Children’s Plaster Flower Pot Workshop

Intergenerational Creative Practice at Romulus Folio

Romulus Folio hosted a children’s plaster flower pot painting workshop within the gallery environment as part of its monthly program of artist led engagement. The session was facilitated by Angelina Mirabito, ongoing Artist in Residence.

Each participant began with a plaster flower pot featuring raised floral forms emerging from the surface. The dimensional relief established an immediate structural framework, guiding decisions around colour placement, contour, and compositional balance. The sculptural surface encouraged close attention to edge, depth, and spatial relationship.

Some participants worked precisely within the contours of the raised forms, developing defined colour fields that reinforced the relief structure. Others allowed colour to move across and beyond the sculpted shapes, testing contrast, saturation, and tonal variation. The material weight of plaster introduced resistance, slowing gesture and encouraging deliberate application.

Parents painted alongside their children, offering support where required while maintaining space for independent decision making. This dynamic fostered concentration and compositional awareness within a shared studio context.

The atmosphere remained attentive and focused. Engagement centred on material response rather than speed or outcome. Participants navigated texture, absorption, and layering in real time, developing an understanding of how surface informs visual rhythm.

As part of Mirabito’s residency, the children’s program extends the gallery’s broader commitment to intergenerational participation within contemporary art practice. Situating this engagement inside a professional exhibition environment reinforces the continuity between studio research, public programming, and spatial authorship.

The completed works demonstrate how structured material frameworks support creative autonomy across ages, affirming the gallery as a site of sustained artistic inquiry.