of the whole process and having a laugh.Targeted to creatives in the Clarence Valley, I HATE NETWORKING is a surprisingly fun event designed to encourage creative people to get to know each other, while also acknowledging the horror that is networking, and sharing a few tips at the same time. This subsidised workshop is brought to you by Arts Northern Rivers and the Grafton Regional Gallery.
Cost is $10 per person and includes drinks and snacks. Bookings are essential as places are limited.
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Workshops for Adults
Art After Dark: Garden Clay Pods
Thursday 7 - 21 March 2019 (3 sessions) from 6:00 - 8:00pm
The first in a series of fun social evenings of creative artmaking for adults, providing you with adult time to relax and have a glass of wine, meet new friends, enjoy some cheese and get your hands earthy playing with clay. The workshop is aimed at adult beginners who wish to experience the therepeutic and creative properties of clay. You will hand build your pods from pinch pots, and glaze them to display in your garden. Take home your very own hand made garden pods aftert the last session. All materials and firing included in the cost.
The Art After Dark program will run each term. It will be a social fun event, featuring different media each term, where you will take home your own handmade something special ready to use.
Cost is $135 per adult or $130 for financial FoGG members, this includes all materials, firing and glazing. Bookings are essential as places are limited.
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Morning Tea with Friends
The Friends invite you to join them for a delicious morning tea and creative conversation on the second Tuesday of every second month in the Gallery Courtyard from 10.00am, dates for 2019 are:
12 Feb I 9 Apr I 11 Jun I 13 Aug I 8 Oct I 10 Dec
The Gallery Foundation presents Gate to Plate: Regional Masters Food Expo
Saturday 30 March from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm at Treelands Drive Community Centre Treelands Drive Yamba
Experience exquisite regional food, made with passion presented in person by the makers I sample artisan food and beverages created in the Northern Rivers regionI be inpsired by cooking demonstrations and learn how these quality products by joining a master class presented by the makers themselves.
What’s in store…
Regional Masters Expo, 9am – 4pm, Cost: $5 entry on the door (under 16s free)
Cooking demonstrations, 10am – 4pm, Cost: free
Master classes, 9.30am – 4.30pm, Cost: $25 (tickets available soon!)
Roman Banquet, 7pm – 11pm, Cost: $65 a ticketed evening gala meal presented as a mosaic of foodie delights in which exhibitors showcase their produce as it would be presented as part of a Roman Banquet.
BOOK NOW for the Roman Banquet (NB: fees and/or charges included)
This event is a fundraiser presented by The Gallery Foundation.
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