Arts
Stitching Geography and Memory with Shawn Grey
Island Mountain Arts Studios Mildred Ave, WellsAbout the workshop This workshop explores creating cloth bags as collective storytelling. The workshop delves into the movement of story through the application of stitching techniques. Participants will stitch cotton bags with decorative motifs interpreting experiences of geography and memory. Inspired by Ursula Le Guin’s essay on the “Carrier Bag”, the workshop replicates the invention […]
Wild Colour, Ink Making with Annie Robinson
Island Mountain Arts Studios Mildred Ave, WellsAbout the Workshop In a workshop full of play and connection to place, participants will work with wild colour sources to make ink. No art experience is required, only curious minds. We will explore colour sources from food waste, foraged botanicals, and metals. Together, we will discover the palette of Wells, contemplate the storylines of […]
Plein Air Meditative Drawing
Island Mountain Arts 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, CanadaMEET AT ISLAND MOUNTAIN ARTS AT 10:00 AM $10.00 Materials fee, or PWYC About the Workshop This workshop is an opportunity to experience meditative drawing, engaging with Donna Haraway’s concept of becoming-with. The plein air artist typically uses direct observation to draw or paint what they see. In this workshop, we will observe but also […]
artist talk | tea and talk with Rachel Rozanski (ARCHIVAL EARTH)
Island Mountain Arts 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, CanadaAbout 50 percent of Canada is permafrost, and it’s thawing almost a century earlier than predicted. It is the foundation for Arctic ecosystems and in the last ten years, thawing and “permafrost slumps'' have started to dramatically change the landscape. This multimedia exhibit explores the concept of time on a geological scale through land change […]
Paper Making Workshop
Paper Making with MULCH Collective! Friday – May 31, 2024 || 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM || fair weather = outside at the Nest, foul weather in the Second Floor Studios (Wells-Barkerville School second floor). Are you swimming in a sea of documents? Is your wastepaper basket overflowing with balled up notes from your screenplay […]
Contour Drawing with Zuzana Vasko
The Nest 4234 Sanders Ave, Wells, BC, CanadaJune 12th | 4 – 6pm | Outside of the Nest About the workshop: Contour drawing involves very careful, sincere looking and creates a space for intimate connection with the subject you’re drawing. As such, the experience of drawing in contours can be a way to better come to know the forms of life around […]
Happy 10th Birthday to the Nest – a Community Potluck
The Nest 4234 Sanders Ave, Wells, BC, CanadaMark your calendars for July 5th and come celebrate our 10-year milestone at The Nest. Join us for a special Community Potluck & BBQ where we'll be sharing stories, and celebrating 10 years past, and 10 years to come. We will also welcome our Toni Onley Artists Project artists. It's a perfect opportunity to take […]
Toni Onley Artist’s Project
The Toni Onley Artist Projects, which focuses on the exploration and development of visual artists, will have a maximum of 12 spaces available. This year's mentors are Rita McKeough and Peter Flemming! Saturday, July 6th – Sunday, July 14th, 2024 at Wells, BC COST The program cost for 2024 is $605.00 + GST. This fee […]
Rita’s Artist Talk
Island Mountain Arts 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, CanadaRita will talk about her recent works, which incorporate audio, electronics, and mechanical performing objects, focusing on the environmental impacts of resource extraction and demonstrating her desire to use sound to create a rhythmic voice of agency and empathy to articulate forces of resistance in the natural world.
Peter’s Artist Talks
Island Mountain Arts 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, CanadaPeter will talk about his recent works involving lenticular images and fermentation processes: 'Borrowing heavily from The Sciences yet with little focus on making money, Flemming’s projects are fabricated weird worlds where uninhibited systems of circulation-feedback loops, leakages, Overlapping cycles—teeter between stability and instability.'