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
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
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS & ARTIST TALKS
Artists at Work Symposium
Memorial Hall, 290 Esplanade Ave., Harrison Hot Springs
May 6 & 7
WE INVITE YOU to join us and attend an artist symposium where panelists will discuss their stories of success and failures which amount to living a creative life.
You can join in the discussion and bring to the table your questions. Share your experience of living a creative multidisciplinary life.
Memorial Hall, 290 Esplanade Ave., Harrison Hot Springs
May 6 & 7
WE INVITE YOU to join us and attend an artist symposium where panelists will discuss their stories of success and failures which amount to living a creative life.
You can join in the discussion and bring to the table your questions. Share your experience of living a creative multidisciplinary life.
Colleen Brown - Artist Talk
Saturday, April 15, 1pm
Colleen is primarily known as a sculptor who explores the relationships of objects and materials to think through abstraction and social encounters. Colleen holds a BFA from Emily Carr University, a BA in Psychology from SFU and an MFA from Bard College, New York. Her most recent solo exhibitions have been with Burrard Foundation and Unit 17, both in Vancouver.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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
Saturday, October 15th
10:30-12:30 writing
1:30 -3:30 editing and crafting a performance
6pm Performance
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.
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
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.
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
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/
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/
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Artist's Talk with Ross Bollerup
Saturday June 18,
1:00 - 2:00 pm
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
1:00 - 4:00pm
Writer's Workshop
with
Kathleen Gros
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
