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Workshops & Artist Talks

The Ranger Station Art Gallery hosts a variety of workshops & artist talks throughout the year
presented by the artist in residence and regional artists.
If you are an artist interested in presenting a workshop please email a letter of introduction and intent to: artscouncilsubmissions@gmail.com




UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & ARTIST TALKS

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Sock Doll Workshop

​Sunday, March 26, 12:00 to 3:30pm 
For artists 10yrs and up (children should be accompanied by an adult)
$10, contact kentharrisonartscouncil@shaw.ca to register
It doesn‘t matter how you make a sock doll, it is truly about the fun of the process, learning hand-sewing skills as you go, and discovering how to modify and work with materials you already have. The sock doll in this tutorial only uses one sock, and can be adapted into a monkey, cat or bear. You can bring your own materials if you like, a good quality crew sock, some stuffing (recycled stuffing like worn out pyjamas is encouraged), some sewing materials and embellishments, but there will also be materials provided. 
This tutorial is for ages 10 and up, and is appropriate for complete beginners as well as advanced sewers. At the end of the tutorial you will have a good start on your sock doll and will be able to complete it at home. 

The gallery will have some supplies on hand. But if you would like something specific, consider bringing your own materials.

Materials List:
One crew sock
Needle
Thread (embroidery, or decent quality thread)
Stuffing (fibre or soft fabric like worn-out pyjamas or t-shirt)
Scissors
Embellishments (any of the following)
seed beads (6/0), sock cuffs as collars - buttons - wool - ribbon - embroidery thread
If you cannot attend the tutorial there are also directions online at hunterramey.com/how-to-sew-a-sock-cat/



PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS & ARTIST TALKS



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Kids and Clay with Ernie Eaves
Cost: $15.00 for four sessions

Preregistration was by emailing: kentharrisonartscouncil@shaw.ca
Join Ernie every Thursday afternoon in November to learn beginning hand-building techniques for making and glazing simple wall decorations, pinch-pots and masks.  Wear your mud-worthy clothes and bring an old hand-towel.  Tools and materials will be provided. Parents are welcome to help out.
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​Ernie Eaves is a ceramics sculptor and retired high school drama and shop teacher. Ernie has taught children’s ceramics class in Hope. Ernie is a general all-around good guy.


A Thousand Words Writing Wordshop with RC Weslowski
Saturday, October 15th
10:30-12:30 writing 
1:30 -3:30 editing and crafting a performance 
6pm Performance
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Preregister by emailing: kentharrisonartscouncil@shaw.ca
Registration fee: $15 (free for members and students (high school. university, college) 
 

In this workshop, participants will explore the joy of writing Ekphrastic Poetry-poems inspired by artworks. Specifically, the works on display at the Harrison Kent Art Gallery. The workshop will be divided up into a morning and afternoon session and a performance/reading of the poems in the evening. The morning session will focus on the creation of first drafts and inspiration. In the afternoon session we’ll work on editing the poems and getting them ready for the performance. It’ll be a low pressure, fun day of writing and interacting with the work being highlighted at the gallery. This workshop is open to writers of all ages and skill levels. Maybe this workshop will help you write your first poem. Come and have fun, be silly, expand your repertoire and play with words.
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RC Weslowski is an internationally recognized performance poet who has led writing and performance workshops at the Banff Centre of the Arts for their Spoken Word Program, the Tuscon International Poetry Festival, The Verses Festival of Words and many others. RC Weslowski is the 2021 Zaccheus Jackson Nyce Memorial Award Winner, The 2016 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award Winner and a Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and Victoria Spoken Word Festival Poet of Honour. His new book “My Soft Response to the Wars” is available now from Write Bloody North Publishing at www.writebloodynorth.ca
Check out some of RC's performances on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykGq_7G27Do&t=26s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPYS8eTLO-U&t=6


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Artist Talk with Vladimir Kolosov Saturday September 10th, 3:00 pm
Vladimir Kolosov was born to create. His life has always been connected to art... mostly visual art and music. Art is his alter ego. It was a long journey from Vladimir’s study of classic fine art in the USSR in the late 70's to what he is doing today - the art and writings that reflect the complex world in all its diversity. Vladimir is a polymath, educated in fine arts, music, mathematics and physics, psychology, and business.

Vladimir published essays about contemporary surrealism in the VOYZX Art international magazine (ISSN 2561-5130). His writings were reprinted in Surrealismo International (Spain), and “Agulha Revista de Cultura” (Brazil). His art is featured in several books, the most recent is “Vladimir Kolosov Through the Looking Glass”, VOYZX Press, 2022, 240pp.

As an artist Vladimir is known as a colourist and for his ability to create works that make the viewer think. He uses various media and during different periods worked in different styles developing the philosophy that is behind each of his artworks. His artwork is a space where different elements live and interact with each other. There is an environment, energy, movement, relationships, and feelings. Colours play one of the key roles in his art. Thus, the elements interactions expressing through colours as contradictions and contrasts in composition in his works.

Vladimir feels empathy is the foundation of creativity. He sees and understands the outer and inner world of his model, empathizing, and portraying this model in all its integral diversity. According to Vladimir, empathy relates to memory and imagination both of which have the capacity to bring us back to the past or let us investigate the future.
Website: https://artofvk.com/



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Pop-Up Artist Residency with Rosa Quintana Lillo
Wildcraft Ink Making

Create Your Own Ink and Sink Some Carbon with Rosa Quintana Lillo
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.
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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.


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pOP-uP Artist Residency with Nicole Young
July 27-29; 12:00 -4:00 pm


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.



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Artist Talk with Colleen Brown
Creating the Evidence

Literary Non-fictions and Painted Facts
Friday, July 22, 7 pm



Come find out what the Artist in Residence, Colleen Brown, is up to in the Artist's Attic.
In The Lifespan of a Fact, John D'Agata (author) and Jim Fingal (fact-checker) argue their way into understanding a fact's narrative portion and its emotive measure. I'm trying to play out both sides of the argument in the attic.
Colleen will introduce the problem by showing some of her work, but here is the gist. Different art forms are more comfortable carrying different content. For example, you write a list of groceries and draw a map to the store. Colleen uses writing/drawing/sculpting to activate memories and ideas as she works. Colleen would like to use the opportunity of the artist talk to hear about people's experiences and opinions about what the aesthetics of a fact are? or what rhetoric looks like? 
Colleen would also like some of your old clothes to begin recording some facts about Harrison Hot Springs that may become truths which, in turn, may become interesting truths. She is particularly interested in patterned fabrics. Discussing patterned fabric from her collection is one way we can begin a conversation of facts held within objects during the artist talk.

Colleen Brown explores the relationships of objects and materials to think through abstraction and social encounters. Colleen has recently completed the manuscript for her first book, A Story of Doris, which will be published in the Fall of 2023 by Radiant. Thinking through the relationship between fact and meaningfulness will be an important part of editing this manuscript and developing the artworks related to the book.


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Artist's Talk with Ross Bollerup
Saturday  June 18,
1:00 - 2:00 pm


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Saturday, March 6, 2021
1:00 - 4:00pm

Writer's Workshop
with
 ​Kathleen Gros


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​Sunday June 9, 2019, 1-4 pm
Cyanotype Workshop 

create beautiful blue prints using the sun!
Aileen Penner, Artist In Residence
​Ranger Station Art Gallery 
Cost: KHAC Members: free; $20 non-members
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Success with the Sun!
Everyone was hooked on Cyanotype printing by the end of the workshop! Aaron was going home to apply it to wood and other materials and Jane was brimming with ideas for a photo project. Helene persisted on her own on Monday and managed to get her two (quite difficult) negatives printed with a stronger sun day. Aileen also spent time printing some unique items, such as this rusty nail coil.

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Aileen Penner
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Aaron Moran
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Helene Juzda
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Aaron Moran
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May 4, 2019
Sculpture using found & discarded materials
Aaron Moran
Time: 12-4pm
​Location: Ranger Station Art Gallery 
RSVP to kentharrisonartscouncil@shaw.ca

Cost: KHAC Members: free; $20 non-members
DETAIL of what sculptures could look like.(pdf)

This workshop will provide an opportunity to create a three dimensional sculpture with emphasis on using reclaimed wood. It presents an additive building process in which the sculptures are made from adding material, rather than removing it (as found in carving). The process will begin with basic framing to create a form, and will present several methods of covering the structure. These included the use of geometric wood fragments, wood veneer, and wood panels. The completed works will be the result of each participants aesthetic decisions.Each participant will take home a sculpture created during the workshop.

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Encaustic Monotype Printmaking
November 10, 2018 
9AM-12:00PM
                                                 

Aileen Penner
Kent Harrison Arts Council Artist in Residence
Limited to four (4) people. Email your interest to Aileen at aileenpen(at)gmail.com
Venue: Ranger Station Art Gallery
Waitlist being taken for future classes.

Learn to make one-of-a-kind prints using beeswax and pigment on an anodized aluminum plate. The act of heating the wax on the plate fuses the image to the paper when simple hand pressure is applied. This is a fun, easy introduction to working with wax.
No experience necessary.

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Book Launch
Lexie Owen - Fair Secrets


This book launch is part of the curatorial series Touchstones: Deep Time in the Near Future developed by Far Afield. For more information on the project, visit 
www.farafield.ca

This is the third component of the Touchstones series that evolved through a collaboration with the Agassiz Fall Fair and Corn Festival. Domestic, horticultural and agricultural production is steeped in tacit, embedded knowledge, and success in these endeavours is often the result of decades, or even centuries-long relationships with materials, matter, and living organisms. At the festival, Lexie Owen’s Fair Secrets invited participation from the local community through an assortment of secrets—from prized recipes to personal confessions.

​Through anonymous contributions, Fair Secrets aims to create a collective representation of the knowledge harboured within the region. The shared secrets have been transformed into a publication and will be launched as a small limited edition. Join us for this intimate book launch!


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Adam Hill
creates music with pencils, paper, computers, and a variety of instruments. He has written songs, symphonies, and suites, and has released four albums of new-timey music. He also performs creations of other songwriters and composers.

Enjoy works by Luciano Berio, Peter Maxwell Davies, Adam Hill, and J.S. Bach.


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SATURDAY JUNE 24, 2-4 pm

WRITING A SENSE OF PLACE, A WORKSHOP
with writer in residence Bren Simmers
Ranger Station Art Gallery

Explore your relationship with the landscapes you love. Use detailed description, nature observation, and local lingo to re-create settings on the page. Use photos as jumping off points to tell a story. This workshop will be held in conjunction with the Narratives of the Lost show at Ranger Station Art Gallery. Suitable for teens and adults. Bring a notebook and a pen.

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SONGWRITING WORKSHOP with Adam Hill

Stretch your musical mind in this afternoon workshop on songwriting. Short lessons on fundamentals and techniques will draw on examples from great songs by great songwriters. Participants will then engage in activities that give them a chance to try their hand at building harmonies, rhythms, and lyrics.

Great for stalled songwriters wanting to get the creative juices flowing or beginners who'd like to give songwriting a shot. Suitable for teens and adults that have some background with a musical instrument. Bring a notebook, a pencil, and your favorite instrument. Beginner participants may find reference tools like chord charts useful as well.

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SATURDAY APRIL 22, 2-4 pm

POETRY AS PLAY: A WRITING WORKSHOP

with writer in residence Bren Simmers
Ranger Station Art Gallery

Celebrate National Poetry Month by playing with poetry. Try your hand at a variety of forms from lists to ghazals, erasure to collaborative poems. Express yourself in a new way through these fun experiments. Suitable for teens and adults. Bring a notebook and a pen.


Writer's Revision Workshop
with writer in residence Bren Simmers

Strengthen your stories, poems and essays through editing. Try out different revision strategies and take home a checklist for future revisions. We will write and edit new material during the workshop. Suitable for teens and adults.

Bring a notebook and a pen/pencil

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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13TH, 2016 2-4 pm

IT'S ALL IN THE DETAILS: A WRITING WORKSHOP
with writer in residence Bren Simmers
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Make your writing come alive with concrete language, fresh images, and sensory observations. Through fun exercises, learn to infuse your writing with memorable details. Suitable for teens and adults. Bring a notebook and a pen. 

Cost: $10 for non-members, free for KHAC members
Email kentharrsionartscouncil@shaw.ca to sign up

Bio: Bren Simmers is the author of two books of poetry, Night Gears (2010) and Hastings-Sunrise which was a finalist for the 2015 City of Vancouver Book Award.

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SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH 2016 2-4 pm
 

SKETCHBOOK AS DAILY PRACTICE WORKSHOP
with artist Siobhan Humston @ Ranger Station Art Gallery

This workshop will delve into the use of a sketchbook or journal to springboard a committed daily art practice. Combining the fundamentals of sketching with discussions around idea formulating & writing, we will look closely at aspects of nature and how to cultivate your own ideas. Learn how to make a daily practice into a creative mandate and turn that into art work that will evolve naturally, authentically and progressively.

BIO
Siobhan Humston is an interdisciplinary artist with a full-time practice in drawing/painting, photography, fibre arts, and sculptural installation. By combining abstracted aspects of nature with man-made elements she creates narratives that intersect at environmental concern and environmental awe. Over the past four and a half years Siobhan has worked in over a dozen studios in three countries including artist residencies in New York, the Ranger Station Art Gallery in Harrison Hot Springs and the UK. She has shown her work in over sixty gallery exhibitions, received a Pollock Krasner Fellowship and a BC Arts Council grant and was most recently awarded an MFA degree with distinction from Falmouth University, UK.
www.siobhanhumstonart.com

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SATURDAY AUGUST 13TH 2016
2-4PM

DIY WIRE WEAVING WORKSHOP
with artist in residence Anne J Steves @ Ranger Station Gallery

Come on by for a couple of hours of weaving fun at the Ranger Station Gallery. Working with wire and found materials, we will create a flexible art work that can be free-standing, a wall work or worn as a cuff. Anne will show you how to make your own DIY loom, a variety of unusual materials to make art with and the many ways these pieces can be displayed or worn.




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FRIDAY JUNE 24TH 2016 7PM
ARTIST TALK
with artist in residence Anne J Steves

Join us for an artist talk by Anne J Steves, KHAC artist in residence 2015-2016. Take the opportunity to see her exhibition 'soft truth: ad-dressing the landscape'  and hear how life in the Kent Harrison district has influenced her current work and daily practice as an artist. Anne will speak on the effect of travel and place on the act of making, her Welsh ancestry as an influence in her use of crafts, and methods for moving beyond traditional painting and drawing. Refreshments Supplied.

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MARCH 23RD 2016 1-5pm
COMMUNITY COLLAGE WORKSHOP
with Anne J Steves @ Ranger Station Gallery

Our artist in residence, Anne, is preparing for her exhibition here at the Ranger Station in June. She wants your help to make a large wall piece for the gallery and so we are holding a Community Collage drop-in this Spring Break!

Come on by any time between 1pm and 5pm on Wednesday March 23rd for some painting, drawing, writing, sewing...fun. Stay for an hour or all afternoon.
All ages welcome. All materials supplied. Free!

* Please make sure all children under 10 years of age are accompanied by an adult. *

www.annejstevesstudio.wordpress.com

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MARCH 5TH 2016
1-4pm

WORLD OF WORDS WRITING WORKSHOP
with Mark Lieren-Young @ Agassiz Public Library
  Join us at the Agassiz Public Library for a FREE memoir writing workshop with multimedia writer/performer Mark Leiren-Young
  From memoirs to monologues to blogs, writers today have moved from sharing their most intimate moments with their ‘Dear Diary’ to revealing all to audiences. If you want to write about your life, what’s the best medium for sharing our stories? How do you choose which stories to tell? Where do you draw the line between sharing and over-sharing? This workshop will offer techniques and exercises to help writers share and remember the stories of their lives.
  Mark is the author of 'Never Shoot a Stampede Queen - A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo', which won the Stephen Leacock award for humour. He has written and performed in films, TV and stage plays.
http://leiren-young.com/

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FENCE TILE WORKSHOP
@ Ranger Station Gallery

Come and paint a salmon, bear or eagle Fence Tile so we can decorate the gallery surroundings with colourful local wildlife.

Kids of all ages are welcome! Children under 8 years old must be accompanied by an adult.

We will be here from 1pm to 3:30pm this Friday January 22nd (school district Pro D day) so pop in and join us.

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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21ST 2015
7PM

ARTIST TALK
with Rosa Quintana Lillo @ Ranger Station Gallery

Please join us at the Ranger Station Gallery for a slide show and artist talk by local artist Rosa Quintana Lillo . This lecture follows on from her successful residency in Gwaii Haanas and the opening of her most recent exhibition in Vancouver. 


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OCTOBER 23rd 2015 2-4:30pm
FENCE TILE WORKSHOP
@ Agassiz Public Library

Bring the kids along to a fun Fence Tile decorating workshop at Agassiz Library! We will be there on Friday October 23rd from 2:00 to 4:30pm.

The finished wildlife shaped tiles will be installed on the fence outside the Ranger Station Gallery for all to see and to brighten our little space by the lake.

Kids of all ages are welcome from little ones to teens!
Under 8 years old will need an adult present to help with the decorating fun.

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OCTOBER 3rd 2015 1-9pm
DRAW-IN
with Eden Veaudry @ Ranger Station Gallery


Come and join us, any time between 1 and 9pm on Saturday October 3rd for a collaborative drawing workshop. Vancouver based interdisciplinary artist, Eden Veaudry will be facilitating this drop-in workshop which will combine the act of drawing with the sense of sound. All ages and abilities are welcome. o edit.

http://edenveaudry.com/EDEN%20VEAUDRY/main.html

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MARCH 22nd 2015 1-4pm
FRAMING THE LANDSCAPE
with Aimee Henny Brown @ Ranger Station Gallery


Through a series of multi-media drawing exercises, this 3-hour workshop explores drawing from plants, landscape and the environment as inspiration. Principles of line quality, texture, tone and shading will be used to create dynamic sketches and new approaches to observational drawing.

http://www.aimeebrown.ca/

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MARCH 7TH 2015
FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP 1-4PM
@ Agassiz Public Library
AUTHOR READING 7PM
@ Ranger Station Art Gallery
with Aislinn Hunter

Aislinn Hunter is an award-winning, multi-genre writer and an award-winning teacher with degrees in creative writing, art history, and writing and cultural politics. She is the author of a story collection, two books of poetry, a book of essays on 'thing theory' and two novels: Stay (which was made into a film starring Taylor Schilling and Aidan Quinn) and The World Before Us which has been called 'haunting' and 'magnificent'. The Globe and Mail called The World Before Us 'the sort of novel which forces you to look at the world—the people around you, the objects they hold dear—in a different light.'

www.aislinnhunter.com

http://www.aimeebrown.ca/
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NOVEMBER  14TH 2014 7-9PM
@ Agassiz Public Library
with Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas


Join us for an artist lecture, slideshow and Q&A.
Refreshments and snacks will be served.
All are invited to this free event.

NOVEMBER 15TH 2014 10AM-4PM
@ the Ranger Station Art Gallery
with Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Join us for a free Haida Manga workshop.
Pre-registration required before November 7th by email to kentharrisonartscouncil@shaw.ca

http://mny.ca/en/biography

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,JULY 5TH 2014 10AM-12PM
BUTTON MAKING WORKSHOP

with Jessi Sparks @ Agassiz Public Library

Come by and make some buttons with Jessi Sparks, as part of the Kent Harrison Arts Council's youth outreach.

https://fvrl.bibliocommons.com/locations/AG

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APRIL 18TH 2014 5-7:30 pm
with Anouk Jonker @ Ranger Station Gallery
$20.00

BRINGING IT TOGETHER
In this workshop, we will discuss a variety of brushwork and blending techniques so you can familiarize yourself with the "feel" of the paint. There will be a demonstration on how to activate the oil paint, where we will focus on blending, layering, and mixing colours. We will be starting a still-life together as well.

http://www.anoukjonker.com/

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APRIL 11TH 2014 5-7 pm
with Anouk Jonker @ Ranger Station Gallery
$15.00

WHAT IS OIL PAINT?
This workshop will teach you about oil paint, and how to begin approaching the medium. Learn how to choose your brushes, your mediums, and your paint surfaces. You will also be introduced to the colour wheel. Together, we will do a monochrome exercise on canvas and tackle any questions you might have.

http://www.anoukjonker.com/

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