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Workshop Description
What if the best ideas didn’t come out of thin air, but out of clay?
Join us for "Thinking with Models", a 5-day intensive ceramic workshop led by renowned artist Zimra Beiner. This workshop is designed to get your hands dirty and your ideas rolling.
You’ll explore models, templates, and drawing as tools to dream big. Then scale those ideas up.
All the while, Zimra will guide you through solid construction techniques, miniature enlargements, and other tactile tricks of the trade.
This one’s for thinkers, tinkerers, and makers of all levels - whether you’re just getting started or levelling up your practice.
instructor
Zimra Beiner
Workshop Dates
Wednesday, August 6th – Sunday, August 10th (5 days)
Registration Cost
$595 + GST
Registration Deadline
Wednesday, July 9th
(To meet minimum participant requirement)
lodging
$350 + GST
Check-in: August 5th after 3:00PM
Check-out: August 11th at 10:00AM
(6 nights) *Limited spots*
Registration opens January 31st, 2025 @ 10:00 AM MST
Zimra Beiner
Zimra Beiner (b.1985 Toronto) received a BFA from NSCAD University and an MFA from Alfred University in 2012. His work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Hostler Burrows Gallery, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Craft Ontario and group exhibitions at the Gardiner Museum, Art Gallery of Alberta, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and the Katzen Museum at American University. He has taught at numerous institutions, including as an Assistant Professor at the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary, Alberta.
Artist Statement
Making art overwhelms my life; therefore, my attempt to honestly expose the making process is an autobiographical narrative. My life is expressed in my method of production; the world around me is represented in things that are ubiquitous and domestic. Looking, translating and making are continuously mixed together in a loop in which the boundary between art and life become tangled. The everyday is interpreted, re-contextualized and abstracted as a reflection of life passing through me.
