Here you will find photos of the past events we have hosted at our McBride Fieldhouse!
FEBRUARY 2026
Creating Through Chaos – Mixed Media Collage Workshop and Open Studio with Quin Martins – February 22nd
Mixed-media collage artist Quin Martins hosted an open studio and hands-on workshop for all skill levels, inviting participants to explore the art of collage in relation to chaos. Collage tends to lend itself well to chaos, incorporating disparate elements into a cohesive whole. Participants came ready to cut, paste, and create! Immersing themselves in the vibrant world of collage and discovering the joy of making art with others.
NOVEMBER 2025
Open Studio with Jessica Gnyp – November 29th
Jessica Gnyp is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada. During her three-month residency at the McBride Fieldhouse artist Jessica Gnyp has created a site-specific sculptural installation inspired by the façade of this former park caretaker’s residence. Gnyp’s recent work is informed by research conducted at the Vancouver Archives tracing the fieldhouse’s original layout, as well as other photographic documentation of this building completed in 1953.
SEPTEMBER 2025
GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP with @cheung_kristin 💫September 27, 2025
Learn how to identify funding opportunities, write strong proposals, and understand what funders look for. Bring a draft of your grant application to share and receive constructive feedback. The session includes a mock peer-assessment jury, giving you valuable insight into how grants are evaluated.
Leave with practical tools, clearer language, and greater confidence in applying for funding.
AUGUST 2025
Art Party – Facilitated by Jamie & Alex
August 23rd, 2025
A joyous afternoon facilitated by @alexkmasse and @jamie_aartsy ! They helped folks channel their inner creativity and created a comfortable space for co-creating within the community.
Nickie Lewis Workshop – Hearts From Nature August 18th, 2025
Nickie Lewis facilitated a wonderful weaving workshop. It was a playful low-pressure workshop where you crafted an enchanting woven heart for your home or garden.
Comedy Evening – August 14th, 2025
Comedy Evening was a full house! This event was for stand-up acts that practiced ‘clean comedy’. Everyone had a blast! The Fieldhouse was left simmering with laughter.
Pop Up Music Jam – BC Day, August 4th, 2025
Musicians seated in a circle in the grass area, playing acoustic string instruments such as guitar, fiddle, and mandolin. The musicians played without microphones or speakers, creating a low-key, acoustic music experience that blends naturally into the setting.
JULY 2025
Open Studio with Víctor Ballesteros – July 17th
Víctor Ballesteros is an artist and filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. Ballesteros was our first artist in residence at The Fieldhouse. Find out more below!
Artist Residency Program
- Quin Martins – February, 2026
Quin Martins is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist and writer whose practice encompasses painting, photography, collage, and music production. His process is intuitive and experimental, consistently pushing the boundaries of his chosen materials. Martins holds a BFA in visual arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design andrecently had a short story published in Off the Map: an anthology for Vancouver writerswith lived experience of mental health issues.
Image provided by the artist.
- Jessica Gnyp – September – November, 2025
Jessica Gnyp works with a range of materials and media including digital and analogue photographic techniques, scanning, digital processes, video, drawing, sculpture and installation. Jessica Gnyp received an MFA from the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia a BFA in photography from Emily Carr University and a BA in anthropology from the University of Victoria. She is a fellow at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin and completed a residency at Salzburg International Summer Academy, Austria. She has received Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council awards as well as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Graduate Scholarship. She has taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland and currently teaches at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey BC.
Image provided by the artist.
- Víctor Ballesteros – May – July, 2025
Víctor Ballesteros is an artist and filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. During his time at the McBride Fieldhouse artist residency, Ballesteros has further developed his project Arauco Plywall (2023–present), which inquires into the production of plywood and its use in the architecture of galleries and museum display. The use of this material in art exhibitions, through backing in regular and modular walls, shelving, and projection screens, is of particular interest to his practice, as it provides a critical lens through which to examine the geopolitics and extractive economies of the Americas in relation to the history of art display and exhibition architecture.
Image provided by the artist.