Workshops
Join CRUX and O’Brien Farm as they host a one month International and Provincial Artist in Residence
Workshops will take place at O’Brien’s Farm Studio, in the Interpretation Center
150 Oxen Pond Road, St. John’s
Please note that CRUX has an accessibility fund that you can access to cover the cost of the workshop and to help you offset the cost of wages lost to attend or childcare costs if needed. Please send us an email if the cost of attending workshops is a barrier for you to attend.
Events are open to all ages, supplied with coffee / tea and organic vegetables grown from our incubator farms!
Artist Meet and Greet
Sunday, October 18 | 12:00 –3:30 pm
O’Brien Farm
Please join us to welcome our International Artist in Residence, Anna Macleod, and our Provincial Artist in Residence, Craig Francis Power.
Sunday, October 18 | 12:00 –3:30 pm | O’Brien Farm
ANNA MACLEOD
International artist Anna Macleod will begin the day with a visual presentation about her contemporary art practice, followed by a demonstration and workshop exploring the traditional practice of making rope from hay.
Known as súgán, hand-twisted ropes made from straw, hay or heather were traditionally used around the farm for securing thatched roofs and haystacks, as well as for making household items.
Together, we will experience hay-rope making as a communal activity while exploring how this heritage practice can find new applications in contemporary art-making.
POTLUCK LUNCH
O’Brien Farm will provide tasty food grown locally on the farm! In the spirit of sharing, we encourage you to bring a dish to add to the potluck, but this is by no means mandatory. Your presence is what we value most.
CRAIG FRANCIS POWER
After lunch, Craig will discuss his recent residency with Artlink in Donegal, Ireland, and share his plans for his time at O’Brien Farm.
He will then lead a guided walk around the farm to view drawing experiments made in collaboration with the land.
SCHEDULE
We would love for you to come for the duration of the meet and greet, but we will warmly welcome drop-ins at any time!
12:00 am — Anna MacLeod: Artist Talk
12:30 pm — Anna MacLeod: Súgán rope-making demonstration and workshop
1:15 pm — Potluck Lunch
2:00 pm — Craig Francis Power: Artist Talk and Guided Walk
PARKING & ACCESSIBILITY
If you are arriving at O’Brien Farm via O’Brien’s Hill, please use the parking lot just past the farm on the right-hand side. We encourage ride-sharing where possible. Please let us know if you need help arranging transportation to the farm. Accessible parking is available directly beside the Studio/Interpretation Center; however, please be aware that there is limited space for turning around.
We will gather at the Studio, in the Interpretation Center for the talks and demonstration. Much of the event will take place outdoors, so please dress warmly and wear footwear appropriate for the weather and terrain. Plenty of seating will be provided. Please let us know in advance if there are any other accommodations we can make to support your participation.
Please email us with any questions artcruxnl@gmail.com
We look forward to welcoming you to the farm!
International Art In Residence
Anna Macleod is a Scottish / Irish visual artist and researcher based in the North West of Ireland. Anna’s work mediates complex ideas associated with contemporary, historical and cultural understandings of land and water through a variety of visual art media. Anna has just recently received the Jon Schueler Scholarship and has completed a three-month Visual Arts Residency in the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Provincial Artist In Residence
Craig Francis Power is a visual artist and the award-winning author based out of St. John’s Newfoundland. Craig is freshly back from a one month residency, with our Irish partner Artlink, at Forth Dunree on the Inishowen Peninsula. We’re really honored to support his visual art practice, and we’re excited to see how his recent travels unfold while working in his old neighbourhood - Obrien Farm. Most recently, his work takes a conceptual approach to drawing that explores mark-making through certain naturally occurring processes: wind gusts, the flow of water, and walking through the landscape.