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Register to attend here - https://shop.remaimodern.org/products/workshop-seeds-for-a-grassy-mountain-february-7-2026With Alana Bartol and Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed
When: Saturday, February 7, 2026, 3 – 4:30 PM
Where: Cameco Learning Studio
Members: $30 + tax (discount code sent to your member email)
Non-members: $40 + tax
We want everyone to feel welcome. If cost is a barrier, please contact [email protected]. We’ve reserved a limited number of no-fee spots and are happy to make them available.
Join artists Alana Bartol and Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed for a hands-on workshop that brings together art, ecology, and land-based restoration. This session offers a chance to engage directly with the artists’ collaborative project Seeds for Grassy Mountain, currently on view in the exhibition Great Plains Series: Points of Return – Spaces of Departure.
In the midst of winter, this workshop invites a hopeful look toward spring, encouraging participants to think about renewal and the slow, seasonal work of restoration. Through drawing and discussion, you’ll reflect on species and habitats at risk, experiment with milk and charcoal drawing techniques, and learn about native plants and seed preparation. Each participant will take home native seeds to grow, tend, and observe as the season turns.
Recommended for: Ages 8+ (children must be accompanied by an adult)
Duration: 1.5 hours
Allergen Warning: Dairy milk and oat milk will be used in the workshop. Participants will have the option of using either.
About the artists
Alana Bartol (she/they) is an interdisciplinary Canadian artist whose work examines resource extraction, petropropaganda, and remediation. Through research, ritual, participation, and sensory engagement, they create site responsive projects that interrogate extractive narratives and the relationships shaped by settler colonialism with land, water, and what are colonially known as natural resources. Alana teaches in the School of Visual Art at Alberta University of the Arts in Treaty 7 Territory. More at http://alanabartol.com/.
Alana and Latifa are friends who have collaborated for a decade on projects involving native plant ecologies, including Seeds for Grassy Mountain, which explores relationships with landscapes damaged by coal mining.
Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed (she/her) is a herbalist, botanist, artist and educator based in Carstairs, Alberta, Treaty 7 Territory. She is the co-owner of ALCLA Native Plants, a native plant plant nursery that supplies locally-sourced and genetically-diverse plants and seeds for nearly 200 grasses, wildflowers and shrubs. Her practice centres around engaging community with our more-than-human relatives as an antidote for extractive capitalist expansion, climate change, and malaise resulting from disconnection with the living world. She is formally qualified with a Master’s of Science in Herbal Medicine from London, UK and a Bachelor of Science in Botany from the University of Calgary.
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