Ulla's workshops

Ulla's fun and educative public workshops serve the full spectrum of the community, and they are great activities in schools and at festivals. 

Pavement Art workshops and collaborative, community artworks can be structured for casual or intensive involvement for children, youth, and adults. 

Pavement art workshops have been the highlight of many events including:  The Big Draw Melbourne Museum 05, Deniliquin youth week 2004, Canberra Multicultural Festival, Streetworks Melbourne Pavement Art Festival, Christchurch's Sidewalk Art Project 1997-2000, and World Buskers' Fest Kids days, Mt Gambier's Blue Lake Festival, and the Royal Zoological Gardens of Melbourne Garden Weeks and Zoo Month.

Damon finishing up his third drawing at the Newcastle Livesites Pavement art workshop October 2005

 

 

Rainbow Serpent Children's workshop in Melbourne City Square as part of Streetworks Pavement Art festival, managed by Ulla in 1996. 

David Simmonds photograph.

 

 

The Chalk Horse - of Scone

Known as Australia's horse capital, this workshop was designed accordingly as part of the Horse Festival, and enthusiastically coloured by St Mary's students

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Workshop events can be tailored to your needs.

Popular workshops include:

The Rainbow Serpent, weaving its colourful way down the pavement, coloured in by everyone who wants to join in..

The World Family linking hands along the street and embellished by workshop participants..

The (con)Temporary Gallery, comprising of a multitude of individual artworks...

The Forest Workshop which explores the idea of biodiversity.

The Big Draw, a giant pencil coloured in by hundreds..

Melbourne Museum Big Draw 2005

Produced as a part of Drawing Australia program, the Museum won an Innovation Award from the Vice Chancellor at Macquarie University for this program. 

Many school groups and the public contributed to this major public artwork.  Children sketched items from the museum collection, and had a talk about pavement art before working on the pavement, in public.  Many hundreds of pictures were drawn over the week-long program.  Workshop designed and produced by Ulla and assisted by Chalk Circle and museum staff.  This is a major event.

Giant Boomerang with animal designs at Chalk the Walk Melbourne.

Designed by Ulla for Chalk the Walk's workshop program at Art Play during Moomba festival, many school groups and the public came to draw.  It's very rare to get such a great big space to use, without fear of inundation from crowds (we were on the carpark roof.)  Unfortunately it was removed right after the event!!!  (What a cleaning job!!).  I don't know why, I'm sure lots of children (and car park patrons) were disappointed..  This has been my largest community workshop design, over 30 metres long.

Melbourne 2007

A great contemporary artwork

A fun learning activity

Public involvement

Skills in cooperative group work

Skills in self expression, communication and empowerment.

Immediate and visible achievement- at your feet.

An insight to professional practice and artworking techniques.

Chalking it up for World Aids Day - adults produced major artworks highlighting issues relating to World Aids day  after a pavement art workshop in St Kilda, 1992.

High school students in Murray Bridge, S.A., were featured in this article after an intensive pavement art workshop in 1995.

Sidewalk Art Project, Class of 2000

Bev, Peter, Ulla, Jenny and Diana of Chalk Circle with a group of our workshop participants at the Arts Centre Christchurch, 2000.  

CHAWK art group NZ was formed as a result of this workshop and I have since had the honour to work with my former students as professionals in my 2002 NZ tour.

CHAWK also hold the world record for largest street drawing on Earth!!

Further information?.

In the local community to focus on important issues...

at Festivals,

in the park, and

at the local shopping centre,

In the school to combine art working with...

Special events,

Fete, and

Theme weeks or cross-curricular learning activities