with Miya Turnbull
Site 19 – Lester-Garland House, Trinity
Saturday, August 19
1–5 PM
All materials provided
Join artist Miya Turnbull for drop-in origami making! Visitors will have the opportunity to make their own origami form using Turnbull’s self-portrait “photo-mask” images. Guided by the artist, visitors can also learn more about her process and why she chose to work with origami.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Miya Turnbull is a multi-disciplinary visual artist of mixed Japanese Canadian ancestry. She graduated from the University of Lethbridge (Alberta) with a BFA and currently lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS). Turnbull has exhibited her masks, photos, performances and video works in galleries in Canada and internationally, most recently at Acadia University Art Gallery in Nova Scotia. Her artwork has appeared on the covers of Visual Arts News (Atlantic Canada), Art Reveal (Germany) and Masks Literary Magazine (Columbia College Chicago Library), as well as being featured on digital platforms such as Vogue (Thailand), Planted Journal (Italy), Gata Magazine (Japan), Oficina Palimpsestus (Brazil), and The Perfect Magazine (UK).