Merry Mural Making

Hola from Lorena, Cristina and Joyce

We shared a wonderful day last weekend with seven creative people at the Arts Underground as part of the Clay Mural Making workshop led by Lorena.

Cristina’s impressions: The group in the workshop was very enthusiastic about their artwork and eager to try new things. I was struck by how friendly [...]

Roundtable Round-up

The Convergence Roundtable on Environmental Art, hosted last week by the LLAMA Project and the Yukon Conservation Society, explored the subject from a few different angles.

The 16 participants first grappled with the breadth of what could be considered “environmental art”. The category was seen to capture art which ranged from photos or realistic paintings of [...]

Thoughts about “environmental art” in the Yukon

Nicole Dextras as created this "Weedrobe" which uses detritus flowers and weeds to create wearable artwork. Her piece made of weeds was worn by a performer named Ivy who performed on Granville Island in the Ivy weedrobe handing out leaves with information about invasive species.

by Haruko Okano

As I was researching samples of [...]

Turning points

There is a time and place in some people’s lives that is a turning point. Oaxaca and in particular…San Augustine…is such a place and this seems to be such a time for several people here. San Augustine draws to it people thinking of change or in the process of change. Against the bucolic beauty of [...]