Craft a colourful cardboard guitar

AS part of the program of activities inspired by the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Medieval To Metal exhibition, children are invited to take part in a workshop on site to create their own weird and wacky cardboard guitar.

Bizarre Guitars will be led by artist and educator Emily Van Der Molen.

“It will be a fun, play-based art-making session,” she said.

“We will have a look at the exhibition, which has a lot of fun elements the kids can engage with, and then we will respond to that back in the education studio.

“We might even play a bit of air guitar before they make their own guitars which can be as wild and wacky as they like. We’ll use cardboard and mixed media, and keep it very open-ended.

“The focus in my workshops is creating space for children to express themselves in the way that they want to, so there’s no rule about getting it right or wrong; I’ll be there to help them realise their ideas and a create a guitar that’s their own.”

The two-hour Bizarre Guitars sessions on Tuesday 21 and Thursday 23 January, 10am to 12pm, are designed for children aged six to 12.

Visit artgal.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/143215 to book in a child. Tickets are $20 each.