VISUAL ART OPPORTUNITIES

2023

ART PORTOLIO WORKSHOP

Art Portfolio: What is it, what does one look like these days, and what is it used for

A FREE workshop for Vancouver artists with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use issues. 

This workshop will offer useful advice on how to build your own portfolio and what to do with it once you have. Join Outsiders and Others Artistic Director Yuri Arajs and Seema Shah, a practising self-taught artist with lived experience of mental health issues, for an open discussion in a safe and welcoming environment. 

Participants are encouraged to bring their own portfolio or some artwork to share for a discussion about building a portfolio.

DATE: Saturday, November 11, 2023
TIME: 4-6 pm
VENUE: Outsiders and Others, 716 East Hastings

TALKING ABOUT YOUR ARTWORK

A FREE workshop for Vancouver artists with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use issues. Facilitated by Outsiders and Others Artistic Director Yuri Arajs, this in-person workshop will offer useful advice and tips on talking about your artwork. Participants are encouraged to share one piece of their own artwork to discuss during the workshop.

DATE: Saturday, August 12, 2023
TIME: 4-6 pm
VENUE: Outsiders and Others, 716 E Hastings

1-ON-1 CONSULTATIONS FOR VISUAL ARTISTS

FREE Consultations for Vancouver artists with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use issues. 

– Need to build a portfolio? 
– Want to discuss how to market your art?
– Need help writing an artist statement?
– Looking for a fresh viewpoint on a recent
painting?

Outsiders and Others Artistic Director Yuri Arajs is here to help you and it won’t cost you anything! 

2022

WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?

Can you imagine having the opportunity to ask any question you wanted to a practicing self-taught artist who has lived experience with mental health, and to an experienced gallery owner and curator?

Join self-taught artist Seema Shah and Yuri Arajs, Director of Outsiders and Others, for a lively and informative discussion about the questions that are on your mind that relate to being a practicing artist.

When you register you will have the opportunity to ask two questions to be discussed at the workshop. Every participant will have at least one of their questions answered and we will try our best to get to them all.

DATE: Saturday, October 22, 2022
TIME: 4-6 pm
VENUE: Outsiders and Others, 716 E Hastings

MARKETING YOUR ART & YOURSELF WORKSHOP

Join us for a FREE workshop on Marketing Your Art and Yourself specifically for Vancouver artists with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use issues. 

Get insight from curator and gallery owner Yuri Arajs, as well as experience-based strategies from Seema Shah, an artist with lived experience of mental health issues. All in a safe and welcoming Zoom environment. 

Discussion topics may include but are not limited to: PR, social media, your attitude about your artwork and yourself, finding your niche(s), embracing your uniqueness, connecting and being active in the arts community, keeping your eyes and mind open to opportunities, staying true to yourself in the process, and dealing with the unpredictability of illness. 

DATE: Saturday, July 23, 2023
TIME: 4-6 pm
VENUE: Outsiders and Others, 716 E Hastings

1-ON-1 CONSULTATIONS FOR VISUAL ARTISTS

FREE Consultations for Vancouver artists with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use issues. 

– Need to build a portfolio? 
– Want to discuss how to market your art?
– Need help writing an artist statement?
– Looking for a fresh viewpoint on a recent
painting?

Outsiders and Others Artistic Director Yuri Arajs is here to help you and it won’t cost you anything! 

CALL FOR ARTISTS  

Open to BC artists with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use issues

Exhibition Title: Other Ways of Knowing
Date: May 2022, iWorld Mental Health Awareness Month
Location: Outsiders and Others’ window gallery, 938 Howe St., Vancouver, BC
Application Deadline: March 31, 2022

Art can provide a deeper understanding of the lived experience of mental health and substance use issues – both for artists themselves and for the viewer. This exhibition aims to step beyond limiting societal perceptions of artists with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use issues. It will showcase a curated selection of works by artists with lived experience of these issues – artists whose narratives are often left out, misrepresented, or misunderstood.

For Other Ways of Knowing, we are looking for work that expresses realities of the lived experience of mental health and/or substance use issues in ways that are unique and evocative, and that resonate beyond the personal. Submissions may be as varied as the many ways these issues can impact an individual. 

This exhibition will be co-curated by Yuri Arajs, the Director/Curator of Outsiders and Others, and Seema Shah, an artist with lived experience of mental health issues.

PORTFOLIO REVIEW WORKSHOP

Join us for a FREE Artist Portfolio Review Workshop for Vancouver artists with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use issues. 

Receive individualized constructive insight from curator and gallery owner, as well as reflect on some thought-provoking questions posed by Seema Shah, a self-taught Outsider artist with lived experience of mental health issues. All in a safe and welcoming environment. 

Each participant, if they choose, will have the opportunity to share their artwork with fellow participants while receiving feedback and having an open discussion with the workshop facilitators. Discussion topics may include but are not limited to: creating a portfolio, documenting artwork, presentation of your artwork, and what to do with and how to process criticism.

DATE: Saturday, January 29, 2022
TIME: 4-6 pm
VENUE: Outsiders and Others, 716 E Hastings