Take art classes from artists and develop your creative skills. Explore painting, clay, ceramics, mixed-media and more! For anyone from beginners to advanced
Join our community of creative makers. Bankstown Arts Centre offers term classes all year around for kids, teens and adults throughout the year. Develop your skills in painting, ceramics, crafts and more!
How to book?
All enrolment bookings are online through Eventbrite. Staff may assist you in person to enroll, we only accept digital payments.
Who can book?
Anyone! There are no entry requirements. Our courses cater for people 6 years and over, beginners and those with experience looking for a more challenging and supportive approach. Please check the recommended age range of each class.
You may use your creative kids voucher, scroll down to see more details.
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.
Check out the range of artworks made by our students
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 I produce. It is a reflection of my cultural background, family, friendships and the community I live and work in. Most of my work are figurative sculptures; each of these ceramic pieces are unique, individually thrown, hand built, crafted and painted. I love the challenge of exploring, controlling and reshaping the qualities of clay. It is a rewarding and very tactile practice that allows me to experiment with shapes and forms to tell a story.
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Elsa teaches:
Tuesday morning Painting from Photography
Wednesday evening Painting from Photography
Thursday evening Hand-building ceramics
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 is currently teaching Children's Art and ceramics classes at Bankstown Art Centre. She also teaches ceramics at the National Art School and regularly runs community workshops in Sydney.
Machiko teaches:
Tuesday afternoon Kids - What's Your Art?
Wednesday afternoon Kids - Art with Earth + Clay
I have been practising and perfecting different facets of traditional Crafts, for many decades and facilitating Craft Groups for over 20 years, one in Banstown Arts Centre, since 2016.
During a Crafting year, participants work follow the year's seasons. In Term 1, paper crafts(card making), Easter decorations (hand sewing) and wall art. Term 2, various crochet/knitting projects suitable for beginners and advanced alike. Term 3, costume jewellery making(earings, bracelets, necklaces) may include; beading, making paper beads, polymer clay and painted beads. Term 4, Christmas cards, decorations and crafting of small gifts; egz, decoupage, gilded or painted boxes.
My special interest is fibre art, specifically crochet, and creating fabric/collage pictures. I started learning how to crochet as an 8-year-old child, from anyone willing to give me a little of their time. 50 years later, I am still fascinated by that wonderful craft, which helps me express my wonderment of nature and is a great stress relief for many.
I enjoy assisting people in gaining new skills and watching their confidence grow during exploration of their creative process.
Joanna teaches:
Tuesday evening & Friday morning craft circle