The Resident Artist program is a 6 week program that further strengthens the artists instruction abilities, promotes their passion and shares their abilities with the community.
Stemming from the Artist in Residency Program, one artist is selected from the A.I.R Program to develop and instruct free workshops for the community at large to learn & enjoy.
The workshops will take place 3 times per year throughout Greater Forest Lawn. Led by IAACC’s Resident Artist, you could learn- how to express yourself through art or develop a new technique.
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Resident Artists
Caitlin Thompson
Caitlin Thompson received an MFA in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University (2015)
specializing in hand and digital embroidery. She focuses on the relationship between material handling and animate design, and her areas of interest include hauntology, romanticism, and the transformative potential of craft.
Currently her work is being shown in Aotearoa New Zealand as part of the exhibition “Interlaced: Animation and Textiles” – the first major exhibition dedicated to the reciprocal relationship between these two artforms. Her embroidery and animations were part of the contemporary adornment exhibition, Second Skin, at the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) in 2023. PANORAMADA – a series connecting digital and analog processes –was featured as part of the AGA’s Processor: Digital Translations for a Simulated Future in 2019.
She created new works to accompany historical artifacts in the Glenbow Museum’s Eye of the Needle exhibition in 2018, and her collection of animate haunted fashion, Dandy Lines, was exhibited at the Esker Foundation in 2016.
Caitlin has created animations through the assistance of The National Film Board and Quickdraw Animation Studios. She is the recipient of several grants and has presented her research in textiles and animation in lectures, workshops, conferences, and residencies.