Family Activity: Printmaking with Alysa-Beth Engel

Sun Jun 04 2023 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

Koffler Centre of the Arts | Toronto

Koffler Centre of the Arts
Publisher/HostKoffler Centre of the Arts
Family Activity: Printmaking with Alysa-Beth Engel
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Create your own original prints with Alysa-Beth Engel inspired by motifs in The Synagogue at Babyn Yar.
About this Event

One Sunday afternoon per month during The Synagogue at Babyn Yar exhibition, the Koffler will host a Family Activity—a free creative workshop for children aged 10 and up accompanied by an adult companion. Programmes will start with a visit to the gallery, focused on a specific theme or object, followed by a guided hands-on activity.


Please register in advance to guarantee your spot, though we will try our best to accommodate walk-ins.


Create your own original prints with Alysa-Beth Engel inspired by motifs in The Synagogue at Babyn Yar. Find ideas for your art in the Babyn Yar ravine photographic murals, the constellations on the Synagogue’s ceiling, and in the interior of the synagogue where Ukrainian folk style decorations include vines and animals (bear, cheetah, lion, squirrel, and more). Everyone will sketch designs to be used for making a relief printing matrix with their images carved in reverse. This process involves incising and carving away areas, then inking the raised surfaces to transfer onto paper. At the end of the workshop, you will have at least one print to take home - maybe more!


Alysa-Beth Engel is an artist, writer, and yoga instructor. Alysa is an Artist Board Member of Open Studio Contemporary Artist Centre, where she was previously the Print Sales Manager and Archivist (1996 – 2002). Alysa studied printmaking at Queen’s, where she worked as the Studio Technician and earned the Queen’s Appeal Academic Scholarship. She learned intaglio at the Santa Reparata Studio in Florence (Emily Carr). Alysa trekked solo in the Himalayas, and summited Mount Kilimanjaro. Alysa lived in London (UK) where she made art and worked at Sotheby’s (2002-2006). Her work is informed by Jewish identity, motherhood, and her thirty-year yoga and meditation practice. Her art is included in corporate, public, and private collections nationally and abroad. For more information, visit https://www.alysaengel.art/ and Open Studio https://openstudio.ca/


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Koffler Centre of the Arts, 180 Shaw Street, Toronto, Canada

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