Since January 2025, CACV has been operating out of the McBride Park Field House, a community-based arts space that will remain active through December 2027. The site functions as a shared, community-access hub for artistic creation, collaboration, and public engagement.
CACV uses the Field House to support local artists and deliver accessible arts programming. The space is maintained as a free, low-barrier environment for artists and participants in Vancouver and is activated in three primary ways, artist studio space for creation and research, exhibition space for public presentation of work, and programming hub for workshops, events, and community-engaged activities.
If you are interested in collaborating, we’re open to new ideas for programming and workshops, just email us at info@cacv.ca.
Find out more about the fieldhouse, workshops, artist residency program and more below! To view, click on the desired button below or simply scroll down to find out more.
Artist Residency Program
We are pleased to introduce our next artist in residence, Jessica Gabriel!✨
Jessica Gabriel is a queer multidisciplinary artist from the Sunshine Coast, BC, currently working as a shadow puppeteer, theatre maker, and art model in Vancouver on unceded Coast Salish territories. She has a painting degree, a clown diploma, a permaculture design certificate, and since 2003 is co-artistic director of Mind of a Snail Puppet Co. Her practice centers on mixed media and assemblage; drawing from debris and found materials in the immediate environment. She approaches art and life through the playful lens of “compost-modernism” where ideas are continually being mulched and recycled, rotting, dying and made new again. Jessica creates experimental improvised sounds using old cassette tapes under the name tay_ploops. She holds a BFA from UBC and studied at l’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. A professional art model at Emily Carr University, Langara College and more. She is trained in Pochinko-style clowning and is a founding member of the ASSEMBLY: a local intersectional feminist clown collective.
Gabriel began her residency at McBride Fieldhouse on March 1, 2026, and will be the artist-in-residence until the end of May 2026. Stay tuned for upcoming events!
Workshops & Events
Cyanotrash Workshop and Open House at McBride Fieldhouse
Come learn techniques to make your own cyanotypes from collected debris with current CACV artist in residence Jessica Gabriel
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Workshop 11am-1pm
Open House 2-5pm
McBride Fieldhouse (2049 Waterloo St.)
Cyanotypes are a tactile and immediate artform that can be made in many ways. In this hands-on workshop we start by identifying which bits of trash and plant matter make different types of marks as uv sunprints. We’ll take time to collect and scavenge the items we want to use. Each participant will make their own compositions on pre-prepared fabric. Finally these arrangements get exposed to the sun and rinsed off in water to reveal simple wonders.
FREE WORKSHOP | 15 Participants max.
Sign up for workshop here: https://forms.gle/
Everyone else is welcome to drop by on May 2nd between 2-5pm for a casual Open House to come and see what Jessica has been up to in the space.
Location & Social Media
The McBride Park Field House is located at 2049 Waterloo St, Vancouver, BC V6R 1N6, inside McBride Park on West 4th Ave.
Follow us on Instagram: @cacvfieldhouse
Fieldhouse Photos & Floorplan
