🍏 Event Details:
Date & Time: Sunday, May 18th @ 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: Decipher Counselling Art Therapy Studio, 207 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC in room 315
Cost: Suggested $15 or by donation
Tickets: Available here 6 spots max!
🍎 About the Open Studio Workshop:
The launch of our first workshop was so popular that we decided to create a sequel!
Join us for an open studio-style workshop where we'll transform old materials into something special! Bring your favourite or old magazines you don't mind cutting up, past artworks ready for a second life, and an open mind. Through collage and mixed media, we'll explore how it feels to let go without the pressure to make something 'perfect', and just play.
This is a cozy space where you can explore letting go of 'good' art, and instead explore what feels good in cutting, tearing, and reworking pieces of past artworks and magazines into something new—using collage!
🍏 What You Can Expect:
🪂 the art of releasing: mobilize creative energy to create freely—no 'good art' pressure, no perfection, just play.
🪅 making new meanings from old pieces of you: reimagine them to reflect who you are becoming.
💫 soft-guided open studio style: focus on the creative process in a cozy community - minus the overthinking.
🖌 No prior art experience needed—just bring your creativity! Whether you're an artist or it’s your first time making collage, you're welcome here. Everyone will leave with a personal collage or reworked piece of art that can symbolize them in their journey.
What to Bring (encouraged!): Old magazines, newspapers, past artwork you’d like to rework, stickers.
Policies:
Age: 18+ (all genders welcome)
Cancellation: Notify Chloe within 24hr for a refund. Please inform us if you can no longer attend so we can open your spot to someone else.
🍎 About the Facilitator:
I’m Chloe! I am a Canadian-born Taiwanese woman and a practicum counselling art therapy student at Adler University. As a recovering perfectionist and art school graduate, my goal is to create a space where art is neither ‘good’ or ‘bad’, but to create something in the spirit of being creative!
I've been quite obsessed with ripped collages—collecting bits of old art, magazines, postcards, and making something fun and messy. It reminds me of little puzzle pieces of my past self, that perhaps aren't serving me anymore, and creating something special out of those old pieces of me.
✂️ Let’s cut, layer, and create something meaningful together!
For more inspiration, check out Chloe's art @hichloekwok
If you’d like to join us for future art therapy workshops, check out @deciphercounselling