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The Artist in Residence Studio program or AIRS is a Vancouver-based initiative for providing equitable access to high quality and socially relevant visual arts education for children in schools. AIRS is a program developed in partnership with the Vancouver School Board that seeks to create studio space within public elementary schools and to support local, professional artists to work in collaboration with teachers in the studio, to create meaningful hands-on visual arts engagements for children across the whole school.
"I feel like whenever I do art, I can always have a smile on my face. I feel like I crawl out my shell." -
- Grade 5 Student
Video created by AIRS artist and Filmmaker Yunuen Perez Vertti
Applications for our 2024/25 residencies are open.
The Artist in Residence Studio program (AIRS) offers artist residency opportunities for professionals and emerging artists to work with young people in Vancouver public elementary schools. AIRS is a diverse and inclusive community of artists committed to transforming communities and inspiring,mentoring, and empowering young people through the art-making process. We offer several opportunities, including mentorship, short term and full-year residencies.
In AIRS, Artists work in collaboration with the school to develop high quality art programming that draws from their own practice and expertise and integrates student artistic development with the exploration of socially relevant ideas or questions. Projects can be individual, collaborative, permanent or ephemeral and in a diversity of media. Eligible artists should demonstrate a commitment to community engagement within their art practice, and have prior experience working or teaching with children.
Click here to submit your application. Applications close: Sunday, April 14th, 2024
If you have any questions, or issues accesing or submitting the application please email info@airsprogram.org.
Intermediate students make historical animations with Monica Cheema. The short stop motion films centred on one of three historic Vancouver neighbourhoods; China town, Hogan’s Alley and Punjabi Market. Each film is centred on a single archival photograph that students’ discovered and selected through their research about their chosen neighbourhood. These archival photographs were animated and brought into meaningful relation with found materials such as magazine images and text and patterned cloth, and everyday objects and ephemera like sweet wrappers, silk flowers or wooden chopsticks. These animations were over-laid with spoken word and Foley sound, to produce imaginative and thought-provoking film shorts that evoke the rich and enduring cultural heritage of each place and the unsettling impact of development and displacement.
A few months ago, Perrin Grauer a visual artist who works as a writer for Emily Carr University of Art + Design visited AIRS artist Kelsie Grazier
at the Trudeau Elementary AIRS studio. Perrin captured his observations of the day spent at the studio in this article for Pancouver and the Shumka Center.
Call for artists:
If you have any questions, or issues accesing or submitting the application please email info@airsprogram.org.
The VSB hosted an exhibition to celebrate the art and learning that emerged from the studios this year by students working with artists in the AIRS program.
Stories of Courage and Transformation was located in the Student Gallery, on the Main floor of the Vancouver School Board Education Centre. To experience the online version of the exhibition, click below.
The Artist In Residence Studio program is honoured to be working together on the unceded, unsurrendered and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm|Musqueam, Sḵwxwú7mesh|Squamish & səlilwətaɬ |Tsleil-Waututh people, where we learn, live and work. We humbly acknowledge that we are unlearning and relearning and with this acknowledgement comes the commitment to engage in ongoing acts of reconciliation.
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