invitations
RAFT BUILDING
I have a photo of my rule-following, water-fearing grandmother on the day she skipped school to go float a raft in a nearby pond. It makes me curious…. What is your raft moment? Come share your answers, and I will spin them into rope to help build my own raft.
arc.hive in ‘victoria’.
Come join me January 11- 26.
Saturdays & Sundays 12-4pm
Opening January 26, 3-5pm.
MONTHLY INDIVIDUALIZED ARTIST SUPPORT 2025
REGISTER HERE
I love connecting with and supporting artists at all stages in their art making. So, I am offering this opportunity for you to bring your projects in any medium, ideas (or just yourself).
EACH WEEK WILL INCLUDE:
– 3 hours online with me as facilitator.
– Flexible participation (sign up for the weeks that work for you).
– Small group size (maximum 8 participants).
– Personalized care and thoughtfulness about your work and art practice.
– Presentation of artwork and reading(s) to inspire and provoke discussion
– Facilitated discussion
– One-on-one feedback
– A writing prompt
– Email support for the next two weeks (you can send an application or images related to the work you brought to the meetup for feedback)
SLOW STITCHING: INCITING JOY
This course will begin with 12 blank squares of cotton. Each week participants stitch on a square and will learn beginner embroidery techniques including outline stitches, needle painting, knots and weaving stitches, as well as embellishment techniques such as stumpwork, cut work and flower pounding. Students will be invited to bring in their own cloth mementos and other materials to incorporate into the work. The class will explore methods for bringing these 12 works together into one piece or a body of work. Ross Gay’s “Inciting Joy” will be used as inspiration and point of departure for the stitching process. Students will listen to this text while stitching and let the intuitive response of the words inform the work. Each week will also include a writing prompt to expand each artist’s exploration of the relationship between their handwork and the text. No previous stitching experience required.
THURSDAYS, JANUARY 9 – APRIL 3. 6-9PM @ Vancouver Island School of Art
ARTIST BOOKS: FOUR TECHNIQUES IN FOUR WEEKS
This course will teach students introductory folding and stitching methods to make their own reproducible artist books. They will be introduced to a variety of mediums to use in their book’s content, including collage, hand sewing, gouache and methods for incorporating text. Participants will leave with the skills need to adapt and reproduce artist books of different sizes and mediums in their future creative projects.
TUESDAYS FEBRUARY 18 – MARCH 11 6:00-8:30pm @ UVIC Continuing Studies
ARTIST BOOKS: START TO FINISH
Over the four weeks, you will engage in the process of creating your own hardcover and bound artist book, working from idea to finished product. Come with your own ideas, or be inspired by contemporary artists presented in class. You will be guided through creating and developing text, artwork, layout format and cover design as you make your own one of a kind book. Students will leave with a glue and cloth bound book about a subject of their choice and the experience of moving through the full creative process.