Join us on Thursday evenings at Artspace for our bi-weekly Open Studio program! Participate in our planned activity or bring your own project, and come make some art in a calm, creative, community space.
6:00PM- 8:00PM.
What is Open Studio?
Open Studio is a FREE bi-weekly art program, that happens on the first and third Thursday of the month at Artspace. At Open Studio, community members of all ages and skill levels are invited to come out and make art alongside one another! Registration is required to participate.
What can I make?
Each Open Studio session, we have a set art-making activity, facilitated by a volunteer instructor. Community members can also bring their own project, OR utilize Maker Space materials such as collaging, zine making, mending, embroidery, colouring, knitting, or crochet.
Interested in joining us as a volunteer instructor? Click here to send us a message!
February Activity Schedule:
Thursday, February 6th: Watercolour Painting with Derek Newman-Stille
Thursday, February 20th: Painting and Book Binding with Derek Newman-Stille
Meet Derek!
Derek Newman-Stille (they/them) is a Queer, Nonbinary, Disabled, Fat, Femme settler Canadian (Turtle Island) author, poet, academic, editor, visual artist, and activist. They are the 9-time Aurora Award-winning creator of the digital humanities site Speculating Canada and the associated radio show. They frequently use fantasy and science fiction as a means of elucidating possibilities and potentials, reimagining the way that we situate identities and ideas. Derek has published poetry in fora such as Fat Studies In Canada: (Re)Mapping The Field (Inanna), Whispers Between Fairies (Renaissance Press), and Polar Borealis. They have performed and published poetry for Artsweek Peterborough's SHIFT: Post-Code Tour, and performed poetry for Peterborough's Arts Ability: Taking the Stage.
In addition, Derek has published short fiction in Dark Waters (Poise and Pen Publishing), and Nothing Without Us (Renaissance Press). They have edited the collections Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins (Exile), and We Shall Be Monsters (Renaissance Press). Additionally, along with Nathan Frechette, Derek co-published their collection of short fiction and art Whispers Between Fairies (Renaissance Press).
Derek has published paintings and mixed media art in fora such as Polar Borealis, Lackington’s, Postscripts to Darkness, and painted the the cover art for The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction, Zombie Futures in Literature, Media, and Culture, and interior art for The Transmedia Vampire, Nosferatu in the 21st Century, and The Deep.
Accessibility
Gallery entrance and bathroom are wheelchair accessible
All workshop tables will be set up to accommodate mobility aids.
Earplugs available on site
All cleaning products used at Artspace are scent free, with scent free policy in place for all volunteers and staff.
Funding for this project was made possible by a grant from the Community Foundation.
COVID-19
Masks are welcome and appreciated at Artspace. Masks are available for free at the door.
Maker Space and Gallery equipped with Hepa filters
Hand sanitizer provided