Art Practical: Arts and Crafts for Health and Wellbeing

This course is designed to provide an opportunity to support your health and wellbeing through taking up an art or craft that you find therapeutic, relaxing, and rewarding. There will be an opportunity to try out a variety of different types of arts and crafts during the course. You will be encouraged to work with several different medias and resources including recycled materials to produce and create a picture or item of art or craft. Where appropriate, the history behind the items you have made will be explored and researched. For example, the development of different art and craft trends and their popularity will be acknowledged as a social history of skills and techniques still used today. The whole group will be encouraged to take part in this research. You will explore what you enjoy making and how you can develop your individual techniques and skills. You will also have the opportunity to suggest what you want to cover during the course and bring ideas to the class. You will be expected to finish at least one piece of your work and to be able to give some feedback on your favourite item.