Teach a workshop

What's in it for you?

Teaching workshops is a great way to gain teaching experience and improve your public speaking skills.
It’s an excellent opportunity to increase your exposure and profile in the Bancroft arts community.
Workshops can stimulate your own creative impulses, help with artist’s block, and inspire new ideas for future work.
People who enjoy your workshop will likely return for shows and future workshops. And they’ll spread the word to friends and family.

What participants get out of it

Spending time doing something different, maybe together with friends or family.
Attendees get plenty of individual attention and support. Beginners or part-timers appreciate a positive hands-on approach for self-esteem and personal creative growth.
Artists will appreciate it for professional and technical reasons, especially when it comes to understanding fine points and nuances.

Thinking about putting on a workshop for the first time? Here's some tips:

Make it fun. Participants who aren’t looking for traditional and structured forms of art education will feel more engaged.
Practice what you plan to teach to make sure it works within your chosen period of time.
Advertise that no experience is necessary to attend, but also entice artists that they can also learn something new. It’s inspiring to have a mix of skill levels in the room!
Make sure that everyone feels comfortable and accomplishes something.
Figure out what supplies are needed and whether or not to provide them. If you’re just starting out, supplying everything yourself is usually the best way to go. All students have to do is show up. Just remember to work supply costs into your overall fee.
Plan on having no more than ten participants. Teaching larger numbers is difficult in a short period of time. You want to make sure that each person gets plenty of individual attention.
Make sure that plenty of your art is on display!

Ready to get started?

The Art Gallery of Bancroft is situated on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg Algonquins, which is known to be unceded. Indigenous people have been stewards of this land since time immemorial; as such we honour and respect their connection to the land, its plants, animals and stories. Our recognition of the contributions and historic importance of Indigenous peoples is sincerely aligned to our collective commitment to make the promise and the challenge of truth and reconciliation real in our community.

Teach a workshop

What's in it for you?

What participants get out of it

Thinking about putting on a workshop for the first time? Here's some tips:

Ready to get started?

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