Tickets: General Admission $30 | ACC Members $20
If you are unable to attend, you can still register to access a recording of the workshop, which will be made available to all registrants until July 9.
In this workshop, pattern designer and artist Vikki Wiercinski will show participants the basics of creating repeating patterns. Using basic materials (paper, pencils or markers, scissors and tape), the workshop will show you how to plan and play with the building blocks of pattern design. The workshop will include a quick overview of pattern styles and repeat techniques.
Participants will learn the principles of tessellation, of tiling designs to create pattern design. They will be guided through playing with small designs & collage to create repeats.
Participants will have time within the online workshop to work on a pattern in their own studios and ask any questions along the way. They can use collage, paints, mark-making tools, or anything they like to create the basic pattern. They will then be led through the process of digitizing the design using Adobe Illustrator.
About your instructor:
Vikki Wiercinski (she/her/hers) is a designer and ceramicist who has a lifelong love of pattern and shape. Born and raised in Edmonton/Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Vikki studied graphic design at the University of Alberta (BDes 2006) and started her art practice only after years of being in the design field. As a visual designer, she creates anything from murals to posters to book covers, and is often experimenting with multiple mediums. Vikki also designs abstract textiles and prints for her Mezzaluna Studio project. As an artist, what started as a colourful, pattern-filled painting and drawing practice based on landscape morphed into a three dimensional ceramics practice thanks to an artist residency at the Banff Centre (2018), where she discovered ceramics. Vikki has been the recipient of two public art commissions from the City of Edmonton: Midnight Dispatch (2016) a surface design cast into the concrete exterior cladding of the Lewis Farms Fire Hall, and Neon Sky (2020) a 20-metre mural above the pool at the Jasper Place Leisure Centre. She has been an organizer of Edmonton's twice-annual Royal Bison Art and Craft Fair since 2010, and deeply values building community within the maker/designer scene in Edmonton. Vikki is also an Alberta Craft Council 2018 & 2021 Tom McFall Honour Award nominee.