Contemporary Kids: Home & Me!
Sunday, March 12, 2023 | 12:00-2:00 PM
For children ages 4-12.
Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities.
Children are invited to represent the many ways they see and experience their home, a place of comfort and shelter. The finished pieces are placed together as a way of connecting the individual to the collective.
Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child.
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.
Sunday, March 12th
12 – 2pm
About the facilitator,
Makayla (she/her)
Makayla has been involved with Antyx since she was in Grade 9! Makayla found her passions at a very young age when she discovered volunteer opportunities and the ability she had to create change in her community. She always found ways to express her devotion to art whether it be music or visual and incorporate it into her learning and advocacy journey.
She believes art is a way to express your voice on social justice issues and explore topics like human rights through community building. She likes to inspire youth and children to challenge themselves and step outside of their comfort zone with different art forms such as theatre, painting, music, and poetry while working hand in hand with social workers to still implement important social justice into their day-to-day lives. She is currently a student at Mount Royal University.
About Antyx
Antyx works in communities across Calgary. Antyx community arts projects can have a neighbourhood focus or they may be focused on addressing community-identified issues. Arts are used in development processes to build community capacity and to creatively and critically engage people in processes that address important community issues.
Their work has a focus on engaging youth in their communities, school and neighbourhoods.
Antyx uses the arts to engage youth and spark their curiosity and commitment. Community arts projects provide opportunities for youth to make tangible contributions to their community and be recognized for those contributions. The arts open the door to self-reflection and self-expression, allowing youth to explore who they are and their place in the world.
About the artist,
Jeannie Mah (she/her)
Jeannie Mah was born in 1952 in Regina, Saskatchewan. She attended the University of Regina, receiving a Bachelor of Education in 1976, and in 1979 she studied ceramics at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. Other studies took Mah to the Banff Centre (1984, 1988), to France's Université de Perpignan (1988) and Université de la Sorbonne (1989). Eventually, Mah returned to the University of Regina, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1993. Mah credits Regina artist and instructor Jack Sures with inspiring her practice: "I learned my heavy-duty work ethic from him.’
Mah's ceramic work emphasizes vessels, particularly cups, and she creates these delicate porcelain objects by hand. Mah explains her approach: "Balanced on the cusp of a fine arts education, I insist on working in a medium which is considered to belong to a decorative art. While seeking out the vestiges of art in our daily lives, I plunder the history of this decorative art, and usurp the cup as pulling it into a fine arts practice...While an "upstairs/downstairs" split reveals a classicist gap in our societal/domestic consciousness. the mug and the teacup meet on this domestic front, as the utilitarian and the decorative merge to fulfill aesthetic and bodily needs."
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