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Messing About & Finding Out with Erin Stagg

May 20, 2025
June 10, 2025
5:30 pm
9:30 pm
This four week class is an exploration to help you find your voice in your acrylic paintings.

The focus is to encourage play and experimentation with a relaxed class that is open to all styles and skill levels. We will explore topics like composition, underpainting, practice paintings and making a final piece. These techniques are meant to give you the building blocks to allow you to play. You’ll learn how to prepare cheap painting surfaces, mixing colours and layers. Painting weekly will help you discover habits and helpful practices to empower you to keep painting after the class.

All supplies are included. We will be using artist’s quality acrylic paint and brushes and wooden panels to explore the importance of affordable but quality art supplies.
Instructor
Erin Stagg
$225.75
All supplies are included. This class is for 16+
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Erin Stagg is a nationally awarded Métis artist from Prince George, BC. She is best known for her landscapes and wildlife paintings but her most famous painting is of a Metis sash and smudging bowl titled Métis Pride.

A woman with long hair smiles with bright lipstick on standing outdoors against the changing leaves of autumn.

Although she now lives in Prince George, Erin grew up in the small community of Fort St. James, BC and has a great affinity for the place and people. Living surrounded by the forest, being educated in the Dakelh culture and living in a small town has been incredibly influential in Erin’s life.

As a young adult, Erin attended Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops where she studied botany and physical geography. Her passion for the land is expressed in many ways. After school Erin pursued a traditional career as per her education and found that it was not the right path for her. Starting in 2015 Erin moved towards a career creating art.

After beginning her journey to motherhood, Erin felt a stronger calling from her Métis heritage. Erin is Métis/Mennonite Settler. Her Metis ancestors moved from Red River (St. Francois Xavier) after the Red River Resistance, they moved to Willow Bunch and ended up in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. Her Métis family names are Piché, Poitras, Tanner, Aubichon. She is a direct descendant of Cuthbert Grant Sr. and Pierre Poitras. She is related to notable Métis names like Edouard Beaupré, once the tallest man in the world. 

Erin’s first solo exhibition was titled ‘Halfbreed Mother’ which featured paintings of motherhood on her family scrip. Her second exhibition was titled ‘Otipemisewak: the People who own Themselves” which featured her Metis family stories. Erin’s third exhibition is titled “Wahkohtowin: Good Relation” and will be on exhibit June 2025 at Two Rivers Gallery. 

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