Seymour Online is a series of free online workshops for kids, families, and adults, to bring inspiration and creative projects to your home.
Flipbook Animation with Kara Wightman
For kids and families
Bring your drawings to life by making flipbook animations with the Seymour Art Gallery’s Gallery Assistant Kara Wightman. Work solo or as a team to create your animation!
Kara Wightman has been the Gallery Assistant at the Seymour Art Gallery since 2018. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a major in Illustration. She specializes in highly detailed pen and ink drawings that look toward our relationship with the natural world.
Share your finished projects with us on Instagram by using the hashtag #seymouronline and be sure to tag the Seymour Art Gallery.
Vanishing Perspective Landscapes with Amelia Butcher
For all ages
Follow Amelia Butcher through a one-point perspective workshop with a twist! Using only a few materials and some simple drawings, you can build a little slice of a world in 3D. Perhaps you’ll build a completely imaginary landscape, or draw a familiar place you love from memory, or maybe you’ll use technology to research somewhere you’ve never been!
Amelia Butcher is a visual artist and teacher based in Surrey, BC, with a practice based in drawing and ceramics. She graduated from Emily Carr University in 2013 and is a founding member of the Dusty Babes Collective.
Tiny Transport with Amelia Butcher
For families and young people
Learn to make miniature vehicles from artist Amelia Butcher. Recycle materials from around your home and make a tiny truck, van, or race car with wheels that really move!
Amelia Butcher is a visual artist and teacher based in Surrey, BC, with a practice based in drawing and ceramics. She graduated from Emily Carr University in 2013 and is a founding member of the Dusty Babes Collective.
Share your finished projects with us on Instagram by using the hashtag #seymouronline and be sure to tag the Seymour Art Gallery.
Visual Storytelling for Quiet Things with Sarah Ronald
For all ages
Join Sarah Ronald in exploring the relationships between ourselves and the meaningful objects in our homes. Sarah guides you through creating a portrait of yourself through poetry and the things you surround yourself with.
Sarah Ronald is an artist who works out of her home studio in Port Coquitlam. Sarah grew up in the Okanagan and has lived in the lower mainland since getting her art degree in 2001. Her artwork is inspired by the wildlife who share their space with us, and she draws using a variety of materials to communicate about conservation issues.
Mini Projects
Textile Wall Hangings
Inspired by Katherine Soucie and Michelle Sirois-Silver’s 2017 exhibition Regeneratus
Take inspiration from Katherine Soucie and Michelle Sirois-Silver’s 2017 exhibition Regeneratus and create your own wall hanging using recycled textiles. Rummage through your craft supplies for some string, yarn, or mismatched shoelaces. Don’t have anything quite like that? Clean out your closet and cut your old socks or t-shirts into strips, and start creating!
Subterranean Suburbia
inspired by Amelia Butcher’s 2020 exhibition Sister Worm
Take inspiration from Amelia Butcher’s ceramic exhibition Sister Worm and create your own imaginary earthworm burrow using paper cut-outs and a variety of materials. Families are invited to collaborate and think creatively about the kind of home they might build they too lived in a subterranean world.