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upcoming
Mar 29, 2026, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM

Impression Adventure

Sunday Workshop

Print made from clay imprint.


Photo courtesy of Pietro Sammarco and the Gibson Art Museum

Join Liz Oakley, the Gibson's Art Studio Lead, for a workshop using textures and shapes gathered around Burnaby Mountain!

Sunday, March 29, 1 PM to 4 PM
in the Tuey Art Studio at the Gibson Art Museum and outdoors. 

Free with registration. Limited space. All materials provided.

Registration closes Friday, March 27.

In this workshop, we will use printmaking and collaging to explore the different surfaces and shapes of Burnaby Mountain. While exploring indoor and outdoor locations, we’ll use methods such as pastel rubbings, clay imprints, and tracing on paper to collect impressions of textures and patterns we notice in our environment.

Back in the studio, we’ll experiment with printmaking, using some of our collected impressions and found materials.

Finally, we’ll transform these elements into a collage of an imagined or remembered place, taking inspiration from works currently on view at the museum. Participants will leave with a finished or in-progress collage, and a collection of materials to use in continued explorations.

PLEASE NOTE:

  • This workshop is intended for people ages 12 and up. If you are younger and want to participate, please email psammarc@sfu.ca to inquire.
  • Under 15 years must be accompanied by an adult.
  • Ages 15 to 18 must have a waiver signed by their parent/guardian or otherwise be accompanied by an adult.
  • All participants must register a free ticket, including adults accompanying minors.
  • Rain or shine! Please dress appropriately for the weather.

This workshop is generously supported by the Tuey Charitable Foundation, the Deux Mille Foundation, and Friends of the Gibson.

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The Gibson reserves the right to cancel this workshop due to low registration, and will make every effort to reschedule it.


Artists

  • Liz Oakley
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Liz Oakley is an interdisciplinary artist and educator with a background in puppetry. They are interested in how art can enable forms of attention that disrupt our sense of the usual and open spaces of possibility, presence, and co-creation. Recently, Liz’s performance, installation, and puppetry designs have appeared in Vancouver at the SUM Gallery, Vines Festival, Audain Gallery, SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, What Lab, and Playwrights Theatre Centre. Liz is currently the Art Studio Lead at the Gibson Art Museum. They are also an artist-in-residence in Vancouver schools with the AIRS program and an educator at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Liz resides Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. They have an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.