Events and Workshops
Dorset Button Online Workshops
Before starting these online workshops, I want to ensure that I was able to: • offer a bespoke help - even online • adapt the lesson to you • assess everybody's needs & expectations After careful planning, and spending time sourcing the right equipment to include close-up demonstrations, I can now offer online Dorset Button workshops. To enable me to offer you the best possible workshop experience, I have restricted my participants to a maximum of four people for each 2½ hour session. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the four participants who agreed to participate in a ‘trial run’ and for their feedback. |
Studio Workshops
Keeping all my students safe is my top priority and, unfortunately, I am unable to arrange workshops in my studio because of the Coronavirus. |
Fully Booked - Tuesday 16th March
An afternoon of Dorset Buttony - Learn how to make a Dorset 'Cartwheel' Button online 4.00pm - 6.30pm This workshop is ideal for all those who want to learn how to make a Dorset Button and for those who already know but would like to refresh their skills. |
Fully Booked - Tuesday 30th March
The Challenge of the Dorset Button Spiral and Basket Weave Design Spirals can lead you to a number of different combinations of design. Such as using beads and different coloured threads can all be incorporated into the design. |
Fully Booked - Tuesday 13th April
Museum of East Dorset 10.00am – 12.30pm Zoom Dorset Button workshop for the Cartwheel design. Tutor Anna McDowell This workshop will support this lovely museum. Please keep an eye on my website for details or go straight to the museum's website at museumofeastdorset.co.uk/events/ |
Fully Booked - Tuesday 27th April
The joy of Birdseyes and Singletons – Dorset Button online workshop 4.00pm – 6.30pm This workshop will concentrate on the Birdseye and Singleton buttons. It is thought that Birdseye buttons are one of the earliest of the Dorset Button range and the Singletons were named after the Dorset family that first made them. |
Saturday 1st May – Sunday 9th May
Wylye Valley Arts Trail
Plans for how this can go ahead are still being finalised, but participating venues may well have presentations online in the form of videos, slideshow and/or gallery pages, rather than a physical event as part of this year’s Art Trail.
Wylye Valley Arts Trail
Plans for how this can go ahead are still being finalised, but participating venues may well have presentations online in the form of videos, slideshow and/or gallery pages, rather than a physical event as part of this year’s Art Trail.
Saturday 22nd May – Sunday 6th June
Dorset Art Weeks
Dorset Art Weeks is one of the largest Open Studio Events in the country. It brings artists and visitors together in ways that are often remarkable and profoundly different from entering a public gallery. DAW is fundamentally as much about engagement between people as about people and art. At almost all venues, the artists, designers or makers will be on-hand to help you engage with the work, keen to talk to you about the extraordinary range of materials, skills and traditions that inform their work.
Dorset Art Weeks
Dorset Art Weeks is one of the largest Open Studio Events in the country. It brings artists and visitors together in ways that are often remarkable and profoundly different from entering a public gallery. DAW is fundamentally as much about engagement between people as about people and art. At almost all venues, the artists, designers or makers will be on-hand to help you engage with the work, keen to talk to you about the extraordinary range of materials, skills and traditions that inform their work.