Spring 2022

This spring Grade 3 students from across the district will have the opportunity to participate in a painting workshop with artist Russna Kaur and art educator Amelia Epp.

Bio

Russna Kaur is an artist living and working in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2019) and a BA (Honours) with a studio specialization from the University of Waterloo (2013). Kaur explores how the surface of a painting can reveal a narrative that addresses complex personal and cultural histories. Her large-scale and multi-surface paintings are developed through rigorous explorations of color, text, digital sketches, and mixed media.
 
Selected exhibitions include “Holding a line in your hand” at Kamloops Art Gallery (2021); “Keep for Old Memoirs” at Young Space Spring 2020 Online, curated with Celine Mo of VICTORI+MO Gallery in New York, NY (2020); “Leaning Out of Windows” at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2020); “the heart is the origin of your worldview” at Art Toronto with Cooper Cole (2019); “Veil of tears” at Trapp Projects, Vancouver (2019) and “She was there for a while…” Fort Gallery, Langley (2019). In 2021, she was commissioned to create an artwork for the second instalment of the Boren Banner Series, public art initiative at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle.

Artist Talk