Art Workshop: Changing Colours

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Join us for a community art workshop hosted by BWG Public Library's Artist in Residence, Jill Price.

Workshops Series: We Are Forest

Join Artist in Residence Jill Price to help co-create We Are Forest, a community art installation that explores human interconnections with trees.

In this follow-up workshop to Leaves, Leaves, Leaves, participants will unravel leaf parcels to discover how their colours and textures were transferred onto recycled paper as well as begin to help cut out paper prints that have already been dried. If time, participants can also choose to continue tracing and hand-painting more leaves onto reclaimed paper using natural dyes.<h4>We Are Forest Workshop Series</h4>This workshop is the second in a series hosted by BWG Public Library's Artist in Residence, Jill Price. Through four workshops, Price will work with BWG community members to co-create elements of We Are Forest, an interactive installation that explores human interconnections with trees.

<h3>About Artist in Residence Jill Price</h3>Dr. Jill Price is an award winning interdisciplinary Canadian artist, curator, educator, and writer of German, Welsh, Scottish, and Ukrainian descent. Grateful to be living and working on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe peoples in Barrie, Ontario, Price earned her BFA and BEd from Western University, completed an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media &amp; Design at OCAD University in Toronto, and most recently earned a PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen's University. Her SSHRC‑funded Research‑Creation thesis From Unsettling to UN/making investigated how artists and their institutions can help to usher in an ethics of care and repair for human and more-than-human ecologies. Currently on exhibit at the MacLaren Art Centre with an installation entitled From There to Here: Walking for Tomorrow, Price works as the Assistant Curator and Collections Manager with ART@RVH at the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie and continues to independently curate projects with an ecological focus.As Artist in Residence at the BWG Public Library, Dr. Price will engage community members in an exploration of the deep connections between humans and trees, drawing a poetic parallel between book pages and tree leaves. Her installation will transform recycled paper from outdated books into a suspended canopy of hand-cut leaves, created with the help of community members. Participants will learn to paint with natural dyes, make prints from collected leaves, and assemble layered foliage that echoes the beauty of a living forest. The completed work will hang above an antique writing desk, offering a tranquil space to read, write on seed paper, or immerse yourself in a soundscape of local forest sounds.

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