HOME ED CREATIVE STUDIO ⫸ ARNOLFINI
✺ HOME ED CREATIVE STUDIO ✺
⫸ ARNOLFINI - https://arnolfini.org.uk/plan-your-visit/
⫸ FRIDAY - 1pm until 2.30pm
Term 1 = 18th, 25th September, 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd October 2026
Term 2 = 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th November, 4th, 11th December 2026
12 x 1.5hr sessions = £145
The Home Ed Creative Studio sessions will be facilitated by Laura Calvert, a Bristol-based autistic artist, mother and experienced workshop leader with a passion for creativity, inclusion, and self-expression. She has extensive experience running workshops for neurodivergent and neurotypical people of all ages.
These sessions will bring together a mixed-age group of children aged 7 years and upwards. The activities will be provided in a supportive creative environment where children, teens and young adults can explore art at their own pace. Through structured yet flexible sessions, participants will have the opportunity to build confidence, develop practical artistic skills, and connect with others through shared creative activities. The focus is on accessibility, enjoyment, and personal growth. We aim to create a space where everyone feels encouraged to experiment, express themselves, and hopefully develop a lasting engagement with each other, the arts and the Arnolfini. These activities will be artist-led, hands-on and exploratory, giving children the chance to work with a wide range of materials including printmaking, sculpture, textiles, painting, wearable art and MUCH more.
We aim to keep the group small to ensure a high-quality experience and capacity for any accompanying adults
Please visit our Instagram Let's Make Art or Art For Schools to see more of what we get up to.
Many thanks, Karen, Alice and Laura
About us ⫸
Let’s Make Art UK is a friendly, artist-led organisation based in Bristol, run by Alice Hendy and Karen Davies, Creatives in Residence at Arnolfini.
Since 2012, they’ve grown from a small community hall studio into one of the UK’s leading mobile arts providers, bringing creative experiences to children, families, and adults across the country.
Known for their playful and imaginative approach, Alice and Karen work with galleries, schools, festivals, and community organisations to deliver hands-on workshops and large-scale creative projects. Through hands-on workshops and family-friendly activities, they encourage people of all ages to explore, experiment, and express themselves, building confidence, making meaningful connections through art, and engaging with exhibitions in fun and accessible ways.
Passionate advocates for art education, they believe creativity plays a vital role in learning, wellbeing, and personal development. Alongside their workshops and events, they run after-school and home-ed art clubs, providing support and mentoring to creative facilitators. Their projects enrich learning across a wide range of subjects while nurturing creativity, curiosity, and a lifelong love of making.
Committed to inclusivity, accessibility, and sustainability, Let’s Make Art believes that everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy and benefit from creativity. Their goal is simple: to make art a joyful, inspiring part of everyday life. By using art as an early form of communication, children develop skills that will enhance expression with their writing and show their ideas in a visual sense. Every week we will choose a different art activity and over the weeks we will explore a variety of materials. Activities include; wearable art, paper mâché, collage, drawing, collaborative painting, watercolour pencils, printmaking, stitching, sculpture, clay work, cyanotypes, graffiti, puppet making and more.
Please visit our Instagram Let's Make Art to see more of what we get up to.
OUR WORK
We Are Family - Free drop in sessions in the Community Workshop Space at the Arnolfini on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during every school holiday
School Linking Project - Linking Network, a charity striving to develop and deepen young people’s knowledge and understanding of identity, diversity, equality and community. To encourage discussion of these issues within the school curriculum and support teachers to address them, as well as providing the opportunity for children and young people to meet, build new relationships, work together and contribute to the wider community.
Family and children’s workshops with; Arnolfini, Royal West of England Academy, Watershed, The Newt, Noodle and Kin, Swindon Culture Collective, Edge Arts Bath, Storysmith Bookshop, Bristol Beacon, Wayne Hemingway Events, New Brewery Arts, Dartington Estate and the Arts Institute Plymouth
Art For Schools - a multimedia visual arts program for Key Stage 1 and 2 children. Exploring all aspects of making, art literature and history and experimenting with diverse materials and techniques.
AQUILA magazine - providing step by step art activities to compliment the themes each edition.
Events and Festivals; we are the main providers of art activities for the following Festival of Making, HooHa! Bristol Beacon, Starry Skies, Port Eliot, Parentfolk, Vintage by the Sea, Playtopia at Shambala, Team Love; Forwards, Weddings at The Mount Without and The Christmas Spiegeltent.
Arts and craft book, "Let's Make Art" for children, published in 2022 - https://bookshop.arnolfini.org.uk/collections/art-books/products/lets-make-art
PLEASE NOTE:
Home Ed Creative Studio will only run at full capacity. We will cancel the club and credit/refund in the event the minimum numbers are not met.
Places are limited and bookings are made on a first-come/first-served basis for two terms.
Let's Make Art for Schools facilitators are DBS checked and fully insured.
The age range is currently suggested and subject to change based on feedback
We are committed to keeping our sessions more affordable than comparable art enrichment and home-school provision in Bristol, because we believe creative opportunities should be accessible to all families. Our pricing reflects the care, expertise and preparation behind every session - from detailed planning and high-quality resources to our combined years of experience as art educators. We carefully select well-resourced, professional materials and invest in training our facilitators to ensure every child receives a genuinely enriching and inspiring experience.
© Let’s Make Art // Karen Davies and Alice Hendy // 2026 // All Rights Reserved