Friday 18 July
22°C and Clear Sky
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Géorgie Gagné, untitled, 2024. Courtesy of artist.
Space is limited!
$35/person. Bursaries available via the generosity of the Iva Speers Fund for Art Education.
The Studio is a place to meet innovative practicing artists from Kingston and across Canada, hear about their work and artistic practice and explore a creative project together.
Join artist Géorgie Gagné and create your own floating beadwork.
Beadwork is an art medium that represents resilience and resistance amongst many Indigenous cultures. More traditional forms of beadwork can be intimidating for some as it requires a lot of dexterity and focus. Floating beadwork is a simple way to engage with beads while still leaning into the spiritual and political aspects of this art form. This workshop invites participants to engage in conversations of community building, storytelling, and contemporary Indigenous arts, while collaging on wooden canvas and creating unique strings of beads.
Géorgie Gagné, founder of Géorgie Gagné (Communities & Solidarity), is a multi award-winning, mixed heritage Cree and franco-québécoise artist, educator, facilitator, and advocate, dedicated to infusing intersectional approaches, Indigenous ways of knowing, intentionality and care within communities around Turtle Island. Through facilitation and community-building initiatives, she continuously creates thoughtful and transformative learning experiences that center 2Spirit resilience, intersectionality and decolonization practices within artistic, academic, advocacy, and nonprofit environments. With years of involvement within nonprofits and social justice movements, Géorgie has developed knowledge and expertise that supports her in creating affirming and empowering spaces for BIPGM and 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals. Her art practice focuses on physical and digital collage, beadwork, photography, and graphic design. Géorgie’s art aims to create audacious conversations on topics of 2Spirit identities, transness, interconnectivity, dignity, ruptures, and resilient love. She’s been lucky to have her work featured in and collaborate with organizations such as Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Union Gallery, McCord-Stewart Museum, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and others.
Portrait of Géorgie Gagné. Courtesy of artist.
