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Charcoal drawing workshop with Dion Smith-Dokkie

January 22, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Queer art festival - Bored in Vancouver

SUM gallery activates the New Year with a new artist residency program featuring Vancouver-based West Moberly First Nations artist Dion Smith-Dokkie. Throughout the month of January, Dion will create new multimedia work and engage the community through free, artist-led drawing workshops and an open house. In groups of five, workshop participants will create collaborative charcoal drawings, with a focus on intuitive mark-making and an experimental approach to space and form. Register here to attend a workshop.

Space is limited and proof of vaccination is required.

About the Artist : Charcoal drawing workshop with Dion Smith-Dokkie Bored in Vancouver

Dion Smith-Dokkie (he, they) is a painter and visual artist currently living in Vancouver on the unceded ancestral homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ. He is a recent graduate of the UBC MFA in Visual Arts program. Dion also holds degrees from the University of Victoria and Concordia University. His practice hones in on colour and light, skin, screens, clouds and skies, and interfaces of all sorts through the lens of painting, drawing, and video. He grew up in the Peace River region of British Columbia and Alberta and is a member of West Moberly First Nations.

 

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Date:
January 22, 2022
Time:
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Organizer

Queer Arts Festival
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Venue

SUM Gallery
#425-268 Keefer St
Vancouver, BC V6A1X5 Canada
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Phone
604 200 6661
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