Kids Studio: Exploring Emotions Through Mask Making with Katie Green
Kids are invited to join us for a mask making workshop led by artist Katie Green. Participants will learn about portraiture and mask-masking as tools of self-exploration and self-expression. Through character development, colour, collage, and sculpture, Katie will lead you through the process of making and embodying your own mask.
Kids Studio (AGES 8–12) is a series of hands-on workshops for children where they independently explore creativity through process-based art making, movement and play.
Dress for mess! Registration and parent/guardian consent are essential. Parents/guardians are not required to be present for the duration of the program, however if your child requires assistance with the following skills, we ask that a parent/guardian accompanies them: cutting (including cardboard), using hot glue.
Katie Green is a visual artist creating intimate watercolour personas that are eery and ethereal. These emotionally visceral reflections provide Katie with a healing process that manifests as fvisual characters and scenes that explore internal emotional landscapes. For Katie, the process of painting is one of searching as she waits for something or someone to emerge. Inside this in-between presence is where surprises come forward and characters from unseen places take shape in visual ways. Being in relationship with the beings that appear becomes a form of therapeutic release, helping to both guide and nurture something within. Using these watercolours as the inspirational foundation for her practice, Katie creates murals that abstract feelings and forms into immersive scenes where fantastical beings morph and melt together within imagined worlds. Increasingly, her mural projects involve communities in a process of mask making that result in large-scale public expressions of hidden identities, emotional realities, and internal experiences.
Katie resides in Mohkínstsis in Treaty 7 Territory (Calgary, Alberta). Her work has been supported by grants from the Canada Arts Council and Calgary Arts Development and by various international residencies including the Santa Fe Art Institute and the Vermont Studio Centre. Her murals have been executed in Canada, the United States, Taiwan, and Germany. Working in a number of different contexts, from puppet builder to muralist to workshop facilitator, her collaborators include The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, cSPACE King Edward, The Esker Foundation, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, Pink Flamingo, The Calgary Drop-In and Rehabilitation Centre, Nelson and District Arts Council, and the Beltline Urban Mural Project.
Important note: Please register with an email address that you monitor regularly. You will receive a confirmation email prior to the program. You must reply to the email to confirm attendance. If you are not able to confirm, your spot will be offered to the waitlist. This new system has been implemented for workshops to ensure as few tickets as possible go unused. We very much appreciate your cooperation and look forward to seeing you at the program!