Open Studio

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Open Studio is a monthly program for young visitors and families inspired by contemporary art practices and CAG’s current exhibitions. Please join us for an art-making workshop designed and led by artist Faune Ybarra. Drawing on the use of flowers across CAG’s summer exhibitions with Abbas Akhavan and Michelle Bui, Faune will lead participants through a process of flower pounding—hammering flowers into canvas, fabric, or paper—to create unique prints.

Please note that this activity will be loud; the session will include hitting a table with small hammers repetitively. For any visitors with sensory concerns, ear plugs can be provided on request during the workshop.

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Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place here.

Biography

Currently dwelling in Vancouver, Faune Ybarra is a diasporic artist originally from Oaxaca and Mexico City. Due to the experience of constantly moving and adapting, Ybarra conceives of her body as a site of translation from whence she attempts to communicate with the other- than-human. Her iterative practice rejects the (art) object as a given outcome and instead speculates on how nomadic creative methodologies converge to document motion. Past repositories of her work have taken the shape of performance, photo-based objects, and diasporic gestures. Ybarra has developed, performed, exhibited, and spoken about her practice at galleries, artist-run centres, and conferences such as Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), ArtStarts, Eastern Edge Gallery, Grenfell Art Gallery, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, and SpokenWeb symposium. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University.