Weekend Art Sessions

Overview

Is art the stuff on the walls, or the stuff that drips out of your pen? A lot of the elements of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art invite opinion and controversy — although, just as many of the things in the galleries are quite obviously paintings, sculpture or photography. Or occasionally, quite obviously ordinary urinals too. But if you want to make sure that the things you see on the walls or floors at the MCA work for you as art, then you have the option of taking it all into your own hands. Drop in for one of their Weekend Art Sessions and make some of it yourself.

Collage, charcoal, pencil, sculpture. The contents of the workshops vary as much the attendees. Similar sessions have included the rent-fabric mentoring of cut-out artist Kate Scardifield, and have explored the US West Coast art scene. The Weekend Sessions are run by MCA educators, they're run regularly and they're regularly running out of space. So if you want to start your art in the surrounds of a big-gallery space, on a weekend afternoon the MCA is your place to be.

Image by Charlie Brewer.