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.

Kirith Bains

Kirith Bains

Born and raised in Vancouver, I have grown up appreciating the diverse and colourful landscape. My love for the arts began early and lead me to a major in Art History with a specialization in Asian Art and a minor in Sociology at UBC. I enjoy sharing my love for the...

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Willoughby Arevalo

Willoughby Arevalo

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 are:...

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Isabelle Kirouac

Isabelle Kirouac

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...

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Arlene MacAulay

Arlene MacAulay

I currently live in beautiful North Vancouver but have called many places home. I have always loved creating but didn’t start painting until 2010. I have no formal art training so I attended various classes and workshops and learned different techniques and styles....

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Carol Demers

Carol Demers

My work in painting and ceramics reflects my reaction to the natural world.  I seem to be always seeking to unearth the experience of a place and the poetry of things I see in nature. When I really pay attention to the details I have noticed…the sound in silence,...

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River Kero

River Kero

River Kero is a queer Canadian artist born and currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia. His practice consists mostly of graphic novel illustration, scriptwriting, prose, and traditional drawing with pen and ink. As an artist who grew up in rural British...

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Kathy van Gogh

Kathy van Gogh

Kathy van Gogh has been a professional visual artist since 2001, although as most artists would tell you, she has been obsessed with colour and creativity all her life. Her formal training began in the USA and in Canada. To further hone her skills, she travelled to...

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Zaiwei Zhang

Zaiwei Zhang

Zaiwei Zhang is an illustrator based in Metro Vancouver, Canada. When he is not drawing, he is probably thinking about opening up a ramen shop. His work has been recognized by American Illustration, Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, 3x3, and Creative...

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Valeria Ascolese

Valeria Ascolese

Valeria is a Peruvian-Italian multidisciplinary artist and educator born in Lima, Peru. A graduate of Capilano University, she has collaborated with theatre companies like Rumble Theatre, Bard on the Beach and Pacific Theatre, while simultaneously working in film and...

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Isidora Nojkovic

Isidora Nojkovic

Isidora Nojkovic is a Serbian-Canadian cellist who performs internationally as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. She has a passion for contemporary music, having premiered over 50 works, and is active in commissioning and working with living...

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