NUIT BLANCHE EVE

Emma Benoit, Alara Chester, Savanna Blackwell, Mary French, Lejo Liimatainen, Avery Neumiller, Julianna Phillips, Gracyn Torgerson, Marlo Turk and Ella Zentner are artists who are based in Saskatoon and connected through the USask Senior Drawing course. This pop-up exhibition is curated by Cameron Forbes

Worldcrust is presented by the Sculpture Area in the School for the Arts at the University of Saskatchewan, organized by artist and professor Ella Dawn McGeough and featuring fourth-year sculpture student Amanda May. Together, the project reflects an approach to sculpture grounded in experimentation, material curiosity, reuse, and collective making.

As a third-year university art student, my practice is inspired by the natural world and the beauty found within it. I create artwork that explores nature through my own perspective, drawing inspiration from organic forms, landscapes, plants, and the environments around me. Through my work, I aim to capture the atmosphere and visual qualities of nature while expressing my personal connection to the world around me. As I continue to develop my artistic practice, I explore different materials and techniques to better communicate these ideas and experiences.

Family Flowers is an interactive experience that viewers can participate in by moving the flowers from the canvases into the vase (tap and hold on the flowers and slide your finger on the phone screen to move them). Each one of these flowers is a favorite that my grandparents and mom had, adding a personal layer of meaning but one that remains ambiguous for the viewers who simply see flowers. As the viewer places the 2D flowers into the 3D vase, they merge my personal memories with a shared experience that sits between real and virtual worlds.

Nora Nguyen is a Vietnamese girl who is passionate about spreading Vietnamese culture through art. She believes that every country has its own unique history and cultural background, and that no country is superior to another.

Bárbara González is an architect and urban designer from Guadalajara, Mexico, currently based in Saskatoon, Canada.

Her work explores grief, identity, and the understanding of her body and her life as fragile, creating spaces of transition where intimate experiences are brought to light, inviting audiences to experience what words are unable to contain.

Vinh Pham recently graduated with a B.Sc. in Applied Computing and enjoys combining technology with playful, imaginative art. Using Hoverlay, Vinh creates AR spaces that explore identity, freedom, healing, and joy through scrapbook textures, watercolor mist, and low-poly objects, while reflecting a curious, silly, and creative personality.

The Digital & Integrated Practice (DIP) area in the School for the Arts at the University of Saskatchewan includes undergraduate and graduate classes in animation (both traditional and digital), video art, sound art, and integrated media which includes 4D, inter/transdisciplinary, mixed media and other non-traditional art forms (performance art, installation, augmented reality, community-engaged practice, as well as others). The area chair is Lisa Birke, Associate Professor of Digital and Extended Media and practicing artist working in the collision of video, performance art, and expanded media practice.