Meet the Artists in Residence 2022

An emerging mixed media and mosaic artist who moved to the Maritimes in 2018, following work in Alberta in plant sciences and post-secondary education. Originally from Quebec, Carole has practiced mosaic part-time for over twenty years, teaching from her studio in Calgary, and in many colleges and communities. Her focus is working with rich geological and historical elements. The Bay of Fundy has a huge impact on her work, and she strives to learn about local geography and geology wherever she goes. 

Saturday September 17, 2022 

11:30 am

Wellington Museum, 290 Main Street, Wellington 

Free - Everyone is welcome!

Mosaic art workshop

Based on old-world techniques, Carole will lead a mosaic art workshop. Participants can observe or make their own mini mosaic, with a focus on objects found in nature. 

Everyone can participate. No previous experience is required.  All materials supplied.  All ages and abilities are welcome.

Patti and Renée will be collaborating at this year’s Alchemy. They have been collaborators and co-conspirators in the arts community in Hamilton since 1993. 

Patti Randazzo Beckett is a graduate of McMaster University with a BA in Honours Art and Women’s Studies. She spent numerous years supporting artists in all genres before embarking on her own personal journey as a visual artist. She has had solo and shared exhibits across southern Ontario and participated in artist residencies. Much of her artwork is deeply informed by her feminism, Canadian-Sicilian ancestry and love of horses. She travels extensively and uses photo documentation to explore her surroundings, often taking tight intimate shots of a six inch square of flora, land or structures. Her paintings explore a simple narrative of land, water and flora filtered through her personal experiences and studies of her Sicilian ancestry.  Patti offers about her practice; "In my work I explore the disquiet between line and empty space and between colour and form. Much of my work starts with gestural life drawings, and using intuitive embellishment the work becomes both representational and very much abstracted.”   

Renée  Wetselaar is a mixed media artist from Hamilton. She graduated from McMaster University with an honours degree in Art and Art History 1986. From 1995 to 2009 she was a Director at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre. In 2007 she graduated with a Masters Degree in Globalization, Art and Social Change. Currently she is the Executive Director of St. Matthew’s House a Social Service agency in the heart of the city. Renée works through her art to inform and help create social change. 

Saturday August 27, 2022 

11:30 am

Wellington Museum, 290 Main Street, Wellington 

Free - Everyone is welcome!

Capturing Light through Cyanotypes with Patti

Patti will lead a workshop in capturing light with sun prints (cyanotypes). Meet the artist and explore local agriculture using local plants and farm animal stencils.

Connections through Quilting with Renée

Artist, Renée says, "We are all connected: sharing our stories together." Join the Renée to create a colourful paper quilt with your memory of PEC.

Everyone can participate. No previous experience is required.  All materials supplied.  All ages and abilities are welcome.

Annika is an emerging artist that works with food and cooking to stir up conversations & congregation. 

A transdisciplinary artist who was born in Chuzhou, China and adopted at 11 months of age by her family in Canada, she works with a variety of ingredients, materials and collaborators to form her conceptual pieces. Her practice covers notions from personal exploration of cultural identity, to participatory food performances, and everything in between. Her passion for all things culinary are frequently implicated in her continuous investigation of the power of food and

shared meals as a tool for community engagement, conversation and congregating. 

She offers about her practice:

The processual aspects of my work often hold more conceptual importance than the final visual outcome. Collaboration with people from different disciplines and other artists is something that is very important in my practice and is a common course of action. Working in team based projects is a very fruitful experience that I wish to encourage within the art world. Striving to blur the boundaries of the art canon, I make a habit of traversing through many disciplines such as sculptural installations, performance, and media, while challenging traditional materials and

authorship along the way.

From Farm to Springroll

Saturday August 27, 2022 

11:30 am

Wellington Museum, 290 Main Street, Wellington 

Free - Everyone is welcome!

Learn how to roll a fresh springroll while experiencing food that farms like Blue  Wheelbarrow and others grow in the county! Everyone can participate. No previous experience is required.  All materials supplied. 

All ages and abilities are welcome.

She/Her

Frida Foberg is a Swedish community-oriented artist, architect and educator based in New York. She holds an MA in Architecture from Aarhus School of Architecture. Her work unfolds the space that floats between individuals, their habits, cultures and conditions. By working with spatial elements encouraging interaction and reflection, she poses questions that explore the notion of self and others.

Frida works actively with communities and organizations, holding space for the multitude of voices and their interactions. Her work has been exhibited in the 13th and 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale Di Venezia - Venice Italy, Arko Art Museum - Seoul Korea, Galeri Subsuelo - Berlin Germany, Grow Up - Toronto Canada, Bowery Ballroom - New York NY, Turn Park Art Space - West Stockbridge MA, Albany Center Gallery - Albany NY, Opalka Gallery - Albany NY and Arts Letters & Numbers - Averill Park NY. Frida is a recurring critique panelist for Rhode Island School of Architectures graduate program. She is on the Advisory Council of Arts Letters & Numbers, where she is also a Visiting Artist. 

Frida has worked for the artist Vito Acconci, the architect firm VAMOS Architects in Brooklyn and Fantastic Norway in Oslo. She has served as the associate director of the non profit arts and education organization Arts Letters & Numbers. During her years at Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park NY, she worked with UNICEF, China Academy of Fine Art, Cooper Union, Big Picture Learning, Art Council Korea, Education Reimagined, Iowa State University, Siena College, Opalka Gallery, National Coalition Building Institute, AHS Theater Ensemble and Youth fx, to develop interdisciplinary programs, creating a platform to rethink and expand the field of architecture, education and social awareness.

Saturday August 13, 2022 

11:30 am

Wellington Museum, 290 Main Street, Wellington 

Free - Everyone is welcome!

The Art Of Gathering

Fika - a "workshop" where all you do is eat and talk.

As Frida’s residency is coming to an end, she is creating an opportunity to share some of the explorations she’s been doing in the kitchen for a midday “Fika”. Fika is Swedish for “a break from activity during which people come together to drink coffee and eat sweet or savory snacks." 

Come try some snacks featuring locally grown ingredients, have a chat with Frida or anyone else who takes a seat at the table in-front of the Wellington Heritage Museum.  Everyone is welcome, stay as short or long as you like!

Jill Price is a Canadian artist of German, Welsh, Scottish and Ukrainian descent grateful to be living, working and playing on the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Anishinaabeg people, which include the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Pottawatomi Nations collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy,  in Barrie, Ontario. 

An IAMD MFA Graduate from OCAD University, Jill Price received a national SSHRC research grant for her thesis Land as Archive in which she examined the social, ecological and psychological impacts of fast fashion. Currently a PHD student at Queen’s University, Price works at the intersection of writing, drawing and sculpture investigating how methods of unmaking can help to disrupt anthropocenic perspectives and gestures towards land.  Having spent most weekends of her childhood with the pines and sand dunes of Prince Edward County, her experiences with camping, hiking and an ancestral background in farming still informs Price's praxis, and the respect and connection she has with the land today informs the artist's work today. 

Saturday July 30, 2022 

11:30 am

Wellington Museum, 290 Main Street, Wellington 

Free - Everyone is welcome!

Postcards From and For Nature

Have you ever wondered what you might say to your favourite tree or what your favourite tree might have to say to you or to industries and governments that continue to cut trees down?

Join the artist Jill Price to create a series of postcards for Trees on seed paper while also learning how you can use leaves from trees for watercolour painting or mark making! Participants can choose to mail their postcard as a form of activism, plant their postcard near their favourite tree or leave it with the artist for a future mailing or planting. 

Everyone can participate. No previous experience is required.  All materials supplied. 

All ages and abilities are welcome.

Lisa Wood is an artist, collaborator, and educator. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Manitoba and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. Lisa’s figurative-based artistic practice investigates interpersonal relationships, and the role sharing food plays in making and maintaining community. She has been the recipient of many awards and scholarships and has exhibited her painting and prints nationally and internationally at venues including: Gallery 1C03 and Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon), Julie Saul Gallery (New York City), and Warte Für Kunst (Kassel, Germany). Before moving to Brandon, Manitoba to become Assistant Professor in IshKaabatens Waasa Gaa Inaabateg the Department of Visual Art at Brandon University, she was an active contributor to the Winnipeg arts scene. Over the span of 15 years, she worked in various roles including: Studio Coordinator at Art City, Director at PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Instructor at the University of Manitoba, and Program Coordinator at Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art.

Saturday July 16, 2022 

11:30 am

Wellington Museum, 290 Main Street, Wellington 

Free - Everyone is welcome!

Lisa will talk about her recent work and demonstrate quick responsive gestural drawing techniques.  Everyone can participate. No previous experience is required.  All materials supplied. All ages and abilities are welcome.

Gwenyth Chao (she/her) is an artist born in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Her research praxis asks: how can art be a portal to potential futures that offer alternate ways of knowing through material engagements? Chao’s experimental art practice explores how transdisciplinary processes can generate new ways of knowing. 

Follow her work on Instagram @ponderare.

 Saturday July 16, 2022 11:30 am

Wellington Museum, 290 Main Street, Wellington 

Free - Everyone is welcome! 

Gwenyth will talk about her recent works dating from 2017 till now with a focus on alternative art materials. Specifically, she will speak to how items in the kitchen and pantry can be made into sculpting materials through scientific alchemy-like processes. The talk will walk viewers through how she first became interested in biodegradable materials, her experimental processes and material research on food ingredients. 

The artist offers:

My presentation will consider how these alternative ways of working relate to food and place, the colonial history of cultural institutions as well as our planet’s current ecological moment. In the spirit of bridging transdisciplinary ways of thinking and making, I will lead a workshop following this talk inviting participants to create their own bioplastic or ingestible sculpting paste out of food materials. My hope is that participants walk away with a curiosity for how art making materials can be made from easily accessible kitchen pantry items through alchemy! 

Alessandra Pozzuoli is an emerging interdisciplinary artist. Using painting, sculpture, printmaking, and performance her work explores how sacred meaning is communicated through gesture, objects, and narrative. Her practice highlights women’s labor as caretakers and keepers of cultural knowledge within the context of devotion, family, and death.

 Image Transfer - Postcards Workshop 

Saturday July 2, 2022 11am - 12noon 

Wellington Museum, 290 Main Street, Wellington 

Free - Everyone is welcome! 

Using simple materials this workshop is accessible for all participants including children and their families.  This workshop will introduce participants to the technique of image transfer. Participants will be invited to bring xerox/printed images of personal/family photographs and will learn how to use packing tape to produce image transfers to create unique postcards. During the workshop, Alessandra will discuss the impact and importance of sharing messages, ideas and information with loved ones and community members. Participants will leave the workshop with a personalized postcard to keep for themselves, or mail to friends and family members.  Materials will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own images! 

Nicole Crozier is a Tkaronto-based visual artist and arts manager. She holds a BFA from the University of Ottawa (2013) and a post-graduate certificate in Arts Management (2016) from Centennial College. Her work has been exhibited throughout southern Ontario and in Montreal. Influenced by, or in direct reference to fashion imagery, Nicole surrealistically explores the animate potential of accessories and decoration in relation to the feminized body in her work through the traditions of painting, photography, and college. 

Saturday July 2, 2022 

11am - 12noon 

Wellington Museum

290 Main Street, Wellington Free - Everyone is welcome! 

Join Nicole for this one hour workshop and learn how to make a low relief visual collage. Using magazines, found objects, furr and other crafting supplies, explore different assemblage and adhesive techniques. Materials provided - all you need is your intuition! Feel free to bring any images or small objects that you wish to collage. 

Nicole offers about the technique: “Collage” literally means “to glue” in French. But it has also come to refer to assembling various elements together to form a whole. We collage when we place contrasting elements next to one another to create connections or cross-pollinate ideas to breed something new. We can approach making collages as a way to symbolize the complex constellations of our lives, make something strange, or simply as a form of play and a way to let go, have fun and make in the moment!