Art Club: Spring 2024
Project
January – June 2024
ABOUT THE ART CLUB
For Children in the 1st to 8th grade.
The Art Club introduces children to contemporary art in a fun and accessible way. Here, we explore what contemporary art is, and what kind of experiences and tools we can bring from art into our everyday lives.
The children will meet and work with professional artists, and get to explore our exhibitions together with our skilled educators. At the end of each semester we organise an exhibition for family and friends.
During the fall 2024 semester, we will work with humour as a way to trigger happiness and laughter, and look at how it can be a tool to come together and creating community. Humour can also be a safe way to enter into difficult discussions and process complicated emotions. Together we will look at how humour can create friendships, positive changes in
ABOUT THE ART CLUB
For Children in the 1st to 8th grade.
The Art Club introduces children to contemporary art in a fun and accessible way. Here, we explore what contemporary art is, and what kind of experiences and tools we can bring from art into our everyday lives.
The children will meet and work with professional artists, and get to explore our exhibitions together with our skilled educators. At the end of each semester we organise an exhibition for family and friends.
During the fall 2024 semester, we will work with humour as a way to trigger happiness and laughter, and look at how it can be a tool to come together and creating community. Humour can also be a safe way to enter into difficult discussions and process complicated emotions. Together we will look at how humour can create friendships, positive changes in ourselves and society, and make us think about things we know well in new ways.
DATES
25 August: Vibeke Andersen
For the first Art Club of the semester, we will be exploring blind contour portrait drawings. The result is often humorous, playful and challenges observation skills – something anyone can enjoy. After a few sketches, the participants will pick their favourite to transfer onto thicker paper. The lines will be enhanced with markers and areas of the drawing will be sewn.
22 September: Al Greenall
Sometimes it is a bit hard to understand our own emotions, and even harder to explain them to others. For this workshop with Al Greenall, we will create a fun "emotion monster" mask that will express our feelings without using words. This workshop is all about joy and how we express ourselves amidst the sea of emotions inside us all!
27 October: Bård Bjørknes
Together with actor and director, Bård Bjerknes, we will create a puppet theatre! The result will be a fun and engaging puppet show. We will begin the workshop by making our own puppets and then create a script that will be performed. Bård believes that puppet theatre is perfect for the youngest, but there’s plenty of evidence that it can be just as fitting for adults and teens alike.
24 November: Marie Kallevik Straume
We laugh at Chaplin when he gets stuck in a ladder. It’s in the clown’s nature to make mistakes, embrace them, and try again! In this workshop, we explore and celebrate the art of failure.
Using slapstick exercises, wigs, and costumes, we will get closer to discovering our inner fool. Marie will teach us that it’s okay to do silly things, and hopefully, we’ll get even better at accepting our own little mishaps.
15 December: Exhibition for family and friends curated by Helga Nyman
GROUPS AND TIMES
Group 1: 1st–4th grade, 1:00pm – 3:15pm
Group 2: 4th-8th grade, 4:15pm – 6:30pm
Please note: On December 15 the children arrive at 4:00 pm, and the exhibition opens for family and friends at 6:00 pm.
There is a maximum of 20 participants per group.
CONTACT
For any questions, please reach out to our Art Club Educator Oleksandra Fabricius at oleksandra@kunsthallstavanger.no.
SIGN UP AND PAYMENT
The fee for the Art Club is NOK 600,- and an active family membership in Kunsthall Stavanger (NOK 500,-). We offer free spots for children with caretakers who do not have the opportunity to cover these costs. For more information, see the bottom of this page.
To sign up and pay:
Sign up has now closed for Spring 2024.
ABOUT THE KUNSTHALL STAVANGER MEMBERSHIP
It is mandatory to have a family membership to take part in The Art Club, as we encourage the caretakers of participating children to also be engaged in the kunsthall in general. You can find a list of all membership benefits, including free entrance and discounts on our membership page.
NO COST PARTICIPATION
If caretakers do not have the opportunity to cover the cost of their child’s participation (both membership and registration fee), we have a few free spots available. This also includes children with the "Opplevelseskortet" activity card. To request a free space, please contact formidling@kunsthallstavanger.no. All requests are treated confidentially.
Vibeke Andersen
Vibeke Andersen attended the Art School in Stavanger between 2014 and 2016. Since 2016, she has been working from her own studio at Normannsgate 24.
Andersen works in various media, but most often with a focus on portraits. Portraits have been a major fascination throughout her artistic career. The expression can also vary from loose blind drawings to detailed, realistic works. In recent years, she has often translated her own work from charcoal, pastel, and painting into textiles.
Vibeke regularly exhibits her work, both locally, nationally, and internationally. In addition to her own practice, she works as an art educator at Stavanger Art Museum, as an arts and crafts teacher in a middle school, and has run the exhibition space Salongen together with Kari Bukve and Camilla Løken Hill since 2019.
This spring, she started a decoration project for Sola Arena, where several of her blind drawings can be experienced as wall paintings.
Al Greenall
Al Greenall is an artist and a philosopher with a deep sensitivity to what it means to be a conscious being in this impressive physical universe. Al believes that we are all, on some level, artists and creative beings, and that accessing our creativity is becoming increasingly important as we respond to the extraordinary world we share. He is an artist who shapes a fascinating, engaging, and highly relevant worldview.
Al was born in Salford in 1981 and then moved to grow up in the Malvern Hills area. Enthusiastic about books, music, and art, his main interest grew from the analysis of themes, exploration of media studies, cultural theory, and the nature of perception. After practical training in art and design diploma from Cheltenham College of Art, he earned a BA in art history and visual culture from Brighton, and film studies at Falmouth College of Arts. He taught visual culture at Bristol University.
Greenall picked up his brushes again in the early 2000s to enrich his theoretical work and has consistently produced, exhibited, and written about art since then.
His contemporary passion for working with people and food led to a dual career as a restaurant manager and concept developer. He now works with the community project Pådriv, as well as teaching art and creative theory to youth groups.
Bård Bjørknes
Bård Bjørknes is a trained director from the Theatre Academy in Prague, DAMU. Bjørknes' artistic work is primarily focused on puppet theatre. He has worked with puppet theatre at institutions such as Oslo Nye Teater, Teater Ibsen, Riksteatret, and Hålogaland Teater. Bjørknes is the artistic director of the company Frontfigur, a company that aims to challenge what puppet theatre can be.
Marie Kallevik Straume
Marie Kallevik Straume is a performing artist and clown from Stavanger. She is trained at École Jacques Lecoq and LAMDA. Together with her clown partner Anna Marie Simonsen, she is currently touring the world with the productions Troll and Naughty Cabaret. Troll was directed and created in collaboration with Cecily Nash. The performance has been mentioned in international press, including The Guardian, which gave Troll four out of five stars and called the performance "irresistibly silly."
When Marie is not performing as a clown, she works as a performer and producer in the Stavanger-based company Mågå. Marie received the Government Grants for Artists for 2022 and 2024-2025.
Helga Nyman
Helga Nyman (b. 1983) is an art historian and conservator at Stavanger kunstmuseum. She holds degrees from Linköping University and the University of Bergen, with a masters in contemporary art. Nyman has curated and co-curated several museum exhibitions, including Bill Viola: Into the Light (2021), Experiences of Oil (2021), and Zhanna Kadyrova: Material Evidence (2022). She also initiated and curated the exhibition series NONA, which explores play, participation, and performativity in contemporary art, featuring solo exhibitions by artists such as Jacob Dahlgren, Shahrzad Malekian, Sol Calero, and Misaki Kawai.
