Future Arts in Residence at the Museum of Vancouver

In partnership with Future Arts Network’s Future Arts in Residency (FAiR), there will be three events hosted and facilitated by artists from their 2025/26 cohort. Sign up for one workshop or stay the whole day! 

Date: Saturday, April 4, 2026 

Time: 10:00am-7:30pm 

Location: Museum of Vancouver 

Tickets: 

• By-Donation, RSVP required 

If tickets are sold out and you would like to be added to the waitlist, have any accommodations, or have questions about a barrier-free RSVP, please email programs@museumofvancouver.ca. 

Beading Workshop: 10:00am-12:30pm 

Join Indigenous artists Marisa Law (Upper sməlqmíx and Settler) and Maya Martin (Métis) for an open beading circle at the M.O.V! In this workshop, folks will be offered to learn Beaded Fringe Earrings with the opportunity to bring their own projects to work on as well. A selection of bead colours and other materials are included so participants can customize their pieces and leave with their wearable art! Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Eco-Printing Workshop: 1:00-3:30pm  

Join anata laylay and Sophia Santos English for an afternoon of eco-printing! Coming from a background of working with Native plants and plants from the Philippines, this workshop will be a space to chat about (re)connecting to land, grief, and a chance to create textile piece to bring home. Folks will be able to explore eco-printing and dyeing with the plants around them and ingredients they may have at home. 

Participants are encouraged to bring plants and flowers that resonate with them. Fabric and plant material will be provided regardless! Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.  

Poetry Collective Panel: 5:00-7:30pm  

Join Under The Table for an evening of queer and disabled poetry and discussion. 

Under The Table Poetry is an access-oriented collective prioritizing disability justice and queer liberation by carving out space for connection, sharing, and exploration of writing and poetics. 

This collective of queer disabled artists welcomes community into a COVID-safer, more accessible, anti-oppressive space. 

Featuring collective members Divya Kaur, Ivy Edad, Frankie McGee, Kay Kassirer, Neven Merelj, and Hannah Sullivan Facknitz, the event will include poetry readings as well as an artist talk on how both the group’s creative and organizing work are shaped by disability justice and queer liberation. 

This event is mask mandatory -- masks can be provided on site.  

ASL transcriber will be present.

 

Bios

Beading Workshop 

Marisa Law (she/her) is an Indigenous youth artist and facilitator based in East Vancouver with Upper Smelqmix Okanagan and British heritage. She explores creation through multiple mediums, blending visions of visual and textile arts interwoven with natural materials, textural experiences and cultural reflections. Marisa can often be found as a vendor at Indigenous craft markets/events sharing her artwork with the community or as a workshop facilitator . She has also worked in the creation of many art projects at neighbourhood houses, community centres and more.  

Instagram: @marisacraftsthings | Website: marisacraftsthings.square.site    

Eco-Printing Workshop 

anata laylay (they/them) is a trans nonbinary Filipinx curator, ancestral medicine worker, and textile artist from the rivers and hills of Bulacan and Quezon. They are currently living and working on stolen and unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ land. They are passionate about curating, fibre arts, plant materials, and weaving. Their practice reflects and centres themes of Filipino history, Kapwa, climate justice, ancestral practices, and the QTBIPOC experience. anata laylay is deeply committed to honouring their ancestors, community organizing, decolonization and fighting for genuine liberation through community carework and continuing to learn as a Filipinx healer and ritual worker!

Instagram: @anata.laylay | Website: anatalaylay.com 

Poetry Collective Panel

Divya Kaur is a queer disabled Punjabi interdisciplinary artist, writer, community builder, and anti-oppression professional living on stolen Coast Salish territories, including those of the Halkomelem-speaking peoples. Their work spans mediums and focuses largely on lens-based arts to explore themes of identity, trauma, queerness, disability, pain, and healing, seeking to honour the intersections and tender complexities within these experiences. Divya’s work has been featured in 5X Press, Room Magazine, SAD Mag, Cold Tea Collective, Vines Art Society, Kickstart Disability, Enabling Arts, and Vancouver Pride Magazine. They organize with Under The Table Poetry and is the co-creator of HIR, a community-driven South Asian LGBTQIA+ zine. 

Instagram: @soft.kaur