Art Workshops: Upcycling Plastics into Fish Mobiles

Daily Activities & Drop-Ins
Summer 2024|#166537

Aug 4, 2024
Age at least 6 yrs but less than 100 yrs, Mixed
Arts: WorkshopsFamily & All Ages
Activity locationArtspeaks tent next to the Ferry Building Gallery

Description

Internationally exhibiting artist Lori Goldberg will show you how you can take your ‘would-be garbage’ and turn it into amazing one-of-a-kind–fish mobile. All you need is curiosity and some plastic packaging. No experience required. All ages welcome (children under 10 should be accompanied by an adult). All materials are supplied but feel free to bring any plastic packaging you’d like to work with.

Activity meeting dates

Aug 4, 2024
Sun2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

More Information

SupervisorLeigh-Anne Niehaus
Number of sessions1
DepartmentArts and Culture

Registration dates

ResidentsFrom Jun 19, 2024 8:00 AM
Non-residentsFrom Jun 19, 2024 10:00 AM
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$15.00
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Canadians throw away 3 million tons of plastic waste every year, only 9% is recycled, and most plastics end up in landfills. Using materials that will remain on our planet forever, this workshop offers a meaningful aesthetic intervention: instead of going to the landfill, they will hang in homes to remind us that what we discard does not disappear. Presented as part of the Artspeaks series at the Harmony Arts Festival, with generous funding support from the West Vancouver Foundation.

About Lori Goldberg:
As an artist, Lori Goldberg has always sought intersections with broader communities, developing collaborative and mutually instructive inquiries about how art can impact positive changes in ourselves and the environment. She has spearheaded socially engaged projects in Akumal, Mexico, Governors Island, NYC, Vancouver, and Squamish, BC.

Lori Goldberg studied at Ontario College of Art and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She is the recipient of many awards, including Canada Council Grants, two Tony Onley Artist’s Project Scholarships, and the Vermont Artist Award.

Her work is in the Canada Art Bank, Contemporary Art Gallery, the City of Vancouver, Michael Audain private art collection and VGH Foundation.