About the North Shore Art Crawl

The North Shore Art Crawl is a free community event that celebrates the creative energy of local artists. The event features artists in approachable venues all throughout the North Shore, inviting community to engage with and learn about their practices. The North Shore Art Crawl energizes and inspires community through uplifting the arts.

Varsha Gill

Varsha Gill

Courses & Workshops: Natural Dye Workshop: A Comprehensive Introduction  Flower Pounding (Tatakizome) Varsha Gill (she/her) is a textile artist, filmmaker, community arts facilitator, and social worker who believes in the transformative power of art for...

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Han Pham

Han Pham

Working Across  Date Nights, & Children’s Camps Courses & Workshops: Date Night: Scanography  Camp Creative: Spring Break Hân Phạm (Phạm Thụy Mai Hân) is an emerging artist and filmmaker from Sài Gòn, Việt Nam. Experimenting with video and film,...

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Mahsa Farzi

Mahsa Farzi

Working Across  Adult Courses & Children’s Camps Courses & Workshops: Mixed Media Sketchbook: A Process-Led Practice with Mahsa Acrylic Painting: Myth and Visual Narrative Camp Creative: Spring Break Mahsa Farzi (b. 1992, Tehran, Iran) works across...

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Mahnaz Moghaddasi

Mahnaz Moghaddasi

Working Across Date Nights, Adult Courses & Children’s Camps Courses & Workshops: Cityscape Date Night: Papier-Mâché Vase Quick-Dry Clay: Historical and Contemporary Forms Camp Creative: Spring Break I am an artist, art educator, and museum professional based...

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Aranza Bergés Navarrete

Aranza Bergés Navarrete

Aranza Bergés Navarrete is a Mexican artist born and raised in Mexico City, currently working in Vancouver on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. She studied 2D experimental animation at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, with...

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Anna Lynch

Anna Lynch

A self-declared “British craft nerd,” Anna Lynch moved to Canada in 2010,  where she pursued a career as both a professional artist and arts advocate. With a Bachelor of Arts in Film Production and an artistic career in textiles, Anna brings a diverse...

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Sian Woodward

Sian Woodward

Sian Woodward is a Visual Artist based out of her studio The Graffiti Co. Art Studio(c2002) in North Vancouver. She holds an MFA in Mixed Media from the U of C and a BFA in Drawing from U of R. Her father was an accomplished Canadian landscape painter and art...

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Marlene Lowden

Marlene Lowden

Marlene Lowden is an abstract oil painter whose work explores the quiet intelligence and resilient beauty of the natural world. Rather than represent specific scenes, Lowden seeks to evoke the felt experience of being immersed in nature: the hush of a mycelial...

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In-Ah Mellor

In-Ah Mellor

Art and illustration are, for me, a return to the tactile. After a career in the world of feature animation, the pandemic offered a moment of stillness that allowed me to reconnect with my classical training. My current practice focuses on botanical abstracts and...

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Erik Vaartnou

Erik Vaartnou

Erik Vaartnou creates abstract artworks under the concept Art from Ideas. Inspiration for the colourful and complex paintings comes from his lived experience and almost anything that interests him. Past and current themes include: displaced people, global warming,...

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