Art Instructors
Anastasia Barabanova
Painter
Anastasia Barabanova is a professional artist painter with a strong artistic background. She holds a Masters degree in Arts, within specialization in oil painting from Academy of Fine Arts in Saint-Petersburg, Russia and a Bachelor of Education 2nd degree from Simon...
Anna du Bois
Multi-Media Artist
Largely self-taught multi-media artist with interest in life drawing, as well as what is generally considered craft rather than art: creating items from yarn and repurposed or upcycled fabric; refinishing or repurposing furniture and other objects, and...
Claire Douglas
Claire is an interdisciplinary artist currently residing in Vancouver. They fell in love with art while growing up in Toronto and finger painting alongside their grandfather in the sunroom. Claire attended an arts elementary school and participated in the Claude...
Isabelle Kirouac
Interdisciplinary Choreographer, Performer, Movement Educator
Isabelle Kirouac is an interdisciplinary choreographer, movement artist, and educator born in Quebec, on the traditional lands of the Abenaki, and currently living in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh...
Kamila Bashir
Industrial Designer
Kamila Bashir is a nature enthusiast pursuing industrial design from Emily Carr University. She moved to Vancouver last year from India. Her work is mostly driven by nature and she continues to embrace, come closer to, be inclusive of, and mindful of the natural...
Kyla Gilbert
Kyla Gilbert is a visual artist based out of Vancouver BC on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She graduated with a BFA in performance from Concordia University...
Mariana Frochtengarten
I have been teaching textile related courses and workshops since 1995. As an instructor, I have taught mainly batik on paper, batik on fabric, and shibori. After all these years in the field, I have adapted the content of my courses to different lengths of time,...
Maryan Cerina
Maryan Cerina has been teaching elementary school aged children in BC public schools, Australia and Bangkok for over 28 years, as well as teaching after school art and summer art programs in Tofino, Qualicum Beach, Vancouver, the North Vancouver Outdoor School and for...
MJ Holec
Multidisciplinary
MJ Holec is a lesbian writer, painter, and explorer across mediums. As an artist and educator, she believes in creating a space for students to explore, play, and discover their own unique modes of expression. One of her primary interests is in multi-media responses...
Nilufar Moayeri
Nilufar Moayeri was born in Tehran in 1970. At a very young age she took up Arts and Art History lessons which got her deeply interested in Fine Arts. She was accepted into the Fine Arts Department of Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul in 1993 where she attended and...
Riley Oneill
Filmmaker
While battling off the urge to immerse myself in consumer culture, I like to generate my own semi-consumable culture by scribbling on paper and pointing my camera at people and other animals when I get the chance. I’ve been drawing critters since 2nd grade...
Sandrine Pelissier
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Watercolour
Originally from France, Sandrine Pelissier is a North Vancouver based Artist. Working from her studio, part of Welch street studios, she explores creating art in a variety of media : acrylics, watercolor, drawing and printmaking. Her work has been collected and...
Surnoor Singh
Painter
Surnoor is an Indian born artist now living in Vancouver. He draws inspiration from the very life surrounding him. City, land, and people are reoccurring themes in his paintings. He is most passionate about painting ‘en plein air’ (painting outside from life) which...
Willoughby Arevalo
Mycologist, Artist, Educator
Willoughby Arevalo is a interdisciplinary artist, mycologist and educator working on community-engaged projects that build relationships between humans, fungi and other members of our interspecies community. Willoughby’s goals as a community-engaged artist...