Past Workshops

Art Club: Illustrating Super Heroes

Ruba Al Araji

Participants will explore their imaginations and develop ideas about what kind of superhero they could or would want to be.

Art Club: Screen Printing

Tamsin Wildy

Participants will learn the basics of screen printing including preparing and exposing a screen.

Etching

Salama Nasib

Etching is the process of using strong acid to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal. During this workshop you will learn the basics of how to p...

Idea Development through Productive Failure

Areej Kaoud

In this workshop, participants are asked to embrace failure, doubt and consequent experimentation – discovering the productive space between failure and success. Participants should bring to the works...

Calligraphy Advanced Class

Majid Alyousef

The workshop is targeting intermediate calligraphers and typographers who want to develop their skills to the next level. it will cover the techniques, materials and methods that are used to compose a...

AAVS Dubai: Expo 2020 Accelerating Processes

The second edition of The Dubai Visiting School will advance the research of the previous workshop by exploring avant-garde methods of materializing architecture. The outcomes will consist of a specul...

Collagraph and Mono printing

Tamsin Wildy

Working with texture and layers, participants will learn how to create a collagraph plate and experiment with mono printing to create a series of experimental prints.

Art Club: The Ultimate Sketchbook

Ruben Sanchez

Using collected found material to appropriate, combine, manipulate and reuse.

Art Club: Street Art

Ruben Sanchez

Basic bookbinding skills for artists and designers (Part 1)

Lara Assouad

This workshop will teach the basic principles of single/double/triple signature, Japanese, single sheet, and multiple signature bookbinding techniques to design professionals. Participants will be enc...

Screenprinting 1

Salama Nasib, Tamsin Wildy

In this one-off session participants will get to understand the basic principles of screen-printing and experience the printing process through using stencil cut-outs, as well as through screen exposu...

The Found Object

Areej Kaoud

The Found Object workshop will start by discussing the found object in its most basic definition, examining the removal of everyday objects from their natural context and bringing them into a gallery ...