SakuraFest workshop: Intuitive Drawing with Yuka Yamaguchi
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SakuraFest workshop: Intuitive Drawing with Yuka Yamaguchi

Omote Ura Workshop Intuitive Drawing with Yuka Yamaguchi We are different, and connected.Explore your inner world thr...

Wed, May 6, 2026, 7:00 p.m.date
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Omote Ura Workshop Intuitive Drawing with Yuka Yamaguchi We are different, and connected.Explore your inner world through creative intuition with visual artist Yuka Yamaguchi. Her workshop explores accessible drawing techniques that slow us down and become more attentive.Participants will collaborate in an exquisite corpse drawing game where each person adds to a piece of Yukas artwork Growth Within the Shell, before passing it along.The result? A collective image generated from shifting between the known to the unknown.*Notes Open to all age groups.For participants under 12, accompaniment by a guardian is required.All materials are included in your ticket. More information on our websiteTicket Price $20 (Members) / $25 (Non-members) About the Artist Yuka Yamaguchi Born and raised in Japan, she is a self-taught artist whose practice began from an early fascination with the inner life of the body and mind. She studied social work before choosing to move to Canada--to challenge herself, to live beyond familiarity, and to experience cultural diversity firsthand. Life as an immigrant brought its own set of complexities. In navigating a new language, new landscapes, and shifting notions of belonging, she turned to drawing as a way to understand and express her evolving identity. After living in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Kingston, she settled in Saskatoon, where she continues to create work rooted in intuition, memory and the intimate dialogue between body and self.Learn more: www.yukayamaguchi.com About the Curator Hitoko Okada Hitoko Okada is a queer, Nikkei, interdisciplinary artist researcher based in Hamilton, Ontario. Since studying fashion design at the International Academy of Design in Toronto in 2005, their practice spans theatre, fashion, installation, and curatorial projects, with current research exploring queering futurities through Japanese indigo as an interspecies yokai. Their work has been presented across Southern Ontario and supported through residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, and the Kawashima Textile School in Kyoto, among others.Learn more: hitoko.ca

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Omote Ura Workshop Intuitive Drawing with Yuka Yamaguchi We are different, and connected.Explore your inner world through creative intuition with visual artist Yuka Yamaguchi. Her workshop explores accessible drawing techniques that slow us down and become more attentive.Participants will collaborate in an exquisite corpse drawing game where each person adds to a piece of Yukas artwork Growth Within the Shell, before passing it along.The result? A collective image generated from shifting between the known to the unknown.*Notes Open to all age groups.For participants under 12, accompaniment by a guardian is required.All materials are included in your ticket. More information on our websiteTicket Price $20 (Members) / $25 (Non-members) About the Artist Yuka Yamaguchi Born and raised in Japan, she is a self-taught artist whose practice began from an early fascination with the inner life of the body and mind. She studied social work before choosing to move to Canada--to challenge herself, to live beyond familiarity, and to experience cultural diversity firsthand. Life as an immigrant brought its own set of complexities. In navigating a new language, new landscapes, and shifting notions of belonging, she turned to drawing as a way to understand and express her evolving identity. After living in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Kingston, she settled in Saskatoon, where she continues to create work rooted in intuition, memory and the intimate dialogue between body and self.Learn more: www.yukayamaguchi.com About the Curator Hitoko Okada Hitoko Okada is a queer, Nikkei, interdisciplinary artist researcher based in Hamilton, Ontario. Since studying fashion design at the International Academy of Design in Toronto in 2005, their practice spans theatre, fashion, installation, and curatorial projects, with current research exploring queering futurities through Japanese indigo as an interspecies yokai. Their work has been presented across Southern Ontario and supported through residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, and the Kawashima Textile School in Kyoto, among others.Learn more: hitoko.ca