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Artist Salon with Malina Sintnicolaas on Teaching Tips for Artists

  • Artist Salon
  • Talk
  • November 27, 2024

    Above: Malina Sintnicolaas

    Have you considered hosting art workshops, classes or other public programs to supplement your income as a working artist? Hear from experienced artist and instructor Malina Sintnicolaas for tips on lesson planning, checking for learning, and classroom outcomes as she shares how to develop successful art programs and working with educational institutions.

    Topics covered in this session:

    – Why consider teaching as a supplementary income to your career as a practicing artist
    – Attributes of being a good teacher – why teaching might be a good fit for your career
    – Personal story – how I knew I wanted to be an arts educator in addition to being a practicing artist
    – When you should not consider going into teaching – and that’s okay!
    – Which age-groups and subjects align with your teaching strengths
    – Lesson planning and creating syllabi for your classes and workshops
    – Challenges that can arise
    – How teaching art can be really rewarding

    Different classroom and teaching formats:
    – Workshops out of personal/private studios
    – Public community programming through galleries or artist-run centres
    – Public Art and Community centres where classes are programmed by semester
    – Public School
    – University or college

    Session was recorded at Richmond Art Gallery on November 27, 2024.
    Hosted by RAG Education & Public Programs Coordinator, Kathy Tycholis

    About the Presenter:

    Malina Izumi Sintnicolaas is a mixed media artist and educator currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia – the traditional and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish Peoples. With a practice focused mostly in ceramic, and fibre sculpture, her works are considered to be manifestations, transmutations, or “petrifications” of emotions into a physical form. Drawn to tactile materials, her work is questioning ways in which one can represent emotions such as depression, trauma, and anxiety with a physical form and in what ways can one induce empathy for an object even if that object is alien or abstract. Working with texture, surface, material properties, and form, her sculptures are bodily, visceral, and drive to evoke feeling from the viewer, using affect to create an empathic landscape that will urge an understanding for states of mind which are difficult to be described verbally.

    She received her B.F.A from York University, and completed her Master of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions within Canada and the United States including the Burrard Arts Foundation in Vancouver, BC, Art Mur in Montreal, Sculptor’s Alliance NYC, and the Canadian Sculpture Centre in Toronto, ON. She is also the recipient of the 2019 Audain Travel Award, the Won Lee Scholarship of the Sculptor’s Society of Canada, and the 2022 BC Arts Council Project Assistant Grant respectively. Malina is currently teaching studio art at the Richmond Arts Centre and Port Moody Arts Centre.


    The Artist Salon Series features art professionals leading inspirational artist talks and professional development for visual artists each month from February to November. Programs are either live-streamed via the Zoom platform or hosted in person. Past livestreams may be viewed as videos on the RAG@Home video page.

    Above: Malina Sintnicolaas
    WATCH: Artist and instructor Malina Sintnicolaas provides practical tips on how to develop successful art programs and working with educational institutions.

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