Peggy Popart won’t let a pandemic stop her. 

The local art buff is taking her love of art out of the Lismore Regional Gallery and into everyone’s homes. Her regular art tours and activities in the gallery have instead gone online, starting with a free Facebook Live event this Thursday at 11am.

 “The aim of Peggy Popart’s online adventures is making art with stuff you have at home,” Peggy said. “It’s not too complex and super fun and accessible for lots of people – the next one will be Auslan captioned.

“Even if people are stuck at home, I still want still wants kids and families to be connected to art and bring them activities and joy.”

This week, Peggy’s online art adventures is focussing on abstract art.

“I’ll be looking at the paintings of Grace Crowley and showing examples of her works from the local gallery collection,” Peggy said.

“Then we’ll do an art activity based on her artworks with art materials that you have at home. 

“I’ll give you tips on the sorts of things you might want to use - like paper, masking tape, pencils, paints or textas – whatever you have got. We’ll make an abstract artwork of a geometric patten using tape, shapes and colour in negative spaces.”

You can find more information about Peggys Online Art Adventures here: https://www.facebook.com/events/248133106238811/

And the link to the event is here: https://www.facebook.com/Peggypopart/live/

Storytime art

As well as Peggy’s online art classes, she’s just finished filming a storytime story for Richmond Tweed Regional Gallery, and it’s being Auslan captioned at the moment.

Peggy reads the story Where The Wild Things Are and presents an art challenge for kids to draw something and share their art and stories via her Facebook page.

Art and literacy kit online

The Lismore Regional Gallery also has a number of online resources for kids of all ages, to keep them in touch with art while the gallery is closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

An art and literacy kit is available to download from the gallery’s website, and it contains printable activity sheets based on works from Lismore Regional Gallery Permanent Collection.

To access the resources, visit https://www.lismoregallery.org/cp_themes/default/page.asp?p=DOC-WYH-06-81-62#.XoV2cIhLhPY

Quick Draw Club goes online

The Lismore Regional Gallery’s Quick Draw club is also online, with the next session scheduled for April 16, from 5-6pm with local artist Renee Bolten.

Réne will give an online tour of his home studio and will present a fun, quick still life drawing session for people of all drawing skill levels. You can find it here:

https://www.facebook.com/LismoreRegionalGallery/live/

Worlds art events online

You can also link to other art events happening online around the world in galleries and museums, all currently closed to the public because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Click here: https://creative-capital.org/2020/03/18/online-arts-events-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/