Artist Salon Webinar with Aysha McConkey, Junior Biologist & Mural Artist

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The Artist Salon Series is designed for visual artists of all levels. This free monthly program features guest artists, curators, and arts workers leading talks or workshops for visual artists to professionalize, socialize, and grow their art practice and community connections.

This October, RAG Artist Salon welcomes guest presenter Aysha McConkey. Learn how this junior biologist and BC’s Bat Ambassador uses her nature research to develop illustrations and murals into a growing art practice. McConkey will share tips and advice on mural work, applying for municipal mural and public art projects, and how to incorporate what you love into your art.

This session is ideal for artists who want to learn more about how to apply and what to expect when starting a mural project.

This online session will be hosted on the Zoom Webinar platform. Pre-registration is required to join.

Online participants are welcome to join in the discussion during the Q+A portion of this event.

About the Presenter:

Aysha McConkey, a junior biologist and wildlife artist, graduated with a bachelor in Environmental Studies, Natural Sciences at the University of the Fraser Valley in the fall of 2024. Her love for the outdoors later evolved into pursuing a career path in wildlife biology and conservation. Since 2019, she has worked with a variety of different species in British Columbia like Barn owls, Western toads, Painted turtles, Oregon forest snail, and a variety of bat species.

Art had always been a hobby and passion, but in 2023 she realized her art could also be a source for science communication and to bring awareness to species at risk. With more species becoming at risk due to loss of habitat, wildfires, and climate change, her interests are to create art showcasing native animals and ecosystems of British Columbia and the environmental issues we face in this generation. McConkey’s art is also inspired by her work in wildlife conservation, academic research, and habitat restoration.

She specializes in painting, scientific illustrations, graphic design, murals, and participates in markets, fairs, and festivals.

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• Register here us02web.zoom.us
• More info at our website richmondartgallery.org

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Richmond Art Gallery

Richmond Art Gallery (RAG) is a non-profit municipal art gallery established in 1980. The gallery produces an array of exhibitions and programs that connect, empower, and provoke conversation with our diverse Richmond, BC communities. RAG actively contributes to Richmond’s cultural communities through our commitment to supporting artists via exhibitions, educational programs, publications, and a permanent collection.

Richmond Art Gallery is dedicated to promoting dialogue among diverse communities on challenging ideas and issues of today as expressed through local, national and international contemporary art. Through its exhibitions, publications, educational programming, collections and significant partnerships, the Richmond Art Gallery provides opportunities for the enhancement of life in Richmond while serving the contemporary arts community in Canada.

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