UNB Design Works Summer Camps - Join the fun this Summer!

July 2 - Aug. 30, 2024! Camps for kids 6 to 12 years old.

Calling all junior master chefs, mini photographers, budding game designers, beginner artists, and even want-to-be Harry Potters! Don’t miss this summer’s fantastic camps for kids aged 6-12. The fun begins July 2 and runs until Aug. 30!

Taught by talented instructors, here’s a great opportunity to be creative, make friends and experience an awesome range of activities. Plus, security and safety are paramount, all camp staff receive first aid training and have vulnerable sector checks.

Some camps are selling out, but there’s still lots of room for YOU!

Join us this summer! Register now for your favourite camps!
 

Leisure Learning - Everything starts to grow in May!

Start your personal growth with one of the 30+ fun, educational and creative Leisure Learning classes available. Choose from watercolour painting, Kundalini Yoga, and a rich variety of language and cultural courses to photography (introductory & advanced), Macramé and two levels of drawing classes.

Classes are designed for You! Try in-person or online courses—enjoy them from your home, the garden or even the beach! Plus, they’re offered conveniently in the evenings or on weekends, in a single day or weekly formats.

Register today! Whatever your interests, there’s a Leisure Learning course for you!

Leisure Learning for Teens

Awesome courses await youth (ages 13 to 17 years old)! If you love to draw, try Youth Portrait Drawing Basics. Create realistic and stylized portraiture artwork, while exploring the fundamentals of portrait drawing. All skill levels and styles welcome!

Be a true creative! Make your own video, start a YouTube Channel or design a feature-length film in the four-week course Youth: Video Creation 101, every Wednesday starting May 15. Experience the whole process of brainstorming, writing a script, storyboarding, capturing clips and editing your video. Cool!

NEW! This summer join us for a week-long course to help prepare teens for the job market.

Youth: Work Essential Skills and Volunteer Training 101

This course is designed to help teens prep for work/volunteer opportunities. Participants will engage in morning sessions focused on topics such as resumes and cover letters, email etiquette, team dynamics, and professionalism guidelines (including dress codes, conflict resolution and managing social media presence). In the afternoons, participants will apply their newfound skills and knowledge by volunteering at our Design Works summer camps. This hands-on experience will allow them to further develop their teamwork, communication and leadership skills.

Overall, our program aims to empower teens to become well-rounded individuals equipped with the essential tools to succeed in their professional careers and personal endeavors while fostering a spirit of community service and social responsibility.

UNB Art Centre - Remembering Brigid Toole Grant

The UNB Art Centre is pleased to present the exhibit Into the Blue: Remembering Brigid Toole Grant as a tribute to the beloved artist, activist and humanitarian who passed away last year. The exhibit opens on Friday, May 3 and runs until Friday, Aug. 30.

Into the Blue: Remembering Brigid Toole Grant is a labour of love by her daughter Hannah Grant, who along with curator Roslyn Rosenfeld, assembled a collection of acrylics, watercolours, prints and drawings from friends, family and the UNB Permanent Collection. It tells the story of a talented and insightful artist, who found inspiration in the people and the land she called home.

“This exhibition is like a period which marks the end of the final chapter of a really good book,” says Marie Maltais, Director of the UNB Art Centre. “It holds within it the tale of a life spun over many chapters— rich in detail, character development and action.”

It is fitting that Brigid Toole Grant is being honoured in this retrospective at UNB. She grew up on the UNB campus and spent her early years living in what is now known as Sir Howard Douglas Hall. She attended art classes with renowned Canadian artists Fritz Brandtner, Alfred Pinsky and Lucy Jarvis, one of the founders of the UNB Art Centre. She later worked as an assistant to the UNB Art Centre Director Marjory Donaldson, taught art classes for UNB’s Department of Extension and then for the UNB Art Centre’s Leisure Learning programs. Many of her works are on display throughout campus as part of the UNB Permanent Collection where they continue to enrich the lives of faculty, staff, students and visitors.

The exhibit opens on Friday, May 3 at 5 p.m. with a special guest appearance by the Raging Grannies. There will be a Memorial Service marking the life of Brigid Toole Grant on May 22 at 1 p.m. in Memorial Hall. All are welcome.

From the UNB Collection -
Gerry Yaum, Workers with Garbage Truck

This poignant image is part of the series The Families of the Dump shown at the UNB Art Centre in 2022. Inspired by the great social documentary photographers like W. Eugene Smith, Lewis Hind and Sebastião Salgado, Gerry Yaum tells the stories of the people he meets. Yaum began going to Thailand in 2012 and rather than depicting the exotic scenery and culture enjoyed by foreign tourists, he focused his lens on society’s forgotten and ignored people.

In the garbage dump of Mae Sot, along with all the vermin and flies, are people who make their living scavenging for recyclable goods to support their families. These families mostly from the Karen and Mon ethnic groups are refugees from nearby Myanmar and find living and working in the dump preferable to the extreme poverty, rape, genocide, and decades of civil war experienced in their home country. Gerry Yaum sees his work as a force for positive change and raises money from the sale of these photographs to buy necessities for the people he has come to know in the Mae Sot dump.

Gerry Yaum is a self-taught photographer with over 40 years of experience honing his craft. Based in Edmonton Alberta, he has been taking pictures of the people in the Mae Sot Garbage Dump since 2013 and the Klong Toey Slum in Bangkok since 2012. For him, these photographs are more than artworks, they help to educate, raise awareness, and interpret forgotten lives.

The UNB Art Centre (506-453-4623) is located at Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. The galleries are open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and during special events. Admission is free to members of the public.

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