McBride Fieldhouse

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

Recycled-material Shadow Art Workshop at McBride Fieldhouse

Join artist Cliff Han for a playful and experimental shadow art workshop using recycled and everyday materials. Participants will explore how light, shadows, projection, and simple forms can transform ordinary objects into imaginative artworks.

Saturday June 6th
1:00pm-4:00pm
McBride Fieldhouse (2049 Waterloo St.)

The workshop will begin with a short introduction and group discussion about shadow art, public art, light interaction, and creative ways to see familiar materials differently. Participants will then brainstorm and develop their own ideas before creating individual or collaborative artworks using recycled materials such as crushed cans, cardboard, glass bottles, paper, and found objects.

Rather than focusing only on recycled sculpture itself, the workshop encourages participants to combine shadows, drawing, painting, projection, and mixed media to create unexpected visual compositions. For example, crushed aluminum cans may cast shadows that become part of a larger drawing, or cut cardboard shapes may create temporary projected imagery on walls and surfaces. Participants are encouraged to experiment freely with watercolor, markers, paint, collage, and light.

Depending on weather conditions, portions of the workshop may take place outdoors using natural sunlight, or indoors using portable lighting and projection equipment provided by the artist.

FREE WORKSHOP

No previous art experience is required | All ages are welcome

Sign up for workshop here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexfzbtEcWZY3sPxpNz7–oWkz2bj380nwTzZkTlTLFqU7cqg/viewform?usp=dialog

About The Artist:

Cliff Han is a Korean-Canadian designer and artist based in Vancouver whose work explores the relationship between public space, playful interaction, light, shadow, and everyday materials. His practice combines sculpture, drawing, installation, and functional design to create imaginative experiences within community and urban spaces.

Through workshops and public art projects, Cliff encourages participants to see ordinary objects in unexpected ways and to experiment freely with creativity, storytelling, and spatial thinking.