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Image featuring text and photograph. Top: A woman with long brown hair, wearing glasses, sits at a table with a foam paint brush, working on a painting. A man with a beard, wearing a cap and a yellow tank top, stands in the background. Bottom: Breaking Boundaries. Using Limitations To Expand Creativity in Painting.
Image featuring text and photograph. Top: A woman with long brown hair, wearing glasses, sits at a table with a foam paint brush, working on a painting. A man with a beard, wearing a cap and a yellow tank top, stands in the background. Bottom: Breaking Boundaries. Using Limitations To Expand Creativity in Painting.

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Breaking Boundaries: Using Limitations to Expand Creativity in Painting

One night only, on Thursday, May 29, 2025 – the Elora Centre for the Arts hosts Breaking Boundaries: Using Limitations to Expand Creativity in Painting, a painting workshop that explores what happens when you limit your choices of things like colour, process and tools.

What happens when you only use two colours?

Or when you have to use a tiny paint brush on a large canvas? Or when you use dice to choose what type of lines you paint and what colours you use? Find out how creative you can be when you set your own rules while painting!

Artist Ahmri Vandeborne will guide you in a playful evening workshop setting limitations on tools and processes to help expand your creativity. She’ll offer examples of different types of processes that could be used to set limitations. You’ll then choose how you’d like to paint – and create an image based on the guidelines you’ve set for yourself. Gather with other artists to make something unique and think outside the box!

This class has 12 spaces available, for participants aged 16 and older. No experience necessary.

About Ahmri Vandeborne

Ahmri Vandeborne (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, curious-hearted collaborator and community facilitator. Her passion for space-making is an essential tool in both her personal practice and her work as owner of Otherwise Studios, an inclusive studio space for art-making and community-building. Ahmri believes in the power of art as a vessel for community care – and in the importance of accessibility in the arts sector. Her facilitation style is playful, experimentative and encouraging of anyone who wants to explore their creativity. Ahmri holds a BAH with Distinction in Studio Art, with minors in French and Art History from the University of Guelph.

About Elora Centre for the Arts (ECFTA)

The Elora Centre for the Arts (ECFTA) was founded in 2002 and continues to grow as a vibrant arts centre. A hub of connection and creativity, it enhances cultural life in the region and has become integral to the health of the community. They provide arts-based community outreach programs, workshops for adults and children, art exhibitions, events and an artisan shop that uplifts local artists. A not-for-profit charity run by a board of volunteers from the community and a small, committed staff team, the ECFTA is located in a restored, three-story limestone schoolhouse. Apart from the shop, the repurposed building also includes a gallery space, a classroom, artist studios, and is home to various arts organizations. Read more about them here.

Image featuring text and photograph. Top: A woman with long brown hair, wearing glasses, sits at a table with a foam paint brush, working on a painting. A man with a beard, wearing a cap and a yellow tank top, stands in the background. Bottom: Breaking Boundaries. Using Limitations To Expand Creativity in Painting.

(Photo credits: Elora Centre for the Arts.)

 

Event details

Hosted by: Elora Centre for the Arts 

Type of event: painting workshop

Instructor: Ahmri Vandeborne 

Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Start time: 6:00 PM ET

Duration: 3 hours

Number of sessions: 1

Cost: C$65.00 + HST (registration). Please note, there is a C$10.00 kit fee payable in cash to the instructor at the start of class. All materials are included in the kit fee.

Location: Elora Centre for the Arts, 75 Melville St., Elora, ON, N0B 1S0

Booking link: Book your spot here.

Contact details: Elora Centre for the Arts, 75 Melville St., Elora, ON, N0B 1S0, Canada; (519) 846-9698, Contact form, eloracentreforthearts.ca

 

Content warning: For participants 16+.

Accessibility: There are washrooms for guests on site. Currently, there are no accessible washrooms for visitors with mobility concerns or in wheelchairs; however, they are coming soon! Automatic main entry doors are in place for wheelchair access. Interior doorways of the gallery, artisan shop and classroom are sized for wheelchair entry. There are designated wheelchair parking spots on site. More info, including parking and FAQ, here.

Refund/cancellation policy:

If you cancel: Cancellations up to 14 days prior to start date will receive a full refund, less a $25.00 administrative fee. No refund of fees will apply to cancellations within 14 days of start date. Fees may be applied/credited to an alternate workshop depending on availability.

If they cancel: To help ensure the course you’re interested in runs, they suggest you register no less than two weeks in advance. In the event of insufficient registrations, ECFTA reserves the right to cancel workshops. You would be eligible for a full refund of fees or credit for a future workshop, pending availability.