Learn How to Create with Dissident Art & Creative Expression: Skills, History & Identity

From 43 C$ /h

This class combines practical art skills with inspiring art history and cultural storytelling.

Students will learn essential creative techniques including drawing in an imaginary way the human body and face, colour theory, and expressive mark making. Alongside technical training, we will explore influential artists and artistic movements, with a focus on themes such as legacy, identity, Balkan history, post-Soviet and dissident art traditions.

This course encourages students to develop both their technical confidence and their personal artistic voice. Participants will create their own artwork while learning how history, culture, and storytelling shape artistic expression.

Suitable for beginners and intermediate students who want to develop strong foundations while exploring deeper artistic meaning.

Extra information

For the first lesson bring your laptop &/or notepad with your favourite artists/ musicians/ creators (online or otherwise) and if you intermediate a file/portfolio of your work we can share and get to know your style.

Location

Online from Greece

About Me

Rose is an artist whose work focuses on legacy, cultural memory and imaginative storytelling through visual art. Inspired by Balkan history, dissident art movements and surreal creative traditions, she combines strong technical foundations with reflective artistic exploration. Outside of teaching and creating art, Rose loves walking her dog, exploring architecture, and sketching from everyday life, often in cafés or while visiting galleries. She enjoys researching history, folklore and cultural traditions, which frequently inspire both her artwork and the teaching she does. Rose especially loves quiet creative rituals like drawing in the morning, drinking tea, and observing landscapes and buildings for inspiration.

Education

· SCI Hellas : Εmotional Ecology, Permaculture, and Eco-building: Innovative Tools for Social Inclusion Together with Fundación Escuela de Solidaridad, Athens, Greece, 2022 & 2023 & Group leader and partcipant at RAP (Rhythm and Power) Music Workweek at SCI Italia, Rome, Italy, 2022 CHAPTER Anti-Fascism (directed by Mado Baboula), Athens, Greece, 2021
· Steven Silver Mentorship, December 2021, Online
· Erasmus+ : Fourth Sector- Activism of the 21st Century ( directed by Luigi Pignatelli) , Taranto, Italy, 2021 &
· CELTA, Cambridge Examinations Certificate of English Language Teaching for Adults at the British Council, Athens, Greece
· BA Hons Visual Studies, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
· BTEC National Diploma in Art and Design, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey, UK

Experience / Qualifications

Rose got her CELTA teaching qualification in 2018 and has taught in the humanitarian field: young refugees & adults basic art classes in painting and stencils , private english lessons through art to playschool children and has been a group leader on Erasmus+ programs as she loves to share her knowledge with her peers. Through teaching, Rose encourages students to see art as both a skill and a powerful way to understand history, identity and personal expression.

Age

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Duration

90 minutes

The class is taught in

English

Greek

Skills

Arts and crafts

Painting

Art history

Availability of a typical week

(GMT -04:00)

New York

Online via webcam

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