August 15, 2024
9:30 a.m.
Atelier LEPORELLO

Special day on animated film

For children aged 8 and up – 12 places only

Offered as a complement to the screening of the film Madeleine (Raquel Sancinetti)

Fun workshop combining felted wool dyeing and stop-motion animation lab with local textile sculptor and illustrator Sabina Gibson. In collaboration with Isabelle Arsenault and Janice Nadeau of LEPORELLO, a Knowlton-based illustration NPO.

Sabina Gibson

Textile sculptor, author and illustrator Sabina Gibson is a textile artist known for her fabric sculptures. She uses thread and needle to tell stories and brings her animal characters to life with ingenious photography.

Janice Nadeau

Janice Nadeau is a professor at UQAM, where she teaches drawing and illustration. She holds a doctorate and a master’s degree in research-creation from UdeM’s Department of Film Studies and Art History, a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from UQAM, and an attestation in illustration from Strasbourg’s École supérieure des arts décoratifs. Janice has illustrated more than a dozen books, and has won the prestigious Governor General’s Award for illustration three times. She has also directed and co-directed three animated films (HARVEY, Mamie, Nul poisson où aller), selected for official competition at over one hundred and thirty international festivals and awarded over 17 prizes and distinctions.

Isabelle Arsenault

Isabelle Arsenault is an award-winning and critically acclaimed illustrator of children’s books. Her illustrations include the graphic novels Jane, le renard et moi and Louis parmi les Spectres by Fanny Britt, Fourchon and Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear, Une berceuse en Chiffons by Amy Novesky (BolognaRagazzi Award 2017) and L’Oiseau de Colette, which marks her debut as an author. She is a three-time winner of the prestigious Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature, and three of her albums have been selected as New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. The poetry expressed in Isabelle Arsenault’s graphic universe, the gentleness of her line and the evocative power of her body of work, have made her one of Canada’s best-known and most esteemed illustrators.