Mas Camp Hands-On Workshops

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Make costumes for Carnival in this craft workshop!

Reading Room, Hart House

Artists and educators Charmaine Lurch, Alyssa Mattrasingh, and Mosa McNeilly together lead hands-on mas camp making workshops utilizing recycled and sustainable materials. Participants will make horns, wings, and tails to cherish or wear on the parade route as they embody Blue Devil masqueraders.Materials, supplies, and light refreshments will be provided.This event is part of <a href="https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/program/carnival-blues/" title="https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/program/carnival-blues/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Carnival Blues</a>, a celebration of Caribbean Carnival through art, movement, and community. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition <a href="https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/land-sea-sugar-salt/" title="https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/land-sea-sugar-salt/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt.: Terrestrial and Aquatic Contemplations of the Caribbean</a> on view at the Art Museum through August 1, 2026.—WingsCharmaine Lurch is a Caribbean-Canadian conceptual artist whose work draws attention to the complex relationships between culture, and nature. Her installations and interventions pair what is visible and present with what remains unsaid or unnoticed, inviting entry points into overwhelmingly complex and urgent racial, ecological, and historical matters. Charmaine creates public works of art that are structural, consider space, and incorporate an atmosphere of light and movement. These elements are her expressive and textural messengers. Together with research, they create signifying forms that seek to re-configure and rewire perception and ideas.TailsAlyssa Mattrasingh (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/its_a_lyssa/" title="https://www.instagram.com/its_a_lyssa/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@its_a_lyssa</a>) is a multidisciplinary artist grounded in analogue praxis as guided by Afro and Indo-Caribbean ancestral practices. Their work centres sustainable, practical, culturally specific content, methods and aesthetics specific to the diasporas that claim them. From wearables and installation, singing and songwriting, dance and performance, beading and textiles, illustration and collage, to prose and poetry, Alyssa is challenging colonial and capitalist limitations with affordable and accessible art.HornsMosa McNeilly’s work is grounded in cultural production, wellness and anti-racism advocacy, arts education, and intergenerational mentorship, and engaged in practices that respond to systemic inequities and centre Black knowledge and cultural expression. Born and based in Tkoronto, with roots in the Caribbean, her doctoral research examines Black feminist thought on the Middle Passage in conversation with Trickster pedagogies. In her interdisciplinary arts practice, she integrates encaustic, assemblage, and installation with clown, movement, and mask. Mosa has exhibited, performed and presented at A Space, Articule, and Libby Leshgold Galleries; the Toronto Fringe Festival, Afrofest, and the Montreal Jazz Festival; York University, Dalhousie University, and the University of Ottawa. An OCADU graduate with an MES from York University, she has received numerous grants and awards.—Photo: Nila Gupta.

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