Workshops & Creative Facilitation

I facilitate creative workshops, co-design projects, events, and talks for adults, children, families, and mixed age groups across Scotland, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee. My workshops are playful, accessible, beginner friendly, and designed to encourage curiosity, experimentation, and creativity.

Drawing from my background in illustration and stage design, I create hands-on sessions that combine storytelling, making, drawing, paper techniques, and collaborative creativity. I enjoy creating welcoming environments where people can explore ideas freely, regardless of previous experience.

Recent workshops include paper pop-up workshops facilitated at the Glasgow Mitchell Library.

Participants creating paper pop-up illustrations during a family art workshop in Glasgow. Classes led by the illustrator Jagoda Sadowska.

paper Pop-Up Workshop

A playful hands-on workshop introducing simple pop-up paper techniques that transform flat drawings into three-dimensional scenes.

Participants creating paper pop-up illustrations during a family art workshop in Glasgow. Classes led by the illustrator Jagoda Sadowska.

A creative hands-on workshop introducing playful pop-up paper techniques for participants of all ages and experience levels.

In this session, participants learn simple folding and cutting methods to transform drawings into interactive three-dimensional scenes. The workshop combines illustration, storytelling, and paper engineering through demonstrations, creative prompts, and guided making.

Participants creating paper pop-up illustrations during a family art workshop in Glasgow. Classes led by the illustrator Jagoda Sadowska.

Workshops can be adapted for children, adults, families, schools, libraries, galleries, and community events. Sessions are beginner friendly while still offering space for experimentation and creativity for more experienced participants.

All materials are provided, including paper resources, collage materials, templates, and drawing tools.

Recent workshops have been facilitated at the Glasgow Mitchell Library.

To organise a workshop or collaborative project, please contact:
jagodasadowska@gmail.com

Participants creating paper pop-up illustrations during a family art workshop in Glasgow. Classes led by the illustrator Jagoda Sadowska.
Participants creating paper pop-up illustrations during a family art workshop in Glasgow. Classes led by the illustrator Jagoda Sadowska.
Participants creating paper pop-up illustrations during a family art workshop in Glasgow. Classes led by the illustrator Jagoda Sadowska.

Other Workshops

Previous workshops and creative sessions include:

  • Drawing from nature

  • Zine making workshops

  • One-page comic workshops

  • Still life drawing

  • Card making workshops

  • Ornament making workshops

  • Illustrated keychain workshops

  • Pattern making workshops

Sketchbook work from a nature drawing workshop in Glasgow. Classes led by the illustrator Jagoda Sadowska.

TESTIMONIALS:

“Jagoda was an excellent host and she explained everything so well”

“The staff overseeing the event were excellent. I’m hearing-impaired and they went out of their way to accommodate.”

“Thank you very much, really enjoyable!”

“ would definitely attend something like this again and recommend Jagoda do other creative workshops”

“Creative and calm, lovely people to guide”

“I liked the relaxed atmosphere of the event”

Participants during a senior art workshop in Glasgow. Classes led by the illustrator Jagoda Sadowska.

Workshops can be adapted for:

  • Schools

  • Libraries

  • Galleries and museums

  • Festivals and community events

  • Family learning programmes

  • Creative organisations

  • Adult learning groups

Facilitation Approach

My workshops are designed to be supportive, engaging, and flexible for different age groups and experience levels. I aim to create welcoming creative environments where participants feel comfortable experimenting, making mistakes, and exploring new ways of making and thinking creatively.

As a Glasgow based illustrator and workshop facilitator, I especially enjoy working within local communities across Glasgow and wider Scotland, creating accessible and playful creative experiences for families, young people, and adults.

I particularly enjoy workshops that combine:

  • Illustration and storytelling

  • Paper craft and tactile making

  • Playfulness and experimentation

  • Collaborative learning

  • Accessible creative approaches

  • Hands-on visual thinking

I facilitate creative workshops across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, and wider Scotland.

Sketchbook work from a nature drawing workshop in Glasgow. Classes led by the illustrator Jagoda Sadowska.

To organise a workshop or collaborative project, please contact: jagodasadowska@yahoo.com

About me

Jagoda Sadowska is a Glasgow based illustrator, designer, and facilitator whose practice is rooted in curiosity and storytelling. My work blends colour, texture, and playfulness.

I’m a Glasgow based illustrator, designer, and multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in curiosity and storytelling. My work blends colour, texture, and playfulness.

Before becoming an illustrator, I trained in stage design, where they developed an interest in three-dimensional making and building visual worlds. An influence that continues throughout my illustration and workshop practice today.

Photography by Shonagh Kelly.