Summer holiday dates for 2022

Hurrah we are running Summer Classes during the following weeks this year. The booking link will be available after half term. Do get in contact if you are interested and join both the mailing and waiting lists on the booking page.

You can pick and choose your dates. Ages are from 8 to 16yrs.

First Week

Monday and Tuesday 25th/26th July (11yrs-16yrs)

Wednesday 27th July (8yrs-11yrs)

Second Week

Monday and Tuesday 1st/2nd August (8yrs-11yrs)

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 3rd, 4th and 5th August (11yrs-16yrs)

Third Week

Monday and Tuesday 8th/9th August (8yrs -11yrs)

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10th, 11th and 12th August (11yrs-16yrs)

Fourth Week

Monday and Tuesday 15th/16th August (8yrs – 11yrs)

Times are from 10-3pm and is £49 a day, please bring a long a packed lunch and old clothes.

Summer Classes 2021 are now fully booked !

Summer Classes 2021 are now fully booked ! Thank you for such an amazing response. We are very sorry to all those who were disappointed this time. Please sign up to the mailing list to get advance reminders for future classes and join the waiting list in case of any cancellation.

Warmest wishes from all of us at ArtWorks

Summer Classes 2021 are open from 10am 25th June !

This summer the age range is from 9yrs - 16yrs, times 10am-3pm, the price is still £42 per class. We are continuing with the smaller classes (12 students, 2 tutors and art assistant) for Covid safety.

We will be featuring different materials and processes but there will still be the opportunity to work on personal or school projects.

The dates this year will be

Week One - 27th -28th July (Tues and Wed)

Week Two - 3rd - 6th August (Tues - Fri)

Week Three - 10th -13th August (Tues-Fri)

Week Four - 17th - 20th August (Tues-Fri)

The first row of options is for bundles of classes for Weeks 2, 3, and 4 of the Summer term. Below you will find (4 day) bundles, and daily classes where you can choose your schedule. The booking link will be LIVE on 25th June from 10am.

https://www.artworks.org.uk/summer-classes-2021

Venue

St Mary and St John Primary School

End of Bedford Street

Oxford

OX4 1SU (use this postcode for SatNav)

Do let me know if you have any questions via the contact page

Very best wishes Jo Acty

SPACES AVAILABLE THIS TERM IN OUR TEEN GROUPS

Hi after a perfectly wonderful Easter holiday class week, we will be starting our regular classes from THIS Friday/Saturday. After confirming students wanting to continue from last December we have a few spaces available in the following groups

Classes are 2hrs and fortnightly with email contact between and a library of materials and art books to borrow to keep the momentum going ! Age group correspond to the present students ages. Please contact us here for more information

CLASSES AND SPACES AVAILABLE

FRIDAY Gr A (starting 23rd April) approximately 4-6pm with flexible start and finish times. (ages 12-16yrs), 1 space

FRIDAY GrB (starting 30th April) approximately 4-6pm with flexible start and finish times. (ages 13-17yrs), 4 spaces

SATURDAY GrA (starting 24th April) 10-12noon, (ages 13-17yrs), 4 spaces

SATURDAY GrB (starting 1st May) 10-12noon, (ages 11-15yrs), 3 spaces

SATURDAY GrA 1-3pm, (ages 13-17yrs), 5 spaces

SATURDAY GrB 1-3pm, (ages 13-17yrs), 4 spaces

All other classes are full.

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Easter Classes 13th - 16th April 2021 :-) :-):-) !!!

SOLD OUT !!!

After far too long we are back !! Tentatively at first so this Easter we will only be running the 2nd week of Easter 13th-16th April (10-3pm) and with a small bubble of children for 4 days.

We are following the Government guides please see below

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/protective-measures-for-holiday-or-after-school-clubs-and-other-out-of-school-settings-for-children-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak/protective-measures-for-out-of-school-settings-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak

However this doesn’t mean we won’t have fun and still have that lovely warm welcome to you all

2021 is just around the corner

On behalf of the ArtWorks brilliant team I want to take this opportunity to thank our students and their parents for their support and patience this year while we negotiated the Covid precautions. On and off Zoom, changes in venue and extra safety measures all to keep us all safe and healthy.

Below is a selection of work done by our regular term time and holiday class students this year and one of the life drawing sessions in our temporary venue in September. Many thanks to The Old School House for their support this year when our usual venue was unavailable.

All good wishes for a healthy rejuvenated 2021

Jo, Helen, Rosie, Jaya and Ali

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THE SUMMER CLASSES ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED!

We are fully booked throughout the summer!

I am so sorry to those who weren’t able to get a place this time. To create a ‘bubble’, the students and tutors have to be the same all week, so there were less available individual places. We also had to reduce the class size from 18 to 10. As the summer progresses and hopefully restrictions begin to relax we may be able to run another week at the end of the summer from 24th to 27th August but this will need to be confirmed closer to the date with the approval of the school.

Again my sincerest apologies for anyone disappointed this time.

Warmest wishes Jo x

WE ARE BACK ! BUT WITH EXTRA SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

I hope you are all well? It's been a long three months. I hope I have some good news for you!

We have been given permission to run 4 weeks over the Summer Holiday, with conditions. The groups have to be smaller, 10 in a group to give plenty of space and 2 tutors. The main difference is that there has to be the same children and tutors to create a ‘bubble’ We are also only running from Monday to Thursday so we can arrange a deep clean on Fridays. We will have our new social distancing policy on the website soon. The dates this year are 27th July to 21st August and possibly the 24th to 27th August too but this needs to be confirmed. You will have to book for all 4 days of your chosen week. The price will be £42 per day (10am-3pm as before) total of £168 per week.

We look forward to seeing you again soon, I can’t wait !

Warmest wishes Jo x

ArtWorks online !

For now ArtWorks regular classes have resumed online via Zoom. This is exciting and new and will redefine how we teach but we are adapting well with lots of one to one and group feedback and ‘virtual cookie breaks’ :-). At the moment we are fully booked but more spaces will become available as soon as we can return to our favourite way of teaching, face to face and covered in art materials !!

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News about Easter classes

Warmest greetings from everybody at Artworks. As some of you will know, over the past few weeks we have been working hard to plan for the current emergency. Right until the Government's official announcement on 23rd March 2020 I had been exploring every possible opportunity to find some way of running the Easter classes, hoping the situation would have settled. 

Sadly, the announcement of the nationwide lockdown means this cannot happen at the present time.

This is a perilous time for all small businesses. I have run ArtWorks classes for over 30 years now, and this is the first time I have had to cancel a course. I know that after life returns to some form of normality we will run the classes again. I have the best team of tutors I've ever had the pleasure to work with and I know they all miss working with the children. 

To all of you, I want to take this opportunity to offer our thoughts and best wishes from everyone at Artworks. Stay safe, and I hope to see you again after the curfew is lifted. 

Currently, we are exploring every possible way in which we can continue to provide support, ideas and inspiration to parents and children during these trying times. So please watch this space for further artworks initiatives - project ideas, useful websites and resources, one-to-one support from Artworks tutors for young people who were due to be taking art examinations soon. Thankfully, it is currently the perfect weather for painting and drawing outside, or through a window. Exploring the visual possibilities around us is one of the greatest gifts that art offers to all of us.

We are living through history and art has always been at the forefront: whether for documenting the times we are experiencing, or for nourishing the soul and providing the soothing balm of mindful concentration. 

For now, best wishes to all of our Artworks family.

Please feel free to contact me via our contact page

EASTER CLASSES GO LIVE ON 1ST MARCH 2020

Dear parents

I’m excited to let you know that this Easter, that as well as our fantastic Easter classes at St Mary and St John Primary School (6th April - 9th April and 14th April -17th April) we will be running three specialist days for our younger students (6yrs-9yrs) at Chandlings Prep School, from 1st -3rd April. Pictures below.

As always you can pick and choose your days on our booking page

Exciting News !

From January 1st 2020 we will have a fully automated booking system for our next block of holiday classes !

Until then just to remind you that we don’t run classes at Christmas as we all take a rest to be with our family and friends.

We look forward to seeing our ArtWorks family from January for the regular classes and February for the holiday classes.

Our next block of holiday classes are from 17th to 21st February 2020

SUMMER CLASSES ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED

Apologies but as of 1st July we are fully booked for the whole summer (29th July -23rd August). We have started a waiting list in case of any cancellations. Apologies for any disappointment caused

Our next block of holiday classes are at half term. Details to follow.

SUMMER CLASSES ARE BOOKING UP ! 29th July to 23rd August 2019

I'm excited to say that we are now taking bookings for our popular Summer Classes.

We have already had a lot of interest so do please get in touch as soon as you can if you are interested.


The dates are 29th July to 23rd August 2019.

Classes run from 10am to 3pm and can be booked individually as well as weekly.

Suitable for 8yrs to 15yrs. With lots of new ideas and materials.

Please feel free to contact me through the contact form to ask questions or to book.

I look forward to hearing from you !

Very best wishes

Jo Acty

APOLOGIES BUT NO HALF TERM CLASSES

Dear all

I’m very sorry but we will not be running this coming half term. With such a short term and lots of exciting but tiring artistic commitments we are taking a break.

Our next block of classes will be during the summer from 29th July to 23rd August. Do get in touch through the contact form to let us know which dates you prefer.

Ages this summer will be from 8yrs to 15yrs.

Warmest wishes

Jo Acty

Tel 07754 736078

Do come along and see our ArtWorks 30th Anniversary exhibition (Artweeks site 112) running until this sunday 12th May. Its stunning !! Pictures to follow

EASTER NOW FULLY BOOKED

We had a wonderful half term with some stunning work produced but even before we had started the New term, enquiries have been coming in and now we are fully booked.

Our next two blocks of holiday classes are from

Half Term

28th - 30th May 2019

Summer class

29th July to 23rd August 2019

Apologies for any disappointment.

HALF TERM NOW FULLY BOOKED !

Incredibly we are now fully booked for this half term. We will be running holiday classes throughout the Easter Holidays. This years dates are Tuesday 9th to Thursday 18th April 2 019. Do get in contact if you are interested.

Many apologies if you didn’t get a place this time, with small classes we book up quickly.

FEBRUARY HALF TERM. OPEN FOR BOOKING !

First week into our regular classes and we are already looking towards February Half Term !

We are running classes from 18th to 22nd February 2019

Classes run from 10am to 3pm, you can book one or several days

£40 per child per day. Personalised tuition, lots of choices in starting points, materials and techniques. High ratio of tutors to students and a genuinely supportive atmosphere.

Studio venue : St Mary and St John Primary School, end of Bedford Street, Oxford, OX4 1SU.

If interested please use the contact form to ask questions or to book. We look forward to hearing from you !

OCTOBER HALF TERM FULLY BOOKED !

Hi, I’m sorry we are now fully booked for the October Half term (22nd -26th October) Our next block of classes are next year during the February Half term (18th - 22nd February). Booking opens from 1st January 2019. I hope to see you then !