WHAT’S HAPPENING
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OPPORTUNITIES
Pushing Boundaries Guest Curator Pushing Boundaries is a biennial open-call exhibition to showcase and platform emerging local and national contemporary First Nations/Métis/Inuit, artists, makers and craftspeople. This exhibition is designed to celebrate contemporary... read more -
Printmaker’s Mark
April 30 - May 29, 2021
Printmaking dates back thousands of years: Sumerians used clay printing wheels in 3000 BCE, Chinese used stone rubbings in 200 CE and Egyptians used woodblocks for printing fabric in 600 CE. In 1400 CE movable type and the screw press created an explosion of... read more
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Call for Submissions: You Are Here 2022 Calendar
North Van Arts is seeking art submissions for the You Are Here 2022 Calendar. The calendar tells the story of the region through artistically rendered images of locations, places, or scenes that are recognizably in North Vancouver or West Vancouver. By submitting your... read more
UPCOMING CLASSES
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Camp Creative 2021 Week 1
Week 1: July 5-9 Inspired by Nature with Sydney Tough Welcome to Camp Creative at Maplewood House, the summer camp where kids explore nature and the arts. Our 16 campers will be divided into two groups that will alternate between indoor art activities with our Art... read more
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Camp Creative 2021 Week 2
2Week 2: July 12-16 Imagination Exploration with Sydney Tough This week is now sold out. To be added to the waitlist for Week 2, please email joyelle@northvanarts.ca with your child’s name and age. Welcome to Camp Creative at Maplewood House, the summer camp where... read more
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Camp Creative 2021 Week 3
Week 3: July 19-23 The Art of Stories with Margaret Joba-Woodruff This week is now sold out. To be added to the waitlist for Week 3, please email joyelle@northvanarts.ca with your child’s name and age. Welcome to Camp Creative at Maplewood House, the summer camp where... read more
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Camp Creative 2021 Week 4
Week 4: July 26-30 Shibori and Tie-Dye with Mariana Frochtengarten This week is now sold out. To be added to the waitlist for Week 4, please email joyelle@northvanarts.ca with your child’s name and age. Welcome to Camp Creative at Maplewood House, the summer... read more
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Camp Creative 2021 Week 5
Week 5: August 3-6 (4-day week) The Magical World of Colour with Kirith Bains Welcome to Camp Creative at Maplewood House, the summer camp where kids explore nature and the arts. Our 16 campers will be divided into two groups that will alternate between indoor art... read more
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Camp Creative 2021 Week 6
Week 6: August 9-13 Drama Games with Ideet Sharon This week is now sold out. To be added to the waitlist for Week 6, please email joyelle@northvanarts.ca with your child’s name and age. Welcome to Camp Creative at Maplewood House, the summer camp where kids explore... read more
Member & Instructor Profiles
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Wake Cook
I am a Queer-Canadian comic artist, and my practice prioritizes respectful and diverse storytelling across a variety of genres. My dream has always been to create comics, and it is a passion I am excited to share. My practice also includes storyboarding for animation,... -
Connie O’Connor
Acrylic & Mixed Media Painting
As a prairie native who grew up in Manitoba, Connie O’Connor began painting expansive fields stretching to the horizon with vast blue skies. Her focus has recently shifted to abstract work which has been inspired by her 12-year meditation practice. She is creating a... -
Clement Yeh
Instructor in Watercolour
Clement Yeh is a studio artist, instructor, science-fiction nerd, husband, father, and a lousy singer. He has a BFA in Drawing (2002) from the Alberta College of Art and Design and an MFA in Sculpture (2009), and has been teaching at Thompson Rivers University since... -
Shakun Jhangiani
An intuitively creative contemporary artist, Shakun’s signature style and distinctive use of mixed media is well known and easily recognizable in all of her abstract paintings. The versatility of using acrylics as a painting medium opened the... -
Sue Des Lauriers
Acrylic & Oil Painting
“The moment an idea sparks in the mind it flows gently or furiously from the mind to the heart, where it is captured and turned into a moment in time. The results leap from the hand to mix around the colours … the glorious colours. Then comes the critical... -
Nina Kuznetsova
Oil & Watercolour Painting
Composition 28 | 2020 Oil on canvas 17”x23” $900 not framed (Limited ed. prints available) Composition 30 | 2019 W/C on paper 10”x15” $300 matted original not framed (Ltd. ed. pr. avail.)Evening Sun | 2019 Acrylic on canvas 8”x10” $300 not framed (Limited ed. prints... -
Jessamyn Box
Acrylic & Mixed Media Painting
Jessamyn is an abstract painter living in North Vancouver. She has been involved in the arts in one form or another from an early age, being a former drummer and trained actor. Jessamyn moved into working with clay and hand building, and from there landed on her... -
Sheree Jones
Oil
“My creative journey has taken me down many paths. I am a keen outdoor ‘plein air’ painter, preferring to capture my subjects directly from life. I carry my painting gear wherever I travel, from Costa Rica to Spain, Sicily and Italy. From California to Wyoming and... -
Andrea Bruns
Photography
Andrea Bruns is an international awarded, self-thought Fine Art, Lifestyle and Travel Photographer from Berlin, Germany, now living in North Vancouver, BC, Canada, who is behind the Camera since 1974. Her Beautiful Fine Art Prints will let you discover amazing... -
Sandra Yuen
Acrylic Painting
Sandra Yuen is a Canadian-born Chinese visual artist who works and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has works mainly in acrylic painting for the last fifteen years. Art is her passion and part of her healing and journey of recovery from illness. She wants to... -
Colette Lisoway
Visual Artist
Colette Lisoway is a freelance community artist. She attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and completed a BFA in Halifax and now works as a visual art instructor with Continuing Education at Capilano Universtiy and ArtStarts Artists in the Classroom... -
Alison Tedford
Alison Tedford is an Indigenous freelance writer and marketing consultant from Abbotsford, BC. Her personal essays have been published on CBC, Al Jazeera, Today’s Parent, Upworthy, Good Men Project, Scary Mommy, in print publications and more. Her debut book, Chronic...
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