Families
Spring Break at the Gallery | March 24
Tue Mar 24, 2020 | 12 PM - 4 PM
In the Gallery
Courtesy of Cole Pauls
SUSPENDED
In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the Gallery has suspended all hands-on educational activities including Spring Break programs, Weekly Family Programs and Described Tours until March 30.
At this time, the Gallery remains open during our regular business hours. We continue to closely monitor the evolving situation. For the latest updates, please check the Visit page here »
Drop in over Spring Break from March 23 to 27 to get creative as a family!
Take part in Interactive Workshops led by a different local artist every day of the week. Explore, chat and play in the exhibition spaces with our team of Art Agents. Then experiment with the materials, processes and ideas that you see in the artworks on display in The Making Place.
Free for children 12 and under, when accompanied by an adult
The Making Place
Brian Jungen’s artwork Cetology (2002) makes us think about how plastics impact the world around us. Together, we’ll transform plastic materials into real or imagined sea creatures, while carefully considering how much plastic we actually use every day and how we can make an effort to use less
Artist Workshop
MARCH 24, 1:30 PM and 3 PM
Drawing Worlds with Cole Pauls
Writer, printmaker and illustrator Cole Pauls uses comic art as a way to shine light on his Tahltan First Nation community. Inspired by Shuvinai Ashoona’s drawings, work with Cole to use illustration as a way of storytelling by combining your real life and imagination.
Spaces are limited. Sign-up at the Information Desk in the Gallery Lobby!
*Registration will open on the day of the workshop at 11:45 AM.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cole Pauls is a Tahltan First Nation comic artist, illustrator and printmaker, originally from Haines Junction, Yukon, and now based in Vancouver, BC. Pauls is currently exploring his life in comic series. The first, Pizza Punks, is a self-contained comic strip about punks eating pizza. The second is Dakwäkãda Warriors, which follows two Indigenous superheroes who are busy saving the world from evil in various forms using their secret weapon of language revitalization. Pauls holds a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2017, he won Broken Pencil Magazine’s Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwäkãda Warriors II.
Activities are designed for visitors aged 5- to 12-years-old, but all ages and abilities are welcome to participate.