FREE - please register, for adults, no experience necessary
Join artist Alice Asphyxia at Sparrow Artspace for a fun-filled event where you can get creative and make your own Valentine's Day cards! Feel free to bring a photo of your hunny to incorporate in your design! Alice will guide you through different styles of card making like illustration, pop-up, and collage.
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Alice is a Sparrow alumnus and did her residency with Cyan Eyed in September 2024. "My work investigates themes of hyperfemininity and cute culture, as well as the relationship between the two. The cute and feminine have many parallels- qualities such as being small, helpless, naïve, delicate, and more. Though I am being critical in my work, I am simultaneously celebrating cute culture and feminine expression. Hyperfemininity is the extreme portrayal of femininity, by girly girls for girly girls. I believe there is power in hyperfemininity, as it inclusively embraces girliness opposed to demonizing it, and it exudes confidence and self-love. While perpetuating certain stereotypes may be problematic, people should still be free to express themselves however they choose. I use a pastel colour palette and delicate materials to depict feminine characters and scenes. However, the work is ambiguous upon closer inspection—though it appears soft and appealing from a distance, there are mixed feelings present of sadness, anger, violence and sexuality present as well. I am interested in this area of ambiguity, causing the viewer to feel confused about what is “healthy” or “toxic.”
Follow Alice on IG at @pink.asphyxia
This workshop is part of the Arts & Culture Sparrow Workshop Series gratefully funded by the City of Calgary.