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Your Journey into Artmaking & Creating a Stage for Your Work

10 Week Class ONLINE | This course is currently not open for registration.

Adult: Intermediate - Advanced
2025-01-21-2025-03-25
10:00 AM-12:30 PM on Tue
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$480.00 CAD

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Your Journey into Artmaking & Creating a Stage for Your Work

10 Week Class ONLINE | This course is currently not open for registration.

This ONLINE course will give you a new perspective into your art-making. In the safe space of class, we share views into our studios and look at each participant's artworks and works in progress. We will talk about our work and our processes, looking into our individual life stories and how they play into our artistic practice - creating a space to brainstorm potential developments in terms of content, process, aesthetics and materiality.

For those who feel ready to see their work exhibited, Iris’ approach for showcasing artworks is not about “finding a gallery” to represent you, but about exploring and scouting for opportunities and places that go beyond white gallery walls, considering the audience and communities you want to attract and how you want your artwork to be experienced by others.

This course is a combination of deepening your personalization of your art making and exploring various aspects towards exhibition.

Note: This course is suitable for experienced artists with a body of work and/or artistic practice of at least 2 years. Curiosity about the practices of other artists is also an advantage.

Base Tuition: $480
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  • What You Will Learn:
    - To view your own work with increased respect and through the perceptions of others
    - To bring more playfulness to your work
    - To share and exchange your experiences and knowledge with like-minded people, gaining experience in talking about your motives and inspirations (contextualizing it in your life and the times you live in)
    - To brainstorm strategies and develop tools to plan a future exhibition of your artwork
    - To reflect on your artworks’ nature: Who is your audience? Is it participatory? Or experienced in a public or a private setting? Outside or inside? Immersive, or in a labeled, clear environment? Group setting or solo?
  • A computer, good internet connection and web-cam (if not part of your computer)
Häussler, Iris
Iris Häussler

Iris studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany and immigrated to Canada in 2001.Iris Häussler has explored many ways to offer art experiences at the fringe or outside the White Cube. She is interested in creating inclusive art environments open to everybody, rather than catering to the art market only. This has a long history: she created her very first site specific art-installation for a group exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1988, choosing the women’s toilets of all places. Since then, she has exhibited in basements, trailers, garages, coach houses, apartments, churches, chapels, stores, hotel-rooms, industrial buildings and historic houses as well as in international museums, galleries and Biennials.


Häussler’s work is found in international collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Städtische Sammlung im Lenbachhaus, Munich and the Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany. She also held a guest professorship at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich in 1999 and has given talks about her work in universities and art institutions in Canada, the USA, and Europe. Her work received awards and grants including the Karl-Hofer Prize (Berlin), the Kunstfonds Fellowship (Bonn), the Toronto Arts Council, the Chalmers Arts Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.