Ekko Creatives is a creative art studio for children. Our after-school classes offer project based tuition and are fun instructive and encouraging! Children will complete a specific activity over the school term, exploring many new and inspiring artistic techniques, materials and crafting experiences.
Ekko Creatives runs:
After-school classes
Holiday programs
Arty parties
The studio has also provided, and provides, services for:
Schools incursions
City of Greater Geelong
Festivals such as Fun4Kids
Shopping venues
and other organisations.
Ekko Creatives is run by Jedda Robaard and Xavier Castagné. Jedda has five years of applied art and graphic design studies under her wing. Jedda is also a children's book illustrator. She has recently completed ‘Rabbits Year’, with Black Dog Books, Melbourne, and is currently working on two more books for Five Mile Press, to be published early 2012. Xavier's background is grounded in fine dining cooking and a late move in graphic design. Jedda's and Xavier's passion for creative endeavours, their combined experience in applied arts and the service industry, and raising three children, makes them the ideal partners to run an innovative creative art studio for children.
Creative arts benefits children in many ways*. Among others, hands on activities develop greater curiosity and the fun aspect 'accommodates children with different learning style'. The creativity and techniques involved leave children with new conceptual understandings and problem solving skills. Additionally, group hands-on activities improve children's socialisation skills (the real kind, as opposed to the virtual kind. In short, crafting beats the determined, predictable and repetitive linear play patterns of computer games).
Thus, Ekko Creatives' aim is to introduce children to as many new and inspiring techniques, materials and crafting experiences as possible. Blending traditional craft with contemporary trends and products, the studio offers fun and interesting project for 21st century children!
References
* http://www.craftandhobby.org/pdfs/research/01_execsummary.pdf
