UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES:
Curator’s Tour for Educators
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026
Time: 3:30pm - 4:00pm
Registration: Open to all - no registration required
Join us at the Gordon Smith Gallery for an interactive tour of the current exhibition, One Hundred Artists Deep, led by curator Andrea Valentine-Lewis. Learn about exhibition themes and specific artworks and artists featured in the exhibition.
Location: Gordon Smith Gallery, 2121 Lonsdale Ave.
Drawing Strategies for the Classroom: Charcoal, Observation, and Process
Date: Monday, May 4, 2026
Time: 10:45am - 12:30pm
This hands-on workshop for intermediate and secondary art teachers explores expanded approaches to drawing with a focus on charcoal. Artist Sara-Jeanne Bourget will share her practice through an artist talk. Participants will experiment with techniques including shading, contrast and layering with charcoal, transfer and masking methods, and eraser drawing. Sara-Jeanne Bourget and teacher Ryanne Bergler will also present a secondary lesson sequence in which students create a series of works responding to their natural surroundings.
Workshop Presenters: Artist Sara-Jeanne Bourget and Art Teacher Ryanne Bergler
Location: Carson Graham Secondary, 2145 Jones Ave, Rm. D104 (art room)
Artists for Kids After School Printmaking Workshop Series
Dates: April 30, May 14, May 21, May 28, June 4
Bring printmaking to your classroom with the Artists for Kids Printmaking Kits!
Join us at Artists for Kids for a series of five FREE after school workshops led by NVSD art specialist teachers! Each workshop will provide a fun, hands-on opportunity to try out a printmaking lesson using materials provided in the Artists for Kids Printmaking Kits.
The kits can be booked online for FREE for a period of 2 weeks. Each kit comes with an illustrated step-by-step lesson guide, as well as the tools needed to carry out a printmaking activity in your classroom.
Location: All workshops will take place at Artists for Kids in the Shadbolt Studio, 2121 Lonsdale Ave.
Registration: Click the Register button below to register!
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Workshop 1: Trace Monotype Printmaking (Trace Monotype Kit)
Grade level:
Elementary and Secondary
Activity:
Use trace monotype printmaking and mixed media collage techniques.
Teacher: Kory Bogen
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Workshop 2: Collagraph Landscapes (Collagraph Kit)
Activity: Create a collagraph landscape print inspired by Ted Harrison’s artwork using various textured materials glued to cardstock.
Teacher: Jackie Lamont
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Workshop 3: Collagraph Butterflies (Collagraph Kit)
Grade Level: Intermediate
Activity: Create collagraph butterfly prints using relief shapes cut from foam sheets as well as additive and subtractive cutout techniques.
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Workshop 4: Relief Printmaking with Lego & Found Materials (Collagraph Kit)
Grade Level:
Intermediate
Activity:
Create original relief prints using accessible materials such as schoolyard scraps, Lego, and leaves to created inked and printed compositions. Learn to use a hand printing press!
Teacher: Amelia Epp
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Workshop 5: Gel Plate Comics (Gel Plate Kit)
Grade level: Intermediate and Secondary
Activity: Use gel plate monoprinting, drawing, and writing to create a four-panel comic.
Teacher: Helen Kim
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PAST OPPORTUNITIES:
Micro to Macro: Visualizing Living Systems Through Art
Friday, February 13, 2026
1:00 - 3:00pm
Explore connections between visual art and science, including local earth materials, solutions, and solubility, with strategies you can bring directly into the classroom. Engage with exhibiting artist Genevieve Robertson in an interactive virtual talk and Q&A exploring artwork from her series Endless Body, currently on view at the Gordon Smith Gallery. Investigate how her work moves between microscopic and expansive scales, from bone marrow to fungi and river systems. Apply these ideas in a practical printmaking session using the Artists for Kids Trace Monotype Printmaking Kit to create prints inspired by microorganisms.
Artist talk by artist Genevieve Robertson and workshop by Artists for Kids educator Amelia Epp
Location: Artists for Kids, 2121 Lonsdale (Shadbolt Studio)
Art in the Intermediate Classroom: Lessons, Assessment and Organization
Friday, October 24, 2025
9:00 - 11:30am
This hands-on workshop, led by two experienced intermediate teachers, offers practical strategies for teaching art in grades 4–7. Participants will explore lesson ideas, assessment approaches, and effective methods for managing materials and student work, while developing sample lessons to take back to their classrooms.
Led by Raph Choi and Stephanie Kwok
Clay, Maps, and Movement: A Collaborative Workshop
Friday, October 24, 2025
12:30 - 3:00pm
Artist and educator Xinwei Che will introduce her creative practice and ceramics installation at the Gordon Smith Gallery, then guide a hands-on clay and drawing workshop. Participants will explore geology and mapmaking through classroom-friendly materials and collaborative, embodied artmaking processes.
Introduction to Artists for Kids Clay Kit
Part 1: October 6, 3:30-5:00pm
Part 2: October 20, 3:30-5:00pm
In this two-part hands-on clay workshop, ceramics artist Amelia Butcher will walk you through a lesson designed specifically for elementary grades. The artist will share practical tips and techniques for managing materials and teaching clay techniques to elementary students. Teachers are able to sign out the AFK Clay Kit to use in their schools for a two-week period. In this kit, teachers will have all the tools needed to complete the clay lesson taught in this two-part workshop series.
With artist Amelia Butcher
