Weekly Family Programs

Art Agents + The Making Place

Every Sunday from 12 to 4 PM, the Gallery offers unique activities geared toward visitors aged 5- to 12-years-old and their families.

Throughout the month of December and into the New Year, we will explore the themes and various approaches to art making seen in the exhibition Transits and Returns, which showcases the work of 21 Indigenous artists from across the Pacific.

All activities are free for children aged 12 and under, when accompanied by an adult. Adult participation is free for Members with Gallery admission.

Join our team of Art Agents as they bring the exhibitions to life. Then move on to The Making Place to experiment with themes, processes and materials that you see in the artworks on display in a number of engaging art-making activities. Drop in any time between 12 and 4 PM to take part.

The Making Place Activity

December 1: Represent Yourself in a Stop Motion Video

How do artists represent themselves, or their thoughts and feelings, in a work of art? In Transits and Returns, many artists use video and different styles of animation to tell their stories. In his installation Qvùtix (2018), for example, Bracken Hanuse Corlett—a member of the Wuikinuxv First Nation, located in River’s Inlet on the Central Coast of British Columbia—brings his family crest to life using a projected animation, which depicts the transformation of the figure Kvulus from human into Thunderbird.

With this animation in mind, each visitor will create a character of themselves using different coloured Plasticine, and then animate it as a stop motion video using an iPad. Families can also work together to create a paper background to personalize the storyline that they develop together.