Art Workshops

Workshops for 2020 will be announced soon, stay tuned!

Scroll down to see what was happening at our 2019 Festival.

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Sign-up for Visual Arts Workshops: at the Art Tent (near the Main Stage) on Friday evening from 6–7pm.

Only a few workshops require sign-up, so be sure to double check the schedule. You might not need to wait in line!
Drop in workshops: please be sure to show up before the start time to ensure your space.
Fees for workshops are to be paid directly to artists at the beginning of the workshop.
Participants must be 14 years and over unless otherwise stated.

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Artist in Residence – 2019

Dennis Shorty
Dennis Shorty, whose Kaska name Gah Zahse, which means
Rabbit’s Nephew, is a Kaska Dene artist based in Ross River, YT. Denis’ art encompasses many media including large scale, intricately carved antler sculptures; mixed media pieces using wood, antler, fur and metals; jewellery of copper, silver and gold and semi-precious stones; and carved wooden masks with fur
or hair decorative work.

Demo – Saturday 1:00 – 3:00
Dennis will be using power tools and antler
to carve small sculptures. There will be a
sample piece where interested people can
try it out to experience what it’s like to carve antler – and how difficult the material is to work with!

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Workshops & Bio – 2019

Tedd Tucker—Graphic Designer
Tedd is an illustrator and designer living in Whitehorse YT. He uses simple shapes, bold colours, to create playful, bright illustrations. His illustrations are a combination pencil sketches, brush work and digital illustration. You can find Tedd’s design and illustration work on everything from small fridge magnets to large corporate brands. teddtucker.com

Vintage-Inspired Postcard
Tedd will be guiding participants on how to design and illustrate vintage-inspired postcards. In the workshop you will learn how to simplify scenery, nature, animals and people to create a postcard to represent your Atlin experience. No artistic skill is required. Postcards are a very fun and forgiving format.
Drop-In            (Class limit: 15; Materials fee $5)
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Maya Rosenberg
Maya was Born and raised in Israel and moved to Whitehorse in 2014. She is currently a board director at the Yukon Art Society, teaching painting workshops all across the Yukon Territory, and exhibiting in varied art galleries across Canada. Maya’s art is inspired by nature and wilderness, and its rejuvenating, dynamic and vivid qualities. Her work reflects the connections of art, love and nature, through colours, and the potential it has to empower us and our communities.

Paint the Atlin Landscape
Paint a colourful, fun and inspiring painting workshop. We’ll paint a landscape of the wilderness in the wilderness and get inspired by the vivid scenery around us, learn basic painting skills and colour theory. Create your own paintings to take home. This is a step-by-step workshop, flexible to varied levels (no experience inecessary).
Pre-Registration        (Class limit: 15; Materials fee $20)
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Drinking with Scissors
Drinking with Scissors is a monthly craft party in Whitehorse, Yukon. Partners Allison and Chris design fun projects perfect for making over drinks with friends. Everything you need to create your finished piece is provided, so you can focus on enjoying crafts and craft beer! No beer for this workshop though!

Fleece sleep masks / felt flower crowns
Decorate and sew together a soft sleep mask to help you catch some Zs despite the midnight sun.  Or, create your perfect floral festival headgear from felt with some simple hand sewing and gluing. Projects are suitable for all skill levels.
Drop-In            (Class limit: 20; Materials fee $10)
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Mary Beatty
Mary has been an artist in the Yukon since the early l970’s. Her formal education was at Santa Barbara City College and California College of Arts and Crafts. Living in the Yukon bush, she enjoys using natural fibers and has created many dolls, masks, baskets, weavings and jewellery.

Felt if You Feel Like It.
We will be making small flat felted pictures or designs. I will show you how to sew them into purses. Time limits us so you will take your project home to finish it.
Drop-In            (Class limit: 15; Materials fee $20)
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Rhoda Merkel
“Welcome to Atlin­, my hometown, where I find my inspiration.”
Rhoda works out of her Dancing Aspens Studio, located on Green Street where you can find her sewing, beading, painting, and moose tufting, writing, or preparing for school teaching sessions.

Paint Like Ted
Relax while painting a pre-hand drawn image of Ted Harrison’s artwork using acrylic paint on a 5×7 canvas. And…your name could be drawn to take home a silk screen Ted print! Choose your special/individual picture on Friday when you register.
Pre-Registration        (Class limit: 30; Materials fee $10)

Painted Fabric Wall Hangings­: for the LOVE of Atlin
Using watercolour on fabric, you will draw an image of Atlin on to raw canvas (examples and stencils provided) including local wild flowers (after a how-to demonstration) then add the splash of (water)colour. Additional Option: Adding tabs and fringe for hanging the picture.
Pre-Registration        (Class limit: 20; Materials fee $10)
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Jeanine Baker
Jeanine has been a fulltime glass media artist for 15 years. Traditional stained glass windows, fused glass platters, bowls, and panels, kiln cast glass sculpture, painting on glass, and flame worked glass components and beads are all part of her repertoire. Jeanine is self-taught.

Glass Mosaics
Create your own little glass tile design. All tools and materials provided. Children with a grown-up welcome, otherwise 12 and up.
Drop-In                        (Materials fee $10)
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Patrick Royle
Patrick’s pottery has evolved from his love of oriental designs. His Fireweed pattern, among many other Yukon designs he creates, glazes and fires in his Whitehorse studio, is known the world over.

Clay Festival Tile:
Working with soft clay, hand tools and underglaze (painted deco-ration), Patrick will teach you to work/create with soft clay to create your own clay artwork.
Drop-In                   (Class limit:15; Materials fee $10–20)

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