Connecting Art & Community
Workshop Description:
Learn Digital Collaging techniques in the workshop on August 5th. In this workshop participants will get a chance to get creative with photographs, shape, colour and type to create their own personalized collage from scratch using Inkscape (Digital Program).
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In this workshop series, participants will explore all five senses with art activities led by Tasneem Dairywala. Beginning with a tutorial on watercolour pencils, participants will create vision boards of the things they like smelling, touching, hearing, and tasting. Participants will have a chance to put the external world on hold and listen to what’s going on inside of themselves. Workshops will equip participants with the skills to express themselves in multiple creative ways in order to enhance emotional and mental wellbeing. Each participant will select one piece for display in a final group exhibition.
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Session 1:
Creating a bust/human face sculpture
Supplies:
Session 2:
Creating a Narikomi inspired piece
Supplies:
To register, email Tasneem@artignite.ca.
This workshop is funded by Ontario Arts Council.
Stitching Spring is a 2 workshops embroidery series starting with the very basics of embroidery and walking participants through the creation of their embroidery art piece inspired by spring. In the beginning, participants will learn embroidery stitches and the basics to start embroidery art. Inspired by the theme of spring each participant will create their embroidery piece, starting with a sketched idea and using the learned stitches to create a textile art piece.
Materials needed to participate:
– Embroidery Hoop (recommended sizes between 4″ and 7″)
– 2 or 3 Fabric or felt pieces that are larger than the hoop (cotton, linen, or fabrics that don’t have too much stretch to them are recommended)
– Embroidery needles between sizes 2 to 7
– Needle threader (optional)
– Embroidery floss
– Scissors
– Markers
To register, email Tasneem@artignite.ca.
This workshop is funded by Ontario Arts Council.
Program Overview
Stitching Diaries is a community-engaged textile art program for self-identified women, non-binary, and two spirit ages 16+ in Toronto’s Don Valley Village and Fairview neighbourhoods.
Using journaling as a central theme, participants will create stitched journals and a written piece to tell their personal stories while exploring textile and stitching techniques with Toronto-based textile artist, Cecília Garcia. Participants will also learn about creative writing and Indigenous Teachings with guest artists Tasneem Dairywala and Aqua Nibii Waawaaskone. Final artworks will be exhibited at the Toronto Public Library, Fairview branch in September 2022.
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April 1, 2022 | 9:30am-12:00pm EDT | Free Online Workshop
Join Toronto-based artists Cecília Garcia and Tasneem Dairywala for a free online embroidery and creative writing workshop for beginners. In this workshop, you will learn embroidery basics, including an introduction to stitches and materials, and get your thoughts flowing with a guided creative writing session.
Suggested materials list:
All materials can be found at Michaels craft store or other craft stores.
Register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/101-embroidery-and-creative-writing-workshop-tickets-292908706827?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb
Contact charlotte@artignite.ca for more information.
This project was supported through Toronto Arts Council Strategic Funding #poweredbyTAC
Participants will be making masks using various materials in creative ways. The
theme of this workshop is finding creative ways of mask making addressing stories of people, activities, and things that have gotten the participants through COVID time and isolation. These connective and rejuvenating acknowledgements become the inspiration for creating an individual mask. Participants will be led through the mask-making design and build process by the workshop lead, Banafshesh Erfanian. All levels of experience are welcomed.
Materials
Paper
Marker
Pencil crayons
Magazines or newspaper
Fabric
Glue stick
Masking tape
Wooden sticks (a pencil could be used instead)
Stapler
Strings of any kind or elastics
Hole puncher
Scissors.
To register, email Tasneem@artignite.ca
This workshop is funded by Toronto Arts Council.
Description:
In this workshop, environmental artist, Orflina, will share with participants how to make ornaments with citrus peels
As the drying process for organic material is natural, participants should consider that the material will require more than one day to get dry, and that the artwork will be finished at home by themselves.
Learning
Materials
To register, email Tasneem@artignite.ca
This workshop is funded by Toronto Arts Council.
Description: ‘Remembering Home’ is a community art activity that explores the themes of memory, movement, transition, and safe space. For everyone, the idea of a home and a safe space has changed, especially in the event of a pandemic. Akshata Naik, a facilitator and multidisciplinary artist, uses this workshop to engage participants in larger discussions while painting a birdhouse that serves as a metaphor of refuge, improvised space, and a home for birds. She compares this to nature and birds migrating in search of food, shelter, and a safe place to live similar to humans and their need for migration.
Artist Bio: Akshata Naik is a contemporary and a multidisciplinary visual artist. Born and raised in Mumbai, she is a newcomer to Canada. Her works reflect upon her lived experiences of moving homes, cities and countries through a lens of immigration, violence, displacement, home and belonging. She works towards co-creating with her viewers an immersive experience and interactive art installations which consists of digital drawings, paintings, videos, ephemeral temporary sculptures and art in virtual reality. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally at institutions such as THEMUSEUM, Kitchener (2021) Nuit Blanche Toronto, Gladstone Hotel (2019) Gallery Espace, Delhi (2020) Artcore Gallery, UK (2016)
Materials: Miniature wooden birdhouse (ones easily available at Dollar store) acrylic paint, brushes, markers, glitter, sequins, other decoration materials easily available at home.
To register, email Tasneem@artignite.ca
This workshop is funded by Toronto Arts Council.
iFEED project stands for Find the Energy Every Day. It is a canvas painting project led by Connie Tong, an Open Studio participant. It encourages participants to engage in discussions of resiliency, empowerment and healing. Especially living through the pandemic, this project uses visual arts as a vehicle to express their motivation to find the light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully inspire others to gain a better perspective and wellbeing coping through the pandemic.
Participants will develop skills in creative thinking and exploration of the chosen medium. Through guided instructions, the program will result in a finished project at the end of the session.
iFEED project is a City of Toronto Arts and Culture SPARK project and participants who contribute to this project will have a chance to display their work in a public setting and online. Participants can learn more about the project scope at www.healthylivingart.ca
All you need to participate is a canvas, paint, and paintbrushes, which they can procure at Dollar Store, Walmart, or local craft store.
To register, email Tasneem@artignite.ca
This workshop is funded by Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council.
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