Intercultural Weaving Project @ 4 two 5 Studio
2025-08-30 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Vancouver) | 4 Two 5 Studio, Courtenay, BC, Canada
An artistic space where local artists gather weekly to creatively weave visual and narrative threads, exploring and expressing intercultural stories through textiles and mixed media in a spirit of collaboration and shared learning.
Where & When

Venue: 4 two 5 Studio, Courtenay
Frequency: Weekly open studio sessions, drop‑in style
Duration: Mondays and Saturdays, August 25th – October 4th, 1-3pm

Why join in?

Experiment collaboratively in a supportive, low-pressure environment
Share and learn from diverse materials, techniques, and cultural stories
Partner with CV/Arts, whose mission emphasizes equity, inclusivity, accessibility, and community engaged artistic practice

What’s provided

All weaving materials tools will be supplied. There is no need to bring materials unless they are specific to your project
Optional: bring a memory, poem, personal story, or cultural theme you’d like to visually

Who’s welcome

Artists of all experience levels and cultural backgrounds.
Whether you’re into textiles, visual arts, craft, story-based media, or if you’re simply curious and creatively inclined, you belong here.

How to sign up

Please email: ameet@ameetart.com. Include:

A brief description of your artistic practice and interest in the project.
Which weekly sessions you can attend and any accessibility accommodations you may require.

Intro To Quilting- A Simple Sampler
2025-10-09 10:00 - 12:00 | #4-420 Fitzgerald Ave., Courtenay, BC, Canada
Oct 9 – Nov 13

Feeling intimidated about quilting? It can feel scary, but a calm and compassionate teacher with a plan will help you work through the step to succeed! Enter Lorraine! Please read the complete description before registration!

This multi-week class is a great primer, encompassing the basic skills you need for almost any future quilt.

Prerequisite: Students should have some experience on a sewing machine (within the last year or so), some comfort with straight line sewing.

You’ll learn about fabrics, colours, print and how many different ways you can make something look great!

You’ll gain confidence with measuring and cutting with the rotary cutter and learn chain-piecing and pressing.

You’ll learn the tips and tricks to make 4-squares look great, how to make log cabins and the essential- half square triangles!

The pattern we’ve created for this class is somewhat modular- if you want to play with the design, you may. However, if you know yourself to be indecisive or perfectionist, we invite you to make it as designed to take that pressure off you, and to spend your energy learning, not thinking!

Next, you’ll construct your whole quilt top, quilt and bind it.

Some people (like Nicole) love piecing quilts but don’t enjoy the actual quilting part- so you’ll have the option to have it long-arm quilted by Lorraine (for a fee), and then you’ll bind it!

The thing about quilts- they are infinite. One design can be made so personally and so uniquely time and again!

Batting and thread is included in the cost of the class, but fabric is not. We know many people have their own fabric they want to use, and using the collected stash is a great way to get started!

You can use as few as two fabrics for a very graphic look, or 50 for a scrappy look.

New Moon Meditation Mandala
2025-11-20 17:30 - 19:30 | Silver Bowerbird Gallery, Back door 479 4th St., Courtenay, british columbia, V9N1G9, Canada
November 20th. Night of the New Moon
Discover the joy of creativity at the Mandala Art Workshop! Learn to design intricate patterns that inspire mindfulness and relaxation. Suitable for all skill levels, this calming experience nurtures self-expression, focus, and artistic exploration in a supportive environment. Explore colour, unleash your imagination, and connect with like-minded individuals.
This is an evening workshop 5:30-7:30pm
Supplies & Refreshment included.
Cost $50. Email to register

Wading into Chalk Pastels
2026-03-22 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-04 10:30 - 14:00 | Comox Valley Sports Centre – Aquarium Room, 3001 Vanier Drive, Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
Did you know that some of the most accomplished and famous artists in history used chalk pastels for sketching and finished works of art? Chalk pastels can be simple or complicated, portable or cumbersome, heavy-handed or light and airy. They marry well with other mediums and can express fine detail or swaths of raw colour. They are surface-sensitive and layer well when treated with care. Intrigued? Come and find out more and try your hand at a few simple pieces in this 4-day spring workshop that will have you set for some serious summer sketching!

Unglued! Collage Creativity Gateway Workshop
2026-03-22 10:00 - 14:00 | Artful the Gallery, 526 Cumberland Rd, Courtenay, BC, V9N 2C7
Creating with existing images can lower our inhibitions (which is great for those who want to be creative but don’t consider themselves ‘artists’) providing a playful experience of creating with curiousity and openness to the unexpected…just for fun!
We will use existing images, scissors, gluesticks and our imagination to complete several projects, both independently and collaboratively. All levels welcome and all materials supplied.
Collage is an art as old as paper…which is coming up on 2000 years. Collage is a great ‘gateway’ creative activity – it doesn’t require any technical proficiency beyond using a glue stick…the word collage comes from the french word ‘coller’ – (Koo-Lay) – to glue.
Some of you have created scrapbooks or dream boards, most commonly made by cutting out magazine images and then gluing them to a backing. This workshop uses those same techniques in a collaborative and playful way.
We will make three different collage projects. The first will be a collaborative collage poem, using words. This will become the inspiration for our second project, an individual (and perhaps a little surreal!) landscape. Our final project is called Exquisite Corpse, a collaborative art technique created by the surrealist artists in the 1920’s, where participants add to the composition without seeing the previous contributions. The combined result is often delightful, humorous and unexpected.
Unglued is just for fun, having some creative time with other people, and learning a few techniques that you can use either by yourself, or with your friends and family.
I will have all the materials required, just bring your enthusiasm.
Email: kristinacampbellart@gmail.com to register
$75 workshop fee ($25 bring a friend discount)

Portraiture in Oils and Acrylics
2026-04-07 10:00 - 12:30 | Comox Valley Sports Centre – Aquarium Room, 3001 Vanier Drive, Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
Do you have some basic skills in drawing faces and some experience with oils or acrylics? This class will help you take the next step towards confidence with creating portraits using photographic reference. We’ll review the basics like proportions, composition, lighting, etc. and then explore more in-depth practice such as underpainting, skin tones, likeness and personal style. I’ll share what tricks I have found useful over the years and we’ll also have a look at how a few of the Masters accomplished their pieces. This short five-week course should get you navigating paint a bit better for your own independant work. Give me a call at (250) 337-5487 if you’d like more information.

Unsculpted!
2026-05-31 10:00 - 14:00 | Artful the Gallery, 526 Cumberland Rd, Courtenay, BC, V9N 2C7
This afternoon workshop will connect you with the joy of creating for the sake of exploration, humour, and collaboration. Primarily utilizing modelling and assemblage, we will cultivate a sense of possibility, adventure and imagination.
Creating with unexpected materials can lower our inhibitions, giving us the playful experience of creating with curiosity and openness to the unexpected…just for the pleasure of it!
Unsculpted is not about learning to sculpt with skilled technical expertise; it will expand your creativity though, just not in the ways you might expect!
The activities in Unsculpted are intended to guide you back to your creative heart. The act of (art) creation can get so twisted up in our judgments of what constitutes ‘good’ that we completely lose touch with the joy of creating for the sake of exploration and playfulness.
​This one-session workshop runs from 1 to 4pm with a mid-way break. Feel free to bring drinks and snacks. The $105 workshop fee includes GST and all materials supplied. Bring a friend discount of $25 each when 2 people sign up at the same time. Email kristinacampbellart@gmail.com to register.
