Our free onsite Contemporary Youth programs help inspire young people through the exploration of contemporary art, connecting them to community, global, and social issues that affect all of our lives.
Inspired by the multimedia artist Catalina Tuca, youth will engage in a hands-on, sculptural project where they will explore what it's like to represent their emotions through mixed media object-building!
Join us in discussions surrounding why artists choose the materials that they do, what it looks like to construct a balanced, visually pleasing abstract object, and what our Artist in Focus intended to convey to her audience through her work.
Sunday, April 10
12 – 2pm
For youth ages 12 - 18. Maximum group of 30 youth.
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.
About the Facilitator
Jace
(they / them)
Jace is an experienced multi-media artist, educator, and mental health advocate. Jace holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta University of the Arts, and is currently working towards their Masters in Counseling Psychology. Jace also worked for the City of Calgary as an Arts Instructor, and as a casual Peer Support Worker for The Alex Community Health Center.
Jace creates and teaches art as a form of community care. They love bringing people together through conversation, collaboration, and storytelling.
"My personal practice currently leans heavily on play, and explores themes like recovery, home, transness, and queer identity. During this collectively strange and isolating time, I am looking forward to creating programming that allows for freedom, identity exploration, connection, and authentic self-expression." -Jace
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
Catalina Tuca
(she / her)
Catalina Tuca (b. Santiago, Chile) is a multidisciplinary Visual Artist, educator, and independent curator, working in the intersections of geographic identities, collective memories, and hybrid systems of collaboration and participation through existing technologies.
After earning a BFA and a degree in Visual Arts Education, she developed her career in Santiago, showing her work in solo and group exhibitions, teaching visual arts and film, and creating and directing art spaces. She participated in art residencies, in Japan, Colombia, and the United States. Following these experiences, in 2016 she moved to the US to pursue an MFA at Rutgers University from where she graduated in 2018. After that, she was a member at NEW INC, The New Museum Incubator Program NY, a resident at NARS Foundation NY, a fellow at The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, NY, and at Collider Art Residency, Contemporary Calgary, CA, 2020.
She is currently part of the team of Film & Storytelling -Film Workshops for adults and kids- and Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, US.
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