Join award-winning poet, teacher and visual artist, Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon, for a dynamic workshop exploring the unique art of collage poetry, where words and images intersect to create evocative new meanings.

Sat 14 Jun 2025 | 11:30am - 2pm | Suitable for 18 yrs +

$55 | $50 MAC Inc. Members | Midland Junction Arts Centre

All materials provided

Join illustrator and painter Annette Wiguna for a three-hour botanical printing workshop. Using vegetation and a pre-treated cotton scarf, you'll create organic leaf patterns inspired by the forest floor. Annette will guide you through the techniques of tannin effects, leaf placement, and bundling for clear, beautiful prints.

Sat 12 Apr 2025 | 11am - 2pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+

$230 | $207 MAC Inc. Members | Midland Junction Arts Centre

Elevate your creative practice with a 3-hour hands-on screen-printing workshop led by experienced WA printmaker Odile Bell. Master the art of screen printing with hand-cut stencils, transferring designs onto textiles, paper, and tote bags. Learn essential techniques like heat-setting, tips for professional results and setting up a home workspace. Leave with practical skills to enrich your art and a detailed booklet to guide you further.

Sat 5 Apr 2025 | 10am - 1pm | Suitable for 18+

$130 | $117 MAC Inc. Members | Midland Junction Arts Centre

Join WA printmaker Odile Bell for a 3-hour workshop on creating long-lasting stencils with drawing fluid and screen filler. Learn to transfer designs, print on various materials, and pick up essential tips. A great opportunity to master this skill and set up your workspace. Bring an A4 black-and-white design.

Wed 26 Mar 2025 | 10am - 1pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+

$130 | $117 MAC Inc. Members | Midland Junction Arts Centre

Join WA printmaker Odile Bell for a 3-hour workshop on creating long-lasting stencils with drawing fluid and screen filler. Learn to transfer designs, print on various materials and pick up essential tips. A great opportunity to master this skill and set up your workspace. Bring an A4 black-and-white design.

Sun 9 Mar 2025 | 11am - 2pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+

$130 | $117 MAC Inc. Members

Explore the fusion of drawing and printmaking in this 2.5-hour workshop for youth. Using graffiti markers, relief ink, and found materials like junk food packaging and cardboard, create unique monotype prints with low-cost techniques.

Inspired by Happy Meals and Scooter Skids: Art from the Outer Suburbs as part of Perth Festival shown at MJAC from Sat 1 Mar 2025, this hands-on session delves into the creative processes behind the exhibition by Andy Quilty and students from Youth Futures Community School Midland, Armadale Senior High School and Warnbro Community High School.

Sat 8 Mar 2025 | 1pm - 3:30pm | Suitable for 12 - 18 yrs

$5 | $4.50 MAC Inc. Members | Materials Provided.

Image: Andy Quilty and Youth Futures Community School printmaking workshop at Midland Junction Arts Centre, 2024. Photo by Duncan Wright.

Explore the combination of intuitive mark-making and low-fi materials to create unique monoprints in this 2.5-hour workshop for adults. Using graffiti markers, relief ink, and found materials like junk food packaging and cardboard, you’ll experiment with low-cost, expressive and efficient techniques to investigate the intersection of drawing and printmaking.

Inspired by Happy Meals and Scooter Skids: Art from the Outer Suburbs on show at MJAC from Sat 1 Mar 2025, as part of Perth Festival, this hands-on session offers insight into the creative processes behind the exhibition by Andy Quilty and students from Youth Futures Community School Midland, Armadale Senior High School and Warnbro Community High School.

Sat 8 Mar 2025 | 9:30am - 12pm | Suitable for 19yrs+

$55 | $50 MAC Inc. Members | Materials provided

Image: Andy Quilty and Youth Futures Community School printmaking workshop at Midland Junction Arts Centre, 2024. Photo by Duncan Wright.

Ever dreamed of working with clay? Now’s your chance. Join our One-Day Introduction to Wheel Throwing with potter Robyn Sinclair. In this 3-hour session, designed for beginners, you'll receive hands-on instruction in the basics of ceramics, from centering to shaping. Explore the art of wheel throwing.

Sat 1 Mar 2025 | 11am - 2pm | Suitable for 18 yrs +

$130 | $117 MAC Inc. Members

All materials and tools provided.

Immerse yourself in the sumptuous world of still life with Bernard Kerr.

Bernard will guide you through warm up with exercises in composition, tone and colour mixing to build your confidence in the mediums of watercolour and gouache before composing and painting a stunning still life arrangement to take home.

Enjoy a selection of fine wine and antipasto in the break. Bring your own lunch and brushes.

Sun 8 Dec 2024 | 9.30am – 3.00pm | Suitable for 18yrs+

$99| $89.10 MAC Inc Members

Join our weekly Life Drawing sessions for all levels. Study the human form with a professional life model in a supportive, creative environment. Whether you're a beginner or seasoned artist, unleash your potential in these flexible sessions.

Ongoing weekly sessions every Thu | 10.00am - 1.00pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+

• Please note there will be no Life Drawing class on 14 Nov 2024.

$22 | $20 MAC Members | Easels and boards provided by MJAC. Plus enjoy complimentary tea, coffee and biscuits while you unleash your creativity. Participants to provide preferred drawing materials and paper

This 3-hour workshop with WA painter Louise Hamill invites participants to paint unique flora compositions inspired by Australian plants. Using chalk pencil and acrylics on black gessoed canvas, all materials are provided.

Tue 26 Nov 2024 | 6.00pm- 9.00pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+

$90 | $81 Member

Join Anastasia Timoshevskaia’s 2.5-hour workshop to enhance your artistic vision. Learn to style scenes and capture stunning photos with your mobile phone. Gain foundational still life skills applicable to your crafts or art. Bring a piece to style and kickstart your projects confidently.

Sun 29 Sep 2024 | 11.00am-1.30pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+

$50 | $45 Members | Some materials required

Join our beginner's fabric dyeing workshop with contemporary textile artist; Janine Judge. Learn Sun, ice, and microwave dyeing techniques. Perfect for textile enthusiasts or the curious. Unleash your creativity with vibrant dyes in a fun, immersive experience.

Sun 28 Jul 2024 | 11.00am - 2.00pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+

$95 | $85.50 Members | Materials included

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Dreaming of diving into the world of clay? Join our One-Day Introduction to Wheel Throwing, led by skilled potter Ally Solomou. This immersive session guides beginners through centering, shaping, and more, kickstarting your ceramics journey with hands-on instruction. 

Sat 20 Jul 2024 | 11.00am - 2.00pm | Suitable for 15 yrs+

$130 | $117 Members | Materials included

Join Cathy Inman for a 4-hour journey into twined basketry. Create enchanting baskets using garden finds like Bangalow Palm and banana trunk. Unleash your creativity in nature's embrace. 

Sat 1 Jun 2024 | 11.00am - 3.00pm | Suitable 15 yrs +

$110 | $99 Members | Materials included

Join WA Printmaker Kristy Scaddan for a 3-hour bookbinding workshop. In this introductory course, students will learn two binding techniques to explore the art of and process of stitching and constructing journals, sketchbooks, zines and artists’ books. 

Sun 26 May 2024 | 12.00pm - 3.00pm | Suitable for 15 yrs +

$75 | $67.50 Members | Materials included.

Join WA Printmaker, Kristy Scaddan in this hands-on, 3-hour workshop of intuitive mark making to create one-of-a-kind painterly monotype prints.  

Sun 19 May | 12.00pm - 3.00pm | Suitable for 15 yrs +

$65 | $58.50 Members | Materials included

Discover the art of ceramics in our One-Day Introduction to Wheel Throwing with skilled potter Robyn Sinclair. Beginners receive expert guidance in a well-equipped studio, building confidence for their ceramics journey. Secure your spot.

Sat 18 May | 10.00am - 2.00pm | Suitable for 15 yrs +

$130 | $117 Members | Materials Included

Join Victoria Martinez in an amulet crafting workshop, where poetic creativity merges with materiality. Craft personalized amulets from terracotta using homemade slips, exploring self-expression, community connection, and the fusion of storytelling with artistic expression. No prior experience required. 

Limited spots available. No prior experience required.

Sat 20 Apr | 11.00am - 3.00pm | Suitable for 15 yrs +

$105 | $94.50 Members | Materials Included. Participants are required to wear closed toed shoes.  

Visit artist, educator and textile designer Annick Akanni in her studio and join her mother Dottie for an informal gathering in the courtyard to learn the art of fibre and hair braiding.

“Whenever mum braids my hair, we talk about life and share stories together.”

Akanni’s practice involves sharing creative knowledge and skills through community art workshops for children, young people and families. Meeting and connecting with a diverse range of cross-disciplinary creatives invites conversation and the opportunity to learn about different cultures.

Sat 16 Dec | 11 am - 12:30 pm & 1 pm - 2:30 pm
FREE | Suitable for all ages

Join African Australian artist, educator and textile designer Annick Akanni and explore storytelling through connection, texture, pattern, colour and sensory discoveries.

Sat 25 Nov | 1 pm - 2:30 pm
FREE | Suitable for all ages

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Always been interested in learning how to accurately draw a human head and test your skills on a live model?

MJAC is excited to present a one-day workshop where you are guided through the basics of classical human head drawing by experienced drawer, Nidas Arkusauskas. He will demonstrate a typical portrait rendering to establish a clearer understanding of the anatomy.

Nidas will dedicate time with each participant and share his insight and expertise, giving you the confidence to practice these skills further. This workshop is designed for both adults and teenagers with no prior drawing experience.

Includes a short lunch break. Tea/coffee and biscuits provided.

Suitable for 16+ years

Class Details

Saturday 14 October | 9:30am - 4:30pm (6hrs)
$150 | $135 members | Materials and tools included | Short break in duration of class
Midland Junction Arts Centre 

Join inspiring tutor and MJAC artist in residence, Martien van Zuilen to create gorgeous 3D hand-felted flowers, using fine Merino wool and novelty fibres. The felting skills and finishing techniques you will learn can also be translated to a larger scale, for future projects.

Sat 20 May 2023 | 10am - 4pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$90 | $81 members | Materials included

In this hands-on fibre art workshop, combine the splendour of unspun wool fibres with the structural integrity of coiling techniques, to create a vessel. After the coiling is complete, use the ancient art of felting to transform the works into firm, sculptural forms. Other applications for this wonderous combo of techniques will also be shown, to provide inspiration for future projects.

Sat 6 May 2023 | 10am - 4pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$90 | $81 members | Materials included