Trout Lake's Artist in Community 2023
A huge welcome to Edward FuChen Juan, Trout Lake Community Centre’s Artist in Residence through December!
In a community-based collaborative project, Edward invites the public to work with him on creating a legacy art piece through interactive workshops and public events.
Keep an eye out and come participate in the papermaking, ink paste making, and printmaking workshops he’ll be leading. The art works created during these workshops will form the building blocks of the fabrication of the legacy art piece! This art piece will be gifted to the Trout Lake Community Centre at the conclusion of the residency.
About Edward Fuchen Juan
Edward is a contemporary visual artist based in Vancouver, BC, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He identifies as a queer Taiwanese Canadian with ethnic roots from the Hakka and the Plains First Nation People of Taiwan.
Edward’s art practice is printmaking on paper with water-based ink extracted from indigenous materials of selected regions. Presently, he has expanded his process to papermaking with unconventional plant fibres of significant cultural importance.
Edward'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!