Winter Storytelling and Mixed Media: What Does it Mean to Live on an Island?
=0D=0A=Arlene Deptuck and Yvonne Vander Kooi team up to offer a rich exploration of place and belonging through storytelling and art-making. Arlene will share ancient Kitsumkalum stories that demonstrate the community's responsibility for the land, plants and animals of Gilak’ya (Robin Town) within the Tsimshian Nation. Followed by a visit to Landfall and Departure: Prologue, we will discuss how artists in the exhibition respond to place, then explore our own personal narratives and ideas of belonging by creating playful, imaginative mixed media artworks.
=0D=0A=Art Lab will provide the paint, mark making utensils (charcoal, pastels, pencils, markers etc), collage papers, mediums, and glues for the workshop as well as a surface for the mixed media work. We have 11” x 14” canvas panels for each participant. If you would rather work on a larger surface or cradled panel feel free to bring your own panel (available at Iron Oxide). Each participant should bring photos, maps, objects (shells from the beach, forest
=0D=0A=Each participant should bring photos, maps, objects (shells from the beach, forest specimens, found objects etc) and any other items that resonate with the themes and ideas related our response to place and to the question “What Does it Mean to Live on an Island?” These 2 & 3-dimensional components can be photocopied here on site or photographed and printed ahead of time and integrated into your mixed media artwork. Feel free to bring any other mark making utensils of your own ie: specialty markers, brushes etc. Any questions, feel free to call Arlene or Yvonne at the gallery at 250.754.1750.
=0D=0A=Saturday, February 4, 1 – 5 pm $45 Members | $50 Non-Members
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