***Please note: The workshops are now full and registrants will be added to the waitlist.

How do artists continue to create during a pandemic? How do you make art when it is hard to focus and there is a lack of support? As an emerging artist, how do you push forward to grow your career when everything has changed and nothing seems stable?

In this three-part program in joint collaboration between the Legacy Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, emerging artists will come together with facilitator K.P Dennis, three mentoring artists (Kemi Craig, Estraven Lupino-Smith, and Ghinwa Yassine) and the other participants to discuss the effect the pandemic has had on their artistic practice. Together we will grieve the losses we’ve experienced, discuss methods of adapting, and share visions for a new creative future.

This free program will take place over Zoom and consist of three sessions on Sunday, October 4, 11, and 18 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Participants are expected to attend all three sessions. Registration is required through Google Forms, with participation limited. You will receive an acceptance email by October 2 informing that you are a part of the program.

Please contact either Regan Shrumm, Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, at rshrumm@aggv.ca or Amy Smith, Community Engagement Coordinator at the Legacy Art Gallery, at smithac@uvic.ca for questions or concerns.

You may be interested in this program if you:

-Are an emerging artist in Victoria who lost opportunities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic
-Are looking for new ways to share your art and network with other artists in light of these lost opportunities
-Are trying to find a group of individuals to find solidarity in going through the same emotions of grief and uncertainty
-Are needing some hope of moving forward with their art practice in these trying times

Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 1st at 5 pm - submissions after this time will be added to our waitlist.