Henderson Lake Park

Free

The Gallery is excited to host an activity booth at Helen Schuler Nature Centre’s Nature Play Fest! Join us and guest artist Mary-Anne McTrowe as we do block printing on upcycled fabric. Create a unique pattern on second-hand fabric squares using pre-carved rubber blocks and fabric ink. Use your fabric square as a handkerchief, a pocket square, a flag, or décor! All supplies are provided for this hands-on art workshop.

Mary-Anne McTrowe was born and raised in southern Alberta, where she earned her B.F.A. at the University of Lethbridge in 1998. She went on to pursue graduate studies at Concordia University in Montreal and received her M.F.A. in studio art in 2001. Her work has spanned a number of different media including performance, installation, and textiles, and in her practice she explores objects that are in states of transformation, focusing on the question of how things that are familiar to us can be made unfamiliar; how a change in context can render something temporarily strange and perhaps even unrecognizable. McTrowe was a member of the now-retired folk art-ernative duo The Cedar Tavern Singers AKA Les Phonoréalistes with Daniel Wong, was a founding member of Trap\door Artist Run Centre, and currently works as a Technician in the Art Department at the University of Lethbridge.