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ABOUT KIDS ART LAB

Holiday Art Class @ Kids Art Lab
Photo source: Northern Star Newspaper
Photographer Credit: Brenden Allen

Kids Art Lab was established @ The Northern Rivers Conservatorium in Lismore in 2005. Kids Art Lab provides quality art instruction for students aged 4-18. Art theory and practice are both explored, with students gaining wide-ranging artmaking skills. Visual Literacy is developed by constant exposure to both historical and contemporary artists/artworks. Students exhibit their completed works locally and frequently visit galleries.

" Kids Art Lab offers kids' classes for children aged 3-18 through an expansive program that stimulates personal expression and creative development in various visual media. Children can do painting, printmaking, puppet-making and puppetry, sculpture using found objects, set design for live theatre productions, and go on art excursions."

(Lismore Regional Gallery , Autumn News, 2008)

Kids Art Lab aims to provide educational opportunities that have been outlined by the NSW Board of Studies K-10 Curriculum Framework as follows:

enable all students to develop positive self-concepts and their capacity to establish and maintain safe, healthy and rewarding lives
prepare all students for effective and responsible participation in their society, taking account of moral, ethical and spiritual considerations
encourage and enable all students to enjoy learning, and to be self-motivated, reflective, competent learners who will be able to take part in further study, work or training.
promote a fair and just society that values diversity
promote continuity and coherence of learning, and facilitate the transition between primary and secondary schooling.

Recently we have moved to larger premises which will allow us to expand upon our already diverse projects and includes darkroom facilities for hand printing black and white photographs & photograms.

Kids Art Lab Semester One, 2012
February 1- April 6

Primary Students	Wednesday & Friday 4.00-5.30 pm
High School Students	Tuesday 4.00-5.30 pm
		Tuition: $17.00 per class or $170.00 for the 10 week semester
		*Private tuition available for HSC Visual Art by appointment only, please contact Kids Art Lab for more information Bookings : Belinda Madden Ph: 0429 384677 email: admin@kidsartlab.com

January School Holiday
Art Class Schedule
Jan 4 - 25

WED	JAN 4	Still Life with oil pastels
THURS	JAN 5	Painting (in the style of Alice Neel)
FRI	JAN 6	Mask making

MON	JAN 9	Printmaking
TUES	JAN 10	Self Portrait with oil pastels
WED	JAN 11	Collage
THURS	JAN 12	Painting (in the style of Pablo Picasso)
FRI	JAN 13	Tie dye t-shirt (t-shirt not included)

MON	JAN 16	Watercolour painting
TUES	JAN 17	Drawing faces (3⁄4 view)
WED	JAN 18	Chinese ink & Brush painting
THURS	JAN 19	Painting (in the style of Stanley Spencer)
FRI	JAN 20	Mosaics + $5.00 material fee

MON	JAN 23	Landscape with oil pastels
TUES	JAN 24	Wire sculpture
WED	JAN 25	Handmade Artists Books

		Tuition: $17.00 per class ($16.00 per class with pre-payment of four classes).
		Classes run daily from 10.00 am - 12.00 noon and are held in a fully-equipped artmaking studio conveniently located @ The Northern Rivers Conservatorium in Lismore CBD.

About the Director of Kids Art Lab

Belinda Madden, BA, Grad. Dip.Ed., MA.

Belinda Madden, teacher and director of Kids Art Lab, applies her broad experience as an artist to direct children in her classes. Belinda is a qualified teacher and has worked in film, fashion and theatre (with a ten-year stint in New York ) and this wealth of experience feeds into the classes. Belinda's priority is to provide kids with an applied understanding of art that will enrich their lives and futures. Kids Art Lab is endorsed by Lismore Regional Gallery.

( Lismore Regional Gallery, Autumn News, March, April, May 2008)

CLICK ON THE PHOTOS BELOW, TO VISIT THE VIRTUAL GALLERY OF BELINDA MADDEN