Branscombe House Artist Residency
Free Workshops
Soil ChromatographySat, Sep 25: 2:30-4:00pm
- Adults, Youth and Children 6+ years (parent participation required for children 6-12yrs)
- In-person at the Richmond Cultural Centre's Outdoor Plaza
- 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond
- Adults & Youth
- Outdoors at Branscombe House
- 4900 Steveston Highway, Richmond
For these workshops, lab equipment and earth samples will be used to make prints. The soil you collect should be from a place that’s significant to you—whether you find it yourself or have someone mail you a sample from another place that you can’t visit right now due to the pandemic. In these ‘prints’ of earth processes, the radial patterns turn out differently depending on soil quality, carbon and mineral content. Soil chromatography has been used to determine the health of soil, but we can use it to create a collection of artworks that represent different places.
Register in advance for these free workshops by RSVPing to rachelrozanski@gmail.com. A detailed material list will be provided by email.
Visit www.rachelrozanski.com/branscombeblog2021 for more information or to register.
About Rachel |
| Rachel Rozanski - 2021 Branscombe House Artist in Residence |
Rachel Rozanski is a Canadian artist whose interdisciplinary works explore biological, geological and material transformations appearing as we enter the Anthropocene. She studied Visual Arts at Emily Carr, Capilano and Langara, and received an MFA from Ryerson University in Documentary Media.
She has exhibited across Canada and internationally, showing interdisciplinary works that explore scientific concepts focusing on environmental timelines. Through residency projects in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Iceland, she has collaborated with researchers and been inspired by the study of land change, pollutants and adaptations and extinctions.
About the Branscombe House Artist Residency
Branscombe House is located at 4900 Steveston Highway and is one of the earliest settler homes built in the area; as such it is significant for its historical association to Steveston and for reflecting the pattern of commercial and related residential development that occurred in Steveston’s early history.
The Branscombe House Artist-in-Residence is selected annually via an open call. Our open call is now closed. Check back next year for 2023 opportunity.
2021 Artist-in-Residence: Rachel Rozanski
2020 Artist-in-Residence: Lou Sheppard
2019 Artist-in-Residence: Paige Gratland
2018 Artist-in-Residence: Keely O'Brien
2017 Artist-in-Residence: Barbara Meneley
2016 Artist-in-Residence: Rhonda Weppler