Join Elmira for a relaxed, intimate portrait drawing session inspired by the Portrait Award exhibition. Beginning with blind contour drawing, we’ll use mirrors to create self-portraits, then explore the connection
Event Details
Join Elmira for a relaxed, intimate portrait drawing session inspired by the Portrait Award exhibition. Beginning with blind contour drawing, we’ll use mirrors to create self-portraits, then explore the connection between the gallery’s portraits and your own story. Each session offers unique variations and can be taken individually or as a series. No experience needed—just bring whatever materials you have on hand.
Two sessions:
October 21 (course #226016)
October 28 (course #229431)
Cost: $25 per session
Time
October 21 (Wednesday)10:00am - 12:00pm(GMT+00:00)
Join exhibiting artist Farheen Haq for a collective weaving gathering where stories, memories, and threads come together. Guided by Haq, participants are invited to slow down, weave alongside one another, and contribute to a growing communal artwork, part of
Event Details
Join exhibiting artist Farheen Haq for a collective weaving gathering where stories, memories, and threads come together. Guided by Haq, participants are invited to slow down, weave alongside one another, and contribute to a growing communal artwork, part of In the Folds of Memory.
Catherine Gaudet’s astounding new work ODE channels the industrial happiness complex into a stripped-down exhortation/exploration of group-think conformity and cultural collapse. Even as the brutalizing demand for orthodoxy crushes individual
Event Details
Catherine Gaudet’s astounding new work ODE channels the industrial happiness complex into a stripped-down exhortation/exploration of group-think conformity and cultural collapse. Even as the brutalizing demand for orthodoxy crushes individual need underfoot, lingering at the edge of exhaustion is a slender blade of hope, like a secular prayer for a gentler world.
Time
October 23 (Friday) - October 24 (Saturday) (All Day)(GMT+00:00)
Enjoy a creative afternoon of artmaking and interactive gallery experiences.
Bring the family for an artmaking workshop with artist-educators. The session includes a children’s interactive tour in this season’s exhibitions.
Event Details
Enjoy a creative afternoon of artmaking and interactive gallery experiences.
Bring the family for an artmaking workshop with artist-educators. The session includes a children’s interactive tour in this season’s exhibitions.
Join Elmira for a relaxed, intimate portrait drawing session inspired by the Portrait Award exhibition. Beginning with blind contour drawing, we’ll use mirrors to create self-portraits, then explore the connection
Event Details
Join Elmira for a relaxed, intimate portrait drawing session inspired by the Portrait Award exhibition. Beginning with blind contour drawing, we’ll use mirrors to create self-portraits, then explore the connection between the gallery’s portraits and your own story. Each session offers unique variations and can be taken individually or as a series. No experience needed—just bring whatever materials you have on hand.
Two sessions:
October 21 (course #226016)
October 28 (course #229431)
Cost: $25 per session
Time
October 28 (Wednesday)10:00am - 12:00pm(GMT+00:00)
Explore the Nikkei Cultural Centre, a nationally recognized museum and gathering place that bridges Japanese and Canadian arts, culture, and history. We will participate in a traditional Tea Ceremony, followed
Event Details
Explore the Nikkei Cultural Centre, a nationally recognized museum and gathering place that bridges Japanese and Canadian arts, culture, and history. We will participate in a traditional Tea Ceremony, followed by a guided tour of the DIS—displaced, dispersed, dispossessed exhibition, featuring work by contemporary artists exploring the lasting influence of the Second World War on Nikkei communities globally.
