Alberta Culture Days at the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre
Join us this September to celebrate Alberta Culture Days at the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre where arts, culture, nature and creativity intersect. Resident artists and KOAC advisors Patricia Lortie and James Ziegler will offer workshops that will connect you with the surrounding landscape and delve into art and nature’s reciprocity.
Creating art with natural resources requires knowing where to find what you’re looking for, when and how to use it. Let go of expectations and follow Patricia to guide you to weave a genuine relationship with the land and work with the most patient teacher: Mother Nature.
With James’s laser-cut figures, art learning comes through observation. You will learn to filter patterns out of chaos and discover how shadows move and what colours jump out when you manipulate your figures’ shapes or give them a sense of place.
Time and dates:
September 12th
James Ziegler’s Tiny Art from 12 pm to 2 pm.
Age: 10 years +
Due to COVID restrictions, availability is limited to 10 participants per workshop.
About the Workshop
Ziegler Tiny Art
Facilitating Artist James Ziegler
Created by KO Arts Centre Resident Artist James Ziegler, the Ziegler Tiny Art Workshop provides a hands-on experience of the creative process. It elucidates the role of observation in the artistic process through the playful exploration and the creation of small sculptures using laser cut paper patterns. The process starts with an examination and culminates with cognitive reflection.
Participants:
• Gain an understanding that they and professional artists share common ground in the creative experience, one of joy, delight, or frustration in the discovery of new patterns and forms.
• Discover creative shapes from a personal perspective and by sharing the group’s collective explorations.
• See how their artistic process of making individual art pieces relates to a larger version of a similar sculpture at the Centre.
Patricia’s Wild Weave, from 2 pm to 4 pm.
Age: 10 years +
Due to COVID restrictions, availability is limited to 10 participants per workshop.
About the Workshop
Patricia’s Wild Weave
Facilitating Artist Patricia Lortie
This project proposed by KO Arts Centre Resident Artist Patricia Lortie seeks to find a way to bring people outdoors and connect with Nature.
Lortie’s artistic practice takes root in her physical and emotional relationship with Nature. Her work is a visual expression of feelings of freedom, communion and humility generated by her encounters with the natural world throughout her life. Her work explores our place within the ecological system as the essence of who we are.
Patricia will demonstrate and guide her students through the grass weaving exercise. The workshop encourages people to walk through the land to find grass and dried twigs to use as materials for their weaving. It is a simple act that directs our attention towards the world that surrounds us creatively and to live in the moment.
Time and dates:
September 19th
James Ziegler’s Tiny Art from 12 pm to 2 pm.
Age: 10 years +
Due to COVID restrictions, availability is limited to 10 participants per workshop.
About the Workshop
Ziegler Tiny Art
Facilitating Artist James Ziegler
Created by KO Arts Centre Resident Artist James Ziegler, the Ziegler Tiny Art Workshop provides a hands-on experience of the creative process. It elucidates the role of observation in the artistic process through the playful exploration and the creation of small sculptures using laser cut paper patterns. The process starts with an examination and culminates with cognitive reflection.
Participants:
• Gain an understanding that they and professional artists share common ground in the creative experience, one of joy, delight, or frustration in the discovery of new patterns and forms.
• Discover creative shapes from a personal perspective and by sharing the group’s collective explorations.
• See how their artistic process of making individual art pieces relates to a larger version of a similar sculpture at the Centre.
Patricia’s Wild Weave, from 2 pm to 4 pm.
Age: 10 years +
Due to COVID restrictions, availability is limited to 10 participants per workshop.
About the Workshop
Patricia’s Wild Weave
Facilitating Artist Patricia Lortie
This project proposed by KO Arts Centre Resident Artist Patricia Lortie seeks to find a way to bring people outdoors and connect with Nature.
Lortie’s artistic practice takes root in her physical and emotional relationship with Nature. Her work is a visual expression of feelings of freedom, communion and humility generated by her encounters with the natural world throughout her life. Her work explores our place within the ecological system as the essence of who we are.
Patricia will demonstrate and guide her students through the grass weaving exercise. The workshop encourages people to walk through the land to find grass and dried twigs to use as materials for their weaving. It is a simple act that directs our attention towards the world that surrounds us creatively and to live in the moment.
Alternatively, register for a guided tour about the monumental sculptures dotting the gently sloping meadows at the park’s front and medium-sized sculptures standing amidst a botanical garden and under weeping willows and white poplars. Now-famous, former Katie Ohe students created many of them. Katie joining the tours is an unpredictable bonus.
Free tours will be offered every Saturday in September at 2 pm as part of Alberta Culture Days. To book your tour date please use the button below.
COVID Recommendations:
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Maintain a distance of at least 6 feet away from people you don’t live with.
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All staff and visitors wear masks, especially when other social distancing measures are challenging to maintain.
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Pack hand sanitizer (containing at least 60% alcohol) and supplies to clean and disinfect commonly touched surfaces. The Centre will also provide.
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Stay home if you are not feeling well.
