Making sense of scents with Kristi Chen
Join artist Kristi Chen for an incense-making workshop.
Learn and share about honorific incense practices in this participatory workshop with artist Kristi Chen. Through conversation, material demonstrations, and hands-on incense sculpting, we’ll explore personal and historical narratives together – and make something precious to take home.
As we will be working with fine botanical powders and natural smoke, we are happy to provide N95 masks and safety goggles for your comfort and protection. Please let us know if you have any specific sensitivities or respiratory concerns.
Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.
This workshop is part of To pick up the pieces, an exhibition at Whippersnapper Gallery curated by Guidance Council featuring Golboo Amani, Kristi Chen, Laura Grier and Khadijah Morley that reflects upon collective grief and what emerges from its aftermath.
The exhibition runs September 1-26, 2026. More details at whippersnapper.ca.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To pick up the pieces is supported by Collective Collective, a project between eight visual arts collectives with majority racialized membership. As a response to the systemic racism and exploitative labour conditions in the arts, as well as the interrelated lack of sustainability within the sector, we are testing out organizational and curatorial practices that centre values of collectivity, solidarity, and mutual aid through resource and labour sharing. Learn more.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council of the Arts.
Image Credit: Jibril