Past Art Instructors
Paige Jung
Paige Jung is a Chinese-Canadian illustrator, muralist and artist from Vancouver, Canada. Using digital and acrylic mediums, Paige is known for her proficient use of colour and gestural shapes to create illustrations that tell stories of connection, wonder, community,...
Elena Senatorova
Elena is a full-time visual artist based in West Vancouver who works mostly with oil medium, in techniques from classical realism to contemporary impressionism, from fine glazing to heavy brush strokes, and palette knife work. Throughout her life, Elena has had the...Ilena Lee Cramer
Ilena has been practicing ceramics since the 1980s. She graduated from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, in 1996 with a degree in both Ceramic Sculpture and Theatre Design and Direction. For many years, she worked as a professional theatre artist, with pottery as...Ania Salmina
Ania Salmina is a professional artist and architect with 20 years of visual art experience. She has a strong academic base in both: painting and graphic techniques. Ania’s artistic journey began with ART CLASSES in early childhood. At 11, she started visiting...
Francisco Berlanga
Textile
Francisco Berlanga is a Vancouver-based artist with a BFA from Simon Fraser University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. His practice reflects on his relationship to his Mexican identity as a second-generation immigrant through the lens of craft. He...
Cyd Eva
Is a queer visual artist, fashion designer, Art Teacher, podcast host, dancer, installation artist and surface pattern designer from Coquitlam so-called BC Canada. She has a BFA in visual art from Simon Fraser university, a degree in Fashion Design from Cape town...
Kim O’Brien
Felting
Kim O’Brien is a self-taught textile artist who has worked with wool since 2005. She sees the world through a joyful, quirky lens and uses her art practice to explore both amusing observations and complicated experiences. Since 2016 Kim has worked with wool...
Eleanor Hannan
Fiber Artist and Embroidery
Eleanor Hannan received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and has exhibited her artwork in group and solo shows across Canada, UK, and Europe for over thirty years. Her visual art practice has included drawing (as an end in itself),...
Susan Purney Mark
Artist - Designer - Teacher
As a textile artist, Susan has embarked on a life transforming journey into the world of colour, design and pattern. Working with textiles has become her method of self expression and the focus of her methods of communication. She has studied Design, Patchwork and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hollis Nelson
Interdisciplinary Artist
Hollis Nelson (BFA Emily Carr University) is a queer interdisciplinary artist living and working in the DTES of Vancouver who is best known for her hand painted wearable leather art pieces. Home-schooled in east Vancouver her upbringing involved visiting the local...
Kamila Bashir
Industrial Designer
Kamila Bashir is a designer and educator whose practice is rooted in slowness, observation, and care. A recent graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design, she works across design research, storytelling, and material exploration, often drawn to the...
Jinfei Wang
Jinfei Wang is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, Canada. Jinfei holds Regional and Urban Planning Honours Program from University of Saskatchewan and Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Emily Carr University of Arts and Design, she also received trainings in...
Domenica Mastromatteo
Domenica Mastromatteo is a first generation Italian-Canadian artist born in Montreal, Quebec. She is a graduate of the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute and runs a private practice in North Vancouver, offering individual and group art therapy. Domenica believes everyone...
Chantal Cardinal
Instructor bio: From wearable art to sound-absorbing wall hangings, exploring the textures and properties of wool and what it can shape into has become Chantal Cardinal’s full time obsession under FELT à la main with LOVE. After a career as a Fashion...
Tom Cryan
Tom Cryan is an actor, clown and multidisciplinary artist who trained and performed in New York City with a focus on psycho-physical interactive theater and clowning. He has continued to train and work on the unceded ancestral territory of the...
Harneet Janda
My name is Harneet Janda. I was born and raised in India, but my family and I moved to Canada eight years ago. I recently completed Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Education Assistant program. I’ll be working with kids at Maplewood House’s creative...
Anna Markovic
Anna Markovic (she/her/hers) Hello! My name is Anna and I am so excited to be a part of Camp Creative this summer! A little about me, I am currently a psychology and counseling student at SFU hoping to enter a career field centered around supporting children by...
Mairi Anderson
Mairi Anderson is a settler from Treaty 7 Territory, grateful to be living on unceded Coast Salish lands. She is a Grade 3 teacher and multimedia artist who has previously taught visual arts and writing-based day camps. She has illustrated two books...
T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss
T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss Skwxwu7mesh, Sto:lo, Irish-Métis, Hawaiian, and Swiss descent Cease is an ethno-botanist, traditionally trained by Indigenous Elders. Her work involves site-specific and culturally focused teaching with storytelling as her means to sharing...
CARMEN ROSEN
Carmen Rosen Carmen Rosen is a visual artist, singer, and interdisciplinary performer. She has a long history of initiating art projects and creative community integrated projects. In 2010 Carmen received the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award, and in 2012 the Queen’s...
Goldbard
Joyelle Goldbard (she/they) is an interdisciplinary community-engaged artist with a passion for play. As a fat, queer woman with mental health disabilities, her work explores themes of identity, place and belonging. How do we navigate our individual identities while...
Sarah Higgins
Sarah (Higgins) is a writer and theatre artist currently based in what’s known as Burnaby, BC, on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from UBC in 2016, and has been working in the theatre, at the circus and in...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ideet Sharon
Ideet is an artist, certified Expressive Arts Therapist, and mom living in beautiful and diverse Vancouver. She Attended the Vancouver Film School and worked many years as a digital animator in the film and TV industry. As an artist, she works out of 1000...
Clement Yeh
Drawing
Clement Yeh is an artist, parent, husband, educator, community advocate, and student of life. Born to Chinese parents in England, he grew up in Calgary on Treaty 7 land. Comics were an early creative influence that inspired him to pursue fine art, leading to a BFA at AuArts and an MFA at Concordia University. He currently teaches in the Communication and Visual Arts dept at Thompson Rivers University, on traditional unceded Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Territory (Kamloops, BC), and sits on the Board of the Kamloops Arts Council. His primary medium is figurative drawing, and he is passionate about supporting the role that art plays in personal growth, confronting social issues, and uplifting the quality of life in society.
Margaret Joba-Woodruff
Using the techniques of drawing, bookbinding, and printmaking, my art practice focuses on patterns, nature and the body. The materials I work with such as fabric, paper, ink, copper, limestone, wood, and water all help guide the direction of each piece. Ultimately, I...
Felicia Chang
Felicia Chang is a documentary photographer specialized in family, newborn, and childbirth photography. Her “day in the life” sessions capture the real moments of your family, documenting the visual story of your life.
Sarah Turner
Sarah Turner is a writer and editor living in Port Moody, BC. Her award winning creative non-fiction has been published in various places including Event, the Utne reader, Literary Mama and the anthology Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food....
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...
Leah Gies
As a Youth Worker and Student Support Worker with the Vancouver School Board for the past 14 years, Leah discovered a passion for using art to inspire creativity and self-awareness in the students she works with. She is a life-long lover of drawing, writing and...
April Lacheur
Back in 2007, April was creating art as a hobby while working as full time Registered Nurse in post open heart surgery in Victoria, BC, Canada. Fast forward 10+ years and April is now working as a full-time artist, having traded in her in stethoscope for a paintbrush....
Hilary Grist
Hilary Grist’s signature brand of firefly folk dipped in dreamy, art pop envelopes her dulcet, often delicate vocal delivery. A diverse artist, her poignant and playful songs have been featured regularly on CBC Radio and heard on TV shows like: Grimm (NBC), Being...
Taslim Jaffer
Taslim Jaffer is a freelance writer and writing instructor with a special interest in culture and society. Her writing has appeared in Maclean’s, Huffington Post Canada, Unearth Women, CBC Parents, WestCoast Families and others. As the cultures columnist for...
Michele Mateus
Hi, I’m Michele and I am so glad you are here! I’m a wedding and portrait photographer, and everything I do centers around creating connection. I get to know my clients and learn the stories they want to tell before my camera ever comes out. Together, we co-create...
Jeff Wilson
Jeff Wilson grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland & trained as a structural geologist. He worked in mineral exploration around the world, settling in Vancouver in 2004, and took art classes at Emily Carr University, kick-starting a hobby that transitioned to a full-time...
Paula Barrantes
Paula Barrantes is a watercolour illustrator that brings the study of plants and their surrounding ecosystems to the center of her practice. After leaving her native Costa Rica to study in Canada, she went on to...
Chelsea Yuill
Chelsea Yuill is an emerging curator and textile artist based in Vancouver, BC. As a textile artist, her hand sewn appliqués are wearable embellishments of glamour, costume, and kitschy romance while her weaving focuses on community engagement. In 2018, she completed...
Melanie Rivers
Mixed Media Acrylic
Melanie Rivers, Tiyaltelwet, is an Indigenous mixed media artist who teaches online and in person art classes to women around the world. She helps women build a joyful and self-compassionate art practice. Melanie says, “Creating art brings me into the present moment,...
Rachel Brett
Rachel Brett is an emphatic storyteller and entertainer. Immersed in her natural habitat of mountainous, forested coastal climates, she resides in Vancouver, Canada, as a freelance concept artist and illustrator. Having lived in Sweden during her early childhood, her...
Cameron McLellan
Cameron McLellan’s work concerns the built environment, architectural space and materiality through drawing, painting and site-specific responses. Through form, texture and the meditative quality of repetition, McLellan explores how these connections can be rethought...
Michelle Weinstein
Artist Statement There is a gap between what is known about the nature of existence, and how it is experienced on the ordinary level. All matter, including bodies, is composed of elements that are probabilities (electron clouds). We live in a home of such vast space...
Tatyana Dobrowolski
Tatyana is a Music Therapist and musician in the Greater Vancouver area. She studied music at Capilano University in the classical program and graduated with a Bachelor of Music Therapy and a Certificate in Conducting. Currently, Tatyana works as a Music Therapist at...
Anastasia Kondratovich
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...