VCUarts Qatar at the 2025 London Design Biennale - June 5–29, 2025

Contemporary Art (Ages 7-9 years)

About this class

Class Outline

This course will give an overview of the Surrealism art movement. Students will have a few exercises as a warm-up for the summer course. They will be combining objects and animals to create their own mythical creatures. This will help with their imagination & creativity, which is fun and can be great for future world-building. 

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

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: Sat, 12 Jun, 2021
End: Sat, 12 Jun, 2021
Lessons: 1
Days: Saturday
Time: 10 – 11am
Location: Online (Zoom)
Cost: Free

Instructors

Salma Awad 150 150 80 1

Salma Awad

Salma Awad is a practicing interdisciplinary artist who earned a BFA in Painting & Printmaking and a minor in Art History at VCUarts Qatar. In 2020, she explored jewelry as an art medium, and succeeded in selling her pieces online and at Farmers Market. In her recent studio practice, she paints and prints as a form of therapy. Salma has been active in her university years working with the VCUarts Qatar gallery and instructing her own workshops (on campus and at Fire Station Museum). She has engaged in group exhibitions at VCUarts, Art 29 and Al Hosh Gallery. Now she is working as an admissions counselor & a teacher assistant with the Painting & Printmaking department at VCUarts Qatar. 

Register

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