Phoenix Finding Form: A Confluence of Communities

Nicole Bauberger

Phoenix Finding Form: a Confluence of Communities will draw from Nicole Bauberger experience developing a series of large sculptures using glass from the waste stream. Bauberger engages in many collaborative artworks. In this one, she recognizes that the fundamental imagining is hers. Nevertheless, she recognizes a wide variety of communities which have created the preconditions for her to do this work, from Whitehorse to Montreal. This talk will introduce conference attendees to some of the multi-faceted arts scene in Whitehorse, and invite them to consider the various scenes, organizations and communities that support their work.

Artist Bio: Nicole Bauberger is a multidisciplinary artist of settler heritage who has made her home in Kwanlin, aka Whitehorse Yukon, in the territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch’än Council, since 2003. She has toured her artwork across Canada since 2000. Building on years of oil painting, Bauberger began experimenting in earnest with materials from the waste stream in 2018. She has completed residencies at Raven ReCentre in Whitehorse and often undertakes projects with Zero Waste Yukon. You can find an excerpt from her large-scale bas relief sculpture in glass from the waste stream in the vitrine at the Whitehorse Public Library, right beside the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre