Discover how an atelier can spark curiosity, creativity, and connection. Catherine will share practical ways to design a beautiful, functional space where children and educators explore, investigate, and express ideas through art.

Imagine a space in your centre where curiosity sparks, materials invite engagement, and every child’s idea has room to take shape. This practical webinar will explore how setting up an atelier can bring joy, wonder, and meaningful connections—with art and with each other.

Join Catherine to celebrate the potential of a space where children can experiment, investigate, and express themselves. The atelier is a place where creativity, research, inquiry, autonomy, and thoughtful dialogue flourish.

We will also consider how thoughtfully chosen materials, careful design, and intentional arrangement can create a space that is both beautiful and practical—an atelier where children—and educators—can move freely, interact with materials, and engage in meaningful creative experiences. In this environment, aesthetics and functionality work together to foster curiosity, imagination, and learning, making the space an invitation to wonder, reflection and discovery.

‘Ateliers are environments promoting knowledge and creativity, suggesting questions and generating evocations; they are beauty that produces knowledge…’ Reggio Children

Completing Designing an Atelier: Creating a Space of Wonder and Connection with Art may contribute one hour of PD that aligns with:

The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers: APST 4: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments

The Early Years Learning Framework Learning Outcomes: Outcome 2: Children are connected and contribute to their world

The National Quality Standard: QA 3: Physical environment