Join Erika's FREE workshop exploring underglaze application techniques on ceramics. Participants will choose small pre-made flat ceramic shapes and be invited to create their own ceramic painting after learning a variety of unique underglaze applications such as painting solid colours, watercolour techniques, marbling and using underglaze pencils.

Participants will leave their ceramics at the gallery and then are invited back to pick them up once fired, at her Artist Q&A on March 29th or during gallery hours at any later date. 

Erika Germain (she/her) is an emerging artist and writer working across painting, ceramics, print media, and social practice. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2018 where she was selected as undergraduate valedictorian and her MFA from Cornell University in 2022. Her practice has been situated within the contexts of Vancouver, BC, central New York, and New York City. In 2022 she returned to her home city Edmonton, AB on Treaty 6 Territory, where she currently works and lives.

Erika’s artwork and writing investigates themes of language, translation, community, religion, ritual, and exchange. Working across diverse mediums, she considers how we are able to form and share meaningful connections through language and art-making. Developing a process of translation through the systematizing of letters to colours, her work revolves around the balance of practices that are intuitive and inventive as well as structured and devotional. These material and conceptual explorations are used to construct the contexts for social practice-based events of ritual, exchange, participation, and collaboration. Immersed in the visual structures of language, the poetics of conversation, the economies of love and intimacy, and the rituals that surround these, she examines the ways in which we are able to genuinely create communities with one another.