Valerie Kimpton
Visual
Specialities: Collage, Creative writing, Drawing, Mosaics, Nature-focused art, Outdoor Art-making, Painting, Printmaking, Photography
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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Lester B. Pearson
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Experience working with
Student In
- Cycle 3 Elementary
- Secondary 1 & 2
- Secondary 3 & 4
- Secondary 5
- CEGEP
- Senior Citizens
Lifelong Learners
- Adult Learners
I regularly explore the following Broad Areas of Learning/Themes in my work
- Health and Wellbeing
- Citizenship and Community Life (Identity & Belonging)
- STEAM
I've received CHSSN Mental Health Initiative training for:
- Youth
Listed in the Quebec Culture in the Schools Repertoire
- No
I have experience working with
- Private work, The Saidye Bronfman for the Arts, supply teaching
I can facilitate virtual creative experiences
- Yes
Travel
- I am available for travel within the same day
- I am available for travel overnight
- An extended residency is an option
I love to layer ideas and materials by tracing them onto translucent and solid supports using many kinds of media: watercolor, oil, acrylic, pencils, or collage. I also use papercutting (aka Lace making) and printmaking using gelli plates to make my images, abstract or narrative. I work from images collected in a sketchbook which is an ongoing resource spanning my entire career. Sharing my methods of working in collaboration with students is my heart's desire.
Creative Approach and Experiences Offered
Strong, calm, fresh and free: a mini book for reflection with Valerie KimptonI have skills in many different types of art, including foam printing, collage and lace art. This workshop is very adaptable to different materials, techniques and styles in art. This workshop uses four main points creatively: strength (physically and or personally), what makes us feel alive and well, what calms us, and what makes us feel free. We will initially reflect through collecting ideas that will be expressed though the method chosen, as the situation requires per class. We will assemble these images/words to make a free standing mini book that can be used as a reminder of what really matters to us.
I am using STEM because creativity is an activity of problem solving or concept generation (color, composition, perception, different themes such as sport, nutrition and so on) and, as discussed in the important publication, Your Brain on Art, engages so many areas of the brain, from language to memory.