What Do You Carry When Home Changes? Workshop with Jona Redwood

This hands-on workshop invites participants to explore their personal understanding of home through reflection and making.
About this Event

This hands-on workshop invites participants to explore their personal understanding of home through reflection and making. Guided by prompts and material exploration, participants will create a small, intentional object using fiber, thread, and mixed materials inspired by dreamcatcher techniques. Rather than focusing on traditional forms, the workshop emphasizes personal meaning—what we hold onto, what we release, and how our sense of home evolves over time.

Participants are invited to bring in their own artifact or trinket to represent what home means to them or what they would want to contribute to the idea.  We will also have lots of supplies on-hand as well.  Participants will have the option to contribute their piece to a collaborative installation within the exhibition or take it home.  Taught by artist-in-residence Jona Redwood.

This is part of the HOME residency in July/August 2026 and gratefully funded by Calgary Arts Development.
For newcomers, home can be a place left behind, a space in flux, or a future still being imagined. For Indigenous artists, home is rooted in ancestral land, community, and resilience, often in the face of historical and ongoing displacement. This residency creates a space for dialogue between these experiences, revealing shared struggles and points of connection while honoring the complexities of each perspective.

Home Residency brings together five Newcomer and Indigenous artists — Kseniia Koshmai, Yu Chen, Shea Iles, Jona Redwood, and Ezgi Türker — whose practices explore different understandings of home through miniature boxes, portraiture, beaded game cards, dreamcatchers and letters.

The residency creates space for dialogue between these perspectives, fostering connection while honouring the distinct histories, relationships, and experiences each artist carries. Over July and August, the artists will explore what home means to them individually, drawing from their own histories, cultures, memories, and lived experiences while also developing a collaborative artwork and offering public workshops.