Winter 2023 Workshop Series
We are happy to announce that Art Volt is collaborating with Creative arts therapies, the FOFA Gallery and FutureBound to offer a series of online and in-person professional training workshops this winter!
Workshops
Presented in collaboration with Creative arts therapies
ONLINE - Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 – 1pm to 2pm
In English with Allan Brent Rosales
In this workshop, participants will learn about Allan’s professional journey after completing his MA in Art Therapy and how grant funding transformed his career as a Creative Art Therapist and as an Artist. The workshop will also address how Arts funding is grappling with the issues of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility to transform the Arts Eco-System, more specifically in the context of Moh’kins’tsis/Calgary.
About Allan Rosales
Allan Brent Rosales is a second generation Filipinx multidisciplinary Art Therapist, Artist and Community Connector. Born and raised in Moh’kins’tsis/Calgary on Treaty 7 lands, Allan’s artist practice includes portraits, poetry and public Art.
Allan completed his MA in Art Therapy from Concordia University in 2005 and has worked in arts-based, healthcare and education settings for over 15 years. For example, Allan has worked at the YWCA of Calgary, Alberta Health Services and was an instructor at Mount Royal University. More recently, Allan has been working in Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility and is currently the Manager of Community Investment at Calgary Arts Development.
How to Register
This workshop is open to students and recent alumni of Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. Due to limited capacity, priority access will be given to students and alumni of the Creative arts therapies department.
To register, please email your name, program/department and year of graduation to artvolt@concordia.ca.
Presented by FutureBound
ONLINE - Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 – 6pm to 8pm
In English with Sophia Beausoleil, Technical Recruiter at TEKsystems
Today, there are many digital tools at our disposal, and it can become overwhelming. Microsoft Excel is a valuable and commonly used software that can be tricky to master. This workshop will help you expand your knowledge of Excel to allow you to use it effectively in your work and personal life. *We recommend having Excel open along with this workshop, so you can try things out!
How to Register
This workshop is open to undergraduate students of Concordia University and recent alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Presented in collaboration with Creative arts therapies
ONLINE - Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 – 1pm to 2pm
In English with Deborah Seabrook
This talk encourages clinicians to consider the relationship between the Creative Arts Therapies (CATS) and the climate and ecological crises. Deborah will share her nascent Eco-Music Therapy approach as one example of integrating climate-awareness into contemporary CATS practices. Attendees are invited to consider meaningful pragmatic and theoretical next steps towards addressing the climate emergency as CATs clinicians.
About Deborah Seabrook
Dr. Deborah Seabrook, PhD MTA RCC, is a music therapy and counseling psychology clinician, educator, and scholar currently teaching at Yorkville University and Wilfrid Laurier University. A Climate-Aware Therapist with the CPA-NA, Deborah works to shift consciousness around the climate emergency and motivate transformative, life-affirming action.
How to Register
This workshop is open to students and recent alumni of Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. Due to limited capacity, priority access will be given to students and alumni of the Creative arts therapies department.
To register, please email your name, program/department and year of graduation to artvolt@concordia.ca.
Presented by FutureBound
ONLINE - Tuesday, February 14th, 2023 – 11am to 12:30pm
In English with Alexandra Allen, Course Designer & Trainer
The presence of online workshops has grown exponentially since the pandemic. Many students and workers find themselves needing to create, organize, or lead online learning experiences. But where do we start? In this workshop, you will create an outline for a workshop of your own.
Together, we will:
Identify a concept or framework you would like to teach so you can determine the scope of your workshop
Design activity prompts so students can practice applying it
Design reflection prompts so students can learn through iterative practice
By the end, you’ll have the first draft of your workshop outline. Not to mention, you’ll pick up tips from watching me facilitate (we call this "modelling" in learning design).
*Note from the facilitator: This will be an interactive Zoom session with cameras on and breakout rooms. That way you get real feedback and meet cool people. Don't worry if you're intimidated by big group sessions. It'll be a warm and welcoming vibe.
How to Register
This workshop is open to undergraduate students of Concordia University and recent alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Presented in collaboration with the FOFA Gallery
Friday, February 17th, 2023 – 10am to 12pm
4th Space, LB ground floor, room 103
In English with Josée Pedneault
Aimed at emerging artists, this workshop will breakdown and clarify the process of applying for a gallery exhibition, an art residency, or other art-related programming. Participants will gain insight into the principles and strategies for writing coherent and concise project proposals, artist statements and resumes. The composition and sequence of the digital portfolio will also be addressed. This convivial workshop will provide artists with a set of professional tools that will strengthen their application package and boost their chances at standing out.
About Josée Pedneault
Josée Pedneault is a visual artist and educator who works between Montréal and Chicago. She creates photo-based installations and public art projects that examine our complex relationship to the natural world. Since receiving her MFA Studio Arts from Concordia University, her work has been shown in galleries, museums, and festivals around the world. She participated in multiple international art residencies, a mobility that strongly influenced her artistic practice. Her most recent book project, Contre-jour, has been published by Free Pony Press, in Amsterdam. Josée Pedneault teaches photography at Concordia University in Montreal and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
How to Register
This workshop is open to students and recent alumni of Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. To register, please email your name, program/department and year of graduation to artvolt@concordia.ca.
Presented in collaboration with FutureBound
ONLINE - Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
In English with Amber Berson
In this workshop, you will learn how to properly draft, track, and manage budgets for creative projects. Whether it’s for a grant or a project budget, you will gain clarity on how to ask for the right amount and how to manage the money you have available to you.
This workshop is hands-on, so please come prepared to talk through a draft budget or a budget you have already created for a project or grant. If this is your first time working on a budget, you can try working with the FASA Special Project Budget Template.
About Amber Berson
Amber Berson is a writer, a curator, and an Art Historian. She holds a doctoral degree from Queen’s University where her SSHRC-funded research examined artist-run culture and feminist, utopian thinking. She most recently curated Souper Spaghetti (2021, with Manon Tourigny), Utopia as Method (2018); World Cup! (2018); The Let Down Reflex (2016-2018, with Juliana Driever); TrailMix (2014, with Eliane Ellbogen); and *~._.:*JENNIFER X JENNIFER*:.~ (2013, with Eliane Ellbogen); The Annual Art Administrator’s Relay Race (2013, with Nicole Burisch); The Wild Bush Residency (2012–14); and was the 2016 curator-in-residence as part of the France-Quebec Cross-Residencies at Astérides in Marseille, France.
She is a co-lead at Art+Feminism, a project that works for a more equitable Wikipedia, and was the 2019-2020 Wikipedian in Residence at Concordia University. She is also the Executive Director of The Visual Arts Centre in Montreal. As a professional grant writer she has over a decade of experience helping emerging artists get funded.
How to Register
This workshop is open to undergraduate students of Concordia University and recent alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Presented in collaboration with FutureBound
ONLINE - Tuesday, March 14th, 2023 – 5pm to 7pm
In English with Chris Enns, Rags to Reasonable
Are your finances a major source of stress? In this workshop, we’ll talk about the fundamentals of finance and how to start building a financial technique. We’ll work with tools that help connect your money to what really matters, manage money when your income is variable, and strategies to pay off debt/save for the big things you’re working towards.
About Chris Enns
Chris Enns is a certified financial planner (CFP) and opera singer. He has spent the last 10 years as a performing artist and learned the hard way that ignoring money doesn’t really work. He is the founder of Rags to Reasonable - an advice only financial planning firm that specializes in working with creatives and people with other non-traditional financial situations.
How to Register
This workshop is open to undergraduate students of Concordia University and recent alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Presented by FutureBound
ONLINE - Thursday, March 23 and March 30, 2023 – 1pm to 2:30pm
In English with Alexandra Allen, Course Designer & Trainer
PART 1
Projects - both academic and professional - need a structure to succeed. But what does that structure look like? Learning project management basics can help you to organize your work and collaborate well with others. In this workshop, we will explore best practices for leading a project in a way that keeps everyone aligned on their goals while providing visibility on progress. At the end of the session, we will share information on project management certifications you can pursue to become an accredited project manager.
PART 2
You will work on many different projects throughout your studies and career, and it is important to learn project management basics to get organized and work as a team. In part 2 of this workshop series, we'll practice using Notion (a simple to use, no-code tool) to create a project plan for a case study. This workshop will build off the first one, so we recommend attending Project Management Basics - Part 1 beforehand.
How to Register
This workshop is open to undergraduate students of Concordia University and recent alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Presented by FutureBound
ONLINE - Monday, March 27th, 2023 – 12pm to 1:30pm
In English with Melanie Ireland, CFA
One of the most common questions out there is whether to invest in a registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) or a tax-free savings account (TFSA). What really is the difference between the two?
In this interactive workshop, we will explore the potential of both RRSPs and TFSAs, what we can hold in these accounts, where you can open an account and the benefits/negatives. For the RRSP, we’ll touch on pension plans, the RRSP’s Home Buyer’s Plan and how to calculate your tax return from an RRSP contribution. For the TFSA, we’ll explore how you can get started, the contribution maximums for each year and how you can withdraw without any penalty.
How to Register
This workshop is open to undergraduate students of Concordia University and recent alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
