CHAT AND MAKE ART | MIGRANT WOMEN | TERM-BASED

Yamile Tafur Rios, Chat and Make Art class tutor, 2024

WHEN: Fridays, 10am – 12pm

2025 TERM DATES:

Term 1: 7 February – 11 April
Term 2: 2 May – 4 July
Term 3: 25 July – 26 September
Term 4: 17 October – 19 December

WHERE: Woden Library

COST: Free

Details

This weekly art workshop is for multicultural women living in South Canberra. The class is an inclusive and welcoming space for women to meet, exchange ideas and create art together.

During the sessions participants have the opportunity to connect with others while learning and sharing creative experiences. The program is designed primarily based around drawing and painting, with the addition of different mediums according to the interests of group members.

This space is led by Yamile Rios Tafur, an artist and educator from Colombia and now based in Canberra. Yamile’s field of interests include everyday occupations, manual labour, and ways of belonging. Drawing, painting and making community projects are an important part of her practice. She is also heavily involved in completing large-scale murals around Canberra.

About the Artist

Yamile Tafur Rios is a visual artist and educator from Colombia based in Canberra. She completed her bachelor degree in Visual Arts back in her country in 2012. She has done solo and group exhibitions between 2013 and 2019, she obtained financial support from the Colombian Ministry of Culture and from other institutions for some of her creative projects. Yamile is interested in research about manufacturing clothes, manual labour, everyday occupations and ways to belong as a subject of her work of art. Throughout her artistic production she has investigated her own unique experience of life to connect it with other community voices.

In 2022 she undertook the Residency Creative Recovery and Resilience Residency at Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centres In ACT as an Emerging Artist, during that time she worked with Canberra based people who have lived an immigration experience in their life to connect community stories through art experiences. She is also was part of the Cahoots program 2022 for artists and producers to develop their practice with a small, critical community from diverse art forms and backgrounds.

In 2023 she was part of a collaborative work shown in Cahoots Lab, she has being exhibiting and working as an Educator and Independent Artist along different spaces in Canberra.

Yamile creating an orange painting

Yamile Tafur Rios. Image courtesy of the artist