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Future Creatives Art and Design Workshop for 11 to 17 Year Olds

Explore your creativity! Multidisciplinary art and design workshops for 11 to 17 year olds across the UK. Learn a range of techniques.

Next start months
July 2025
July 2025
July 2025
Tutor(s)
Antonia Harrowing
Seán Myers
Rachel Thompson
Caz Dowdall
George Nesbitt
Victoria Surtees
TBC
Price
From £170.00

Course description

Course overview

Future Creatives art and design workshops take place during school holidays, across different locations in the UK. You can select your preferred location and dates for booking at the bottom of this page. This course is a chance for your kids to get stuck in a multidisciplinary project, enabling the exploration of a wide range of art and design techniques and the creation of a portfolio of work.

No two courses are the same, with our expert teachers delivering new content and fresh concepts for every single class. Previous classes have covered everything from 3D design and drawing to portrait painting and mod roc sculpture, and there are plenty more unique sessions in the pipeline. Whatever the project, you can rest assured that your Future Creatives course will be wide-ranging, inspiring and dynamic, with learners free to experiment and create their own unique pieces of work - avoiding the dull cutting-and-sticking and inflexibility of many traditional arts and crafts clubs.

Alongside the hands-on learning, our teachers, who have been specially selected by the University for their industry experience and expertise, work to ensure the skills and learning are delivered in an enjoyable, creative and wellbeing-focused way. Future Creatives classes provide a supportive environment in which students can explore their creativity, develop their work and build their confidence, all while making new friends. At completion of the course, students will receive a certificate to recognise the skills and techniques they've tried out during the classes.

How to book:

1. Select your location and date of choice and click add to basket below.

2. Follows the steps to create and account.

3. If you are an adult booking a place on this course for a child or teenager, you will need two email addresses to complete this booking - one for your booking confirmation email and one for the student's booking confirmation. In the case that your child does not have an email address, please create their account with an alternative email address to your own, that you have access to.

4. Check out and pay! To secure your child's place on a Future Creatives course we strongly encourage early bookings to avoid disappointment. We appreciate planning ahead can be difficult, but this will ensure classes can take place.

Who this course is for

This course is suitable for kids aged 11 to 17 who are interested in exploring their creative and artistic abilities.

Key information

Topics covered

  • Art and design techniques
  • Each class and every term is different; they feature a range of artistic disciplines and always have new and exciting activities from our range of expert teachers

Learning outcomes

  • Introduction to and development of a range of art and design techniques
  • Plenty of high-quality pieces of work to bring home
  • The development of soft skills like self-discipline and perseverance
  • Loads of fun and the opportunity to make a mess with none of the clean-up - Future Creatives classes are drop-off sessions
  • Emotional development and improved confidence as a result of creative exploration
  • A new network of likeminded friends
  • Receive a digital badge and certificate of attendance
  • Develop an open-minded approach to art and design
  • Experience art school teaching

For practical information about our kids and teens courses, take a look at our kids and teens information hub. This includes details of our policies on safeguarding, food allergies, learning requirements and online study.

Materials

No materials are required - the Future Creatives team will be providing all materials for the duration of the course.

Tutor

Seán Myers

Rachel Thompson is a Cambridge based artist specialising in drawing and painting. She received her MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin's in 2024 and now splits her time as an artist and artist educator. Rachel has worked in arts education for over fifteen years across multiple age groups and disciplines, and currently works for a subject association for art and design, producing curriculum content for Primary and Secondary schools across the UK. Rachel exhibits her work regularly and is an active member of the creative community in Cambridge.

Rachel Thompson

Antonia is a mixed media artist with a BA (Hons) in Illustration from London College Communication, University of the Arts London, with a love for colour and texture. She's passionate about encouraging children and young people in nurturing themselves and their creativity, alongside sharing her enthusiasm in exploring materials and a diverse range of artists. Antonia runs creative workshops online, within schools and at Tate Modern. She has been a regular online and print contributor to various publications, providing regular Fashion Week illustrated coverage and live-illustrating at events. Her work has been exhibited across London and the South-East.

Antonia Harrowing

Seán Myers works with Foundation, BA and MA students at Central Saint Martins. He is an artist and lecturer and also runs a silkscreen printing studio in North London. 

To see images of Seán's work visit Seán's website.

Caz Dowdall

Caz's passion for creative subjects has afforded her the opportunity to work with a range of materials in 2D and 3D art. After completing BTEC in Art and Design at Reading college she went on to study a BA in 3D Contemporary Crafts, working with Metal, Ceramics, and Glass. During her BA she worked with some of the country's leading glassblowers on work experience, gaining knowledge of the creative process of industry glassblowing. After deciding a career in glassblowing was not for her, she chose to take a journey into education.

Whilst studying a PGCE in Design and Technology, Caz also co-coordinated a life drawing class in Manchester. Here she learnt the benefits of community art classes; from learning from others to having a support network of people interested in the same creative endeavours. Caz has now returned to her creative roots as a teacher of a Mindful Art Class and Ceramics classes at Reading College. She is also studying a part-time MA in Psychology with the hope of integrating her passion for supporting mental health and well-being with the arts. Caz is also a practicing acrylic artist and spends much of her free time out in nature to inspire her landscapes.

George Nesbitt

George Nesbitt is an artist and teacher working in London.  George has a first class BA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London and Masters in Fine Art from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. George's love for visual creativity began truly on his Art Foundation course at New College Nottingham. His particular passions are for exploring architectural environments for research and inspiration, printmaking, writing and experimental approaches to drawing and photography. George has written and self published his photography and creative writing and is interested in zines and artists' books as a binder for artistic practice.

George works part time at a London school where he is passionate about teaching a contemporary GCSE curriculum that incorporates his students' passions. He enjoys teaching print and mixed media approaches and encouraging creative ideas led projects.

Victoria Surtees

Victoria Surtees is an artist who works predominantly in ceramics. She completed an extended Diploma in Art and Design at Leeds College of Art and graduated with a BA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL in 2012. Victoria has worked in a variety of education settings including museums and galleries, alternative provisions, and mainstream secondary. As a qualified teacher with a PGCE in Art and Design from Goldsmiths University of London, Victoria is currently working at a school in East London alongside her studio practice. 

TBC

Antonia is a mixed media artist with a BA (Hons) in Illustration from London College Communication, University of the Arts London, with a love for colour and texture. She's passionate about encouraging children and young people in nurturing themselves and their creativity, alongside sharing her enthusiasm in exploring materials and a diverse range of artists. Antonia runs creative workshops online, within schools and at Tate Modern. She has been a regular online and print contributor to various publications, providing regular Fashion Week illustrated coverage and live-illustrating at events. Her work has been exhibited across London and the South-East.

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