Term Classes and Short Courses
Take classes from artists and develop your creative skills. Explore painting, clay, ceramics, mixed-media and more! All skill levels welcome.
Term Classes and Short Courses
Join our community of creative makers! Bankstown Arts Centre offers term classes and short courses all year around for kids, teens and adults. Develop your skills in painting, ceramics, crafts and more!
How to book?
All bookings are done online through Eventbrite. Neither cash nor card payments are accepted in person by Bankstown Arts Centre staff.
Who can book?
Anyone! There are no entry requirements to any classes. Classes are open to all skill levels from beginner to advanced. However, please check the recommended age range of each class as their content and delivery are specifically catered.
Don't see the class you want?
If there is a class you would like to see but is not currently offered, let us know by filling out this questionnaire!
Kids Art Club (Ages 6-12)
Bankstown Arts Centre accepts Creative Kids Vouchers. More information below.
Tuesday Art Club
Wednesday Art Club
Term Classes (Ages 16 and over)
8-week classes in ceramics, painting and handcrafts
Tuesday Craft Circle
Painting from Photographs
Ceramic Hand-Building Projects
Friday Craft Circle
Short Courses (Ages 16 and over)
Creative Kids Vouchers
Bankstown Arts Centre is an approved Creative Kids Provider. You can use your Creative Kids Voucher for an art class, to reduce the price by $50! Enter your Creative Kids Voucher number and child's details at the checkout on Eventbrite.
How does it work?
Parents, guardians and carers can claim a $50 voucher per year to put towards the cost of lessons and fees with registered providers. School-aged children between the ages of 4.5 to 18 are eligible and applying for vouchers is free.
Check your eligibility through Services NSW.
*Please note-
Only one Creative Kids Voucher can be applied to each class. Remaining balance and additional balance cannot be used. You cannot use another child's Creative Kids Voucher; the voucher name must match the child booking details including birth date details. You will not be able to enrol in a class with a discounted Creative Kids Voucher ticket unless you have a valid Creative Kids Voucher number.
Meet your teachers!
All of our tutors are practicing artists who bring their wealth of knowledge to each class.
There is an innate, physical, emotional and spiritual connection with the work that Elsa produces. It is a reflection of her cultural background, family, friendships and the community she lives and works in. Most of her work are figurative sculptures. Each of these ceramic pieces are unique, individually thrown, hand built, crafted and painted. She loves the challenge of exploring, controlling and reshaping the qualities of clay. It is a rewarding and very tactile practice that allows her to experiment with shapes and forms to tell a story.
Elsa teaches painting and ceramics at Bankstown Arts Centre.
Machiko is a multidisciplinary artist working in ceramics and in the expanded field of drawing. She has exhibited with and/or performed at .M Contemporary Gallery, Stanley Street Gallery, Gallery Lowe & Lee, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Bankstown Art Centre, Hazelhurst gallery, Clay Gulgong, Squiggle Space, and STACKS Project Space. Machiko teaches ceramics at the National Art School and regularly runs community workshops in Sydney.
Machiko teaches Kids Art Clubs at Bankstown Arts Centre.
Joanna has been practising and perfecting different facets of traditional crafts for many decades and facilitating craft groups for over 20 years. She has been running her class at Bankstown Arts Centre since 2016.
In her classes, students learn a wide variety of handcrafts, often working on projects themed after the time of year. Previous classes have included knitting and crochet, decoupage, jewellery-making, polymer clay sculpting, paper crafts and greeting cards, and decorations for Easter and Christmas.
Joanna's special interest is fibre art, specifically crochet and creating fabric collages and pictures. She learned to crochet as an 8-year-old child and 50 years later, she is still fascinated by that wonderful craft, which helps her express her wonderment of nature and provides great stress relief for many. She enjoys assisting people in gaining new skills and watching their confidence grow during the exploration of their creative process.
Joanna teaches Craft Circle at Bankstown Arts Centre