CARFAC Alberta’s Wednesday Zoom at Noon: S.A.S.E.
with Bethany Vanderputten

Wednesday June 1st from Noon – 12:45pm MDT).

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S.A.S.E. is an acronym for “Short Art Session Engagement.” In this informal unstructured session, join Bethany Vanderputten as she works on art in her studio.

You are welcome to create art as you interact with Bethany and other Zoom participants. Tara Vahab will assist Bethany on this artmaking adventure. All participants will have an opportunity to share what they’ve been working on with others at 12:40pm and often running to 1pm. Join in, create and talk about artmaking!  Artist Website

CARFAC Alberta Zoom Engagement: DIY: Bookkeeping for Artists (Intro level)
Presented by Hilary Knutson

Saturday, June 4 from 1–2:30 pm MDT

This online professional development session will provide an overview of manual bookkeeping using Microsoft Excel. Learn more about how to record, classify and organize your financial transactions…

Hilary Knutson is a prairie artist and community builder whose multidisciplinary practice includes site-specific, sculptural, and clerical works of a conceptual nature.

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On June 9 at 6pm, at the Awards ceremony for the 2022 Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize at the Art Gallery of St Albert, one of the three shortlisted artists—Dwayne Martineau, Elsa Robinson and Tammy Salzl—will receive a cash prize of $6000. The other two shortlisted artists will receive cash prizes of $3000 each. Join with us in celebrating these three talented artists.

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CARFAC Saskatchewan / CARFAC Alberta Wednesday Webinar
Three Different Paths
with Katherine Boyer, Dawn Saunders Dahl, and Carol Wylie.

Wednesday, June 15 6:30-8pm CST/MDT

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In ninety minutes, three prairie visual artists will discuss the what and the why of their careers, the choices they have made and the paths that they are on. Hosted and moderated by Chris W. Carson (Carfac Alberta’s Executive Director) and Wendy Nelson (CARFAC Saskatchewan’s Executive Director), Three Different Paths allows three visual artists to share their stories with you and give you time to ask questions and share your observations…

Katherine Boyer (Métis/Settler) is a multidisciplinary artist, whose work is focused on methods bound to textile arts and the handmade – primarily woodworking and beadwork. Boyer’s art and research encompasses personal family narratives, entwined with Métis history, material culture, architectural spaces (human made and natural). She currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba and holds a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba, School of Art. Katherine has just been longlisted for the 2022 Sobey Art Award.

Residing in Canmore, Alberta, Dawn Saunders Dahl is a dirt collector, a painter who works with a variety of materials, and has started to document art experiences through photography and film. Dawn has been actively working with Indigenous arts communities in Alberta through public art opportunities, art exhibitions, projects and events (as an artist, connector and generator). Dawn currently works at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Galerie Cite at La Cite Francophone in Edmonton and is the Curator of Indigenous Public Art for the Ottawa Public Library and National Library and Archives Joint Facility (opening in 2024). Dawn is of Métis (Red River Ojibway) and European (English, Scottish, Irish, Norwegian, Swedish, French) ancestry.

Carol Wylie is a Saskatoon painter whose work focuses on portraiture and figuration. Themes of identity, consciousness, and human interconnectedness run through her work. She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and BFA and BA (Psychology) from the University of Saskatchewan. Carol resides in Saskatoon, SK and works in art education at Remai Modern in addition to teaching drawing and painting privately. She was a finalist in the Kingston Portrait Prize 2015 and the Salt Spring National Art Prize 2021 and is a member of the Studio on 20th art collective.

Join us and learn more about the roads that three visual artists have taken in order to grow and sustain their careers. Register on Eventbrite. Free for all CARFAC members across Canada. $25.00 for non-members.

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Moving From the Outside In… Negotiating My Journey
with Elsa Robinson

Saturday, June 25 1-2:30pm

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Elsa Robinson will share her journey as an artist, starting with her decision to become one! From building a portfolio and learning about the art community in Edmonton, Elsa shares her knowledge on topics including establishing a studio practice, networking in the arts community, education, grant selection and grant writing, aspects of managing an art business, and resources in the arts community.

Elsa Robinson is a Jamaican-Canadian multi-media artist and art educator. Elsa’s artistic expression uses painting, collage, textile art, installation art, poetry, dance, and acting to ‘speak’ to audiences from her cultural inheritance as a woman of African ancestry. Her decades-long devotion to artistic practice has imbued her work with vibrancy, versatility and an intuitive spiritual poignancy through which she transmits her deep love and care for humanity.

At the start of her art career, Elsa worked as a self-taught artist. Recognizing the value of extending both her art making skills, her understanding of her own art and her place in art history, Elsa invested in her art education and now holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Art and Design from the University of Alberta and the degree of Master of Fine Arts from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Elsa is a passionate arts educator who facilitates workshops for artists of all ages and experience levels.  Artist website