Forest Basket - $35
Lara Felsing is a Métis interdisciplinary artist from Northern Alberta. Her practice explores the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, as expressed in Indigenous knowledge and current scientific findings. After being evacuated twice due to wildfires, Lara started collecting remnants from the burn sites, such as flagging tape, fallen spruce needles, twigs and grass. Each time she returned to the site of the wildfire, feels that the forest is still very much alive, and although it is in a state of regrowth, it still contains valuable gifts. Lara has created these tiny forest baskets to honour the forests.
#SlugLife Hats - $40
Jennifer Hartley Illanes is a multimedia artist working in Calgary. She holds a BFA from The Alberta University of the Arts, and received the Board of Governors Graduating Student Award in 2016. Jennifer’s work explores themes of extravagance, magic, medieval imagery, feminism, religion, and playful social critique. These #SlugLife hats poke fun at the hyper-masculinity and performity of the so-called “thug life”, where hiding behind a shell of toughness determines your worth.
Handmade Insect Friends - $40
Stacy Crane is a multi-disciplinary artist based in the Okanagan. She draws on her experiences growing up in a rural setting and her own exploration of the natural world to create objects that tell these stories. In this series of textile sculptures, Stacy uses wire, various fabrics, beads and findings to stitch together insectoid and arachnid forms.
Glow-in-the-dark Enamel Pin - $25
Jolene Mackie is an artist living and working in Kelowna BC. Since graduating with a BFA from the Emily Carr University in 2009, Jolene has pursued art making professionally with a focus on the me- dium of oil painting. Jolene finds inspiration in simple, fleeting moments: a unique quality of light, the shape of shadows, and the living palettes that colour our daily existence. Her work blends fascination with the world around us and the whimsy of human imagination into wholly unique visual experiences.
Psychedelic Patches - $25
Nikki Bose is a trained Jungian life Coach and fibre artist. Her work focuses around knitting, embroidering, spinning and weaving the unconscious into consciousness. Nikki uses fibre art as a way to help clients explore themselves. These patches can be attached to the inside of a pocket or bag as a secret message to self, or worn on the outside and declared to the world.
Found Photo Screenprints & Cyanotypes - $8
Faith Bye is a fourth year student working towards a BFA in visual arts with a minor in art history at UBCO. She specializes in oil painting and printmaking. Her work in both mediums have been exhibited as part of group exhibitions both locally and internationally. This body of work centred around found film photographs, in which she considers to be fragments of other people’s lives – concrete objects representative of fleeting moments.
Set of Concertina Zines - $25
Bella Jiang is currently a freelance illustrator living in Canada. She is a graduate of UBC Okanagan with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Her creativity sources from the overlooked moments and nuanced dynamics in everyday interactions, and she hopes to invite her audiences to find comfort and happiness in our mundane lives.
Tidal Temporary Tattoos - $15
Lauren Naidoo is a Bachelor of Media Studies student at UBCO with a current focus in digital art, graphic design, and 2D animation. Tidal is a collection of temporary tattoos that emulate the organic movement of water, created with the intention of framing the natural forms of the body.
Textile Linocut Prints - $12
Primarily a figurative painter, Maud Besson is also a talented printmaker. These pieces are hand-printed linocuts printed on a variety of recycled fabrics and feature a variety of different whales. These handmade patches can be sewn onto clothing, or tote bags, and washed without fading away. They are printed with fabric ink so they won’t change of colors. Also great to be framed.
Ceramic Sea Life and Fungi - $30
Angela is a Lake Country artist completing her BDes at ECUAD and her BEd at UVic. She works primarily in clay and encaustics and has exhibited in Canada and the US. An array of one-of-a-kind individually hand-built ceramic sculptures inspired by fungi such as Amanita and Oyster as well as ocean life such as brittlestars and sea urchins painted in bright eye-catching colours and patterns.