Discover dynamic landscape sketching in this four-session course with local artist Mairi Budreau. Learn to translate expansive scenes onto the pages of a small sketchbook, build depth while capturing light and shadow, decide what to keep and what to leave out, and compose with an interesting focal point. Whether sketching for pleasure or in preparation for paintings, these techniques develop observation skills and guide you in capturing the essence of the landscape. Participants are encouraged to bring their phone or camera.

This course incorporates sketching in the landscape at locations such as Cooney Bay, Riverside Park, Barnhartvale and Six Mile Point and may include sitting on the ground or standing for prolonged periods. Most of the walking will be on level terrain, but may include some low to moderate hills. Participants are encouraged to bring their own assistive devices, chairs or portable easels if desired.

This course comes with a complete travel sketch kit including a sketchbook, pens, pencils and more for you to keep.

No experience is necessary.

This course has space for 12 participants. Registration fee is for all 4 classes and includes supplies.

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Build your own portable drawing studio and join local artist and KAG art instructor Niki Mahon for a week of exploring and drawing outside. This program has space for 6 participants.

Generously supported by the Jann LM Bailey Legacy Fund.

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Join us at Zack’s Coffee on the last Monday of every month to contribute to large-scale collaborative drawings, play Surrealist drawing games and enjoy some of Kamloops’ best local coffee. No experience is necessary. All supplies are provided.

Join us in our studios for an evening of hilarity that brings together an unlikely pairing: figure drawing and B-movies. We begin with a short introduction to figure drawing techniques and then we watch the movie and draw the figures—aliens, sea monsters, mad scientists and the like—in motion on the screen.

All materials are provided (and some popcorn). No experience is necessary. No registration is required.

August 15 // Night of the Living Dead
August 29 // Plan 9 from Outer Space
October 24 // The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
November 28 // Babes in Toyland
December 19 // 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Join us in our studios to drink coffee and tea, meet new friends and develop your art-making skills. Each week, we
will lead a short workshop exploring a particular technique and look at the work of contemporary and historical female artists to inspire your own artwork.

All materials are provided. No experience is necessary. No registration is required.

Generously sponsored by Wilson M. Beck Insurance Services.

All the same fun, friends and art-making you’ve come to love with our Ladies’ Afternoon Drawing Club, but at night. Join us to drink coffee and tea, meet new friends and develop your art-making skills. No experience is necessary. All materials are provided. No registration is required.

Art History Happy Hour is an ongoing program that invites artists, educators and scholars to present on their current research and artistic practices.
A cash bar is available.

September 6 // Dion Fortie
September 13 // Ed Archie NoiseCat

For five hundred years perspective drawing has been a fundamental aspect of representational drawing and painting and is based on a few basic principles: the artist’s viewpoint, the landscape’s horizon, the shape and orientation of the drawing’s subject, etc. Using locations in Riverside Park and Kenna Cartwright Park, this three-day workshop introduces participants to those basic principles and will challenge participants who already have a good understanding of perspective drawing to push their skills further.

Donald Lawrence teaches in the Visual Arts program at TRU. Perspective drawing is a regular part of his practice, including in elaborate travel journals, and his current research is about the history of perspective in relation to visual perception.

This course incorporates sketching in the landscape and may include sitting on the ground or standing for prolonged periods. Most of the walking will be on level terrain, but may include some low to moderate hills. Participants are encouraged to bring their own assistive devices, chairs or portable easels if desired.

This course comes with a complete travel sketch kit for you to keep.

No experience is necessary.

This course has space for 10 participants. Registration fee is for all 3 classes and includes supplies

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Join us at Red Collar Brewing Co. on the second Wednesday of every month to contribute to large-scale collaborative drawings, play Surrealist drawing games and enjoy some of Kamloops’ best local beer. No experience is necessary. All supplies are provided. Minors are welcome at Red Collar with an accompanying parent or guardian.

Let’s come together to celebrate the opening of our fallexhibitions. Meet the artists and curators, mix with other art supporters, get creative at the Kids Table and enjoy live music. Cash bar with wine and beer sponsored by Red Collar Brewing and appetizers sponsored by Eats Amore. Everyone is welcome. Memberships are 25% off.

Join us to explore traditional and contemporary Indigenous art practices with our Indigenous Art Instructor.
All materials provided (and some snacks). No experience is necessary. No registration is required.

Join us in our studios for songs, stories and puppets with Kathy from the Kamloops Library, followed by baby-friendly art making at 11:00. All of our art materials are safe for small children who want to put everything in their mouths. Art can be messy! Dress your child in something you won’t mind getting dirty. No registration required. All supplies provided.

This program is generously sponsored by Forward Law LLP.

Learn new skills from local and visiting artists in our Adult Open Studio workshops. All materials are provided. No experience is necessary. Each workshop has space for 20 participants, unless otherwise noted. Register by calling the Gallery 250-377-2400.

August 16 // Up Close in the Gallery
Spend a couple of hours contemplating, talking about and sketching art works from our permanent collection on display in the exhibition Through the Memory Atlas: 40 Years of Collecting. Discover how the artworks change through close and extended observation and learn new ways to draw what you see.
October 25 // Accordion Books
Make your own journal, diary, sketchbook or ledger using a simple and clever accordion book technique that allows you to add more pages as the book fills up.
November 15 // Block Printing on Fabric
Create beautiful fabric through simple, geometric block printing techniques. Some fabric will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring their own if they have something special in mind.
December 13 // E-Textiles
Learn how to sew with conductive thread, and incorporate LEDs, batteries, switches and microcontrollers to create a soft sculpture that lights up! This workshop only has space for 12 participants.

Fall session
November 3, 10, 17 // December 1, 8

We are delighted to announce the KAG is now offering introductory ceramics courses in our studios. Participants will learn the basics of hand building and wheel throwing to create small vessels and a mug. All materials are provided. No experience is necessary.

This course has space for 10 participants.

Generously supported by Thompson Rivers University Department of Visual and Performing Arts.

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Come draw on our walls! Taking inspiration from the giant wall paintings in Eleanor King: Inverted Pyramids and Roads to Nowhere, participants will collaborate to create their own design for a chalk mural that covers every wall in our studios.

Extended care is available.

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Join us for a fun afternoon of family-friendly mini-tours and hands-on art-making activities inspired by our exhibitions.
We thank parents for staying with their children throughout tours and art-making activities.
No experience is necessary. All materials are provided. No registration is required. Exhibition admission is included.