Trout Lake's Artist in Community 2023
Trout Lake and John Hendry Park represent a unique social ecology connecting an urban wildlife habitat, a popular recreation space, and the multicultural community that uses it.
Artist-in-residence Nathaniel Marchand will offer a variety of public interactions and workshops to highlight and celebrate these connective eco-social threads.
Open to all, Nathaniel’s explorations invite the community, in its full diversity and identity, to deepen its awareness of the area’s natural surroundings. Come join him for natural ink making, storytelling, mask-making, land stewardship, and see his installations to come!
Nathaniel will be at Trout Lake Community Centre events throughout the year, so look for him around the centre and be sure to say hello!
About Nathaniel Marchand
Nathaniel Marchand (Métis / Franco-Ontarian / Mixed Settler) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who explores relationships to the land, ethnobotany and the use of natural materials in his artistic practice. He is an advocate for community and creativity and will be hosting some ink-making workshops during his time at the Centre.
Nathaniel also frequently facilitates intergenerational and cross-cultural collaborative programs and workshops ranging from eco-arts to new media. He holds a Certificate in Fine Arts from the Yukon School of Visual Arts and a B.A. in Communications and Video Production from Concordia University.
Born and raised along the shores of Georgian Bay in Ontario, Nathaniel currently resides on the unceded homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ Nations.
Nathaniel's upcoming workshops
About the AIC Program
Other AICs
About the AIC Program
About the Artists in Communities Program
The Artists in Communities Program (AIC) is Park Board + Community Centre Association artists’ residency project based on principles of community cultural development – building community by making art together.
It supports artists working in community contexts and encourages a wide variety of interactions between artist and community members, especially those who may not see themselves as artists.
Throughout this project, artists and community members work together over an extended period of time as creators, producers, performers and active audiences, contributing to the growing vibrancies of our neighbourhoods.
Other AICs
The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation helps host artist residencies each year in participating community centres to support artists working in neighbourhoods and encourage a wide variety of interactions between artists and residents.
Artists collaborate with community members (who may not see themselves as artists) as creators, producers, performers, and active audiences.
The residency projects leave lasting physical or social legacies in the community, such as learning new creative processes, developing collaborative skills, creating an artwork.
Check out the current list of AICs around Vancouver!