Previously, I have worked with people of all ages. As an art educator, I worked at Museum Sinclair-Haus and Lindenau-Museum Altenburg. Once in a while, I offer workshops for groupd and institutions. Previous projects were held at Eyelevel Gallery (Halifax), Supalife Kiosk (Berlin), Umundu Festival (Dresden). For more educational projects see my website: natur-gedanken-raum.de

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Art Garten, Niederurff (2021, 2022)

Drawing and Sketching Nature in the beautiful Art and Sculpture Garden in Hessen, Germany. A two days Workshop for adults and youth.

 

Naturlinien, Städte wagen Wildnis, Frankfurt (2020, 2021)

A nature drawing workshop together with Lena Sandel, for the project “Städte wagen Wildnis” (Cities for wildernis), where people were able to discover the wild nature in the city through drawings and observations.

 

Umundu Festival for Sustainability (Dresden, Oct 2019)

October 2019, for the Umundu festival in Dresden, Lena Sandel and I gave a free workshop in art and nature. In the 2 hour workshop people found time and space for contemplation in nature and creativity. The workshop took place in the Großer Garten, Dresden.

 

Teacher´s Educational Workshop Art & Nature (Sept 2019)

At Museum Sinclair-Haus, in September 2019, I gave a workshop in Art & Nature education for Teachers. The Teachers Training discusses questions such as: How can schools incorporate Cultural Education in School? How can Schools collaborate with institutions and artists? How do you find finances for your projects?

 

Wilderness Education Weekend: Nature Prints (May 2018)

At a wilderness education weekend I gave a nature print workshop for families and people of all ages. We collected plants and made nature prints to then make small booklets and postcards.

 

Experimental Book Arts (June 2018)

Eyelevel Book Arts Gallery in Halifax is a book arts exhibition and workshop space. In June 2018, I gave a workshop in experimental book arts for students of the design course. We explored book art creation and storytelling. The space also showed the Travel Exhibition as an inspiration for the workshop.

 

Bookbinding Basics Course (May 2016)

This six-hour course taught basics in book making at the Hobby-Art place in Assenheim close to Frankfurt, Germany.      A mixed group of adults and kids learned Japanese bindings, booklet-making and a few great artist books and note books came out of the course. Well done, everyone felt really inspired! (April 2016)

 

Bookbinding and paste paper making

At the Elementary School in Wernigerode (Freie Grundschule), we have been creating an artist folder. The children in 3rd grade made their own paste paper and created the folder using the bookbinding materials. (May 2015)

 

The Blue Light

In 2010, I was offered to lead an Art Camp with elementary school kids in Banff, Alberta. My collegue Nui and I started to conceptualize a day of teaching Shadow Theatre. We choose to use the story "The Blue Light" as a theme for the day. The children, age 5-12, explored their own ideas to the story. (August 2010)