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AGH Festival

Daily Art Practice: Mindfulness in Artmaking

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Monday, October 16, 2023

SOLD OUT

Location: Art Gallery of Hamilton

SOLD OUT


With guidance from artist Breanna Shanahan, challenge yourself to create 10 drawings or watercolor artworks in 30 minutes and a short exercise with clay.

This workshop helps practice mindfulness and steps away from the preciousness of a single idea, instead fostering healthy habits rooted in making.

The event is open to all ages, and no experience is required! Art materials will be supplied.

Tickets:
General: $5

Breanna Shanahan (Instructor) (she/her/they): is a recent resident of the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas (Hamilton) Shanahan is an artist, researcher and educator whose sculpture and drawing practice focuses on a community engaging process of collective creation which she calls Daily Art Practice. Shanahan received her MFA at Concordia University in 2019 and was a SSHRC recipient in 2017. She is a director at the Hamilton Artist Inc. and one of the newest members of the Assembly Gallery artist collective. Shanahan is a member of QO (Quite Ourselves) artist collective who had their recent Moving Box Trailer show this past May in Tkaronto and she is a core member of the STAC Collective (Shortcuts for Teachers Artist Collective) who just presented research on pedagogical methods at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow in June. Her works have been exhibited in Italy, China, Austria, the United States of America and in Canada. Shanahan has taught Sculpture and Drawing courses across Canada at multiple post-secondary institutions including Concordia University, Mt. Allison University, NSCAD University, Sheridan College and most recently Brock University.

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Feature image: Courtesy of Artist Breanna Shanahan.

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From the Contemporary Art Collection


Clown d'Amsterdam

Karel Appel (Dutch 1920-2006)

acrylic on wood, Gift of the artist, 1976
© Karel Appel Foundation / SODRAC (2016)

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