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10:00 am – 11:30 am
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Workshop
Workshop | Gesture & Movement: A Creative Photo Weaving Workshop
ADMISSION
$8 AFV members | $10 non-members
Join us for a playful photography-and-weaving workshop for children aged 8-12, inspired by the Se Tenir Proche exhibition at Alliance Française Vancouver.
Participants will collaborate using their hands, bodies, and movement to create drawings and photocopies. They will learn paper-weaving techniques and experiment with text, images, and drawing to produce a multimedia artwork. Each family will contribute to a collective wall installation that will remain on display for the duration of the exhibition.
No experience required – just curiosity, creativity, and a collaborative spirit!
Led by the artists Claudia Goulet-Blais & Michelle Caron-Pawlosky.
Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky is a multidisciplinary artist from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal who primarily works with installation and images.
Michelle Caron‑Pawlowsky’s work explores transformation, ritual, and magic. Spanning installation, image‑making, sound, sculpture, textiles, and text, her practice navigates the spaces between the human and the more‑than‑human, the living and the non‑living, the real and the mythical. She examines grief through the lens of professional wrestling, creates altars and talismans for extinct or endangered plant species, and develops collaborative invocation chants inspired by wind and rock‑erosion patterns. Her work reflects on the material and transformative possibilities of images, reactivating them through sculptural and installation‑based interventions.
Claudia Goulet-Blais (b. 1996, Montréal, QC) is a Vancouver-based photo installation artist and educator whose creative-research practice centres on intergenerational kinship and the process of making through performing for the camera with those close to her.
Claudia Goulet‑Blais’s autobiographical practice takes shape through photographic installations combining personal and found images. She explores memory, identity, and care, focusing especially on maternal relationships and shifting family roles. Working collaboratively with her mother, she examines closeness, distance, and gestures – particularly the embrace, which has become a recurring motif. Grounded in a feminist perspective, her work addresses mortality, grief, and the historically undervalued nature of women’s care labor. Image transfers onto porcelain have become central to her material exploration: both domestic and fragile, porcelain echoes the tensions of care and highlights photography’s ability to hold traces of time.
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