Performance artist and video maker Zachery C Longboy shares some of his recent work in this online Thursday Artist Talk. Performance artist and video maker Zachery C Longboy of Sayisi Dene lineage reads excerpts from his poetry, shows selective drawings, and screens a few videos, including his most recent one, Guardian of Sleep (2022) currently on view at the Gallery. In this …

Local artist and instructor Lyn Verra-Lay talks about her practice of hand-dyeing scarves in this interactive Thursday Artist Talk organized by Surrey Art Gallery Association. Lyn Verra-Lay’s art journey has very often come from, and included, connections to her community. Whether exhibiting in a gallery, donating artwork to a worthy cause, or using green practices while creating, community engagement is an important …

Ceramics artist Gloria Jue-Youn Han talks about tradition and experimentation in her practice. Gloria Jue-Youn Han makes art that investigates how traditions are altered, adapted, and created anew by diasporic peoples. She draws connections between her experience as a first-generation Korean-Canadian daughter of immigrants and the ways in which traditions survive through tumultuous events in history. In this connection, she …

Listen to a local artist share her story of how art helped her through a crisis and became part of her healing. Amy J. Dyck will take listeners on an emotional journey as she tells the story of a sudden and painful crisis that landed her in a wheelchair in 2017. She used art to process her new life, build …

Hear how a local artist combines painting and healing in his vivid paintings in this Thursday Artist Talk presented by Surrey Art Gallery Association. In 2017, at the age of fifty-five, Joseph P. Ghabi left the academic world of engineering and computer science to start painting. “If I can do it, so can you!” he quips. Since then, he has produced …

Local artist Barbie Warwick challenges herself to draw on a daily basis. She shares her story, along with tips on approaching the blank page. A blank page can be intimidating. For years, Barbie Warwick carried a small sketchbook in her purse, wanting to be that person at a bus stop, park, or coffee shop, sketching the world around her. But …

Local artist Susan Jessop shares her inspirations for her paper collage worlds that are filled with symbolic objects. Growing up in the United Kingdom and pursuing a career in museum education immersed Susan Jessop in historic objects and layered histories from an early age. This gave her an understanding and appreciation of the stories that objects can tell. These stories …