Friday, 29 May, 4:00 pm Atlantic Standard Time
Join artists Leah Garnett and Lianne Zannier for Drawing on Air, a coast-to-coast drawing event presented by the Owens Art Gallery in partnership with Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre and Mount Allison University Campus/Community Radio Station CHMA 106.9 FM. Broadcasting live from Sackville, NB, and Vancouver, BC, Leah Garnett and co-host Lianne Zannier will lead participants in a series of drawing exercises that will explore language, perception and imagination. Drawing on Air is a collective experience, one that connects socially distanced friends and neighbours and far-flung towns and cities. No matter where you are in the world, you can take part. First presented in 2002, Drawing on Air is a radio-broadcast project in which Garnett invites listeners to generate drawings based on verbal descriptions. As a child who grew up without a television, Garnett stretched imaginative muscles listening to nightly radio dramas and read-aloud programs that required her to “draw” all the visuals in her mind. This experience inspired Drawing on Air, which has been performed in various iterations with a host of collaborators. Lianne Zannier, who co-hosted Drawing on Air when it was a regular program on CHMA in Sackville from 2006-2008, will reunite with Garnett for this special broadcast in which listeners will explore what they hear through drawing. The event will feature ASL interpretation and CART transcription.
We are pleased to feature Drawing on Air on FIELD TRIP: Art Across Canada, a national platform promoting contemporary art in Canada. How to Participate:
Drawing on Air is an all-ages event that will run approximately 45 minutes. You can:
Register for the Zoom event featuring ASL interpretation and CART transcription
Follow along on Facebook Live
Tune in to CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville or stream via chmafm.com
`Drawing on Air will be recorded and archived on OwensTV
Duration
On May 29th the event begins at 4pm (Atlantic Standard Time) and will run approximately 45 minutes.
Materials
For this event, you will need a comfortable space to draw; 3-5 sheets of paper or a sketchbook; and a selection of your favourite drawing materials, which could include pencils, pens, markers, or crayons.
Share your Drawing on Air drawings by tagging @OwensArtGallery on Facebook or Instagram with the hashtag #OwensDrawingOnAir. You can also email your drawings to owens@mta.ca. We love to see what you make! Leah Garnett
Leah Garnett is an artist based in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada where she is an Associate Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and an MFA from the University of Guelph. Garnett is a member of two artist collectives, Hermes Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and The Red Head Gallery in Toronto, Ontario. She has exhibited primarily in Canada and attended residencies at the Sirius Art Centre, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, the MacDowell Colony, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and Struts Gallery. Her practice focuses on drawing, sculpture, and installation. Lianne Zannier
Lianne Zannier is an animator and visual artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia: the traditional unceded Indigenous territories belonging to the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh-ulh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and Tsleil-Watututh peoples. Currently her practice investigates the relationship between the medium of drawing and traditional forms of animation with digital technologies.
Her work ranges from large-scale group drawings to immersive installations and animated short films. Through her practice she experiments with animated movement, malleability, and 3D interventions. Her work has been shown throughout Canada, the US, and internationally. In addition to her practice she is the curator and founder of IFF-Animation an online journal of experimental animation and works at VIVO Media Arts Centre. She holds a BA in Art History from Mount Allison University (Sackville), a BFA in Film Animation from Concordia University (Montreal) and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver). She was Leah Garnett’s co-host for Drawing on Air broadcast on CHMA radio from 2006-2008.
Drawing on Air is made possible through support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture.