Pom Pom Paradise
Family Workshop with Artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky
This family-friendly workshop invites creatives of all ages to make basic pom poms which can be altered and embellished using a buffet of colourful materials. The choices are endless! Start off by transforming pom poms into your own interpretation of a beautiful, local mountain bluebird, then learn how to make a pom pom from scratch and create a favourite animal, an alien creature, a piece of fruit, or an abstract soft sculpture.
Saturday, April 23, 2022
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Members $10, Ticketed at $20 with admission
There will be a family friendly drinks and snack bar, with one complimentary drink on us!
Maximum capacity of 40 persons
FREE for children 12 and under
Ticket price includes all workshop materials.
About the Artists
Rhona Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky
Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, based in New York and Toronto respectively, are artists who have worked collaboratively since 2004. Their work, laborious and handmade, is concerned with material culture and our relationship to the world of things. Their practice has increasingly incorporated aspects of craft that are communal and more broadly collaborative, such as the production of DIY tutorial videos, the distribution of source files for the making of versions of their works, the hosting of virtual crafting bees, and facilitating other collaborative public projects within and without institutional settings. Their current ongoing project, Crafts Abyss, produced in conjunction with and hosted by the Museum of Arts & Design, NYC, was first created during the 2020 edition of Contemporary Calgary’s Collider residency.
Other exhibitions include: National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), LABoral (Gijon), Dos de Mayo (Madrid), Aurora (Dallas), Vancouver Art Gallery, Flux Night (Atlanta), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Power Plant (Toronto), Musee d’art Contemporain de Montreal, Tokyo Wonder Site, loop-raum (Berlin), 516 Arts (Albuquerque), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), Alter Space (San Francisco), Glow (Washington DC). Mahovsky has written for journals such as Artforum and for catalogues such as Liz Magor (MACM: Montreal, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst: Zurich, and Hamburg Kunstverein). In 2017, Weppler was the inaugural artist in residence with the MFA Art Practice program at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and in 2018 she completed a major project for the Community Arts Initiative, Artists Project program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.