Art-making for families focused on people's relationship to the world comes to Surrey Art Gallery, December 4
Clay, collage, and mini murals are among the hands-on activities at the next Family Sunday
Olúwásolá Kéhìndé Olówó-Aké, Ahọn Dudu, 2021. Photo by Dennis Ha
Surrey Art Gallery presents Our Stories and Our World! at Family Sunday on December 4 from 11 am to 3 pm
IT’S A DAY of art-making at Surrey Art Gallery on December 4, when Family Day takes on the theme “Our Stories and Our World!”.
Videopoems, paintings, photographs, films, installations, and window murals will first greet people upon entering the gallery for the free, drop-in event. Among the many artworks on display are an elaborate garment featuring a gathered denim skirt adorned with beads and sleeves made of various Nigerian fabrics by Olúwáṣọlá Kẹ́hìndéOlówó-Aké; vibrant mythical, fantastical, and Afro-futuristic representational portraits by Odera Igbokwe; and a bright window mural by Sandeep Johal that aims to evoke joy, wonder, strength, courage, and play.
Inspired by Olówó-Aké’s garment, participants will have the chance to experiment with clay and to create patterns and textures using fabrics, stamps, and found objects that reflect their own cultures. The art studio will host a collage activity using paper and water-based crayons to explore people’s relationship to the world. There will also be an opportunity to make a miniature window mural that plays off Johal’s work using lines, shapes, patterns, and colours in one of the art-making stations.
There’s a dedicated sensory-friendly space with resources like noise-cancelling headphones and squishy seats to encourage relaxed exploration.
Fall exhibitions now showing at the gallery include Poets with a Video Camera: Videopoetry 1980–2020; Concealed Cultures: Visualizing the Black Vernacular; I see; I breathe; I am!; Henry Tsang: Tansy Point; Zachery Cameron Longboy: Guardian of Sleep; Atheana Picha: Echoes; Sandeep Johal: It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see; and Surrey Art Teachers Association: Connect.
More information is at Surrey Art Gallery.
