Bettina has been leading art workshops since 2016 for a range of arts organisations, which include Drawing Room, Royal Museums Greenwich, Tate, Bow Arts Learning and Cubitt Artists. She has worked with different age groups from adults to reception years and has experience working in different settings including schools.

Bettina is interested in arts education that empowers and is participant-centered. She considers art making as a way to develop skills to explore and contemplate different aspects of life, and can be a vehicle to instigate conversations. She is keen to share this approach in her workshops.

Her workshops are playful, collaborative and often involve expanding ideas of what drawing can be, from simple line drawing exercises, linking walking to drawing, creating scores for choreography to large scale collective monotyping. She is also interested in and welcomes the opportunity to develop activities that could be outside of her usual art practice.

Please find below selected examples of her experience.

2023

Kakilang – Finding Our (CREATIVE) Voice, a 4 week course of creative sessions for 16+ in the ESEA community that culminated to a sharing event, co-facilitated with Daniel York Loh.

2021 – 2023

Drawing Room London - ROCK PAPER SCISSORS engagement programme, delivered an afterschool club, a teacher CPD session, a family studio session and took a 6 weeks in-school residency at Charlotte Sharman Primary School, which also resulted in the publication “Teachers’ Assembly: Drawing As Play”, published by Drawing Room as part of their teachers resource series, supported by Freelands Foundation.

2022 – 2023

The White House Dagenham - Summer workshops for youth and families.

2022

FACT Liverpool - World Wide Wontons Tang Yuan workshop, led with Cuong Pham as part of Asia-Art-Activism; part of the public programme for the exhibition Future Ages Will Wonder, curated by Annie Jael Kwan.

Museum of the Home - At Home in a Cup, a paper cup making drop in workshop that explore the ideas and experiences of home through the cup of tea; part of Welcome Home Friend Chào mừng bạn về nhà half term activities for families programme.

2021

Chisenhale Studios - Into the Wild, an alternative arts education programme for recent BA graduates, paper resource contribution.

Royal Museums Greenwich - Mapping Worlds, Young Volunteers February Half-Term Project (facilitated workshops online using Padlet and created printed resources for young people exploring drawing through mapping and walking).

2020

Decorating Dissidence - Art Jam (a Dada themed online workshop that explored collaborative nonsense and sense making with improvisation, done entirely online using Google Docs), a part of the Take DADA seriously? programme with Young Creators UK.

2019

National Sun Yat Sen University – Experimental drawing workshop with university students at The Pier 2 Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2018 - 2019

Bow Arts Learning – selection of projects includes: Canaan Project (Year 9) Collective Monotyping workshop; Phoenix School (SEND group aged 7-8) Mark making workshop; Swanlea School (Year7) Making through play workshop.

2018

Tate - Created L is for Living Cities paper student resource for Tate’s ASSEMBLEY 2018.

2017 - 2018

Bow Arts Artist Educator Trainee Programme - Facilitating art workshops within school settings as well as after school club. Worked with primary and secondary students, including students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Learn more about Bettina’s experience here.

If you are interested to work with Bettina, please contact her here. 

Images from past workshops.