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 contact us to schedule a guided tour and creative workshop at low prices. Scroll down to have a glimpse at our past and future workshops!
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.
