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Visiting Scholar Liz Toohey-Wise: Ecological Grief workshop
February 5 at 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Join us for a collaborative art project, using wildfire ash as a painting material to explore our thoughts and emotions related to climate anxiety, ecological grief, and our continued love and care for the world around us.
Visiting artist/scholar Liz Toohey-Wiese will be leading an art workshop for participants to explore ecological grief and connection to nature. Designed for artists and non-artists alike, participants will be shown how to make paint from natural materials, and we will be processing pigment made from wildfire ash collected from burns across so-called British Columbia. Participants will be led through a variety of prompts, using our homemade wildfire ash paint, to explore our thoughts and ideas around our connection to the natural world, as well as feelings that come up in the face of the ongoing changes we are seeing across the landscapes we know and love. Finally, we will be using our painted explorations to make a collaborative art project together, piecing together a paper quilt to be on display at the Woodhaven EcoCultural Centre.
Registration is required, space is limited to 15 participants.
Liz Toohey-Wiese is a settler artist from the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. She will be the visiting artist/scholar at the FEELed Lab in February and March 2025, exploring ideas around art making as a method to process ecological grief and build emotional resilience in the face of a changing climate.