17 September 2019
Registration Still Open for The Art Center Cultural Activities, A series of workshops in September
Registration is still open for the Art Center’s art and educational workshops organized by Bahrain Authority for Culture Antiquities during the whole month of September, 2019. The workshop, organized , in cooperation with A.M. Design will center around the basics of Epoxy Resin Workshop materials and woodturning lathes. Participants above 16 years old wishing to take part in these workshops, are requested to login on its website and register via : www.culture.gov.bh
The workshop, titled “Epoxy Resin Workshop”, will be held on 21 September 2019, between 10:00 am- 13:00 pm will teach participants the right and types of epoxy materials and their right usage. Children will be also acquainted with the epoxy materials and given the necessary skills to equip the work environment, safety and security directives with regard to hazardous use of these materials, and how they should be stored and used in a room temperature environment. In addition, the workshop will showcase the methods of preparing materials before applying epoxy, how to pour bars and molds, getting rid of bubbles and scratches to come up with clean perfect models and figures.
The second workshop, titled ‘ Woodturning Lathes ” will be held on 29 & 30 September, between 4:00 pm-7:00 pm, whereby the participants will learn to turn wood on a machine or pole lathe could become one of the most satisfying and enjoyable things in your life. Wood turning and pole lathe workshop will show you how to create beautiful shapes from lumps of wood, which you may make your own bespoke turned fruit bowl or a pair of candle sticks. You may also fancy learning the traditional wood-turning craft of bodging, which uses green (unseasoned) wood to make chair legs and other cylindrical parts for house accessories.
The artist Ali Mashhadi, Creator of A.M. Design project and a very professional designer, will present and supervise both workshops in a very accurate creative way dealing with small miniature wood pieces. The artist passion is creating artistic and functional treasures on the wood lathe, starting with raw wood pieces, molding and Turing them into art masterpieces.
