Sensual Softies: Storytelling With Soft Sculpture

Join Birdie for an open crafting virtual workshop exploring soft sculpture as part of multi-sensory artistic practice. Participants are invited to bring a craft project of any kind to work on while the artist explores tactile sculpture as part of accessible artistic practice.

Instructed by:

Birdie

Date(s):

Saturday, May 28, 2022

Time:

1:00 PM – 3:00PM

Location:

Virtual workshop held on Zoom

Fee:

FREE for Centre[4]Arts members

FREE for non-members

About The Instructor:

Birdie is a practitioner of longing. Birdie searches for care and intimacy, practicing longing through notions of accessibility. Like artists and thinkers before her, she envisions disability and difference as transformative cultures that connect all our struggles, rather than things that are isolated only in the body. As an emerging multidisciplinary artist, Birdie creates multi-sensory, site-specific installations that are led primarily by audio descriptions in tandem with tactile sculpture. Birdie has exhibited these installations as solo exhibitions at Tangled Art + Disability (2019), Art Gallery of Windsor (2022), and Centre[3] (2022). In 2023, she will present a new solo show at Hamilton Artists Inc. Birdie was a participant of the Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency (2019), the Centre[3] Emerging Artist Residency (2021), and was a 2020-22 artist-in-residence and gallery assistant at Hamilton Artists Inc. This workshop is held alongside Welcome to my Regulated Body, Birdie's culminating Emerging Artist Residency exhibition.