Last night, the Outdoor Artist Collective held a screening at Terrace’s Skeena Diversity building for the final two episodes of their Creative Voices of Change Documentary series.
The episodes focused on local artists Kari Morgan and Stan Bevan and like the earlier parts of the series, both artists shared some of their backstory and work process.
While both artists had seen their episodes before, Stan Bevan said;
“It’s really different watching a video with a group of people. It made it all look different.”
Kari Morgan added on by saying;
“It was really nice to be amongst a bunch of people while they got to watch our videos and see our faces so large. And to hear everybody’s feedback on our videos was lovely.”
Although the videos have finished airing publicly, one of the Collective’s co-founders, Taylor Dilley confirmed that more parts were coming in the future when he stated;
“There’s a brand new podcast that’s coming out next year. And it’s in the same vein as the Creative Voices of Change documentaries. It’s talking to artists around the region, but it’s a more informal conversation. And this time, it’s really digging into artist’s relationship with seasons and how they view themselves interacting with their community and the responsibility that comes with that artistic process and that social process.”
The videos are available to view on both YouTube as well as an online portal created by Telus Storyhive, a program that focuses on helping underrepresented communities in BC and Alberta tell their stories.
Both co-founders then discussed what they believed was the biggest thing they learned from doing this project was with Taylor Dilley saying;
“We get to interact with a lot of people that are really engaged and working across the region and using their art to uplift a variety of communities. And I think just getting different perspectives on that as we go along is pretty profound.”
Anne Isabelle Leonard said she felt she had seen it all;
“And then there’s always somebody new or some new ideas and I keep getting surprised and I love this project for this.”
And while it isn’t 100 percent confirmed yet, the Collective has discussed doing a future project in tandem with Skeena Diversity in Terrace.
The project would ask people living in the City about how they live during the winter, and what they consider their relationship with the season to be like.