Rock / Paper / Scissors

Contemporary arts education for youth
that encourages risk taking, research and exploration
+ the opportunity to collaborate with and receive mentorship from local practicing professional artists.

SEMESTER 1 – February 12 – March 11, 2024 (no Class Feb 19)

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ROCK / PAPER / SCISSORS

IN PERSON @ OXYGEN ART CENTRE

When: 4 classes: February 12 – March 11, 2024 (no Class Feb 19)
/ Mondays, 4:15 pm – 5.45 pm

Who: Youth, 11 – 14 yrs

With: 2 artist instructors:

// Marcus Dénommé – Printmaker

// Rayya Liebich – Poet & Writer

*more information about each artist instructor below

What: 

Join poet Rayya Liebich and printmaker Marcus Dénommé to create and print your own poem. By reading and responding to poems, students will create their own message of expression with Rayya, then transfer their work onto fabric and other surfaces using traditional silkscreen printing techniques. Come play with words and printmaking to create something as unique as you are.

Student Fee:  $60 (All materials included)

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SEMESTER 2 – May 27 – June 24, 2024

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ROCK / PAPER / SCISSORS

IN PERSON @ OXYGEN ART CENTRE

When: 5 classes: May 27 – June 24, 2024

/ Mondays, 4:15 pm – 5.45 pm

Who: Youth, 11 – 14 yrs

With: 2 artist instructors:

// Brian Lye – Filmmaker

// Rayya Liebich – Poet & Writer

*more information about each artist instructor below

What: 

Join filmmaker Brian Lye and poet Rayya Liebich on a multidisciplinary adventure to create a stop-motion animation film using an altered book as a springboard for story.  Rayya will demonstrate how to write blackout poems, create book folds, and use decoupage techniques inside a hardcover book.  Brian will then show you how to bring objects, words, and drawings to life using stop-motion animation. 

The culminating project will be a short movie of your chosen figurine/narrator literally jumping out of your book to tell a story through voice, image, and fun filming techniques.  Come ready to learn, explore, and be amazed!

Student Fee:  $75 (All materials included)

SEMESTER 3 – September 16 – November 4, 2024  (no class on Sept. 30 & Oct. 14)

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ROCK / PAPER / SCISSORS

IN PERSON @ OXYGEN ART CENTRE

When: 6 classes: September 16 – November 4, 2024  (no class on Sept. 30 & Oct. 14)

/ Mondays, 4:15 pm – 5.45 pm

Who: Youth, 11 – 14 yrs

With: 2 artist instructors:

// Brian Lye – Filmmaker

// Jaymie Johnson – Multi-disciplinary Artist

*more information about each artist instructor below

Join artists Brian Lye and Jaymie Johnson on a multidisciplinary adventure to create a short animated film. Brian will introduce stop-motion animation and show students how to bring objects, words, and drawings to life. Jaymie will demonstrate how to create linocut stamps to add type, images, and patterns to the animations. Brian will also introduce students to iMovie to add titles and sounds to their animations. 

By utilizing linocut stamps, characters, and typography, students will leave the course with a short movie that tells a story through voice, image, and filmic techniques. Come ready to learn, explore, and be amazed!

Student Fee:  $90 (All materials included)

NDCU – Scholarship for rock / paper / scissors

Oxygen Art Centre recognizes that some young artists face systemic barriers that may cause economic hardship, which disproportionately affects historically marginalized people. In order to ensure access to Oxygen’s arts education programming, and with financial support from the Nelson & District Credit Union, we are offering a scholarship to the rock / paper / scissors program to youth in financial need, with priority to 2SQTBIPOC youth living in the Columbia Basin region.

/ ABOUT THE ARTISTS/

Rayya Liebich (she/her) is a Canadian writer and educator of Lebanese and Polish descent. Winner of the Richard Carver Award for Emerging Writers (2019), The Geneva Literary Award (2015), and The Golden Grassroots Chapbook Award (2015), she holds a degree in English Literature from McGill University and a B. Ed from The University of Victoria. Her debut full-length poetry collection Min Hayati was released in 2021 by Inanna Publications and her poetry and prose have appeared in literary journals internationally. Passionate about writing as a tool for transformation and changing the discourse on grief, she teaches poetry and CNF to youth and adults in beautiful Nelson, BC.

rayyaliebich.com

Marcus Dénommé was born and raised on Algonquin Temiskaming first nations territory in Ontario, canada. It was here at a young age that Dénommé began to explore street art and artistic interventions on public and private property. Throughout the years, they grew a deep passion for the intersection of art and activism such as civil disobedience, direct action, community level organization, etc. Dénommé honed their craft as communications designer at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where they discovered traditional printmaking and bookmaking practices. Although their practice includes a variety of disciplines including painting, sculpture, mixed media, they love exhibiting printed work in independent shows and book fairs. Dénommé is the editor of the Veins & Arterys publications and now calls home to unceded Sinixt territory.

Jaymie Johnson  is a visual artist whose work spans drawing, printmaking, and textiles. Her formal education includes studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she received her BFA in 2015 and later taught as a sessional faculty member.  Her informal education includes mentorship in community engagement and environmental public art from Sharon Kallis (EartHand Gleaners Society) and Cameron Cartiere (Border Free Bees). Jaymie currently resides in her hometown of Nelson, B.C., where she spends her time spellbound by plants: drawing, weaving, growing, spinning, dyeing, listening, and generally enamoured by their magic. 

Brian Lye is a filmmaker and visual artist from Vancouver, Canada, now based in Nelson. His lens-based works are preoccupied with magic, humour, and the everyday. He holds a BA in Film Studies and Japanese Studies from the University of Victoria, a Diploma in Screen Production from Sydney Film School, was a guest student at The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and recently completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in visual art from The University of British Columbia.  His films and animations have won awards and screened internationally at venues such as Sundance Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, The Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona, and LIVE! Vancouver’s performance art biennale. He has been an artist in residence with the Klondike Institute for Art and Culture and the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.

LOOK WHAT THEY CREATED IN 2023!

CALLUM
ELLIOT
MIKEN
GRACE & ROWAN
MILES

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