Art Making in the Park
July 23-24, 2022
From the producers of the Eastside Culture Crawl Festival comes an innovative art-making event, the CREATE! Arts Festival.
CREATE! Arts Festival is an initiative by the Eastside Arts Society, bringing together local artists and the community to explore, learn and CREATE! art together through a series of affordable and accessible art workshops, and a public-participation art installation. Attendees of all ages will learn how to create art such as print making, glass blowing, ceramics and painting, as well as explore performing arts such as songwriting and poetry from Eastside artists in a safe and comfortable outdoor space this summer.
The CREATE! Arts Festival is designed to deepen the connection between the public and artists in the Eastside Arts District by creating a meaningful exchange and provide capacity building opportunities for artists that are directly connected to their art practice.
The CREATE! Arts Festival will host pre-registered art making workshops exploring a variety of mediums throughout the day on Saturday in Strathcona Park and at various Eastside studio locations on Sunday. Each participant will create something they can take home or that can be picked up later after firing.
A Small Vessel to Hold: Hand Built Clay with Grace Lee
- 10am |
- 1pm |
- 4pm
$25
per person per workshop
In this workshop, participants will be guided through the design, preparation and creation a vessel. Participants will learn: WABI SABI - the art of imperfection and that shapes can be organic. DESIGN OF FORM - think about proportions and shapes while considering the prepared meal and how form would best serve it. CLAY PREP - learning to wedge to help activate the particles. TECHNIQUES - hand built slabs and slump forming. TEXTURES - creating layers of impressions, carving through tools or stamps. FIRING - your pieces will be bisqued and glaze fired at our studio. You will choose your glaze on site and it will be ready in 2 to 3 weeks.
Woodland Park (705 Woodland Dr)
CREATE WITH CLAY! Kids Workshops with Amberlie Perkin
- 10am |
- 1pm |
- 4pm
$10
per child.
AGES 6–9 YEARS: 10AM & 1PM. This fun workshop offers kids the opportunity to paint and create hanging ceramic sculptures! For the younger kids (6-9 yrs) a variety of bisqued ceramic shapes will be provided (circles, stars, animals, etc.) that they may choose from and then paint. Participants will then use twine, beads, and a found branch to assemble their final ceramic sculpture which they can take home to hang and display that day. AGES 10–14 YEARS: 4PM. Learn to make hanging ceramic sculptures from scratch! This workshop will introduce participants to cutting shapes out of clay slabs and how to work with underglazes and carving techniques to give their clay pieces unique textures and detailing. There will be a mini follow up event the following week at Studio 116 when participants will pick up their fired clay pieces and assemble them to complete their one of a kind hanging ceramic sculpture. All children must be accompanied/supervised by an adult during the workshop (adults are not required to participate).
Woodland Park (705 Woodland Dr)
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The CREATE! Arts Festival
CREATE! Arts Festival is an Eastside Arts Society production. Your support of the Eastside Arts Society is an investment in the arts and artists of Vancouver’s Eastside. It allows us to build upon a 25-year legacy of connecting community with East Vancouver’s vital population of artists, creating access to culture and fostering a love of visual art for so many over the years, and for years to come.
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