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Liz Oakley is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in puppetry. This year, Liz invited students at Wəkwan̓əs tə syaqwəm Elementary to consider spaces of ambiguity and transformational possibility through tactile...

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On March 12, 2026 in the early evening, Access Gallery, a small independent gallery situation on the edge of Vancouver’s historic Chinatown was abuzz with children, parents, teachers and dear and distinguished guests, al...

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On May 20, 2025, AiRS hosted our annual year end exhibition at the VSB education centre. This exhibition brought together a selection of individual and collaborative student works - including prints, paintings, puppets, ...

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Yunuen Perez Vertti is a Digital Media Artist and Filmmaker originally from Mexico City, and is a beloved member of AIRS. Working in front of and behind the scenes at AIRS for 7 years as an artist, mentor and community ...

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Looking to the past, grounded in the present and building a legacy for the future, visual artist Julie McIntyre is leading a school-wide community art project at Tecumseh Elementary school in Vancouver. This project, Re...

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On September 7th in the Annex room at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the AIRS Program welcomed new and returning artists for our annual AIRS orientation in preparation for the upcoming residencies in the 2024-25 school year....

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“Art matters to me because its beautiful and it connects us together.”- student reflection

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Intermediate students make historical animations with Monica Cheema 

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Studio residences for the 2023/24 school year are well underway! In September, AIRS program welcomed 22 new and returning visual and interdisciplinary artists. These artists are creating relevant, meaningful and dynamic...

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Alejandro Ruiz Ramirez is a beloved community engaged artist that has been part of the AIRS program for the past 3 years and artist in residence at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary and Mount Pleasant Elementary School i...

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Black lives matter, deforestation, LGBTQ+ rights, child poverty, islamophobia, disability rights, indigenous rights and climate protection: These were just some of the social justice themes Nightingale intermediate stud...

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Artists in the AIRS program have been working creatively to continue to offer meaningful art making experiences for students in Vancouver elementary schools under COVID-19 health and safety restrictions. Even though st...

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This year, instead of our annual exhibition at the VSB, AIRS has decided to present the work of our amazing student-artists in a virtual format.

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A big part of AIRS is the training of emerging artist-educators through the mentorship program. AIRS co-founder and director Maggie Milne Martens mentors artists at the Art and Discovery Studio over five-week periods sup...

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At Admiral Seymour Elementary, the AIRS studio is at the very top of the building. After climbing up four flights of stairs, the space opens up into a large open concept-room in which artist Heather Lamoureux is working ...

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Since mid-March, AIRS artists have worked to re-conceptualize their studio residencies to provide students with meaningful, hands-on art engagements at home, whilst in-class instruction is suspended. Artists are using th...

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“I like that the art explains your feelings” (Douglas Student).

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At John Henderson Elementary in South Vancouver, artist Alanna Ho created a sound art studio to facilitate her media arts pilot residency. In this studio, the students explored sound and listening through play-based lea...

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Tami Murray has been the artist in residence at Britannia Elementary for the 2019/2020 school year. Throughout her residency Tami has been introducing students to various materials, and giving them the freedom to explore...

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The Art and Discovery Studio (ADS), housed within Florence Nightingale Elementary is the centre of the AIRS universe. The ADS was the first AIRS studio, and also serves as a type of community hub: artist discussion group...

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Each year, in addition to our artist residencies, AIRS facilitates a community-engaged research process called the Collaborative Inquiry. The Collaborative Inquiry brings teachers together from schools that have AIRS stu...

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In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, in-class instruction in British Columbia has been suspended. The announcement was made on the 17th of March 2020 and the suspension will in place until further notice.

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*UPDATE*

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