About this Event
New for 2026: The Artist Salon returns to Saturday afternoons for in-person gatherings where artists can meet, connect, and learn from one another.
This session features exhibiting artist who will share insights into her multidisciplinary art practice. Following the talk, take part in a hands-on mixed-media painting workshop that incorporates sewing and beading techniques.
Limited spaces. For adults and youth ages 16+.
$5.00 Registration Fee includes all materials.
Please note – no refunds. Funds raised go towards supporting the Gallery's Public Programs.
About the Artist:
Charlene Vickers is an artist of Anishinaabekwe descent who has been living on the west coast in Vancouver since the 90s, working with painting, sculpture, installation, and fibres. Her deeply personal work addresses themes of urban existence, cultural dislocation, and healing.
Recent exhibitions and accolades include 2025 Sobey Award Long List, Indian Theatre, curated by Candice Hopkins at CCS BARD Hessel Museum in Hudson, NY (2023), Reverberations: Contemporary Art and Modern Classics at the Seattle Art Museum (2023), Good Foot Forward, curated by Kitty Scott, Toronto (2023), Big Blue Smudge, The University of Saskatchewan (2022), Ancestral Gesture, a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (September 2021), Rain Shadow at the Nanaimo Art Gallery (2021), Where Do We Go From Here? at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2020), the Biennale national de sculpture Contemporaine 2020 in Quebec, An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries, I continue to shape, Art Museum, U of T, Toronto, and Speaking From Hands and Earth, SFU Galleries, Burnaby and Ambivalent Pleasures at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver,(2016). International group exhibitions include the map is not the territory at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon (2019), Connective Tissue: New Approaches in Contemporary Fibre Art at MoCNA in Santa Fe, NM (2017), From The Belly of The Beast at Grace Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y. (2017), If We Never Met, Pataka Art Museum, Porirua, New Zealand (2016).
Charlene Vickers graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (94) and Simon Fraser University in Critical Studies of the Arts (98), MFA (2013).
About the Artist Salon:
The Richmond Art Gallery's features art professionals leading inspirational artist talks and professional development for visual artists each month from February to November. Programs are either live-streamed online or hosted in person. Past livestreams may be viewed as on-demand videos on the video page.
Photo Credit: Charlene Vickers by Robert Chaplin.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Richmond Art Gallery, 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, Canada
CAD 5.00
