CREATIVE WORKSHOPS
Conceived in conjunction with the exhibitions presented at the Foreman Art Gallery, the workshops offered by the Community Art Lab (ArtLab) contribute to the interpretation of the works or the artist’s approach through a process of artistic creation. They encourage participants to take an active role in their own learning. Through its interventions, the ArtLab encourages exchange and discussion to break down the hierarchy of knowledge.
The Creative Workshops are offered free of charge to children during the opening reception of every exhibition, as well as once for every exhibition during our guided tour and creative workshop events, which are open to all. Groups can also reserve a time slot for their visit by visiting the Plan your visit page, where you’ll find our reservation form. Scroll down to have a glimpse at our past and future workshops!
2024-25
Hyper Plush
May 2 – July 5, 2025
Through her interventions in the community, Sherbrooke artist Lysanne Picard proposes collective projects that encourage the sharing of utopias and the joy of drawing. In her current research on the links between neurodiversity and landscapes, she collaborates with university and primary school students. During the “Share your colors” creative workshop, participants will be invited to collaborate on playful drawing exercises while sharing their imaginations. The experience will enable them to detach themselves from the performance pressure sometimes associated with drawing, and explore large-format drawing.
Small Things
September 6 – October 5, 2024
This exhibition marks the end of the ArtLab 2023-24 residency, and bears witness to artists Maude Arès and Douglas Scholes’ meticulous practice of accumulating small objects during their many visits to La Généreuse farm. The creative activity entitled “Petits objets, grands trésors” will invite participants to create a small collection of unusual objects. By delving into their personal memories and sorting and classifying, a personal museum will take shape.
27th Fine Arts Grad Show
April 3 – 12, 2025
On the occasion of the 27th Bishop’s University Fine Arts Graduates’ Exhibition, an assemblage of disparate works that reflect the culmination of their progress in this program is presented. The proposals are often varied and expressive, and will inspire an enriching creative workshop to be developed at a later date, in line with the artists’ approach.
Shake the Ground. Au creux des sillons
January 17 – March 15, 2025
The artist shares her heritage and roots through this sculptural and pictorial exhibition featuring Japanese handmade paper. You’ll plunge into a touching, delicate universe of handmade prints on handmade paper, evoking the movement of water, ice and snow on the land. In the “Pulp and Water” creative workshop, participants will learn more about the papermaking process through an informative and sensory creation.
Faux plis par hypothèses
October 18 – December 14, 2024
A group exhibition of works focusing on the encounter between art and the scientific process. After a residency at Jardins-de-Métis, the artists reflect on the social and cultural biases present in research and creation. The creative workshop entitled “Mais qu’est ce que c’est ça?” will invite participants to visualize their preferred field of interest and creatively map the information, links and images that come to mind. The activity will make them observe, reflect and reinvent their research process.
2023-24
Celestial Mechanics
April 26 – July 13, 2024
Guided tour of the exhibition and creative workshops to extend reflection on time, the environment and image technologies.
The Milk, the Goats, the Costume Maker, the Bees, the Honey, the Brass Band
September 7 – October 7, 2023
To further explore our relationship with other species, the ArtLab invites you to take part in a workshop to make costumes inspired by farm animals, and harnesses for breeding or pulling. Through an experience of empathy, we’ll get closer to the feelings of the goats, donkeys, sheep and horses that inhabit our region.
26th Fine Arts Grad Show
April 4 – 13, 2024
A zine creation activity will enable participants to revisit the themes visited by Flows of change. After discovering the varied personal journeys of the exhibitors, marked by transformative events, memories of cultural roots and an ever-changing environment, participants will be invited to extend the reflections and introspectively fill in their zines with words, drawings and other elements.
As Geocreatures
January 18 – March 23, 2024
In order to continue the reflection on the links between minerals and living things, the ArtLab offers a creative workshop where we will make geological self-portraits using monotype printing techniques. Using a biocentrism approach, we will look at questions of identity and belonging to the earth.
Marginalia
October 27 – December 9, 2023
To pursue the exhibition’s reflection, the ArtLab offered a creative sewing workshop exploring the notion of family memories. We invited participants to draw on their own memories to find the unusual objects that watermark their memories and create a textile work of art.
2022-23
In the Eye of the Beluga
April 29 – July 22, 2023
As part of the Foreman Art Gallery’s exhibition dedicated to young people, the ArtLab invites the local community, young and not-so-young, to a small clay sculpture workshop of mammals that you want to take care of. Through a sensory and sensitive experience, we will touch on mourning and hope for the life that comes after. Who do you want to pay tribute to?
The Radiant Mountain
October 27 – December 10, 2022
Based on the image of the mountain, its monolithic presence and symbolic power, The ArtLab invites you to explore different collage techniques to create a singular portrait of a subjective, personal mountain.
we become singular.
April 5 – 15, 2023
To further address philosophical questions on our place in society, we will engage in a multimedia exploration. Combing different art practices, we will reflect on what it means to be an individual in society; what differentiates us as individuals and what we brings us together.
Towering/Trissements
September 8 – October 8, 2022
Drawing inspiration from the exhibition, the ArtLab invites you to freely explore the world of swallows, while creating a closer relationship with this Eastern Townships country bird and its habitat, during a cutting, modeling, coloring and drawing workshop.
What is the Value of a Dollar?
January 20 – March 18, 2023
In view of pursuing the reflection following a guided tour of the exhibition, the Artlab invites you to participate in the creation of Subversive and collective scrapbooking workshop. Traditionally associated with a personal creative hobby and a decorative art technique, scrapbooking will be diverted to allow the expression of opinions and the emergence of discussions around the issues raised by the exhibition.
The Foreman Art Gallery’s Community Art Lab (ArtLab) positions itself on the cutting edge between art, education, and community development with the goal of exploring how these worlds collide and interact with one another.
