Category: Oxygen Art Centre

FOR   IMMEDIATE   RELEASE: REGISTER FOR OXYGEN’S SPRING BREAK WORKSHOP SERIES WITH VISITING ARTISTS ALEXIS HOGAN AND CHRIS DUFOUR

Between Futility and Future with Alexis Hogan and Chris Dufour

IN PERSON @ OXYGEN ART CENTRE
4 Classes: March 26 – 29, 2024
Tuesday to Thursday: 6:30pm – 8:30pm + Friday: 3:00pm – 5:00pm

TOTAL FEE: $30 for all four workshops

OR

FEE PER WORKSHOP: $10 – $20 ea.

Sliding scale available with an option to pay it forward for other folks to attend. 

Register via Google form.

Oxygen Art Centre is delighted to offer the workshop series entitled “Between Futility and Future” with visiting B.C.-based artists Alexis Hogan and Chris Dufour. The series entangles ecologically-centered practices of ink making, dyeing, and plant-based film developing alongside the use of the body. 

Comprised of four workshops in total over spring break, workshops take place in the evenings from March 26, 2024, to March 28, 2024, from 6:30 – 8:30 PM, and in the afternoon on Friday, March 29, 2024 from 3:00 – 5:00 PM. The series builds off the duo’s social practice, which includes working with invasive species, making charcoal, community-led sciences, permaculture and studying the places where queerness and ecology meet.

This series of workshops invites participants into studio-based explorations where the artists are encouraging the tangling of different elements of their creative and physical disciplines. The goal of this commingling is to create a new vernacular with which to carry the ongoing dialogue on grief, futility, anxiety, movement, and rupture that lives in the roots of their collaborative practice.

Interested participants are encouraged to attend all four workshops, but attendance at all sessions is not required. The workshop is open to emerging and professional artists, and those interested in social practice, plants and the environment, and experimentation with materials and movement.

All sessions take place at the Oxygen Art Centre facility, located at #3-320 Vernon Street, Nelson, B.C. via alleyway entrance. Accessibility notes can be found on the artist-run centre’s website.

Registrants will receive additional information about locations, how to prepare, and materials to bring, at least one-week before the workshop series begins.

To register to attend any or all workshop sessions, and to learn more information about the workshop and the artists, please visit Oxygen’s website. Registration fees are based on a sliding scale from $10 to $20 per workshop or $30 for all four workshops with an option to pay it forward for another person to attend.

“Between Futility and Future” is a contemporary art workshop series facilitated by visiting artists Alexis Hogan and Chris Dufour at Oxygen Art Centre from March 26, 2024, to March 29, 2024. More information available via Oxygen’s website and social media. The deadline to register is March 18, 2024, by 12:00 PM Midnight via Google form.

This program is generously supported by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.

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Image Credit: (L) Alexis Hogan, (R) Chris Dufour, Courtesy the Artists, 2023.

Press Contact:

Julia Prudhomme

Executive Director

Oxygen Art Centre

info@oxygenartcentre.org

250-551-6329

Artist Bio:

As a duo, Hogan and Dufour have collaborated since 2019 via social & studio practices that are driven by community collaboration, political & queer ecologies, and material practice as a site for both co-regulation and inquiry. In 2022, thoughtful integration of two multi-year projects, Dufour’s 6,000 sq foot permaculture partnership with Artemis Secondary School, and Hogan’s lichen programming space, culminated in the pair’s first exhibition, ‘with busy hands’, supported by Canada Council for the Arts.

Alexis Hogan (she/her) is a queer white settler with Indigenous heritage (Irish & Quebecois on her mom’s side and Irish and Anishinaabe from Sharbot Lake, Ontario on her dad’s). Alexis was born in Indonesia, grew up in Saudi Arabia and has lived as an uninvited guest, on T’Souke, Scia’new, Lkwungen, and W̱SÁNEĆ territories off and on for the past 24 years.  She holds a BFA in Visual Arts (2015) from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a focus in printmaking, sculpture and critical, cultural theory.
Alexis currently works through the project lichen, which seeks to model its namesake in its capacity for transformation and collaboration; it is a mobile programming and gathering space that is designed to be responsive to place-based and ecologically-centred art practices and communities.  Her practice with and through lichen is driven by collaborative partnership, and tends to focus on site-specific projects, social practice, sculpture and print media.

Chris Dufour is an interdisciplinary social practice artist working between Kanien’kehá:ka and Lekwungen territory. Their work seeks to intersperse explorations of ecology, (non)belonging, and relation within queerness, gender, and climate apocalypse and survival. Chris’ work focuses on social and community engaged practices that have incorporated collaborative projects in ecological stewardship, encounters for relation, and broader community building. Chris uses mediums of plants, gardening, ecological wandering, textiles, installation, darkroom manipulation, leather tanning, and sculpture to process questions of how do we cultivate a sense of belonging within and among systemic power dynamics? How do we push against empire while cultivating resilient communities and cultures of care? What practices of living can we recuperate, develop, and employ within contemporary cultures of crisis?

Of Irish and Quebecois heritage, Chris grew up outside of Kjipuktuk (so called Halifax, Nova Scotia) and has spent the last 8 years working and living across many territories on Turtle Island. After attending the Yukon School of Visual Arts, Chris took on a practice of grassroots learning that brought them to social practice, permaculture, and accessible community-based education. Throughout, Chris values projects which seek to utilize material practices as a facilitator, to process connections and relationships to ecologies, modalities of care, alternative futures, and ruminations about world building.–

Julia Prudhomme (she/her)

Executive Director / oxygen art centre

info@oxygenartcentre.org

www.oxygenartcentre.org

#3 – 320 Vernon St. Alley Entrance

Nelson, British Columbia , V1L 4E4

Tel: 250 551 6329

Oxygen Art Centre acknowledges with gratitude that we are located on the tum xula7xw/ traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/the Sinixt People. As uninvited guests we honour their ongoing presence on this land. We recognize that the Sylix, Ktuxana, and Yaqan Nukij Lower Kootenay Band peoples are also connected with this land, as are Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons.

LOST CAT! OXYGEN OFFERS FREE ALTERED BOOK WORKSHOP WITH RAYYA LIEBICH

Altered Books with Rayya Liebich

Saturday, February 24, 2024

1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Where: Oxygen Art Centre, #3-320 Vernon St. (alleyway access behind Baker St.)

Admission is free

Oxygen Art Centre presents a series of community art events entitled Lost Cat! Taking place during the Spring 2024 semester, the series offers free art-making sessions with local artists. 

The third workshop of the series takes place on Saturday, February 24, 2024, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM at Oxygen Art Centre. Writer and educator Rayya Liebich leads the workshop, which will guide participants in altered book and poetry practices.   

This all levels, all ages workshop is for anyone who likes to create and doesn’t want to be bound by rules! Using the container of a hardcover discarded book, participants will be introduced to a variety of artistic mediums (blackout poetry, book folding, collage, stenciling, stamping, and more) to transform their book into a unique creation. 

This hands-on and fun project reveals infinite possibilities of creative play, celebrates divergent thinking, and results in artworks as diverse as the people who made them. Inspiring examples and a wide array of materials will be provided. 

The public are invited to attend the third Lost Cat! event at Oxygen Art Centre on Saturday, February 24, 2024, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. All materials provided. No experience necessary. Interested participants are expected to take part in the full two-hour session. Contact Oxygen Art Centre with any questions about the sessions or access needs to the facility.

Lost Cat! is generously supported by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance. Learn more about upcoming events via Oxygen’s website and social media.

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Image Credit: Rayya Liebich, headshot, 2023; Courtesy the artist

Press Contact:

Julia Prudhomme

Executive Director

Oxygen Art Centre 

info@oxygenartcentre.org

250-551-6329 

Artist Bio:

Rayya LIEBICH (she/her) is a Canadian writer and educator of Lebanese and Polish descent. Winner of the Richard Carver Award for Emerging Writers (2019), The Geneva Literary Award (2015), and The Golden Grassroots Chapbook Award (2015), she holds a degree in English Literature from McGill University and a B. Ed from The University of Victoria. Her debut full-length poetry collection Min Hayati was released in  2021 by Inanna Publications and her poetry and prose have appeared in literary journals internationally. Passionate about writing as a tool for transformation and changing the discourse on grief, she teaches poetry and CNF to youth and adults in beautiful Nelson, BC.
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Natasha Smith (she/her)

Education Coordinator/ oxygen art centre

education@oxygenartcentre.org

www.oxygenartcentre.org

#3 – 320 Vernon St. Alley Entrance.

Nelson, British Columbia

Tel: 250 551 6329

Oxygen Art Centre acknowledges with gratitude that we are located on the tum xula7xw/ traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/the Sinixt People. As uninvited guests we honour their ongoing presence on this land. We recognize that the Sylix, Ktuxana, and Yaqan Nukij Lower Kootenay Band peoples are also connected with this land, as are Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Deadline to apply: February 16, 2024, by 12:00 PM Midnight (PST)Method: Google Form Information: Oxygen’s website Oxygen Art Centre is currently accepting submissions to the Exhibition and Residency program. The goals of Oxygen Art Centre are to stimulate the creation, exhibition, and discussion of contemporary art in all disciplines; to encourage cultural development and professional practices in artists; to engage in community development through art-based projects; and to achieve diversity in all programming. We accept submissions from professional and emerging artists, researchers, curators, collectives, and arts organizations. Oxygen ArtCentre encourages applications from BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, and persons with disabilities. Artists are paid according to CARFAC Fee Schedule, with additional support for accommodation, travel, materials, catalogue, and more, depending on the project. All projects are contingent on funding. Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals expressing interest in an exhibition, a residency, or both. Oxygen’s Submission Guidelines are structured to offer an introduction to you and your practice; you are not expected to have a resolved project at the time of application. We are interested in hearing about your approaches, ideas, and methodologies with which you might approach collaboration with Oxygen. Please review full submission guidelines on Oxygen’s website for more information. The deadline to apply is February 16, 2024, at 12:00PM Midnight (PST) via Google Form. All applications will be reviewed by Oxygen’s Exhibition& Residency Committee, which is composed of professional artists and cultural workers. Only successful applicants will be contacted. We are grateful to all artists for their interest in Oxygen Art Centre and express thanks for their time composing an application and for sharing their work with us. Contact info@oxygenartcentre.org with any questions or to submit via an alternative application method.

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COMMUNITY

Altered Books with Rayya LiebichEvent #3: Saturday, February 24, 2024, 1:00 – 3:00 PMAdmission is free. This all levels, all ages workshop is for anyone who likes to create and doesn’t want to be bound by rules! Using the container of a hardcover discarded book, participants will be introduced to a variety of artistic mediums (blackout poetry, book folding, collage, stencilling, stamping, and more) to transform their book into a unique creation.

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EDUCATION

Oxygen Art Centre’s Spring 2024 semester is now open for registration! Offered in two parts—February to April and May to June—reserve your spot to learn a new technique or advance an existing one, take part in life drawing sessions and critical discourse, get creative with our incredible professional artist instructors and fellow students across screen printing, digital photography, performance, drawing, and everything in between! Course offerings available both in-person and online. To register, visit Oxygen’s website to access extended details and Google Form links for each course. Payment can be made via e-transfer, credit card, PayPal, and cheque. Contact Natasha Smith (Education Coordinator) via education@oxygenartcentre.org with any questions about the courses or how to apply.

Art Speak – Peer to Peer Work Sharing #1 Facilitated by Emilie Leblanc Kromberg IN PERSON 6 Classes: February 8, 15, 22, 29, March 7, 14 Thursdays: 5 – 6:45pmTOTAL FEE: $72Registration Deadline: February 1, 2024REGISTERIntro to Digital Photography (Part 1) with Louis Bockner IN PERSON 2 Classes:  February 10 & 11 Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 2pmTOTAL FEE: $140Registration Deadline: February 2, 2024REGISTERBeginner Painting: An Introduction to Colour (Part 1) with Catherine MacIntosh IN PERSON 4 Classes: Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 5  Tuesdays: 5:30 – 8:30pmTOTAL FEE: $230Registration Deadline: February 6, 2024REGISTERInvestigating the Art of Acting: Clown to Naturalism with Marya Folinsbee & Valerie Campbell  IN PERSON 1 Class: Feb. 25 Sunday: 10am – 5pmTOTAL FEE: $150Registration Deadline: February 16, 2024REGISTERPainting from a Model #1 (No Instruction) IN PERSON 1 Class: March 3 Sunday: 1 – 5 pmTOTAL FEE: $40Registration Deadline: February 23, 2024REGISTERSanctuary with fanny kearse ONLINE 4 Classes: Feb 5, 12, 26, March 4 (no class Feb. 19) Mondays: 6:30pm – 8:30pmTOTAL FEE: $105Registration Deadline: January 29, 2024REGISTERWhat the F#$% Do They Want or How to Write Successful Exhibition Proposals w/ Susan Andrews Grace and Maggie Shirley ONLINE 3 Classes: Feb. 13, 20, 27  Tuesdays: 6:30 – 8:30pmTOTAL FEE: $120 / $190Registration Deadline: February 6, 2024REGISTERONLINE Figure Drawing  (No Instruction) By ZOOM 5 Classes: Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24 May 1 Wednesdays: 6 – 8 pmTOTAL FEE: $80Registration Deadline: March 27, 2024REGISTERBalkan Choir with Bessie Wapp IN PERSON 6 Classes: February 8, 15, 22, 29, March 7, 14 Thursdays: 7 – 9pmTOTAL FEE: $190Registration Deadline: February 1, 2024REGISTERFigure Drawing #1  (no instruction) IN PERSON 4 Classes: Feb. 12, 26, Mar. 4, 11 (no class Feb 19) Mondays: 6:30 – 8:30pmTOTAL FEE: $48Registration Deadline: February 5, 2024 CLASS FULL / register for waitlistREGISTERFine Art Screen Printing with Marcus Dénommé IN PERSON 4 Classes: Feb. 14, 21, 28, Mar. 6  Wednesdays: 6 – 9pmTOTAL FEE: $265Registration Deadline: February 7, 2024REGISTERLino Printing in Colour – Reduction Technique with Myra Rasmussen IN PERSON 1 Class: Mar. 2 Saturday: 10am – 4pm TOTAL FEE: $125Registration Deadline: February 23, 2024REGISTERIntro to Digital Photography (Part 2) with Louis Bockner IN PERSON 2 Classes:  March 9 & 10  Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 2pmTOTAL FEE: $140Registration Deadline: March 1, 2024REGISTERLeaning On / Leaning Against: An Introduction to Autotheory w/ Eimear Laffan ONLINE 6 Classes: Feb 8, 15, 22, 29 March 7, 14  Thursdays: 6 – 8pmTOTAL FEE: $155Registration Deadline: February 1, 2024REGISTERDreaming into Poetry with Rose Nielsen ONLINE 5 Classes: Feb. 14, 21, 28, Mar. 6, 13 Wednesdays 6:30pm – 8:30pm TOTAL FEE: $130Registration Deadline: February 5, 2024REGISTER

YOUTH EDUCATION

ROCK / PAPER / SCISSORSIN PERSONWhen: 4 classes: February 12 – March 11, 2024 (no Class Feb 19) / Mondays, 4:15 pm – 5.45 pmWho: Youth, 11 – 14 yrsWith: 2 artist instructors:// Marcus Dénommé – Printmaker// Rayya Liebich – Poet & WriterStudent Fee:  $60 (All materials included)REGISTERWORM / HOLEIN PERSON When: 5 classes: February 9 – March 8, 2024 / Fridays, 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm (2 hours)Who: Youth, 15 – 18 yrsWith: 2 artist instructors:// Catherine McIntosh – Visual Artist// Myra Rasmussen – Multi-disciplinary ArtistWhat: Ad Hoc SculptureStudent Fee:  $75 (All materials included)REGISTER

EXHIBITION

The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) Curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara Artists: Bento Leite, Dyó Potyguara, Simon(e) Jakiriuma Paetau + Cecilia Vilca1 December 2023 – 3 February 2024 Hours of Operation: Wednesdays + Thursdays, 1:00 to 4:00 PM; Fridays + Saturdays, 1:00 to 5:00 PM Admission is free. Oxygen Art Centre presents the group exhibition, The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) guest curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara (Brazil/Canada) featuring international artists Bento Leite (Brazil), Dyó Potyguara (Brazil), and Simon(e) Jakiriuma Paetau (Germany/Colombia), with a digital exhibition by Cecilia Vilca (Peru). Guest curator Rodrigo D’Alcântara conceived of the exhibition as a response to the global pandemic alongside the very state of collapse and acute uncertainties of life caused by the current neo-colonial system. D’Alcântara’s curatorial practice focuses on Brazilian contemporary art and Latin American futurisms and continues this research as a doctoral candidate at Concordia University (Montréal, Canada). The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) as a concept and exhibition title draws on spiritual implications of the pandemic. It directly alludes to an Indigenous Brazilian Guarani-Nhadeva cosmology that foresaw an invisible smoke arriving to take people’s lives. At once concerning the material and ephemeral, The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) looks to repetitions of systemic colonial violence on bodies, the land, and our communities to contend with the present towards alternative futurities. Promotional materials feature design by Keiko Lee-Hem (Nelson, Canada). An exhibition catalogue including documentation, curatorial texts and art writing responding to the project will be available shortly following the exhibition close with text in both Portuguese and English, translated by Lara Bourdin (Montréal, Canada).

This project is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, and the Regional District of Central Kootenay.

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O2 EXHIBITION

Oxygen Art Centre announces the second exhibition in the window project entitled O2, featuring the Ink & Moon Collective now on view from4 December 2023 to 8 February 2024.  Located on the Stanley Avenue side of the Nelson Trading Company building (430 Baker Street) in downtown Nelson, B.C., O2 is a window-turned-gallery.  The exhibition features a retrospective of prints from their 2023 and previous calendars.

Artists:Keiko Lee-Hem, Myra Rasmussen, Melissa Owen, Slava Doval, Carron Mulligan, Rayya Liebich, Gina Sanche, Katie Sawyer, Catherine McIntosh, Tammy Everts, Andrea Levin, Brandy Erin, Nikki Pelletier Artist Statement: We are a group of women passionate about making art and social change. Since 2012, we have produced a calendar with original lino prints. Over the years we have shared skills, evolved, and ventured from black and white to the world of colour. Each year we choose a theme to interpret through carved and printed lino block. What started as a way to create connection and inspiration, has grown into an opportunity to raise funds for organizations that are close to our hearts. In this window exhibition we will display our past calendars as well as some of our favourite prints from past years. The theme for the 2024 calendar is Wild Hope and all proceeds from calendar sales will be donated to youth-led climate initiatives. Calendars can be purchased at Notably Books, Zinnia Textiles, or online.

OXYGEN ANNOUNCES CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO EXHIBITION AND RESIDENCY PROGRAM

 Deadline to apply: February 16, 2024, by 12:00 PM Midnight (PST)

Method: Google Form

Oxygen Art Centre is currently accepting submissions for the Exhibition and Residency program. 

The goals of Oxygen Art Centre are to stimulate the creation, exhibition, and discussion of contemporary art in all disciplines; to encourage cultural development and professional practices in artists; to engage in community development through art-based projects; and to achieve diversity in all programming.

We accept submissions from professional and emerging artists, researchers, curators, collectives, and arts organizations. Oxygen Art Centre encourages applications from BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, and persons with disabilities. Artists are paid according to the CARFAC Fee Schedule, with additional support for accommodation, travel, materials, catalogue, and more, depending on the project. All projects are contingent on funding.

Applicants can submit proposals for an Exhibition or a Residency or both an Exhibition and Residency. Please review full submission guidelines on Oxygen’s website for more information.

The deadline to apply is February 16, 2024, at 12:00 PM Midnight (PST) via Google Form.

All applications will be reviewed by Oxygen’s Exhibition & Residency Committee, which is composed of professional artists and cultural workers. Only successful applicants will be contacted.

We are grateful to all artists for their interest in Oxygen Art Centre and express thanks for their time composing an application and for sharing their work with us.

Contact info@oxygenartcentre.org with any questions or to submit via an alternative application method.

Image Credit: Installation documentation of Vance Wright’s Tracelines exhibition by Kenton Doupe, Summer 2023

Press Contact:

Julia Prudhomme

Executive Director

Oxygen Art Centre

info@oxygenartcentre.org

250-551-6329 

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info@oxygenartcentre.org

www.oxygenartcentre.org

#3 – 320 Vernon St. Alley Entrance

Nelson, British Columbia , V1L 4E4

Tel: 250 551 6329

Oxygen Art Centre acknowledges with gratitude that we are located on the tum xula7xw/ traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/the Sinixt People. As uninvited guests we honour their ongoing presence on this land. We recognize that the Sylix, Ktuxana, and Yaqan Nukij Lower Kootenay Band peoples are also connected with this land, as are Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons.

 Season’s Greetings from Oxygen Art Centre

WINTER BREAKOxygen Art Centre will be closed for the winter holidays from December 23, 2023, to January 7, 2024. We look forward to re-opening to the public on Wednesday, January 9, 2024 from 1 – 4PM with our current exhibition, “The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta)” guest curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara and featuring artists Bento Leite, Dyó Potyguara, Simon(e) Jakiriuma Paetau w/ guest artist Cecilia Vilca. We wish you all a safe and cozy break See you in 2024! BOARD OF DIRECTORSOxygen Art Centre welcomes the newly elected 2023-24 Board of Directors! Carol Wallace (Secretary), Marilyn Lee (Treasurer), Alison Talbot-Kelly, and Laurel Terlesky return for their second terms. Gabby Asbell returns in a voting capacity as the Youth Chair. Christine Wallace officially joins the board after serving in an interim capacity since February 2023, along with Vincent Karcher and Riya Garg who were voted in at the November 2023 Annual General Meeting. Special thank you to Samonte Cruz for their time and expertise as they step down this year. Oxygen is an artist-run centre governed by a volunteer Board of Directors primarily composed of practicing artists elected by the membership. The governance board fulfills key responsibilities of a non-profit board. In addition, the board develops and executes fundraising campaigns and undertakes projects that enhance the centre’s overall sustainability. Directors are elected for a term of two years and may be re-elected or reappointed two more times for a maximum of six years. The 2023-24 Board of Directors are committed to their ongoing anti-oppression and decolonialization work with focus on developing organizational practices and protocols to enact radical care. We look forward to a year of collaboration and planning, and are grateful for their contribution to the artist-run centre.LEARN MOREEDUCATIONOxygen Art Centre’s Spring 2024 semester is now open for registration! Offered in two parts—February to April and May to June—reserve your spot to learn a new technique or advance an existing one, take part in life drawing sessions and critical discourse, get creative with our incredible professional artist instructors and fellow students across screen printing, digital photography, performance, drawing, and everything in between! Course offerings available both in-person and online. To register, visit Oxygen’s website to access extended details and Google Form links for each course. Payment can be made via e-transfer, credit card, PayPal, and cheque. Contact Natasha Smith (Education Coordinator) via education@oxygenartcentre.org with any questions about the courses or how to apply. Art Speak – Peer to Peer Work Sharing #1 Facilitated by Emilie Leblanc Kromberg IN PERSON 6 Classes: February 8, 15, 22, 29, March 7, 14 Thursdays: 5 – 6:45pmTOTAL FEE: $72Registration Deadline: February 1, 2024REGISTERIntro to Digital Photography (Part 1) with Louis Bockner IN PERSON 2 Classes:  February 10 & 11 Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 2pmTOTAL FEE: $140Registration Deadline: February 2, 2024REGISTERBeginner Painting: An Introduction to Colour (Part 1) with Catherine MacIntosh IN PERSON 4 Classes: Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 5  Tuesdays: 5:30 – 8:30pmTOTAL FEE: $230Registration Deadline: February 6, 2024REGISTERInvestigating the Art of Acting: Clown to Naturalism with Marya Folinsbee & Valerie Campbell  IN PERSON 1 Class: Feb. 25 Sunday: 10am – 5pmTOTAL FEE: $150Registration Deadline: February 16, 2024REGISTERPainting from a Model #1 (No Instruction) IN PERSON 1 Class: March 3 Sunday: 1 – 5 pmTOTAL FEE: $40Registration Deadline: February 23, 2024REGISTERSanctuary with fanny kearse ONLINE 4 Classes: Feb 5, 12, 26, March 4 (no class Feb. 19) Mondays: 6:30pm – 8:30pmTOTAL FEE: $105Registration Deadline: January 29, 2024REGISTERWhat the F#$% Do They Want or How to Write Successful Exhibition Proposals w/ Susan Andrews Grace and Maggie Shirley ONLINE 3 Classes: Feb. 13, 20, 27  Tuesdays: 6:30 – 8:30pmTOTAL FEE: $120 / $190Registration Deadline: February 6, 2024REGISTERONLINE Figure Drawing  (No Instruction) By ZOOM 5 Classes: Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24 May 1 Wednesdays: 6 – 8 pmTOTAL FEE: $80Registration Deadline: March 27, 2024REGISTERBalkan Choir with Bessie Wapp IN PERSON 6 Classes: February 8, 15, 22, 29, March 7, 14 Thursdays: 7 – 9pmTOTAL FEE: $190Registration Deadline: February 1, 2024REGISTERFigure Drawing #1  (no instruction) IN PERSON 4 Classes: Feb. 12, 26, Mar. 4, 11 (no class Feb 19) Mondays: 6:30 – 8:30pmTOTAL FEE: $48Registration Deadline: February 5, 2024REGISTERFine Art Screen Printing with Marcus Dénommé IN PERSON 4 Classes: Feb. 14, 21, 28, Mar. 6  Wednesdays: 6 – 9pmTOTAL FEE: $265Registration Deadline: February 7, 2024REGISTERLino Printing in Colour – Reduction Technique with Myra Rasmussen IN PERSON 1 Class: Mar. 2 Saturday: 10am – 4pm TOTAL FEE: $125Registration Deadline: February 23, 2024REGISTERIntro to Digital Photography (Part 2) with Louis Bockner IN PERSON 2 Classes:  March 9 & 10  Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 2pmTOTAL FEE: $140Registration Deadline: March 1, 2024REGISTERLeaning On / Leaning Against: An Introduction to Autotheory w/ Eimear Laffan ONLINE 6 Classes: Feb 8, 15, 22, 29 March 7, 14  Thursdays: 6 – 8pmTOTAL FEE: $155Registration Deadline: February 1, 2024REGISTERDreaming into Poetry with Rose Nielsen ONLINE 5 Classes: Feb. 14, 21, 28, Mar. 6, 13 Wednesdays 6:30pm – 8:30pm TOTAL FEE: $130Registration Deadline: February 5, 2024REGISTEREXHIBITIONThe Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) Curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara Artists: Bento Leite, Dyó Potyguara, Simon(e) Jakiriuma Paetau + Cecilia Vilca1 December 2023 – 3 February 2024 Hours of Operation: Wednesdays + Thursdays, 1:00 to 4:00 PM; Fridays + Saturdays, 1:00 to 5:00 PM Admission is free. Oxygen Art Centre presents the group exhibition, The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) guest curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara (Brazil/Canada) featuring international artists Bento Leite (Brazil), Dyó Potyguara (Brazil), and Simon(e) Jakiriuma Paetau (Germany/Colombia), with a digital exhibition by Cecilia Vilca (Peru). Guest curator Rodrigo D’Alcântara conceived of the exhibition as a response to the global pandemic alongside the very state of collapse and acute uncertainties of life caused by the current neo-colonial system. D’Alcântara’s curatorial practice focuses on Brazilian contemporary art and Latin American futurisms and continues this research as a doctoral candidate at Concordia University (Montréal, Canada). The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) as a concept and exhibition title draws on spiritual implications of the pandemic. It directly alludes to an Indigenous Brazilian Guarani-Nhadeva cosmology that foresaw an invisible smoke arriving to take people’s lives. At once concerning the material and ephemeral, The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta) looks to repetitions of systemic colonial violence on bodies, the land, and our communities to contend with the present towards alternative futurities. Promotional materials feature design by Keiko Lee-Hem (Nelson, Canada). An exhibition catalogue including documentation, curatorial texts and art writing responding to the project will be available shortly following the exhibition close with text in both Portuguese and English, translated by Lara Bourdin (Montréal, Canada).This project is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, and the Regional District of Central Kootenay.LEARN MOREO2 EXHIBITIONOxygen Art Centre announces the second exhibition in the window project entitled O2, featuring the Ink & Moon Collective now on view from4 December 2023 to 8 February 2024.  Located on the Stanley Avenue side of the Nelson Trading Company building (430 Baker Street) in downtown Nelson, B.C., O2 is a window-turned-gallery.  The exhibition features a retrospective of prints from their 2023 and previous calendars. Artists:Keiko Lee-Hem, Myra Rasmussen, Melissa Owen, Slava Doval, Carron Mulligan, Rayya Liebich, Gina Sanche, Katie Sawyer, Catherine McIntosh, Tammy Everts, Andrea Levin, Brandy Erin, Nikki Pelletier Artist Statement: We are a group of women passionate about making art and social change. Since 2012, we have produced a calendar with original lino prints. Over the years we have shared skills, evolved, and ventured from black and white to the world of colour. Each year we choose a theme to interpret through carved and printed lino block. What started as a way to create connection and inspiration, has grown into an opportunity to raise funds for organizations that are close to our hearts. In this window exhibition we will display our past calendars as well as some of our favourite prints from past years. The theme for the 2024 calendar is Wild Hope and all proceeds from calendar sales will be donated to youth-led climate initiatives. Calendars can be purchased at Notably Books, Zinnia Textiles, or online.  LEARN MORE

JOINSupport your artist-run centre by becoming an Oxygen Art Centre Member. Oxygen Memberships run from $2 (Senior/Student) to $5 (Single) to $10 (Families) and significantly help our organization. Become a member today! MEMBERSHIP BENEFITSEvents, Tours and Artist TalksVolunteer, Networking and Mentorship ExperienceRegular mailings and newslettersVoting Privileges at Oxygen Art Centre’s AGMAccess to current Exhibition Publications and CataloguesArtist-in-Residence and Exhibition ToursRegister ONLINE or by MAIL Already a Member? Consider making a Donation.REGISTERImages (top to bottom): (1-15) OAC Education program promotional images, 2023; (16) Youth Art Retreat promotional graphic w/extension, 2023; (17) The Hungry Mist, Promotional graphic for the project, Design by Keiko Lee-Hem, 2023; (18) Documentation of the O2 window exhibition featuring work by the Ink & Moon Collective, December 2023; (19) “Become a Member” text overlaid on an image documenting an installation in progress at Oxygen Art Centre, 2015;

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Nurture Your Creativity – REGISTER NOW for Oxygen’s Adult Education Art Courses for 2024

Oxygen Art Centre (OAC) is excited to launch their art education program for the whole of 2024.

The program features three semesters with 39 different courses in a myriad of disciplines including writing, film, singing, acting, printmaking, painting, and drawing. Oxygen’s unique programming and incredible local artist instructors provide inspiring experiences to learn and create together.

The semesters feature various course formats. In person courses are held at Oxygen Art Centre and boasts 18 weeks of programming, whereas online programming is offered throughout the whole year.

“Oxygen’s art education programming is constantly evolving. We are excited to be welcoming new instructors and offering innovative new courses and content for creatives of all levels,” says Education Coordinator Natasha Smith.

Learn the fundamentals of drawing and painting, try out printmaking techniques like lino printing and silkscreen, learn16mm low-tech film processing, be an actor, be a clown, and start dreaming into your creative side. Oxygen’s 2024 Education program has something for everyone and at all stages in their artistic practices.

To register and to learn more about the semesters, classes, and instructors, visit Oxygen’s website. Registration takes place through Google Forms on a first-come, first-serve basis. Class sizes are small, ranging from seven to twelve students in each.

Registration for Oxygen’s 2024 education program is now launched and will remain open until classes are full. Some courses have limited capacity so don’t wait to register! Contact Oxygen’s Education Coordinator, Natasha Smith at education@oxygenartcentre.org or 250-551-6329 with any questions.

Join the magic that is learning a new skill and exploring creative processes this year at Oxygen Art Centre.

For more information on courses, Oxygen Gift Certificates, and to register: www.oxygenartcentre.org,  education@oxygenartcentre.org.

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Photo Cutline: Multi-colour Lino Print by Myra Rasmussen

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Natasha Smith (she/her)

Education Coordinator/ oxygen art centre

education@oxygenartcentre.org

www.oxygenartcentre.org

#3 – 320 Vernon St. Alley Entrance.

Nelson, British Columbia

Tel: 250 551 6329

Oxygen Art Centre acknowledges with gratitude that we are located on the tum xula7xw/ traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/the Sinixt People. As uninvited guests we honour their ongoing presence on this land. We recognize that the Sylix, Ktuxana, and Yaqan Nukij Lower Kootenay Band peoples are also connected with this land, as are Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons.