Artist Residency 2016

Are you an emerging artist looking to deepen your artistic practice and mentor local youth? We want to hear from you! This year's theme is environmental activism/ resistance movements. Deadline to apply is April 30th. Please see our facebook page for more details as our website is still under construction. www.facebook.com/artquake411/ 

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Apply today for our 2016 Artist Residency! Deadline is April 30th

This paid residency provides a unique opportunity for a local emerging artist to deepen their practice through the exploration of this year’s programming theme- environmental activism/resistance movement. It is also tied to our annual mentorship program. After completing their residency, the artist in residence then switched into mentor role and facilitates weekly technical workshops on their chosen medium to local youth. The mentorship program runs for 4-5 weeks, depending on the resident’s availability and youth registration and ends with a final public gallery exhibition to celebrate the work of the resident and mentorship youth. 

* The resident is encouraged to sell their work at the exhibition and keep the proceeds 

The residency begins May 4th and runs until June 1st. 

Please email us with any questions! [email protected] 

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Thanks to everyone who attended the Mobilizing Art Focus Group and shared their experiences of using art for grassroots action! 

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Mobilizing Art Focus Group

Join ArtQuake on May 30th for a focus group discussion about the challenges and successes of arts based community action initiatives. These conversations will help shape our upcoming project- the Mobilizing Art Handbook.

The Mobilizing Art Handbook is a youth made publication that will provide artists in Metro Vancouver with tips and materials to mobilize their artwork for grassroots action, whether it be visual art, poetry, or any other medium of artistic expression.

This event is open to youth-identified artists/activists of all creative disciplines.

RSVP on Facebook 

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Highlights from Colour Your Canvas: Democracy, Art, Dialogue

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Incredible and inspiring visions for democracy’s future. Stay tuned for Democracy Mural tour locations and dates! 

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Art is parallel to language; it is a form of communication which gives voice to the artist. Art as voice can be used for purposes including: to show social reality, to criticize, to create and promote new ideas, to share stories or to build bonds between people. Nur Shodjai will be exploring: how, then, is art different from regular language and how do we choose to use this creative voice? 

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/919757204730788

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Romila Barryman's outlook onart in democracy is through a lens of creative control, where 'art' is the media and where 'democracy' is accessibility. The creation of Textbook is a choice to reclaim 'self' by being a public voice who also consciously identifies as a woman and a person of colour, and uses this identity to create a platform for entrepreneurial pursuits that disrupt the normalcy of the white capitalist narrative. The accessibility for readers, writers and consumers to hear, tell, and be these stories of disruption are the democratization of her art.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/919757204730788

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What is“democracy” without imagination? As a black woman, poet, educator, and family historian Teeanna Munro explores the social costs of undervaluing and dismissing the arts, recognizing imagination/art as essential tools of resistance, transformation, and building towards a more humane world.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/919757204730788

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Ishaval is interest in issuessurrounding those who's democratic institutions failed them, particularly political prisoners. Compelled to take action, she questions what democracy means and how it and justice are maintained through a youth non- profit organization called Azaadi. Azaadi delves into what defines democracy in its rawest form. Utilizing different art mediums to connect the audience with important social justice issues, Azaadi aspires to raise a generation of young leaders, activists and revolutionaries.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/919757204730788

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Democracy murals in the making. This is community.

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Colour Your Canvas: Democracy, Art & Dialogue April 3rd, 6pm Skylight Studios #163 East Pender

What is the role of art in democracy? Join us at Colour Your Canvas: Democracy, Art & Dialogue to hear some of Vancouver's leading young activists and artists share their take on the issue!

Come out to enjoy an evening of visual art featuring ArtQuake's Democracy Mural Project, and Artist in Residence Nur Shodjai's Democracy Collection.

Join the dialogue with our interactive panel discussion featuring talks and Q&A with:

Ishaval Gill and Jasmin Kaur - Azaadi Movement Francis "Allo" Arevelo - Good Getters Teeanna Munro - Spoken word poet and writer, Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry Nur Shodjai - Painter and Artist in Residence at ArtQuake Romila Barryman - Editor-in-chief, Textbook 

This event is free and open to everyone! All artwork by Nur Shodjai will be on sale at a fixed rate of $150 with 40% of proceeds going to ArtQuake's Democracy Arts Project.

The ArtQuake team recognizes the privilege of doing this work on unceded Coast Salish territory and we stand in solidarity with their struggles and demands.

Let us know you're coming: https://www.facebook.com/events/919757204730788

Accessibility info coming soon.

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Progress on our Democracy Murals! Mark your calendars for the big gallery reveal on March 13th!

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From our first Democracy Mural Project workshop at Skylight Studios! Painting begins tonight!

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Our friends at Azaadi are hosting an evening of art, dialogue and poetry honouring the rise from oppression of indigenous and marginalized women worldwide. See you there tonight! 

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A few highlights from Take Back the Mic: Democracy's Prose and Cons. Thanks to all our incredible performers and our supportive audience!

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Thank you to Rachel Gamboa for creating this awesome poster! Visit her website: rachelgamboa.com

RSVP for the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/655940211181765/