Events
Like a Summer Camp...but for adults-ish...who are trans...and for the folks who love them! (REGISTRATION CLOSED)
This summer CUAG is partnering with the Ottawa Trans Library (OTL) on a free workshop series and wonderful community art project!
The goal is to build a dazzling installation for the street-facing window of the OTL which combines stained glass and ceramic work with a collection of chandelier crystals.
Over a six-week period, we will explore hand modelling, firing and glazing clay as well as the Tiffany copper-foil stained-glass technique. Fueled by snacks (!), participants will make hanging sculptures of crystals, stained glass and ceramics to be assembled, installed and launched as a spectacular sculptural installation in August at the OTL.
This series will take place at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre and will be a masked workshop series and masks will be provided.
Snacks provided!
REGISTRATION REQUIRED as space and supplies are limited. Priority will be given to registrants from historically marginalized communities (transness/queerness notwithstanding)! Participants must be able to attend a minimum of 3 sessions.
Due to a high volume of responses REGISTRATION is CLOSED
WORKSHOP TIMES
| 3 June Wednesday | 6-9 pm | Fellowship Hall CDCC | Stained Glass INTRO |
| 4 June Thursday | 6-9pm | Fellowship Hall CDCC | Ceramics INTRO |
| 6 June Saturday | 11-1:30 | Fellowship Hall CDCC | Stained Glass INTRO |
| 6 June Saturday | 1:30 – 4 | Fellowship Hall CDCC | Stained Glass INTRO |
| 19 June Friday | 4-6:30 | GARDEN & Fellowship Hall CDCC | Open Studio |
| 19 June Friday | 6:30-9 | GARDEN & Fellowship Hall CDCC | Open Studio |
| 20 June Saturday | 11-1:30 | Fellowship Hall | Open Studio |
| 20 June Saturday | 1:30-4:00 | Fellowship Hall | Open Studio |
| 24 June Wednesday | 4-6:30 | GARDEN & Fellowship Hall CDCC | Open Studio |
| 24 June Wednesday | 6:30-9 | GARDEN & Fellowship Hall CDCC | Open Studio |
| 3 July Friday | 4-6:30 | GARDEN & Fellowship Hall CDCC | Open Studio |
| 3 July Friday | 6:30-9 | GARDEN & Fellowship Hall CDCC | Open Studio |
If you have questions please reach out to caratierney@cunet.carleton.ca
This program is possible in huge part thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts.
INTRODUCING CAMP CRYSTAL’S
ARTIST FACILITATORS 👨🎨🦄✨
JACKSON DUXBURY (he/it) is an interdisciplinary artist, tired academic, and anti-standing-up enthusiast inspired by lived disabled ways of being, disability justice informed methodologies, and collecting stories, symbolic objects, and contrasting materials. Through mixed media interactive installations and various other ventures and borrowing from collage, punk repair aesthetics and B-movie horror he reflects on, physicalizes, and recontextualizes experiences of disability, disablement, and othering as interactions with weighted objects, garments, bodily references, and often quite a few words. It increasingly also invites reflection on crip time, mess, and a constant search for rest in response to institutional assumptions of a universalized bodymind.
Hey guys!! My name is SABRINA FERRARI, and I am currently completing my MFA at the University of Ottawa as an artist duo with Evalyn Shields. Together, our anti-disciplinary collaborative practice explores the affective ambivalence and joyous complexity of queer identity in relation to traditional power structures.
Lately, Evalyn and I have been creating stained-glass light boxes, so I’m looking forward to continuing to explore the material with you all at Camp Crystal!!
I’m EVALYN SHIELDS, 1/3 of the trio Lesbian Community Service, and a current MFA candidate at the University of Ottawa in an artist duo with my partner Sabrina Ferrari. Lately our work has centered stained glass in our anti-disciplinary collaborative practice. We explore the affective ambivalence and joyous complexity of queer identity in relation to traditional power structures.
ESTHER WAN(they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist whose works invite the audience to participate and to interact. Their artworks aim to spark discussions on issues such as interpersonal relationships, trauma, identity, and mental health. Esther likes to work in repetitions, and employ childhood and nostalgic aesthetics. Some of their favourite mediums include installations, ceramics, digital drawing, and textile art.
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