A splendour of flowers and greenery surrounds us at this time of year. Capture that energy in a brightly tiled mosaic to savour once the cold weather returns. Tile and glass come in rich and highly polished colours that beautifully echo the vibrancy of a summer garden. We will also use found metal and recycled materials to add a bit of whimsy to our pieces. Feel free to bring your found treasures to incorporate into your mosaic.
Join Sheryl to create your own mosaic garden that will last you a lifetime. You do not need any previous art experience. Just bring your willingness to play and experiment and go home with your own 12 x 12 mosaic art piece. All tools and materials are supplied for the duration of the workshop.
Materials: $ 25 to be paid to the instructor on the day of the workshop. Option to pre-buy tools for your ongoing use.
Instructor: Sheryl Crowley is a painter and a mosaicist who creates works of art reflecting both the whimsy and darkness that she finds in the world. Working since 2005, she has exhibited, taught and created within both public and private spheres. She may be found in Saint John, NB.
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Although contemporary screen printing requires specialized equipment, it is not impossible to use this technique in simple and equally effective ways. Come and learn the basics of transferring images onto fabric or paper with a contemporary print artist. You will make your own stencils and monotypes and learn how to make your own silk screen.
Jacinthe Loranger is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Montreal, Canada. She holds a master’s degree in visual and media arts from Concordia University in Print Media.Her practice revolves around screen printing and is deployed in different forms such as installation, sculpture and collage. Her work was showcased in numerous exhibitions across Canada and abroad like in recent years I have presented several exhibitions in gallery, including at the invisible dog art center (NY), Art in the Open (Charlottetown PEI) and she also participated in the public art project Images rémanentes in the City of Moncton NB. In 2022, she will be part of shows in Douro Printmaking biennial, Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen (Moncton, NB) and at Maison des arts de Laval (Laval, QC) .
Age 18+, limit of 12 participants.
Please email Christine at direction@atelierimago.com with any questions or if you want to be added to the waitlist if the workshop is full.
Workshop fees are non-refundable.
You can also pay for your space by e-transfer or in cash by contacting direction@atelierimago.com.
About the Course: The radiance of pure colour – Anne will teach you how to control that colour. This is a three day course that will introduce you to the methods of painting with soft pastels – from choosing your subject, composing the painting and finishing the work.
Composition, value, colours, types of paper, application of pastels will be covered, with explanations and demos.
For this method we use sanded pastel paper which is good for the layering with hard then soft pastels to give a vibrant painting. Expect to make 1 8 x 10” painting each session (3). If weather permits, we will paint outside (plein air). At the end of the course there will be a group discussion and critique of the work. SSANC will provide a basic set of pastels and sanded pastel paper.
Materials Required by Students:
– Masking tape, 1″ works best – Small sketch pad and pencil – Glassine or wax paper to cover finished work – 2 pieces cardboard or masonite to form a “case” for finished work – Apron or towel or both, small rag – Handiwipes for wiping hands outside – 2 small jars for alcohol – Plastic tray/box for pastels in use. I have extra – Digital camera or phone (optional) if we work outside – Photo images of landscape/seascapes to work from if inside
About the Instructor: Anne Johnston is a pastel and oil painter, painting landscapes and seascapes of New Brunswick and Maine. “It is the natural world that continues to amaze and inspire me, sending me into the fields and down coastal roads with my pack of oil pants and pastels. “She attended the School of Art and Design, Montreal, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax as well s other workshops in painting and fine crafts. Anne lives on the family farm near St. Stephen NB, in the house built by her three x great grandparents in 1800, enjoying her fields, forest, brook and all the animals with which she shares the land.
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 7:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m: free workshop.
Email info@nbfilmcoop.com to register!
Instructor: Kaitlyn Adair
Online Zoom Workshop
Workshop Description: Join Kaitlyn Adair of @rebelatart in a workshop to support your creative process. Creativity ebbs and flows at the best of times, but it’s particularly challenging while managing the stressors of a pandemic. Kaitlyn will share her practices that support sustainable creativity and provide an opportunity for creatives to come together as a community.
Please bring something to celebrate to the workshop:
a finished script draft
your favourite air guitar performance
anything you accomplished creatively in the past year, we want to celebrate you
No sharing is necessary.
Instructor’s Biography: Kaitlyn Adair (she/her) is an actor, writer, director, and producer from Fredericton, New Brunswick. She started her career in film, working as an actor in film and television in Vancouver, B.C. She attended Vancouver Film School in 2011 and has been pursuing her passion for film since. Kaitlyn won the Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award for her first film March 2.4, allowing her to attend a post-production residency at The Banff Centre For Arts and Creativity. In addition, she received the Short Film Venture Grant and the NB Joy Award for her second film, Together We Move. Kaitlyn is dedicated to feminist-based media and creating inclusive spaces for marginalized communities to partake in visual arts. You can find her @rebelatart on Instagram and Youtube.
Many of our members contacted us to say that they were interested in our last anti-oppression intensive workshop but weren’t able to make it on a weekend. With that in mind, we’re re-offering the same workshop during the work week!
Carmel is back to facilitate, this time on Wednesday and Thursday, May 25th and 26th.
This workshop continues the series presented to ArtsLink NB members on business development and career-management subjects. Past topics have included budgeting, documentation, and critical arts writing. The decision to hold this workshop virtually was made due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to allow participants to attend from across the province.
Workshop Description
Dreaming Inventive Futures: Anti-Oppression in the Creative Sector is a two-day workshop and discussion space that combines foundational anti-oppressive modalities, peer-based learning, personal reflection, and active discussion as teaching tools. During this digital space, participants will explore approaches to anti-racist curation, responsible and curious storytelling, organizationally care-based artistic practices rooted in disability justice frameworks, address ways to disrupt genre and aesthetic hierarchies within cultural industries, and discuss sustainable methods to intentional cross-practice collaboration.
These themes will be grounded in disrupting tokenism in the arts sector, moving beyond defensiveness and fear in creative work, imagination, and accessibility. The aim is that participants will feel supported and motivated to engage in systems change work within the arts as well as more confident in continuing anti-oppressive conversations in their work personally and professionally.
About Carmel Farabakhsh
Carmel Farahbakhsh (they/them) is a community educator, arts maker, and youth worker. They have collaborated on the Khyber Centre for the Arts board for four years, and are enjoying their new position as co-director of local music festival EVERYSEEKER. They recently transitioned from a five-year term coordinating South House Sexual and Gender Resource Centre to working as the Executive Director at the Youth Project, seeing a direct link between this community work and access to creative spaces and the arts community.
As the Executive Director of the Youth Project, Carmel holds a youth-centric approach to organizational movement and support. Carmel builds their vision from their community education background and aims to apply an anti-racist and trauma-informed framework to their work. They also collaborate and organize with local initiatives, artist-run-centres, and community partners with an aim to create wider 2SQTBIPOC community and support systems within the HRM.
Registration
The sessions will take place May 25 and 26, 2022. The intensive workshop will be held virtually via Zoom and is free for members of ArtsLink NB. Sessions will run from 9am to 4pm each day. To register, cultural sector workers should send an email to Jericho Knopp, jeri@artslinknb.com, with their name, their field or organization, and a brief description of why they’re interested in taking the workshop.
WHAT is an EPK (electronic press kit) and WHY do we need it as musicians?! What does a quality EPK look like? Kimberly Sinclair from Spincount will give you an overview of the EPK best practices & answer all those questions you may have on the subject!
Presented by:
Kimberly Sinclair is an award winning music industry professional based in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia and Louisville, Kentucky, specializing in marketing and promotions. Since founding Spincount in 2008, her firm has been awarded Company OTY 6 times and Kimberly twice awarded Industry Professional OTY. Kimberly handles marketing and communications for organizations such as Philadelphia Folk Festival (PA), Home Routes (MB), the Canadian Folk Music Awards (ON), NERFA (CT) and more.
Kimberly’s musical clients are routinely nominated for GRAMMYs and JUNOs and receive multiple nominations yearly from Regional and Provincial MIAs. Kimberly currently serves on the boards of NERFA and Philadelphia Folksong Society, and has served on the boards of MNS and the ECMA. Kimberly loves to present showcases, eat White Castle and garden.
Want to understand what mastering actually is? Want to know WHY we need it? Join Music NB for this Savvy Session on Zoom on May 18th @ noon (AST) to hear John McLaggan from Parachute Mastering talk about the basics of mastering.
*This session will be presented in English* Registration is here.
Presented by John McLaggan:
John has been an insatiable music nerd his entire life. With many years of touring and a Masters Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, he approaches Mastering from a wide and varied musical background. After working in and out of various studios for years, John opened his own studio in 2012 and began working with independent artists throughout Atlantic Canada. A growing interest in Mastering and obsession with sound quality led to the redesigning of his studio and the launch of Parachute Mastering. Since then John has worked with artists from across the globe such as John Smith, Rachael Baiman, Mary Bragg and Andrew Leahey.
Learn a new painting technique with instructor Ann White. Acrylic fluid art is a very satisfying form of abstract art. There are many techniques in this form of art with unlimited combinations of colours. On May 14 we will be completing a “Flip Cup Pour.”
Space is limited. Call the Gallery, 392-6769, or email info@mccainartgallery.com to register.
Class will be held at the River Art Centre, 8746 Main Street, Florenceville-Bristol
No refunds for cancellations less than 7 days prior to the workshop.
Expand your boundaries in the beauty of nature in this abstraction workshop covering non-traditional painting, drawing, and mixed-media methods interwoven with mindfulness. You will explore materials and techniques that evoke the essence of the natural environment through creative exercises and projects led by instructor Katrina Slade.
Activities include mindful walks and investigating the elements and principles of art that are everywhere around us in the natural world. Mixed media projects include mark-making using unorthodox tools, printing with plants, and painted paper collages.
This workshop is for those artists who wish to feel more grounded, creative, and connected with nature in their artwork.
SSANC Membership discounts apply (please call (506) 529-3386 to register with your discount. Bursaries are available – click here to apply.
Materials Required: To be determined
Registration Deadline: August 5, 2022
About the Instructor: Katrina Slade is a third-generation interdisciplinary visual artist with a lifelong passion for creativity. Her work is often inspired by a personal response to her environment, typically emphasizing uplifting and positive messages. Katrina’s primary medium is acrylic painting, and sometimes creates sculptural or installation work.
Katrina earned a BFA specializing in painting and drawing, followed by an MA in 2011 in her home state of Oregon. World travel has been instrumental in her artistic growth. After spending the decade of her twenties traveling and working overseas, she immigrated to Canada in 2018.
Katrina has enjoyed several solo exhibitions, as well as participated in multiple two-person and group shows in Europe and North America. Her work has been published in books, magazines, and is in private collections in various countries around the world. She currently lives and works in Fredericton, NB.
