Workshops

INTRO TO BLENDER
THE ART GALLERY OF BURLINGTON, DARC
2022

My Intro to Blender workshop series was designed for The Art Gallery of Burlington’s youth program, Reimagining Digital Bodies, and then ran again through the Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC) in Ottawa.

This workshop covers the overall process of taking a character from initial design to fully functional 3D asset.

The accompanying PDF is chalk full of useful hotkeys, tips and 3D workflow musts. So much of Blender (or any digital arts software) is constantly changing, the most important thing to learn is how each peice fits together and larger concepts that are consistent across software.

REIMAGINING DIGITAL BODIES Building Avatars with Charlit Floriano
THE ART GALLERY OF BURLINGTON
2022

The first two-hour session in this broader series created for the AGB directly involved youth in the process of virtual self-representation. I was able to share my thesis work with participants and discuss how avatar design is situated in larger social structures.

The group then created a design using various assets I provided which I later built in 3D and brought into VRChat as an avatar. This avatar was on display at the gallery! Our collective fish-person alive and thriving for all to enjoy 🐟

MAKING IT ABOUT YOU
RADSTORM
2021

Making it about you was a quick two session introduction to creating autobiographical comics. We chatted about the power of self-representation, comic-making basics and the types of stories to tell about ourselves.

Garden of Feelings
FEELING IT, WAHC
2020

An hour-long art activity for WAHC’s March 2020 programming for 2020, planned in celebration of International Womens’ Day. It was a family-friendly event exploring the themes of emotions, emotional labour, and healthy communication of feelings, held in collaboration with the Hamilton and District Labour Council (HDLC). The visiting families and guests and made feeling gardens with craft supplies that helped to explore, articulate, and visualize different feelings and connect to the concepts of care and emotional labour.

SOCIAL MEDIA & YOU Creative community building & tending our virtual gardens
Facilitated for Sitelines, run by Centre[3]
2020

Social Media & You was a 3 Hour workshop about creating/building online presence as an artist. How to get in the habit of tending our social media gardens and how to engage with communities online with intention. It was run by Sitelines, a community arts program through Centre3 that provides free arts programming to adults with lived experience of mental health and addiction.

Zine Making and Body Acceptance/Neutrality
co-facilitated with Sonali Menezes for Centre[3]
2019

This workshop, in partnership with Body Brave and the HWDSB, involved assisting Sonali in several zine-making workshops based around topics of body image and disordered eating. These workshops took place in 7 and 8th grade health classes at two schools over 3 sessions.

*All images from GIPHY