About this Event
Create Your Own Dreadling
What might your uncertainty or coping instinct look like if it became a creature?
In this hands-on workshop, artist Bramble Lee Pryde will introduce participants to The Existential Dreadlings: a growing family of symbolic creatures created to accompany the experiences that cannot always be fixed, explained, or neatly resolved.
Through a private word-clustering exercise, participants will explore the character, purpose, and personality of a Dreadling of their own. You will not be asked to share your personal responses with the group. After an introduction to the available materials and creative approaches, participants can choose to draw or sculpt their creature.
Your Dreadling might become a guardian, witness, absorber, troublemaker, companion, or something that refuses classification altogether. No previous art experience is required. The workshop is about experimentation, imagination, and finding new ways to give form to the things we carry.
Participants will leave with an original Dreadling of their own.
What to expect
- A short artist talk and introduction to The Existential Dreadlings
- A guided, private idea-development exercise
- A demonstration of the available materials
- Time and support to draw or sculpt your own creature
- All materials provided
This is a barrier-free workshop presented as part of Strange Companions, a residency by Bramble Lee Pryde and Steve Pi.
Because space is limited, please cancel your registration if you can no longer attend so your place can be offered to someone on the waitlist.
Event venue & nearby stays
Sparrow Artspace, 36 4 Street Northeast, Calgary, Canada
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