Art Connects | Quaranteen Dreams

with April dela Noche Milne and karla monterrosa

Friday, July 3 | 4:30 PM

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Imagine yourself as a teenager⁠—but living through a pandemic. How would you have confronted the overwhelming feelings of anxiety? In this Art Connects, artists April dela Noche Milne and karla monterrosa will reflect on their adolescent years and discuss our current state of overwhelmingness.

Beginning with a performative skit about sisterhood and generational difference, the artists will share pictures from their teenage years, discuss their work in illustration, design, performance and film, and unveil a new series of comics that showcases how empathy and mindfulness manifests in each of their practices.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

April dela Noche Milne is a Filipino Canadian artist based in the unceded, ancestral, and occupied, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Watuth) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples, also known as Vancouver. Her work is inspired by grief and memories, everyday narratives, and issues of identity. dela Noche Milne studied Fine Arts at Langara College and graduated with a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2014. She is a published illustrator and did the artwork for the graphic novel The Blue Road: A fable of migration, with Wayde Compton (2019), which received a Kirkus Star, and The Imperfect Garden, a children’s book written by Melissa Assaly (2019). She also contributed to the Cloudscape comics anthology The Witching Hours (2019). Her work has been featured in Briarpatch Magazine, Ricepaper Magazine and EVENT Magazine, as well as in various public places across the Lower Mainland. If you are trying to find her,  dela Noche Milne will be on the internet—she loves the internet. She similarly loves a classic bubble milk tea with pearls so you could also try looking at your nearest Chatime.

karla monterrosa (she/her) is a queer animation filmmaker, illustrator and comedian born and raised in San Salvador, El Salvador. In 2009, she relocated to the unceded, ancestral, and occupied traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Watuth) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples. monterrosa graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a BFA in Animation. She got her first period on October 11th, 2001, and hasn’t stopped talking about that (or any other body fluid, really) since. She’s obsessed with the awkwardness of the human body (especially her own) and aspires to create images that reflect a world in which shame doesn’t exist. Her paintings and short films have been exhibited in art galleries all over the Americas, screened in film festivals all over the world, and never fail to make her parents utterly uncomfortable.