VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR:

FOUNDATIONAL MENTORSHIP Q&A

Are you thinking about applying to the 2025-26 Foundational Mentorship Program?

Join us for a Virtual Office Hour on Wednesday, MAY 21 from 12-1PM to learn more about the program. We'll start with a short presentation, followed by time for your questions.

If you have questions, feel free to reach out at workshops.sask@carfac.ca.

CARFAC SASK’s 2025-26 Foundational Mentorship Program deadline is JUNE 15.

CARFAC SASK is pleased to partner with the Saskatchewan Writers Guild to present:

Decolonizing the archive via Poetics

with Emily Riddle

The archives give us access to ancestors, proof of historical brilliance and oppression, and hints about how to approach the trickiness of our current world. This workshop will review basics in accessing archives both online and in-person and how archival research can be processed, critiqued, and visited through the creation of poetry. We will discuss the work of poets who use the archives and work through some archival prompts in order to create a few poems together. 

EMILY RIDDLE (she/her) is Nehiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation (Kipohtakaw). She is a writer, textile artist, and library worker based in Amisko Waciw Wâskahikan (Edmonton, Canada). In 2022, she released her first full length poetry collection, The Big Melt which won the Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian first book award. Her writing has been published in The Malahat Review, Canadian Art, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, among others. Emily Riddle is a dedicated Treaty 6 descendant and a semi-dedicated Edmonton Oilers fan. She loves to work in different genres and is excited to work with Saskatchewan-based mentors. 

ABOUT 
CARFAC SASK’s 2024-2025 Art Writing Mentorship is offered in partnership with the ICCA (Indigenous Curatorial Collective) and aims to foster critical art dialogues in, for, and coming out of Saskatchewan. From November 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025 mentees in the program will work with mentoring writers Emily Riddle and Nic Wilson towards specific mentee-led art writing goals. Public events such as this one, offered in conjunction with the mentorship, are delivered in partnership with Saskatchewan Writers Guild.

CARFAC SASK is pleased to partner with the Saskatchewan Writers Guild to present:

The CoNTIniuum of reading/ Writing

with Nic Wilson

This workshop will experiment with non-division between reading and writing. Participants will be introduced to the theoretical concept of non-division as presented by writers such as Maria Fusco and Hélène Cixous. We will work through several exercises that are designed to disrupt the notion that reading and writing are individuated activities that can be practiced in isolation.

NIC WILSON (they/he) is a settler artist and writer who was born in the Wolastoqiyik territory known as Fredericton, NB in 1988. He graduated with a BFA from Mount Allison University, Mi’kmaq territory, in 2012, and an MFA from the University of Regina, Treaty Four Territory, in 2019 where he was a SSHRC graduate fellow. They have shown work and across Canada and participated in projects with Remai Modern, Plug In ICA, Art Souterrain, and Modern Fuel. They have shown work internationally with Venice International Performance Art Week, Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América in Mexico City, and NADA in Bogotá. 

ABOUT 
CARFAC SASK’s 2024-2025 Art Writing Mentorship is offered in partnership with the ICCA (Indigenous Curatorial Collective) and aims to foster critical art dialogues in, for, and coming out of Saskatchewan. From November 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025 mentees in the program will work with mentoring writers Emily Riddle and Nic Wilson towards specific mentee-led art writing goals. Public events such as this one, offered in conjunction with the mentorship, are delivered in partnership with Saskatchewan Writers Guild.

CARFAC SASK is pleased to partner with the Saskatchewan Writers Guild to present:

WHAT EVEN IS ART WRITING?

Artist Talks with Emily Riddle and Nic Wilson

This event is a public component of CARFAC SASK’s Art Writing Mentorship program, where everyone is invited to hear from the mentoring writers as they share their expertise on art, writing, and the intersection of the two. Hearing first-hand from Emily Riddle and Nic Wilson about their own interdisciplinary relationships to text-based practices, we propose that an equally interdisciplinary understanding of art writing’s potential might emerge—inclusive of criticism, poetry, fiction, art, performance, and publishing—specifically from artists making and writing from a prairie context.

We look forward to spotlighting the mentors of CARFAC SASK’s Art Writing Mentorship through two 25-minute presentations by Emily Riddle and Nic Wilson, followed by a 30-minute Q&A period. There is no cost to attend this event.

ABOUT 
CARFAC SASK’s 2024-2025 Art Writing Mentorship is offered in partnership with the ICCA (Indigenous Curatorial Collective) and aims to foster critical art dialogues in, for, and coming out of Saskatchewan. From November 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025 mentees in the program will work with mentoring writers Emily Riddle and Nic Wilson towards specific mentee-led art writing goals. Public events such as this one, offered in conjunction with the mentorship, are delivered in partnership with Saskatchewan Writers Guild.

VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR:

PROGRAM Q&A: ART WRITING MENTORSHiP

The Call for Mentees for CARFAC SASK’s 2024-2025 Art Writing Mentorship closes on August 29, 2024 but CARFAC SASK understands that artists are oftentimes working on applications until the last possible moment.
Drop in to a virtual office hour from noon to 1pm on August 28, 2024 for an informal public forum focused the Art Writing Mentorship Program. Program & Outreach Director: Jera MacPherson will explain the intentions behind the program and registrants are invited to pose questions that will ensure they are able to hit send on those applications!

REGISTER now to attend via Zoom!

Reminder that programming staff at CARFAC SASK’s Regina Office maintain regular in person office hours Monday-Thursday from 10am-4:30pm and CARFAC SASK’s Saskatoon Office is open by appointment.

As part of the Prairie Webinar Series, CARFAC Alberta, CARFAC Saskatchewan and CARFAC Manitoba are pleased to present:

Just Graduated? Now What?

With Brody Burns & Mohammad Abbasi

Wednesday June 26, 2024
6:30pm-8pm CST/MDT (7:30pm-9pm CDT)
Webinar Hosted Online

For artists who pursue academic accreditation, a Master of Fine Arts degree (MFA) is considered a terminal degree since the PhD has not yet established itself for studio art in Canadian universities. After celebrating the accomplishment of completing any degree, what comes next? In Just Graduated? Now What?, two recent MFA graduates  reflect on the expectations versus realities of their experiences, and share how they’ve begun to find opportunity and community post-grad: Brody Burns graduated from the University of Saskatchewan and Mohammad Abbassi graduated from the University of Alberta. The two 25 minute presentations will be followed by a thirty-minute Q&A period, where we look forward to hearing your questions on this topic.

REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE Webinars are free for all CARFAC members across Canada and suggested $25.00 for non-members. Please reach out if you could use a hand navigating registration.

ABOUT THE WEBINAR
Brody Burns will discuss his experiences as a self-employed, up-and-coming artist as well as some of the difficulties he has encountered. Artists have access to a variety of resources, including grants, artist-run facilities, online business tools and networking possibilities.

Mohammad Abbasi will discuss his experience as a recent immigrant to Canada and the difficulties of navigating through his own cultural narrative while simultaneously deciphering mysteries of a new environment.  As a painter from Iran, Mohammad will describe the burden of self-censorship  while dealing with the complex interplay of political and religious factors that formed his upbringing.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Brody Burns recently received his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (2021) and Master of Fine Arts (2023) from the University of Saskatchewan. Brody belongs to the Treaty 6 Territory of the James Smith Cree Nation. He presently maintains a studio at AKA/Paved Arts and resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Brody is a painter first and foremost, with a focus on expressive figurative art infused with indigenous knowledge and spirituality, as well as abstract energy. 

Mohammad Abbasi  holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta. He has been residing in this country for approximately three years. Through painting, Mohammad explores the evolving identity of the Middle East diaspora. His art practice is a conversation about transformation and landscape, pertaining both to the idea of Home and of Self. As an immigrant, his work seeks to navigate ‘The Third Space’ as experienced by diasporic populations, and negotiate what are the boundaries - what is ‘safe’?
 
HOSTS/ MODERATORS
Chris W. Carson: Executive Director at CARFAC Alberta
Jera MacPherson: Program & Outreach Director at CARFAC Saskatchewan

As part of the Travelling Mentor Program, CARFAC SASK and Moosomin Visual Art Centre are pleased to present the following free workshop:

CERAMICS

with Travelling Mentor Rob Froese

Monday June 17, 2024
from 6pm-9pm
Hosted in-person at Moosomin Visual Art Centre

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This ceramics workshop, led by CARFAC SASK’s 2023-2024 Travelling Mentor, will include: discussion of clay, ceramics processes, and how utility and cultural context unite in a completed ceramic work, acquainting yourself with a clay body to discover its working qualities, a group sculpture activity, and demonstration and hands-on handbuilt platter making.

PRE-REGISTER HERE

ABOUT ROB FROESE
Raised in Saskatchewan, Rob’s ceramic practice has been strongly influenced by 15 years of making and exhibiting in Japan. Since 2015, he has produced work and taught out of a Saskatoon studio, Medalta International Artists in Residence, Medicine Hat, and the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary, where he is a Sessional Ceramics Faculty member. His work is informed by an art centred upbringing, travel and work experiences in Canada, Mexico, Europe and Southeast Asia, and formal art studies at the University of Saskatchewan (BA), University of Regina (BFA), and Alberta University of the Arts (MFA Craft Media). Rob’s ceramic work employs a growing variety of clay bodies, forming techniques, and diverse kiln firing methods. Learn more at: robfroese.com

FREE WORKSHOP
The Travelling Mentor program is made possible thanks to funding support from SK Arts and SaskCulture / Sask Lotteries and from CARFAC SASK's artist members across the province. Consider joining or renewing your membership today.

CARFAC SASK & Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre are pleased to present the following free workshop:

Hanging your Artwork: Preparator Skills for Artists

With Larissa Berschley MacLellan

Saturday June 8. 2024, 1pm-4pm
Hosted in-person
Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre
1854 Scarth Street, Regina

Handling and installing your own artwork is a fundamental experience of exhibiting at artist-run centres, DIY spaces, and artist collectives. Moreover, an informed relationship to technical practices of displaying art objects will benefit any artist throughout their career.

Join Larissa Berschley MacLellan as she shares the lessons she’s learned over nearly 10 years working as a professional art preparator: Look forward to learning basic art handling techniques intended to keep both you and your artworks safe and and become acquainted with the common tools of the trade. Don’t be surprised if discussing the largely unseen labour that goes into the crating, handling, and display of artworks doesn’t expand the way you conceive of your artwork in relation to larger museum practices.

REGISTER TODAY! Email: admin@neutralground.sk.ca

FREE WORKSHOP
Free programs like this one  are made possible thanks to funding support from SaskCulture / Sask Lotteries and from CARFAC SASK's artist members across the province. Consider joining or renewing your membership today.

VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR:

FOUNDATIONAL MENTORSHIP Q&A

CARFAC SASK’s programming staff invite anyone working on your application for the 2024-2025 Foundational Mentorship (due June 15, 2024!) or those curious about applying one day to attend this Virtual Office Hour on May 22, 2024 at noon. The event is meant as a an informal public forum focused on the application process for the Foundational Mentorship Program. Registrants are invited to come with questions, such as those regarding building a strong application, for discussion among staff and fellow artists.

REGISTER now to attend via Zoom!

Reminder that programming staff at CARFAC SASK’s Regina Office maintain regular in person office hours Monday-Thursday from 10am-4:30pm and CARFAC SASK’s Saskatoon Office is open by appointment.

FACILITATORS
Programming Assistant: Joviel Buenavente
Program & Outreach Director: Jera MacPherson

CARFAC SASK, CARFAC ALBERTA, & CARFAC MANITOBA are pleased to present the following in their Prairie Webinar Series:

Art Collectives: Exploring Collaborative Models on an Individual Scale

With Michael Goto Magnussen & Holly Aubichon

Wednesday April 10th, 6:30pm-8pm
Webinar Hosted Online

Collectives role-model unique models for self-management towards shared artistic outcomes.  Have you ever wondered what the experience of being in an art collective is like or how they get started? Join us for  presentations by Michael Magnussen of YTB Collective and Holly Aubichon of Harbour Collective as they speak to the role that Art Collectives have played in their artistic careers and beyond! Presentations will be followed by a thirty-minute Q&A period, where we look forward to hearing your questions on the topic.

REGISTER NOW! Webinars are free for all CARFAC members across Canada and suggested $25.00 for non-members. Please reach out if you could use a hand navigating registration.

ABOUT THE WEBINAR
Michael will speak about their experience with creating collectives and the role that collectives fill in the arts sector, as an alternative to more hierarchical models. Through exploring their past work, they will offer practical tips to start your own collective or collaboration. They will also speak to a variety of models that exist in Canada and share their experience collaborating with international collectives through their collective YTB.

Holly will reflect on centering collective-building and experimentation through her ongoing engagement with collectives. As an emerging artist, practicing in collaboration has offered a support network and has led to invaluable opportunities and personal growth for her as an artist.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
MICHAEL MAGNUSSEN I am an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and community builder originally from rural Saskatchewan and now based out of Edmonton, Alberta. I hold a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from OCAD University in Ontario and a BFA from Concordia University in Quebec in Studio Arts. I am the co-founder and collective member of YTB Gallery, a nomadic artist-run center for emerging artists and curators founded in Toronto in 2014.

HOLLY AUBICHON (she/her)  investigates topics of urban Indigeneity and how ancestral knowledge ​reaches​ urban Indigenous people through ​memories;​​ land, and body. Her practice includes painting, writing and curation. She identifies as Métis, Cree ​from her Paternal side, ​and Ukrainian, Irish, and Scottish ancestry​ from her Maternal side. Aubichon was​ born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. Her Indigenous relations come from Meadow Lake, Green Lake and Lestock, SK. Aubichon’s practice is laboriously reliant on retracing familial memories and connections.  She graduated from the University of Regina in 2021 with a BFA, minoring in Indigenous Art History. Aubichon was the Saskatchewan recipient of the 2021 BMO 1st Art! Award. Aubichon is the current Artistic Director for Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective Inc​.​


HOSTS / MODERATORS
Chris W. Carson: Executive Director at CARFAC Alberta
Jera MacPherson: Program & Outreach Director at CARFAC Saskatchewan

CARFAC SASK and CARFAC ALBERTA are pleased to present:

Telling a Story: How to Write a Better Grant

With Dwayne Martineau and Nic Wilson

Wednesday March 20th, 6:30pm-8pm (CST/MDT)
WEBINAR HOSTED ONLINE

Telling a Story: How to Write a Better Grant features two 25 -30 minute presentations by Dwayne Martineau and Nic Wilson that explain how to tell the right story with the right budget with your next grant. After these two presentations, there will be a thirty-minute Q+A based on your questions. As the webinar is on Zoom, we will unmute the audience so you can ask your own questions. Join us and learn more about how you can tell your story through grant-writing!

Register HERE to attend! Please email programs.sask@carfac.ca or call the Regina office at (306) 522-9788 if you could use a hand with registration.

ABOUT THE WEBINAR
Dwayne Martineau has scored hundreds of grant applications and has studied what makes an application sink or swim. He's seen good proposals go sour for reasons as small as a hard drive. He will be sharing simple tips and strategies that will help you successfully tell your story to a grants jury, avoid red flags, and keep your application away from the NO pile.
 
For Nic Wilson, a budget tells a story. It can create confidence in your grant application or it can raise alarm bells. In this session, they will talk about how to present a well-balanced grant budget, how to use it once you begin your project, and how to report on your activities, expenses, and financial outcomes. They will discuss the difference between in-kind support, personal contributions, and grant requests with an emphasis on individual artists grants. 

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
DWAYNE MARTINEAU is an artist, musician, writer and photographer based in Edmonton. Winner of the 2022 Edmonton Visual Arts Prize and recipient of the Edmonton Artists Trust Fund Award in 2017 and 2021. His band The Hearts has performed across Canada, showcased at SXSW (South by Southwest) in Austin, had a #1 record on CKUA Radio, and songs featured on HBO and MTV.

NIC WILSON (they/he) is an artist and writer who was born in the Wolastoqiyik territory known as Fredericton, NB in 1988. They are now based on Treaty Four Land in oskana ka-asastēki/Regina, SK where they earned an MFA from the University of Regina. They have worked as a board member and administrative director with several arts organizations and currently serve as the Chair of the board for Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre. 

HOSTS / MODERATORS
Chris W. Carson: Executive Director at CARFAC Alberta
Jera MacPherson: Program & Outreach Director at CARFAC Saskatchewan

CARFAC SASK and CARFAC ALBERTA are pleased to present:

Telling a Story: How to Write a Better Grant

With Dwayne Martineau and Nic Wilson

*POSTPONED UNTIL: Wednesday March 20th, 6:30pm CST*
WEBINAR HOSTED ONLINE

Telling a Story: How to Write a Better Grant features two 25 -30 minute presentations by Dwayne Martineau and Nic Wilson that explain how to tell the right story with the right budget with your next grant. After these two presentations, there will be a thirty-minute Q+A based on your questions. As the webinar is on Zoom, we will unmute the audience so you can ask your own questions. Join us and learn more about how you can tell your story through grant-writing!

Register HEREto attend! Please email programs.sask@carfac.ca or call the Regina office at (306) 522-9788 if you could use a hand with registration.

ABOUT THE WEBINAR
Dwayne Martineau has scored hundreds of grant applications and has studied what makes an application sink or swim. He's seen good proposals go sour for reasons as small as a hard drive. He will be sharing simple tips and strategies that will help you successfully tell your story to a grants jury, avoid red flags, and keep your application away from the NO pile.
 
For Nic Wilson, a budget tells a story. It can create confidence in your grant application or it can raise alarm bells. In this session, they will talk about how to present a well-balanced grant budget, how to use it once you begin your project, and how to report on your activities, expenses, and financial outcomes. They will discuss the difference between in-kind support, personal contributions, and grant requests with an emphasis on individual artists grants. 

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
DWAYNE MARTINEAU is an artist, musician, writer and photographer based in Edmonton. Winner of the 2022 Edmonton Visual Arts Prize and recipient of the Edmonton Artists Trust Fund Award in 2017 and 2021. His band The Hearts has performed across Canada, showcased at SXSW (South by Southwest) in Austin, had a #1 record on CKUA Radio, and songs featured on HBO and MTV.

NIC WILSON (they/he) is an artist and writer who was born in the Wolastoqiyik territory known as Fredericton, NB in 1988. They are now based on Treaty Four Land in oskana ka-asastēki/Regina, SK where they earned an MFA from the University of Regina. They have worked as a board member and administrative director with several arts organizations and currently serve as the Chair of the board for Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre. 

HOSTS / MODERATORS
Chris W. Carson: Executive Director at CARFAC Alberta
Jera MacPherson: Program & Outreach Director at CARFAC Saskatchewan

CARFAC SASK is pleased to present the following free workshop:

A taxing time for artists
WITH Randy clay

*POSTPONED UNTIL: Saturday March 9, 2024, 2-4pm*

Hosted In-Person
Cliff Wright Library - Meeting Room
1635 McKercher Drive, Saskatoon

Getting to the CLIFF WRIGHT LIBRARY (Located in the Lakewood Civic Centre)

ABOUT WORKSHOP
The workshop will cover the following topics: records for tax purposes; inventory; grants and royalties; tax returns; expenses; self-employment status; capital costs and other areas of special interest for artists. Also covered will be whether or not an artist should register for the GST and PST. Sources for further information and assistance are given, including the CARFAC SASK Financial Advisory Service for members.

Pre-register by emailing programs.sask@carfac.ca / Walk-ins welcome.

ABOUT RANDY CLAY
https://www.clayaccounting.com/about-randy-clay

FREE WORKSHOP
This workshop is offered for free. CARFAC SASK's foundational workshops are proudly funded by SaskCulture / Sask Lotteries and supported by CARFAC SASK's annual membership.