Create a wildflower textile while learning the art of collage, applique and stitch in this half day workshop with costume designer Angela Ferolla.
Sat 6 Dec | 10.30am - 2.30pm | Suitable for 15+ yrs
$65 | $58.50 MAC Inc. Members | Materials provided
In this one-day workshop, be guided by renowned fibre artist Fiona Gavino who will teach you an intuitive approach to creating sculptural forms and vessels using cane and random weaving. No prior basketry experience or creative practice experience necessary. After your weaving session, explore what is on offer as part of MJAC’s annual Open Day.
Sun 30 Nov 2025 | 11am - 2pm | Suitable for 18+
$65 | $58.50 MAC Inc. Members | Materials provided
Join poet Lakshmi Kanchi to create a personal decorated textile object, and gain hands-on experience with poetic expression, ritual craft, and the embodied power of ancestral storytelling.
Sat 5 Jul 2025 | 11am - 1:30pm | Suitable for 18 yrs +
$110 | $100 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
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
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
MJAC Open Studios Day invites you to immerse yourself in the creative heart of Midland Junction Arts Centre (MJAC).
Browse the galleries and artist’s studios while discovering their stories, creative processes, and the work they have created while working in residence,
For those who have never been to MJAC before, it is also an opportunity to see the historic site that has been continuously occupied as a place of learning since 1895. You can wander through the vibrant venue and experience why this site has such as special place in the history and culture of the Swan region.
To complete the experience, there is also a chance to get your Christmas shopping done early with our new MJAC Shop being open for those eager to purchase one-of-a-kind pieces crafted by local artisans.
Sat 16 Dec | 11 am - 3 pm
FREE | Suitable for all ages
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
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
Join renowned textile artist, Jan Rowe for a day of spontaneous, creative exploration as you work with a range of materials and quilting techniques to create your own unique composition and textile artwork.
This technique-based workshop focuses on abstract composition as participants ask, “what if?”, experiment and stretch the limits of their comfort zone.
Sat 26 Nov 2022 | 9.30am - 4.30pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$100 I $90 members | Materials List >
Learn the art of Japanese Shibori with textile artist in residence Phil Thomas. In this workshop you will prepare fabric for dyeing, learn a variety of folding and stitching techniques, use hot water dyes and a microwave to create some unique and beautiful fabric designs.
Sat 8 Oct 2022 | 9.30am - 4pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$100 | $90 members | Materials included
Ever wanted to dye your very own t-shirt and bag? Learn the basics of Procion dyeing on cotton in this colourful workshop. Helen will guide you through basic fabric printing and colour mixing with thickened dyes. Make your own fabric stamp and combine it with graffiti style marks in coloured dyes for a unique, one-of-a-kind look on a t-shirt and bag.
Fri 30 Sep | 12.30pm - 2.30pm | Suitable for 9 - 14 yrs
$60 I $54 members | Materials included - BYO cotton t-shirt
Make your very own ‘strippy’ quilt in this two-day workshop with textile artist Phil Thomas. Learn how to cut and prepare fabric for quick and easy machine piercing and applique. Note that quilting and finishing will be completed at home, but Phil will give plenty of advice on how to complete your quilt. The course is suitable for those new to patchwork and quilting.
Wed 28 - Thu 29 Sep 2022 | 9.30am - 4pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$160 | $144 members | Materials list >
Create something intricate and beautiful using the Japanese Patchwork method known as Boro (meaning tatters or patchwork). Textile artist Phil Thomas will show you how to transform repurposed fabrics using hand stitchery and layering.
There will be selection of sumptuous fabrics to work with, kindly donated by Handcrafters House.
Fri 9 Sep 2022 | 9.30am - 4pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$90 | $81 members | Materials included - BYO special fabrics
Explore the versatility of screenprinting and repurposed fabrics in this half-day workshop with Extricate artist Isaac Huggins. Make your own unique stencil design to enhance your fabric or clothing or use one of Isaac's pre-made paper stencils as you explore various silkscreen techniques, including paper-stencil printing, layering, how to achieve colour blending/gradients and the benefits of under-painting and post-print embellishments.
Sat 27 Aug 2022 | 12pm - 3pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$100 | $90 members | BYO found garment or fabric - prewashed, natural, untextured, mid/heavyweight fabrics are most suitable
Midland Junction Arts Centre, 276 Great Eastern Hwy (Corner of Cale St) Midland WA
Images: By Isabelle Haubrich and courtesy of Isaac Huggins
Learn the art of 3D felting to create your own fantastic cuddly beast with artist Heather Davis. Colourful wool will be transformed into bees, cicadas, ladybugs, beetles and more, as we celebrate backyard biodiversity in this fun school holiday workshop.
Wed 13 Jul 2022 | 10am - 12pm | Suitable for 5 - 12 yrs (Children under 8 yrs must have a parent attend)
$45 | $40.50 members | Materials included
Midland Junction Arts Centre 276 Great Eastern Hwy (Corner of Cale St) Midland WA
Image: Courtesy of Heather Davis
Join celebrated textiles artist Martien van Zuilen for a full day of felting to create a tall vessel. This hands-on class explores the sculptural qualities of handmade felt; students will learn about designing with wool and fibre blending, and how to add textural effects to create a unique tall form. Previous felting experience is not necessary.
Sat 25 Jun 2022 | 9:30am – 4:30pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$120 | $108 members | Materials supplied plus additional take home materials available to purchase from Martien on the day.
Image: Martien van Zuilen, Standing Tall, 2018. Courtesy the artist.
Use 3D felting to create fantastic beasts and learn where to find them in your own backyard with Heather Davis. Colourful wool will be transformed into bees, cicadas, ladybugs, beetles and more in this in this school holiday workshop as part of the Environmental Art Project: Backyard Biodiversity.
Tue 12 Apr 2022 | 10am - 12pm | MAC* | FULLY BOOKED
Wed 13 Apr 2022 | 10am - 12pm | MJAC
$45 | $40.50 members | Materials supplied | Suitable for 5-12yrs
Image: courtesy the artist
Learn how to craft your own whimsical basket or vessel using gathered materials, vines, fibre, willow, silk, wire and imagination with Liliana Stafford.
Winner of the 2020, Castaways Scultpure Alcoa Major Award, Liliana describes herself as a story teller through art, finding inspiration and materials on regular walks in the natural wetland near her home.
Sat 26 Feb | 1pm - 4pm | Suitable for 14+ yrs
$60 | $54 members | Materials included
Image: Liliana Stafford, Untitled, 2021, vines and fibre, 20 x 30cm. Photograph by Amanda Miller
Create your own unique textile design using block printing with Monika Lukowska in this hands-on 3-hour class. You will learn how to design, carve and print your own block on tote bags and calico whilst experimenting with colour, composition, and layering. Suitable for beginners and artists looking to extend their skills.
Monika is a printmaking artist and academic from Poland currently based in Perth, Western Australia. She works as a sessional academic and research assistant at Curtin University, is a Print Council of Australia Representative for Western Australia and a co-founder of Print Lab Australia.
Thu 24 Feb 2022 | 6pm - 9pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$75 | $67.50 members | Materials supplied
Image: courtesy the artist
Join Toy Stories artist Yolande Yarran-Ward to make your own Story Doll in this two-part workshop. In week one you'll learn how to eco-dye your own fabric with natural materials ready to be cut, stuffed and sewn in to your very own doll in week two.
Sat 5 and 12 Feb | 10am - 1pm | Suitable for adults and children 10+ yrs
$200 | $180 members | Materials included
Image: Yolande Yarran-Ward, Yandi – The Cherry Picker (detail), 2015, eco-dyed fabric, filling, cotton, wool, raffia, beads, thread, quandong seeds and York Yok, 2021, eco-dyed fabric, filling, raffia, cotton, wool. Photograph by Shannon Pearce.
MJAC is a heritage listed building with access limitations. If you have any special requirements please contact us 9250 8062 before enrolling in a course.
Did you know that Midland Junction Arts Centre is managed by Mundaring Arts Centre (MAC)? If you are looking for even more arts and cultural experiences in the region visit the MAC website for details.
