About this Event
Working with the fundamentals of mobiles, participants will help to arrange and string together different branches of paper leaves to arrive at different assemblages that will help to form a large scale canopy of colour, shapes and text that honour the importance of forests within our communities. During this workshop visitors will also learn what needs to be considered when proposing large scale sculptures within a public space.
We Are Forest Workshop Series
This workshop is the fourth in a series hosted by BWG Public Library's Artist in Residence, Jill Price. Through four workshops, Price will work with BWG community members to co-create elements of We Are Forest, an interactive installation that explores human interconnections with trees.
About Artist in Residence Jill Price
Dr. Jill Price is an award winning interdisciplinary Canadian artist, curator, educator, and writer of German, Welsh, Scottish, and Ukrainian descent. Grateful to be living and working on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe peoples in Barrie, Ontario, Price earned her BFA and BEd from Western University, completed an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media & Design at OCAD University in Toronto, and most recently earned a PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen's University. Her SSHRC‑funded Research‑Creation thesis From Unsettling to UN/making investigated how artists and their institutions can help to usher in an ethics of care and repair for human and more-than-human ecologies. Currently on exhibit at the MacLaren Art Centre with an installation entitled From There to Here: Walking for Tomorrow, Price works as the Assistant Curator and Collections Manager with ART@RVH at the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie and continues to independently curate projects with an ecological focus.
As Artist in Residence at the BWG Public Library, Dr. Price will engage community members in an exploration of the deep connections between humans and trees, drawing a poetic parallel between book pages and tree leaves. Her installation will transform recycled paper from outdated books into a suspended canopy of hand-cut leaves, created with the help of community members. Participants will learn to paint with natural dyes, make prints from collected leaves, and assemble layered foliage that echoes the beauty of a living forest. The completed work will hang above an antique writing desk, offering a tranquil space to read, write on seed paper, or immerse yourself in a soundscape of local forest sounds.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library, 425 Holland Street West, Bradford West Gwillimbury, Canada
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