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​For the Winter Solstice on December 21st, I hosted a woodland crown making workshop. A group of women gathered flora from their gardens and from fields and forests, and came together to create these marvelous crowns. 

Annual Member's Show 2019

During November I was part of the annual Member's Group Show and exhibited these two paintings: 
Roadside Flora 1 and 11, 2019,
Oil on canvas, 30" x 15" 

Meet and Greet Event

Artist in Residence, 2019-2020

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Ava P Christl

Ava was born in Duncan, BC, on Vancouver Island, and moved to northern BC with her family when she was three. She finished high school in Terrace, then moved back to Vancouver Island for a few years. After a few years, she moved to Yellowknife, NWT. Ava left Yellowknife to attend art school, and graduated from NSCAD University in 1986. She then spent a year in Baker Lake, Nunavut managing the Sanavik Printmaking Cooperative. She later relocated to Whitehorse, Yukon where she lived for about 18 years. Ava began her art career during the Whitehorse years and, over time, held public gallery exhibitions across northern and western Canada. During those years she taught drawing and painting in a variety of capacities from after school art programs to artists-in-the-schools to private workshops. Ava sat on the board of the Yukon Arts Centre and was actively engaged in the Yukon arts community through paid work and volunteerism. In the early 2000’s Ava moved south to Victoria, BC where she became a professional cook, an organic gardener, and a student - leaving her full-time art practice for some 10 years. Ava continued to paint throughout and engaged in community arts by starting an annual art walk/studio tour in her Vic West neighbourhood and designing and hosted a number of community arts projects as part of neighbourhood events such as Vic West Fest. Ava began a serious return to her art practice in recent years by seeking out and participating in artists residencies in Canada and the USA. 
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Ava P Christl holds a BFA from NSCAD University, Halifax, NS and a Certificate in Adult Education from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. She has exhibited throughout northern and western Canada including Richmond Art Gallery, Nanaimo Art Galllery, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, the Yukon Arts Centre and the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, NWT. Ava had been artist-in-residence at the Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site, the Ted Harrison Cabin (Yukon), Elsewhere Studios in Paonia, Colorado and the Sitka Centre for Art and Ecology near Lincoln City, Oregon, among others. Her works are held in private and public collections across North America including the Yukon Hospital Corporation, the Yukon Government's Permanent Art Collection and the Art Bank of Canada in Ottawa.