pOP uP Artist Residencies
at the Ranger Station Art Gallery
in Harrison Hot Springs, BC
pOp uP residencies are a variation on our regular programming and a new use of the gallery space as an Open Studio where artists will be able to work, display and sell their art. This is an open call with no deadline.
The gallery space will be available 4 to 6 times a year to host these mini residencies. We are encouraging artists and writers to apply to use the gallery space as their own while interacting with the public. All practices and installation work will be considered. Show how you work, share your techniques and skills.
Write to us at [email protected]
and tell us about yourself and your work and how you would use the space to aid your practice.
Interact, Exchange, Learn and play.
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Past pOP uP Residencies.
pOP-uP Residency with Diane Blunt
Birch Bark Biting
Tuesday, November 1 and Wednesday, November 2, 1-4pm
A real spark happened a couple of years ago for Diane when she discovered an ancient Indigenous art form called, Birch Bark Biting. This is where you take the birch bark from a tree and you fold it, bite on it, and it makes patterns. She has been working with these patterns in her practice and exploring ways to incorporate it into her work. Drop by the gallery to explore this practice and create some patterns with Diane.
Currently in her fourth year of Emily Carr University, Diane Blunt is an artist of mixed descent - Ojibway on her father's side and German on her mother's. She is a member of the Kawartha Nishnawbe Nation. Diane is pursuing her BFA in Visual Arts where the nature of her work has been exploring drawing, painting, and material practices. She has been the recipient of multiple funding awards including the CIBC Foundation Award, the Brissenden Scholarship, the Ian Gillespie Aboriginal Scholarship, and the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Scholarship.
Birch Bark Biting
Tuesday, November 1 and Wednesday, November 2, 1-4pm
A real spark happened a couple of years ago for Diane when she discovered an ancient Indigenous art form called, Birch Bark Biting. This is where you take the birch bark from a tree and you fold it, bite on it, and it makes patterns. She has been working with these patterns in her practice and exploring ways to incorporate it into her work. Drop by the gallery to explore this practice and create some patterns with Diane.
Currently in her fourth year of Emily Carr University, Diane Blunt is an artist of mixed descent - Ojibway on her father's side and German on her mother's. She is a member of the Kawartha Nishnawbe Nation. Diane is pursuing her BFA in Visual Arts where the nature of her work has been exploring drawing, painting, and material practices. She has been the recipient of multiple funding awards including the CIBC Foundation Award, the Brissenden Scholarship, the Ian Gillespie Aboriginal Scholarship, and the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Scholarship.
Wildcraft Ink Making
- a pOP-uP Artist residency with Rosa Quintana Lillo
Create Your Own Ink and Sink Some Carbon with Rosa on
Thursday September 1 and Friday, September 2, 1-4pm
Join our very own Rosa Quintana Lillo, curator of the Ranger Station Art Gallery, for a hands-on, wildcrafted charcoal ink production workshop. Experiment with charred materials collected by Rosa, such as acorns, beechnut husks, fir bark, avocado skins, bone, egg shells and more! Come by the gallery to play, learn and sequester carbon. All the materials you need will be provided. Make a batch of ink. Make a drawing. Take home the ink we make together!
In Rosa Quintana Lillo’s 30-year-long art career, she has worked as a studio technician for many artists while maintaining her own artistic practice. Rosa draws and paints every day and is always on the lookout for an interesting residency. The combination of working for herself and others has allowed Rosa to learn to work with many media and be influenced by artists from all over the world. Rosa has always been invigorated by artistic and intellectual interaction.
Rosa’s latest explorations are with charcoal: playing with it as an act of hope in times of climate change. By turning organic matter into charcoal, as her ancestors did, she can sequester small amounts of carbon and then either turn them into inks for painting or into soil amendments appreciated by both plants and animals. Whatever the charcoal becomes, the path it takes to reach its destination lends itself well to conversation.
As an immigrant and displaced Mestizo of Latin American heritage, Rosa strongly relates to fluid, playful and intuitive ways of making a mark. Living here on the West Coast of Canada has greatly influenced her practice: from addressing politics and climate change, to studying bird extinctions, and relating to the Northwest Coast art forms, both historical and modern. Rosa’s art has become an intuitively-driven mish-mash of forms influenced by technical experimentation and accentuated by painterly indulgence.
- a pOP-uP Artist residency with Rosa Quintana Lillo
Create Your Own Ink and Sink Some Carbon with Rosa on
Thursday September 1 and Friday, September 2, 1-4pm
Join our very own Rosa Quintana Lillo, curator of the Ranger Station Art Gallery, for a hands-on, wildcrafted charcoal ink production workshop. Experiment with charred materials collected by Rosa, such as acorns, beechnut husks, fir bark, avocado skins, bone, egg shells and more! Come by the gallery to play, learn and sequester carbon. All the materials you need will be provided. Make a batch of ink. Make a drawing. Take home the ink we make together!
In Rosa Quintana Lillo’s 30-year-long art career, she has worked as a studio technician for many artists while maintaining her own artistic practice. Rosa draws and paints every day and is always on the lookout for an interesting residency. The combination of working for herself and others has allowed Rosa to learn to work with many media and be influenced by artists from all over the world. Rosa has always been invigorated by artistic and intellectual interaction.
Rosa’s latest explorations are with charcoal: playing with it as an act of hope in times of climate change. By turning organic matter into charcoal, as her ancestors did, she can sequester small amounts of carbon and then either turn them into inks for painting or into soil amendments appreciated by both plants and animals. Whatever the charcoal becomes, the path it takes to reach its destination lends itself well to conversation.
As an immigrant and displaced Mestizo of Latin American heritage, Rosa strongly relates to fluid, playful and intuitive ways of making a mark. Living here on the West Coast of Canada has greatly influenced her practice: from addressing politics and climate change, to studying bird extinctions, and relating to the Northwest Coast art forms, both historical and modern. Rosa’s art has become an intuitively-driven mish-mash of forms influenced by technical experimentation and accentuated by painterly indulgence.
- pOP-uP Residency with Nicole Young
- July 27-29
Nicole will be in the gallery Wednesday, July 27- Friday, 29th doing natural dye experiments and working on sewn textile and canvas paintings as part of her ongoing body of work Grow, Spill, Wrap, Reveal.
Visitors are invited to join Nicole for a drop-in dye workshop. Come by anytime during Nicole's residency and she will walk you through various techniques of the natural dye process using dried flowers, kitchen scraps and plant pigments.
Bring your own small item to dye, no larger than a T shirt. The item must be made of 100% natural fiber (cotton, linen, hemp, bamboo, etc.) as natural dyes will only take to natural fibers. No wool. If you do not have a small item to dye, there will also be cotton bandanas available.
Working in the confluence of visual arts, environmentalism and storytelling, Nicole’s works are as much science experiments as they are conversations on ways to approach climate justice. She creates her own pigments and dyes out of natural and often wild foraged materials including plant matter and minerals as a way to deepen her connection with the land, and to create a dialogue about waste-free practices. Moving seamlessly between large scale textile installations, works on canvas, garments and graceful drawings, Nicole’s works aesthetically resemble collage while maintaining their painterly qualities.
a pOp uP sculptural installation with Sylvie Roussel-Janssens
outside the gallery, April 26 - 30, 2021
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Particle and Wave: Research into Similarity:
a pOp uP residency with
Aaron Moran and Sylvana dAngelo
October 5-9, 2020
