Families
Art At Home LIVE | Carole Itter
Wed May 27, 2020 | 1:30 PM
Vancouver Art Gallery
Carole Itter
Grand Piano Rattle: a Bosendorfer for Al Neil, 1984
metal, paint, wood, light fixture
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Acquisition Fund
Photo: Trevor Mills, Vancouver Art Gallery
Combining Found Materials To Make Sculpture!
Wednesday, May 13 | 1:30 PM
Let’s make Art At Home!
Join Christina Jones, Family Programs Coordinator, twice a month on Wednesday afternoons to hear stories about the incredible lives of artists and their approaches to art-making in a LIVE Art At Home session on Zoom.
Experience the power of storytelling through art, and discover a new activity that you can try with your family at home!
In this Art At Home Live session, we will open up the possibilities of what can be used to create art, as we take inspiration from the incredible life of British Columbia artist Carole Itter.
“Just about anything has potential for art making,” says Itter, and she shows this in her work, creating sculptures by gathering and assembling tossed-away materials and giving them new life and purpose as art.
Start gathering! We will be using discarded materials found around the house, such as toilet paper rolls, cardboard boxes, old toys, paper and string. Together, we’ll bring them to life as sculpture.
Get involved! Submit questions as a family during the Zoom presentation using the Q&A function. You can also engage with your fellow attendees and host during the event using the Chat function.
New to Zoom? Learn how to register and attend a webinar here »
ABOUT THE ARTIST
An interdisciplinary artist, writer, performer and filmmaker, Carole Itter was born in Vancouver in 1939, and studied at the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver School of Art and L’Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, Italy. Her sculptures, collages and performances, as well as the large-scale assemblages/installations which she is probably best known for, are strongly influenced by the people and places where she has lived and frequently reflect social and political issues. Over the many years she has lived in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood, Itter has incorporated discarded domestic and industrial items found in attics and basements, lanes and thrift shops, and received objects from friends into her assemblages. She has also produced a number of short stories and prose pieces, including Whistle Daughter Whistle and The Log’s Log. Itter’s work is included in the collections of The Canada Council Art Bank, the Vancouver Public Library and the Vancouver Art Gallery.