SakuraFest workshop: Intuitive Drawing with Yuka Yamaguchi

Omote Ura Workshop Intuitive Drawing with Yuka Yamaguchi Join visual artist Yuka Yamaguchi in an intuitive drawing workshop to explore your own wild imaginings! Using colored pencils and components from her images, the artist will lead us into her creative process to practice slowing down, attuning and creating from the inside. *Notes Open to all age groups.For participants under 12, accompaniment by a guardian is required.All materials are included in your ticket. More information on our websiteTicket Price $20 (Members) / $25 (Non-members) About the Artist Yuka Yamaguchi Born and raised in Japan, she is a self-taught artist whose practice began from an early fascination with the inner life of the body and mind. She studied social work before choosing to move to Canada--to challenge herself, to live beyond familiarity, and to experience cultural diversity firsthand. Life as an immigrant brought its own set of complexities. In navigating a new language, new landscapes, and shifting notions of belonging, she turned to drawing as a way to understand and express her evolving identity. After living in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Kingston, she settled in Saskatoon, where she continues to create work rooted in intuition, memory and the intimate dialogue between body and self.Learn more: www.yukayamaguchi.com About the Curator Hitoko Okada Hitoko Okada is a queer, Nikkei, interdisciplinary artist researcher based in Hamilton, Ontario. Since studying fashion design at the International Academy of Design in Toronto in 2005, their practice spans theatre, fashion, installation, and curatorial projects, with current research exploring queering futurities through Japanese indigo as an interspecies yokai. Their work has been presented across Southern Ontario and supported through residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, and the Kawashima Textile School in Kyoto, among others.Learn more: hitoko.ca

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