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Day 2: Fabric Of Nature

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What:
Workshop
When:
9:15 AM, Sunday 5 May 2024 (6 hours 45 minutes)
Where:
- EV 2.645

Day 2 of Workshops ArtEDU Spring series

Presenting

  • Ola Serhal
  • Amy Audet-Arcand
  • Geneviève Moison
  • Vanessa Randall

Each workshop will last an hour, followed with 15 minutes for questions. Please arrive 15 minutes before the first workshop. 

Between each presentation there will be breaks. Lunch will be given from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.

To know about each presenter and their workshop click below.

Sub Sessions

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | 1 hour 15 minutes

The re-create and re-use workshop is a community-based project dedicated to recycling old clothes and reusing and recreating them. Individuals can learn new artistic techniques and ideas and implement them on old clothes, and members of the community who are in need can benefit from brand-new artistic clothing.The concept behind this project is to build awareness of belonging as a unified community that works for everyone. Also, this will help maintain a strong communi...

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes

Would you like to incorporate an environmentally-friendly art practice within your classroom? Would you like to learn how to make paper? Come join us to learn how to make paper by hand, by recycling paper in order to give it a new life! This workshop will allow you to replicate this lesson on paper-making within the art classroom, and adapt it to learners of all ages. You will also learn about the milkweed plant and its important place within environmental conservatism. The paper ...

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes

Cultivate your creativity and discover the art of solar dyeing at our workshop exploring ethical harvesting and natural dyeing in Montréal. Learn the solar dyeing technique step-by-step, from gathering local plants or food waste, to creating beautiful, dyed fibers. Engage in hands-on activities, construct your own solar dyeing jar, and experiment with local dyeing plants. Take home your jar and let the sun and plants work their magic and continue your exploration into sustainable ...

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes

If you have never tried handspinning before and have a passion for teaching art then this workshop might be for you, as we delve into the tactile world of wool and spinning with a drop spindle for the first time! We will explore together the power of embracing openness, humility, and patience in teaching, drawing from concepts in Crafting Phenomenological Research by Mark D Vagle and the “Shoshin” or “beginners mind” of Zen Buddhism. Starting with a hands-on lesson on using a drop...

Who's Attending

Geneviève Moisan
ArtEd PhD student and Part-time Instructor Fibres&Material Practices
Elsy Zavarce
Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education - Concordia University
Sarah Pearson
Learning and Development Coach
14 other(s)

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