Contemporary Teens: The Self-Portrait Workshop
Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities.
Beginning with looking at the painting re-grounding, 2011 by Marigold Santos, children are encouraged to explore painting with different tools and techniques. This will allow them to explore textures and patterns like scraping, repetitive mark making, sponge art, fork art etc.
Saturday, January 7, 2023 | 12:00-2:00 PM
For youth ages 12-18.
Maximum group of 30 youth.
Snacks and workshop supplies will be provided.
About the Artist: Jin-me Yoon (she/her)
Jin-me Yoon is a Korea-born, Vancouver-based artist whose work explores the entangled relations of tourism, militarism, and colonialism. Since the early ’90s, she has used photography, video, and performance to situate her personal experience of migration in relation to unfolding historical, political, and ecological conditions. Through experimental cinematography and the performative gestures of family, friends, and community members, Yoon reconnects repressed pasts with damaged presents, creating the conditions for different futures. Staging her work in charged landscapes, Yoon finds specific points of reference across multiple geopolitical contexts. In so doing, she brings worlds together, affirming the value of difference.
Over the last three decades, Jin-me Yoon’s work has been presented internationally in hundreds of exhibitions, and she has mentored many students over the years while teaching at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. In 2018, she was elected as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada in 2018; and in 2022, she won the prestigious Scotiabank Photography Award.