FAiR Showcase

Celebrate the Future Artists in Residences program with Marisa Law, anata laylay, and Divya Kaur

Future Arts Network presents Marisa Law: 1-4pm

During Marisa’s time in residence at FAiR, she explored how our natural environment can be honoured, transformed, and woven into our practice

Through interactions with mediums such as natural dye, cyanotype, and photography as well as beading, paper making, and lino carving, Marisa held those relationships and knowledges that connect us with our land—showcasing the deep kinship we have with nature.

During the showcase, aside from Marisa’s artwork being displayed, you may also see her wool weaving a community piece with an open invitation to engage in conversation and casually try weaving as well!

Marisa Law (she/her), is an Indigenous youth artist and facilitator based in East Vancouver with Upper Smelqmix Okanagan and British heritage. She explores creation through multiple mediums, blending visions of visual and textile arts ~ interwoven with natural materials, textural experiences and cultural reflections. Marisa can often be found as a vendor at Indigenous craft markets/events sharing her artwork with the community or as a workshop facilitator during booked events. She has also worked in the creation of many art projects throughout the community in spaces like neighbourhood houses, community centres and more. You can find more of her work at @marisacraftsthings on Instagram or by her website https://marisacraftsthings.square.site

Future Arts Network presents anata laylay: 1-4pm

anata laylay will be showcasing their new pieces that are dyed with plants from the Philippines, eco-prints, and new Indigo dyed pieces. During this residency, anata laylay has worked on their natural dye process, cyanotypes, weaving, and mordant-printing.

anata laylay (they/them) is a trans nonbinary Filipinx curator, ancestral medicine worker, and textile artist from the rivers and hills of Bulacan and Quezon. They are currently living and working on stolen and unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ land. They are passionate about curating, fibre arts, plant materials, and weaving. Their practice reflects and centres themes of Filipino history, Kapwa, climate justice, ancestral practices, and the QTBIPOC experience. anata laylay is deeply committed to honouring their ancestors, community organizing, decolonization and fighting for genuine liberation through community carework and continuing to learn as a Filipinx healer and ritual worker!Future Arts Network presents Divya Kaur: 4-7pm

Join Divya Kaur for a casual art showcase and talk from 5-6pm, in reflection of the experimental process to their work carried out throughout their Future Arts Network residency. Largely trialing cameraless photography, medical imaging, and analogue mediums, the artist's work explores their relationship to disability, with a primary focus on the fragility, unpredictability, and objectification of the body.

Divya Kaur is a queer disabled Punjabi interdisciplinary artist, writer, community builder, and anti-oppression professional living on stolen Coast Salish territories, including those of the Halkomelem-speaking peoples.

Their work spans mediums and focuses largely on lens-based arts to explore themes of identity, trauma, queerness, disability, pain, and healing, seeking to honor the intersections and tender complexities within these experiences. Divya's work has been featured in 5X Press, Room Magazine, SAD Mag, Cold Tea Collective, Vines Art Society, Kickstart Disability, Enabling Arts, and Vancouver Pride Magazine. They organize with Under The Table Poetry and is the co-creator of HIR, a community-driven South Asian LGBTQIA+ zine.