Comics and Visual Storytelling with Artist Sean Karemaker
Date: May 5, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Carson Graham Secondary, Room D104
Maximum: 20 participants
Who is this for: This hands-on workshop is for secondary art, design, and photography teachers.
Workshop Description
This hands on workshop for secondary art teachers will focus on comics, drawing, and visual storytelling. Sean Karemaker will present an artist talk, sharing practical strategies for planning characters, setting, and plot. Sean Karemaker and art teacher Meghan Parker will then present a secondary lesson sequence in which students create their own unique scroll comics and explore techniques such as page composition, framing, inking, and cross hatching.
Artists for Kids After School Printmaking Pro-D Series
Bring printmaking to your classroom with the Artists for Kids Printmaking Kits!
Join us at Artists for Kids for a series of five FREE after school workshops led by NVSD art specialist teachers! Each workshop will provide a fun, hands-on opportunity to try out a printmaking lesson using materials provided in the Artists for Kids Printmaking Kits.
The kits can be booked online for FREE for a period of 2 weeks. Each kit comes with an illustrated step-by-step lesson guide, as well as the tools needed to carry out a printmaking activity in your classroom.
Note: All workshops will take place at Artists for Kids in the Shadbolt Studio, 2121 Lonsdale Ave.
 | Workshop 1: Trace Monotype Self-Portraits (Trace Monotype Kit) Grade level: Elementary and Secondary Activity: Use trace monotype printmaking and mixed media collage techniques to create a self-portrait. |
 | Workshop 2: Collagraph Butterflies (Collagraph Kit) Grade Level: Intermediate Activity: Create
collagraph butterfly prints using relief shapes cut from foam sheets as
well as additive and subtractive cutout techniques. |
 | Workshop 3: Collagraph Landscapes (Collagraph Kit) Activity: Create a collagraph landscape print inspired by Ted Harrison’s artwork using various textured materials glued to cardstock. |
 | Workshop 4: Gel Plate Comics (Gel Plate Kit) Grade level: Intermediate and Secondary Activity: Use gel plate monoprinting, drawing, and writing to create a four-panel comic. |
 | Workshop 5: Relief Printmaking with Found Materials (Collagraph Kit) Grade Level: Intermediate Activity: Create original relief prints using accessible materials such as schoolyard scraps and leaves to created inked and printed compositions. Learn to use a hand printing press! |
Previous Pro-D:
Bringing Clay into your Classroom (FULL):
In this two-part hands-on clay workshop, ceramics artist Amelia Butcher will walk you through a lesson designed specifically for elementary grades. The artist will share practical tips and techniques for managing materials and teaching clay techniques to elementary students. Teachers are able to sign out the AFK Clay Kit to use in their schools for a two-week period. In this kit, teachers will have all the tools needed to complete the clay lesson taught in this two-part workshop series.
Workshop 1: Tuesday, October 8th, 2024 from 3:30 - 5:00 PM (Shadbolt Studio)
Workshop 2: Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 from 3:30 - 5:00 PM (Reid Room)
Location: Artists for Kids studios (2121 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver)
Cost: $40
Workshops will cover the following topics: managing materials in the classroom, hand building techniques, sculpting with clay, glazing objects, press molds, planning and design process, drying and firing clay artworks.
Registration for this workshop is now closed.
Garbage Press Collagraph Printing - October 25th (FULL)
Title: Garbage Press: Collagraph Printmaking
Date & Time: Friday, October 25th from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Artists for Kids, Shadbolt Studio
Maximum: 24 participants
Who is this for: Hands-on Art Workshop for Elementary and Secondary Teachers
Description: Join artist Reed H. Reed for a hands-on collagraph printmaking workshop. Reed will discuss their art practice, including work currently on exhibit at the Gordon Smith Gallery. Reed will share ways to use accessible materials such as schoolyard scraps and lunch bag plastic waste to create inked and printed compositions. This workshop explores the potential of discarded items, emphasizing shape, texture, and composition. Includes options for educators with and without access to a printing press.
Hannah Jickling and Reed H. Reed, Pinking Index (detail), 2023
Text-based Art with Whess Harman - October 25th (FULL)
Title: Text-based Art with Whess Harman
Date & Time: Friday, October 25th from 1:00 - 3:30 PM
Location: Artists for Kids, Gordon Smith Gallery
Maximum: 24 participants
Who is this for: Hands-on Art Workshop for Intermediate and Secondary Teachers
Description: Artist and curator Whess Harman will discuss his practice, including work currently on exhibit at the Gordon Smith Gallery. Whess, who works primarily in drawing, text and textiles, will discuss ways that art can be used as a tool of resistance. He will lead an art-making session with participants using text, painting, and stitching as the starting point of a small “protest patch” artwork.
Wess Harman, Potlatch Punk
