The Big Draw Festival: MakeTheChange! is a timely development on last year’s exploration into the relationship between people and our living environments. In 2021, we are partnering with The Big Draw team to take action, to explore and to discover ways to live in balance with the world around us.

Workshops kick off the day, reworking The Courtauld Collection to focus on protest art, sustainable art practices and ideal and imaginary worlds. The second half of the day will allow rare up-close and personal object study sessions. In these sessions Courtauld experts will look to artists in our collection – artists who reused paper, produced double-sided drawings and cut out, replaced areas and drew over previous works.

Join artists, creators, makers and experts – Helen Cann, Michelle Reader, Amber Butler, Leyla Bumbra and The Courtauld prints and drawings team – for this half day online festival. We invite you and your family to explore and get creative with materials you can find in your home, garden and local area to reconnect with each other and demand a better world for future generations. The Courtauld invites you to be part of The World’s Biggest community of drawing enthusiasts.

The first two workshops are suitable for anyone over 7 years old who is interested in reusing and recycling, making and drawing! The third workshop is aimed at those 12 years and older. The object study part of the event is designed for older art enthusiasts, granting an opportunity to pose your questions to our experts of works on paper. Please note that all children should be supervised by an adult at all times while taking part.

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