Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities.

Inspired by the multimedia artist Catalina Tuca, kids will engage in a hands-on, sculptural project where they will explore what it's like to represent their emotions through object-building! Using various crafting and arts materials, participants will construct a 3D object while exploring what it means to visually represent their feelings.

For children ages 4-12.
Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child. 
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.

Presented By

Join Matthew Waddell and Laura Anzola for an informal behind-the-scenes look at their latest “hyper-media” installation GLUV, which is part of the ongoing exhibition Rerouting. During this guided tour and presentation, the artists will discuss the concepts and motivations that drove them to create this speculative product, along with their use of satire to comment on the extractive nature of most modern-day technology. The artists will also discuss the challenges present while creating interactive art, 3D animation and multimedia work.

About the Artists

Laura Anzola & Matthew Waddell
(they / them)

Laura Anzola (b. Bogotá, Colombia) and Matthew Waddell (b. Calgary, Canada)  have been Calgary-based collaborators for over seven years, creating work both under their own names, and through their collective Axis Z Media Arts (AZMA). They’ve conceived and generated multiple award-winning projects that scrutinize the relationship between human interaction and digital media, many of which have been presented at festivals, galleries, and theatre spaces across Canada.

New Media artist Laura Anzola examines and critiques the impact of technology on our daily lives and bodies, corporeal gestures, and global mobility, through unconventional applications of tech – adapted, hacked, and transformed.  Her work often casts a skeptical eye on global societal issues using visual storytelling and interactive media. Her current project, Blue Borders, an audiovisual essay for dome projection, explores notions of home, identity, privilege and belonging. Laura’s work has been shown in galleries and public spaces in Colombia, Germany, and Canada. 

Matthew Waddell is constantly seeking fresh and startling ways to examine how technology manipulates and warps our understanding and experience of the world, as well as our cultural and individual identities. With a creative practice at once organic and synthetic, his work blends images, animations, and interactive software programs to distort analog reality through a digital lens. The results are often uncanny: familiar yet otherworldly, and often profoundly disconcerting. Matthew’s recent projects have been showcased at the Alberta Gallery of Art (Edmonton), Eastern Bloc (Montreal), and the WRECK CITY Residency (Calgary).

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.

For youth ages 12 - 18. Maximum group of 30 youth. 

Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

About the Facilitator

Chelsea Ascah-Wiigs
(They/ Them)

Chelsea is a queer Filipinx/American and first generation Canadian, who uses art as way to navigate the world around them. They have a Bachelors degree of Fine Arts from the University of Lethbridge, with a specialization in multimedia art and digital production. They have been busy working as a graphic designer, marketing coordinator, and freelance photographer and illustrator.

When not behind a computer screen, Chelsea spends their time working out in the community helping develop youth programs pertaining to fine arts. With a special interest in various communities, their architecture and how those spaces serve the people that live in them, Chelsea aims to continue developing programs and spaces that best foster a healthy art community.

Chelsea’s current practice is about exploring various aspects of how architecture manifests in different communities, digital fabrication, colour and identity.

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.

Presented By

This event event has been cancelled , but you can register for the May 15, Contemporary Youth: The Sensory Workshop.

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.

For youth ages 12 - 18. Maximum group of 30 youth. 

Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

About the Facilitator

Chelsea Ascah-Wiigs
(They/ Them)

Chelsea is a queer Filipinx/American and first generation Canadian, who uses art as way to navigate the world around them. They have a Bachelors degree of Fine Arts from the University of Lethbridge, with a specialization in multimedia art and digital production. They have been busy working as a graphic designer, marketing coordinator, and freelance photographer and illustrator.

When not behind a computer screen, Chelsea spends their time working out in the community helping develop youth programs pertaining to fine arts. With a special interest in various communities, their architecture and how those spaces serve the people that live in them, Chelsea aims to continue developing programs and spaces that best foster a healthy art community.

Chelsea’s current practice is about exploring various aspects of how architecture manifests in different communities, digital fabrication, colour and identity.

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.

Presented By

Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities.

Inspired by the multimedia artist Catalina Tuca, kids will engage in a hands-on, sculptural project where they will explore what it's like to represent their emotions through object-building! Using various crafting and arts materials, participants will construct a 3D object while exploring what it means to visually represent their feelings.

For children ages 4-12.
Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child. 
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.

About the Facilitator

Chelsea Ascah-Wiigs
(They / Them)

Chelsea is a queer Filipinx/American and first generation Canadian, who uses art as way to navigate the world around them. They have a Bachelors degree of Fine Arts from the University of Lethbridge, with a specialization in multimedia art and digital production. They have been busy working as a graphic designer, marketing coordinator, and freelance photographer and illustrator.

When not behind a computer screen, Chelsea spends their time working out in the community helping develop youth programs pertaining to fine arts. With a special interest in various communities, their architecture and how those spaces serve the people that live in them, Chelsea aims to continue developing programs and spaces that best foster a healthy art community.

Chelsea’s current practice is about exploring various aspects of how architecture manifests in different communities, digital fabrication, colour and identity.

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.

Presented By

Designing with Pom Poms

Adult Workshop with artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky

Spend a relaxing evening exploring your creativity!

Start off by learning a little about the history of poms poms, their use by leading fashion designers, and how pom poms can be used to embellish existing clothing, accessories and even interior design. We will also look at color, texture, and pattern in the design of your pom poms, and what effect combining these have. Using a rainbow of yarn you will create your own designer pom poms which you can use to embellish existing clothing and objects, or create a toggle which can be clipped to anything or given as a gift to a friend.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Designing with Pom Poms

Adult Workshop with artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky

Spend a relaxing evening exploring your creativity!

Start off by learning a little about the history of poms poms, their use by leading fashion designers, and how pom poms can be used to embellish existing clothing, accessories and even interior design. We will also look at color, texture, and pattern in the design of your pom poms, and what effect combining these have. Using a rainbow of yarn you will create your own designer pom poms which you can use to embellish existing clothing and objects, or create a toggle which can be clipped to anything or given as a gift to a friend.

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.

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.

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.

Presented By

Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities.

Inspired by the multimedia artist Catalina Tuca, kids will engage in a hands-on, sculptural project where they will explore what it's like to represent their emotions through object-building! Using various crafting and arts materials, participants will construct a 3D object while exploring what it means to visually represent their feelings.

For children ages 4-12.
Maximum group of 30 children, with one guardian per child. 
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.

Presented By