Valerie Kimpton
Visual
Specialities: Collage, Creative writing, Drawing, Nature-focused art, Painting
Contact Info
Email address
Phone Number
Resides in
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
My workshop is adaptable to the needs of the teacher. I am interested to have a conversation around the students and teacher’s needs. The workshop works towards finding imagery and language around four main points: personal strength, what makes us feel alive and well, what calms us and finally, what makes us feel spacious and free. Our findings are translated into four little cards (anywhere from 3x5 to 6x8), joined so they resemble a concertina sketchbook –free standing and worked on both sides. One side is imagery the other text. The take home cards could be used as tools for further self-reflection once the workshop is over along with the breath practice I will be teaching.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 Your Brain on Art, engages so many areas of the brain, from language to memory to mood regulation/hormones.