Chris Robertson

Visual

Specialities: Drawing, Graffiti, Murals, Nature-focused art, Outdoor Art-making, Painting, Printmaking, Zines

Contact Info

Please note that you must communicate with the artist to confirm details such as dates, levels or grades and workshop themes.

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Email address

takashi.robertson@gmail.com

Phone Number

514 979 3666

Website address

www.chatperdu.ca

Where Artist lives

Montreal

Resides in

English Montreal

Social Media

Experience working with

Cycle 3 Elementary
Secondary 1 & 2
Secondary 3 & 4
Secondary 5
CEGEP

Lifelong Learners

Adult Learners

I regularly explore the following Broad Areas of Learning/Themes in my work

Health and Wellbeing
Environmental Awareness and Consumer Rights and Responsibilities
Citizenship and Community Life (Identity & Belonging)

Listed in the Quebec Culture in the Schools Repertoire

I have experience working with

MikwChiyâm

I can facilitate virtual creative experiences

Travel

I am available for travel overnight
An extended residency is an option

Chris Robertson is a Japanese-Canadian printmaker and educator based in Montreal. Establishing his print shop, Lost Cat Press as an established screen printer for both visual artists and musicians has allowed him the freedom to create his own work, free from the creative restriction of needing to sell it. Instead he has dedicated his art and time to not only telling his own story and sharing the ideas that are important to him, but also to empower youth, through all mediums, to share their story

Creative Approach and Experiences Offered

The goal in all of my workshops is one of self-reflection and the response to that is the art. Younger students a guiding question would center, where do you feel good or safe? This is depicted with a two colour screen print, a landscape where students will print a background of a sunset gradient, collectively mind map the guiding question to arrive at an answer, then create a foreground using silhouettes which will be printed in black. This uses the stencil technique with mac-tac to apply to the screen for printing. This landscape could be real or imagined. For Sec 1 or 2 it would be what is an important part of you? with the ultimate goal of creating a simple 1-3 colour print for a t-shirt, using mac-tac stencils to screen print the result of the collective mind map of the guiding question. For older students, the question is: If you could change or not change something in your community, what would it be? This would be a longer more open project to ultimately screen print a poster.