Zine Making with Cole Pauls: Teen Art Lab Spring Break Workshop

Thursday, March 19, 2pm-5:30pm (during Spring Break)
in the Tuey Art Studio at the Gibson Art Museum

Open to all youth aged 13–19.
Free with registration. Limited space. All materials provided.

If this event is full, please add yourself to the waitlist. If there's enough interest, a second workshop will be opened up, and will run on Thursday, March 19 from 10am to 1:30pm.

In this Spring Break workshop, Cole shows you how to tell a story with only eight drawings, folded into a small booklet to make a zine. Using Burnaby Mountain as an inspirational starting point, your story will relate to your personal experience with the mountain.

First you'll brainstorm ideas and make a rough draft of your sequence of drawings, and then work on your good copy, all in the company of other artists your age that you can share ideas with.

By the end of this workshop, you'll leave with five fresh copies of your zine — printed, folded, and ready to share with your friends. You'll also have your original art so that you can photocopy as many copies of your zine as the world can handle!

Adults are welcome to hang out on the couches by the fireplace in the Gibson’s Salon.

Please note: Upon registering, a parent or guardian will need to sign a consent form on behalf of their teen.

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Cole Pauls is a Champagne and Aishihik Citizen and Tahltan comic artist, illustrator, and printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory). He holds a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Residing in Vancouver, Pauls has created four graphic novels: Dakwäkãda Warriors (2019), Pizza Punks (2021), Kwändür (2022) and We See Stars Only At Night (2025). In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine’s Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwäkãda Warriors II. In 2020, Dakwäkãda Warriors won Best Work in an Indigenous Language from the Indigenous Voices Awards and was nominated for the Doug Wright Award categories The Egghead & The Nipper. In 2022, Artspeak Gallery, in Vancouver BC, held the first solo exhibition of Pauls’ work, “Dazhän Kwändür Ch’e (This is a Story)”. In 2023, Kwändür won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize from the BC & Yukon Book Prize.

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This workshop is generously supported by the Tuey Charitable Foundation, the Deux Mille Foundation, and Friends of the Gibson.

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The Gibson reserves the right to cancel this workshop due to low registration, and will make every effort to reschedule it.

Banner image: still from online workshop organized by VanCAF, courtesy of Cole Pauls.

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