Come and have some fun up-cycling tins to make unique pots for your plants, pens, spoons... anything!

Using paint, collage and fabric with a touch of gold and glitter...you will create your very own collection of cool storage pots.

All materials are provided for this workshop.

**please note tickets are non-refundable**

Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session. Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month!

There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.

There will be a rotation of both male and female life models and on occassion we will have multiple models in the same session.

Learn how to press plants and make a herbarium with museum curator, Clare Brown. In this workshop we’ll look at how museum plant collections are made, looked after and used. We will also make a herbarium sheet to take home.
Please arrive early to visit the exhibition.

All materials included
Open to all abilities
Age 14+

Learn how to use fabric and thread to tell stories in our drop-in textile workshops. The project artists will expertly guide you to create embroidered, patchworked and embellished pieces of textile art as part of the Threads of Freedom project. You don’t need any experience to join in as they will guide you through designing and creating your piece inspired by the history of Leeds and the Leodis photographic archives. Every contribution matters. 

Learn how to use fabric and thread to tell stories in our drop-in textile workshops. The project artists will expertly guide you to create embroidered, patchworked and embellished pieces of textile art as part of the Threads of Freedom project. You don’t need any experience to join in as they will guide you through designing and creating your piece inspired by the history of Leeds and the Leodis photographic archives. Every contribution matters.

Learn how to use fabric and thread to tell stories in our drop-in textile workshops. The project artists will expertly guide you to create embroidered, patchworked and embellished pieces of textile art as part of the Threads of Freedom project. You don’t need any experience to join in as they will guide you through designing and creating your piece inspired by the history of Leeds and the Leodis photographic archives. Every contribution matters.

Who says you need a paintbrush to paint?!

During this workshop you will be learning the basics of wet felting and how to 'paint' a small felt picture.

You will be guided through adding additional fibres to create texture and you'll learn how to add details through embroidery and/or needlefelting

At the end of the session you will have created your very own felted painting.

Under the careful guidance of Penny, you will learn some of the fundamental principles of wet felting.

The techniques you learn will enable you to create your very own 3D wet felted bowl, which can be used for ornamental use or as a 'useful pot to put things in'.