Educational projects, lectures, tutorials and workshops, designed and facilitated live or commissioned and produced as online content
Upcoming workshops and talks:
Past talks and lectures:
Hugh Lane Gallery: Honolulu Garden by Mary Swanzy October 2022
Hugh Lane Gallery: Coffee Conversation Wednesday 24 November 2021, 11 am
Dublin Bay by Norah McGuinness
Lecturer: Renata Pekowska
Hugh Lane Gallery: Online Coffee Conversation Wednesday 28 April 2021, 11 am
First Design for a Proposed Gallery of Modern Art, St Stephen's Green – Edwin Lutyens
Lecturer: Renata Pekowska
Hugh Lane Gallery: Online Coffee Conversation Friday 16 April 2021, 10:30 am
Exploring the colour blue in the Hugh Lane Gallery Collection
Lecturer: Renata Pekowska
Avenues into Modern and Contemporary Art lectures series:
Saturday 27 February 2021, 11 am Artform in Focus: Artists' Books
Lecturer: Renata Pekowska
Saturday 6 February 2021, 11 am: Exploring the influence of shadows in the 19th -21st century visual arts
Lecturer: Renata Pekowska
Hugh Lane Gallery: Exploring Art at the Hugh Lane Gallery online course Tuesday 25 August - Thursday - 27 August 2020
Shadow theatre & visual arts: illustrated talk, art activity and discussion.
Lecturer: Renata Pekowska
February 2021: Dublin Chinese Lunar New Year - Make a Chinese Dragon Mask creative activity video commissioned by the Hugh lane Gallery for Dublin Chinese New Year Festival 2021
September 2020: 'Weedscapes' drawing activity video for Culture Night at the Hugh Lane Gallery, accompanying the 'Weedscapes' animation by Renata Pekowska commissioned by Dublin Culture Night 2020.
September 2020: Children's Activity Guide for Butler Gallery's new site at Evans Home. Published for Culture Night 2020. Content design Renata Pekowska
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND - COUNTRY LIFE
How to Make a Paper Basket
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND - ARCHAEOLOGY
St Patrick's Bell Craft
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND - NATURAL HISTORY
How to make your own Giant Irish Deer Antlers
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND - DECORATIVE ARTS & HISTORY
Make a Samurai Inspired Helmet
Creative response inspired by the Natural History Museum activity video by @anna_marie_orourke here
June 2020: Stoneybatter Festival 2020 & Collins Barracks - National Museum of Ireland Decorative Arts & History present a competition based on the tutorial video by Renata Pękowska - get inspired by the video and make your own bird helmet. Poster design Renata Pękowska
May 2020: Exploring Shadow Shapes and Negative Space drawing idea workshop video - shifting focus from objects to negative space and shapes of shadows around and between forms
May 2020: Sunday Sketching: Light on Landscape the video follows the format of Hugh Lane Gallery's drawing workshops for families, starting with touring of theme-related artworks from the Gallery collections, followed by a drawing session
April 2020: Bird Helmet - craft idea workshop aimed at 7-10 year old audiences, inspired by an item from the collections of the National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks
April 2020: Artists' Books - a public lecture was scheduled to take place in the Hugh Lane Gallery in April. Due to the gallery's closure, a short version was recorded and published as part of #MuseumFromHome online contents
April 2020 Shadow theatre fun creative activity idea video for Butler Gallery's #HomeStudioBG aimed at families and using materials found in most households, especially at the time when access to art materials is restricted
April 2020: Proclamation of Independence for National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts and History focus on collection item (object selection, narrative and voice by Renata Pekowska)
March 2020: Cat Mask fun creative activity idea video for Butler Gallery's #HomeStudioBG aimed at families and using materials found in most households, especially at the time when access to art materials is restricted
May 2019 - Academie Minerva Groningen the Netherlands. Exchange visit to the Book Department, which included a talk/discussion on what constitutes a book, based on questioning different material manifestations of storytelling and aspects such as language and medium investigations. Followed by a series of short studio assignments, 2D to 3D form building with restricted number of interventions, activated by light or sound.
February 2019: Drawing workshop for adults, Butler Gallery Kilkenny Castle
March 2016: Shadow Garden response drawing and craft workshop (age group 5 to 8 year old) Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle
May 2015: Drawing as meditation drop-in workshop, National Drawing Day, Butler Gallery Kilkenny Castle
January 2015: Drawables drawing elective, First Year Studies, National College of Art and Design: A fast-paced studio module focusing on the numerous conceivable functions of drawing and their potential to influence its countless possible forms
May 2014: Paper Cutouts National Drawing Day, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle
Drawing workshop focus: paper cut making. Thinking of a line as a border between two areas. Improving the manual skill and the ability to think in terms of creating a form by subtracting. Designing a final outcome which is not immediately visible in case of multiple folding. Both simple and extremely elaborate forms can be visually striking and effective.
May 2012: Stained Glass Pictures National Drawing Day, Butler Gallery Kilkenny Castle
