MORE CLASSES ADDED TO OXYGEN’S FALL SEMESTER
Oxygen Art Centre’s Fall Semester is now open for registration. Taking place from September 23, 2026, to December 5, 2026, at the artist-run centre’s downtown facility, the program features classes in textile, drawing, and character design, and everything in between.
The fall semester is broken into two parts, where students can sign-up for two different blocks of Life Drawing and the studio critique class, Art Speak with Emilie Leblanc-Kromberg. Running over five- and four-weeks each, the sections provide new and returning students with a myriad of opportunities to engage in creative praxis.
Part One takes place from September 28, 2026, to October 31, 2026, consisting of weekly sessions in Life Drawing, Storyboarding Workshop, Character Design for Children’s Books, Art Speak, Chinese Brush Painting classes, and single workshops to work from a professional model in any medium or costumed models in movement, and a special four-day weekend workshop to explore flax from plant to textile with Danielle Soucie.
Part Two takes from November 9, 2026, to December 5, 2026, featuring Life Drawing and Art Speak classes, with exciting new weekly classes, including Discover Screen Printing with new instructor Gaelle Lalonde (AFKO Serigraphie’s new resident screen printer!), Writing the Scholarly Poem with Susan Andrews Grace exploring research as a method into poetry, and Unfinished Business with Cath McIntosh which provides space to bring any lingering, unfinished artistic projects to the light in a group studio context. Over the weekends, we are delighted to offer an Introduction to Digital Photography intensive with Louis Bockner and a one-day lino printing class to make your own holiday cards with Cath McIntosh!
Plus, Oxygen Art Centre is again partnering with the Polka Dot Dragon Arts Society to offer a Remembrance Luminaria Workshop to provide the skills and materials to make your very own luminaria to contribute to the festival event.
Learn about the classes and your instructors on Oxygen’s website. Register early to reserve your spot! Classes are small to create a dynamic experience for each student, but they fill up quickly. Materials and equipment provided for most classes.
Part One and Part Two are now open for registration. Additional classes and events will be announced on a rolling basis.
Oxygen’s Education program has offered professional art classes to adults and youth for over 23 years. The program is unique as it is developed and taught by established, professional local artists and art educators who share their skills and advanced education with the community.
Interested participants can register to attend each class by signing up online through Google Forms.
As a non-profit artist-run centre we rely on minimum registration to pay professional artist instructor rates and to ensure enough time for instructors and staff to prepare for your class. Community-focused classes are generously subsidized by the Province of British Columbia’s Community Gaming grants program. For information about Oxygen’s registration policies are available on their website and on each registration form.
Oxygen Art Centre is an artist-run centre located at #3-320 Vernon Street along the alleyway behind Baker Street. For more information about how to access the facility or to register for a class, please visit Oxygen’s website or contact the artist-run centre via email.
Image Credit (above): Teaching Digital Photography, Louis Bockner, 2026; Courtesy the artist
Image Credit (below): Oxygen Art Centre Education program poster design for the Fall semester, Part Two, 2026
Website link: https://oxygenartcentre.org/2026-fall-semester-part-two/
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Julia Prudhomme
Executive Director
Oxygen Art Centre