Roll up! Roll up! It’s the Wayzgoose Print Fair back to confuse you with its peculiar name and impress you with its fabulous array of printed loveliness. Come along for a wonderful day of chatting about print, watching printmaking demos, and taking part in our tombola – you could win a printmaking course, or a strange … Continue reading
Author Archives: Xtina Lamb
Family Arts Festival
This year’s Family Arts Festival is running over 24 days from 9 October – 1 November 2015. It’s a national festival with a wonderful range of events and creative activities for families all over the UK. Have a look at INTRA’s line up for the festival. Continue reading
Under The Sea Season
Throughout August we’re going nautical with a month full of Under The Sea themed workshops and courses for children and adults. Dip your toe in and try out a new printmaking technique, have some fishy fun with vinyl stickers, join a week long summer school class, or make a lovely gift for a friend. It’ll … Continue reading
Medway Open Studios 2015
It’s time for Medway Open Studios & Arts Festival again this weekend and this year there are over 100 artists taking part and 23 venues to visit across the Medway towns. We’re looking forward to welcoming people for a nose around the studios, but we’ve also organised lots of classes and activities to run through the festival at INTRA, with … Continue reading
Pimp Your Clothes Workshops
We had a great time at the Swap, Pimp & Wear event in June, and from what you told us it seems like everyone else did too! As a follow up to our taster sessions pimping up the swaps, we’re running some longer classes this month, each run by the organisers of Swap, Pimp & Wear. We’re planning to … Continue reading
Silver Clay Jewellery – The Skiving Scholar
Sara Wordley aka The Skiving Scholar brings her wonderful silver clay courses to INTRA most months and oh do we love them! This magical substance can be sculpted just like clay, but when it is fired in Sara’s kiln, the binder burns away leaving 99.9% real fine silver! After a whole lot of fun sculpting and some polishing … Continue reading
Swap Pimp & Wear
A special fashion event is happening at INTRA on June 7th, and we’re very excited about it indeed! Swap Pimp & Wear is a clothes swap with a difference. Bring along clothes, swap them with whatever takes your eye, and then our team will help you to perk up them up with embroidery, printing, appliqué, trims and all sorts of other … Continue reading
Wayzgoose Print Fair
INTRA residents Medway Fine Printmakers have teamed up with another Rochester print studio Hazelnut Press to host a print fair this Saturday 13th December. ‘Wayzgoose’ is an old name for a traditional printers fair, and ours will have work on sale by over 20 artists, with prices starting from £10 for a hand printed artwork. Textiles, bags, … Continue reading
Halloween & Day Of The Dead – spooky half term!
Half term is coming up and as we love a bit of spookiness, we’ve programmed some exciting Halloween and Mexican Day Of The Dead themed activities at INTRA.
Scary sculpting with Fimo, Print Your Own bags / t-shirts / cushions, Halloween decorations & masks, plus a Día de los Muertos celebration with workshops all day. Continue reading
Beyond Boundaries
It’s halfway through the exhibition run of ‘Beyond Boundaries – Printmaking by Xtina Lamb, Adam Piper and Liz Miller’ from INTRA residents Medway Fine Printmakers, and the feedback so far has been great. Visitors have enjoyed the inclusion of a selection of plates and descriptions of printmaking techniques, as it has both demystified the processes employed, and led to … Continue reading