FREE Artist Talk: Building A Career In The Arts

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Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

This free event is open to the public, and a Zoom link will be sent to everyone who RSVPs. It is suitable for students, artists, arts enthusiasts, and anyone contemplating a career in the arts. Our time together will consist of a panel discussion followed by a Q & A session.

Topics include and are not limited to: finding opportunities for success, grant writing, mentorship programming, artist in residencies, business administration and more.

Speakers:

Amber Morrison Fox is an emerging artist from Snuneymuxw territory, Nanaimo, British Columbia. She holds an MFA from University of Lethbridge (2021) and a BA in Visual Art and Creative Writing from Vancouver Island University (2018). She earned Nanaimo Art Gallery’s Student Achievement Award and VIU’s Visual Art Major Award of Excellence in 2018. Her artworks are often developed in a collaborative process, building connections between people and spaces. She has made simulators, publications, installations, short videos, and has designated a twelve-thousand-foot-long staircase as an artwork. Amber is the creator and editor of Sad Girl Review, an online art and literary magazine established in 2018.

Bronwyn studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and in 2008 graduated with a major in Ceramics and a minor in Art History. She studied drawing and painting and incorporates both in her work as a ceramicist. Her thesis show was held in 2008 at the Anna Leon Owens Gallery in Halifax. After graduating from NSCAD University she continued to develop her skills and show work in group shows and juried craft fairs. In December 2012, with the assistance of the Self Employment Benefit Program, Bronwyn delved full time into her Studio practice. Since then Bronwyn has sold her work in over 30 Galleries and Gift Stores across Canada and the USA. In July 2015 Bronwyn moved from Halifax to Nanaimo, BC, where she has continued her production studio practice through wholesale, consignment, online sales and juried shows. In March of 2018, Bronwyn expanded her business to include Nanaimo Ceramic Arts Studio and Gallery. An 1800 square foot location accommodates a classroom, tech rooms and five individual studio spaces. Bronwyn manages this space with the assistance of a vibrant clay community of Artists-in-Residence, Apprentices and fellow instructors. Through the managing of her community pottery studio, and 8 years of successful pottery production business, Bronwyn has developed a ceramics mentorship that focuses on the business development for emerging artists. Over the last three years, Bronwyn has been in a mentorship position for seven emerging artists through her artist-in-residency program. This year Bronwyn will be working on a new body of artwork with the assistance of a Canada Council For the Arts Grant.

Gem Chang-Kue I am an interdisciplinary installation artist working in sculpture, clay, video, projection and sound. My work explores themes of migration and multiplicity of identity. I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, raised in Toronto, Ontario and currently reside in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Quebec, where the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we gather today. My range of studies have included architecture, Eastern philosophy and visual arts. I earned a Diploma in Fine Art from Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. I am currently enrolled in a Master of Fine Art program in Sculpture and Ceramics at Concordia University.

Mary Anne Molcan is a Canadian visual artist who creates unique hand carved lino block prints. She is very grateful to live and work on the ancestral lands of the Snuneymuxw Nation on Vancouver Island.Inspired by the natural world, she employs reductive and multi-block processes to build diverse layers of colour and line to her bold and original artworks. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with distinction from Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, BC, Canada. Majoring in Visual Arts, print media became a strong focus as she developed her practice. Her current inquiries are centered on the study of the intersection between the natural world and human values. Molcan is interested in elevating the unnoticed and invisible through concepts of impermanence, fragmentation, and traces of life left behind. Minoring in psychology, she is intrigued by the affiliation we have with our unconscious and how that relates to the physical world. Printmaking offers the capacity of dual perception and reversal through the mirror image, thus evoking curiosity and different ways of seeing. Molcan is a member of People of Print and has exhibited across western Canada. Her work is in both public and private collections internationally. Recent awards include The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Print Day in May Award, the Visual Arts Award of Excellence, the EJ Hughes Memorial Award in Visual Arts, and The Ladysmith Arts Council Fine Art Show’s Best Printmaking Award. Her work is also featured in the Vancouver Island University’s Library digital intellectual and creative archive.