Storytelling & Art Workshop with Amanta Scott
Part One: Stories from a Suitcase
In the first part of this art workshop directed by Amanta Scott, participants selected objects from a suitcase, created sculptural installations and shared stories inspired by the creative juxtaposition of these objects.
The stories reflected participants' life experiences, philosophies, hopes and dreams.
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Participants consider the various messages conveyed by this juxtaposition of objects.
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What happens when you change things up?
Amanta Scott considers the objects and creates a new installation for interpretation and discussion amongst the group
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Participants learned creative team building skills and said they really enjoyed learning how other people think, and hearing and seeing from their varying perspectives.
Part 2 - Artist Talk
Before we broke for lunch, Amanta shared some of her own life experiences and insights with participants.
She also explained the inspiration, origins, evolution and development, and creative techniques used in her work, Parallel Lines, on exhibition at the Museum of Northern History, Kirkland Lake - March 1st - 31st, 2018.
Part 3 - Drawing & Oil Painting
After lunch Participants were introduced to charcoal and pencil drawing on paper and panel, then invited to consider an image or photo of their own selection to be used as the inspiration for an oil painting on birch panel.
Chief Marcia Brown Martel mixes colours for her painting during Amanta Scott's art workshop for Beaverhouse First Nation
oil painting on birch panel
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oil painting on birch panel
Chief Marcia Brown Martel engrossed in painting during Amanta Scott's art workshop for Beaverhouse First Nations
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Participant working on detailed oil painting on birch panel during Amanta Scott's art workshop for Beaverhouse First Nation
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Participants consider their paintings during Amanta Scott's art workshop for Beaverhouse First Nations community
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This work was created by a talented participant from Beaverhouse First Nation. Initially shy and reticent, by the end of the workshop the youth had created this imaginative work with pencil on birch panel. Clearly, he's got talent.
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oil painting on birch panel
The artist explained that this imaginative work represented the waves of her life, with the three drops representing each of her children.
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This workshop was made possible
through the generous assistance of



Beaverhouse First Nation Community