November 2025
This November, Artists for Kids is excited to offer an Artist-in-Residence program for secondary students in grades 10, 11, and 12. During two school days, students who are nominated will have the opportunity to work with artist Sara-Jeanne Bourget at the Artists for Kids Studios.
Traditionally, drawing has been used to record and make sense of the world. In this workshop, we will use drawing to reveal the often overlooked or unseen details of our immediate environment. Moving from observation to imagination, drawing becomes a tool to discover new perspectives. Participants will begin with direct observational techniques, gradually transitioning to material- and process-based approaches. Through this progression, students will create a series of works that engage with and respond to their natural surroundings. The workshop is an invitation to explore the expanded possibilities of drawing, with a particular focus on working with charcoal.
Artist Bio
Artist Sara-Jeanne Bourget’s drawing and printmaking practice engages with cyclical processes that echo natural rhythms and phenomena. Through this work, the artist explores how the act of “mining”—traditionally associated with extraction and destruction—can be re-imagined as a method of uncovering ideas, relationships, and possibilities.
Observing how non-human individuals mine their environment offers new perspectives to foster relationships with the world. A fascination with surfaces altered by animal/plant/human/time-based erosion creates space for new forms and future possibilities.
In Bourget’s practice, materials and methods intrinsic to drawing and printmaking intertwine, creating hybrid images that blur the boundaries of both disciplines. The artist often works by “mining” from old or discarded charcoal drawings, using them as the foundation for new matrices. These are built through layering, covering, and excavating marks—actions that mirror natural and emotional cycles. Repeated patterns and forms appear seasonally, evolving through intuitive gestures and sustained repetition.
Bourget is currently an assistant professor in Drawing at Emily Carr University.
