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Oxygen Art Centre

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
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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
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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.