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VCUarts Qatar at the 2025 London Design Biennale - June 5–29, 2025
A22) Little Makers – Desert rose (Ages 8 – 12)
About this class
This Course meant to enrich the student’s creative thinking, enhance their crafty skills, and expand their general knowledge about the Desert Rose
Class Outline
- In this class, the students will be Making objects decorative and desk tools made out of paper. Serving the theme of the desert rose
- after going on a trip to the Qatar National Museum where they will get their inspiration from.
- Where they also get to learn a bit about the beautiful rocks found in the desert of Qatar.
- Students will be introduced to the multiple uses of paper and white glue in making 3D shapes using paper mâché techniques.
- And on their last two days, they will work with clay and acrylic paint, to make a final 3D object for their exhibition.
- all of the students’ work will be exhibited on the last day of this class.
- Each student will have at least one object selected for
- the final public exhibition happening on August 1st.
Materials needed
Please note: VCUQatar reserves the right to cancel classes for which not enough participants are registered. Already paid fees will be refunded.
Please do not purchase materials until VCUQatar has sent final course confirmation.
Items to buy for this class
- apron/any old clothes
- newspapers magazines
- drawing sketch book
- coloring pencils.
- Snack for the kids (lunch box). No student will be allowed to share food for health reasons.
On occasions, there may be some more materials to be bought and brought in if and when advised by the instructor.
Where to buy your materials
Most of the materials are available from any art supply shop, for example:
- Cass Art (Fire station): Community Classes students get a 15% discount upon presenting the registration ticket
- Jarir Bookstore: on Rayyan Road or Salwa Road
- Color Note: on Al Nasser Street
- Ibn Al Qayyim: at Markhiya Roundabout
- Al Rawnaq
Schedule
Start: Sun, 28 Jul, 2019
End: Thu, 1 Aug, 2019
Lessons: 5 days (over 1 week)
Days: Sunday through Thursday
Time: 9 AM to 1 PM
Location: VCUQatar
Cost: QAR 1350
Instructors
Ebtesam M. Al-Hothi
Ebtesam M. Al-Hothi (Ebi)
A VCU Alumni, holds a BFA in Graphic design.
Currently working as a Prototype specialist at Dadu-Children’s Museum in Qatar.
Other than her social and active community work with the Qatari community at VCUarts Qatar, she’s also involved with international organizations that are working with kids such as Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) and Best Buddies under the Education City community.
Her work experience includes working with Takashi Murakami during his exhibition titled “Ego” in Qatar, and six years as an instructor at VCUarts Qatar where she worked on the various art-based programs during the summer months.
With the ability to use Qatari culture within artistic projects by using her skills in illustrating, video-montage and stop-motion animation, she aims to have her students leave class not just with new artistic skills and cultural knowledge, but also with enhanced social skills and behaviors.
“I strongly believe that our future lies in the hands of children, and I am honored that in my role, I am able to support children to in their social emotional development and champion children’s wellbeing in Qatar.”
Register
To register for this course, access the form.