Art Demonstrations
Experience the magic of art come to life with our captivating live art demonstrations! Watch in awe as talented artists showcase their skills and techniques right before your eyes, offering a unique insight into their creative process from mesmerizing brushstrokes to intricate sculpting, these demonstrations provide a firsthand glimpse into the world of artistry. Engage with the artists, ask questions, and gain inspiration as you witness the transformation of blank canvases into stunning works of art.
Highlights from the 2026 Schedule:
Artist Lineup
Friday, May 29
Bhimsaria, Nilasha,
Nilasha is an international student and visual artist from India. Through their practice, they reflects on their experiences as an Indian artist navigating place, identity, and belonging, while drawing
inspiration from my culture and the stories that travels with them.
They are interested in celebrating the flora and fauna as well as the quiet, mundane details of everyday life that are so often overlooked. Their work invites viewers to pause, notice, and connect with the beauty, memory, and meaning woven into both ordinary moments and
cultural experience.
Marrello, Erica,
Erica Marrello is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist working across bold acrylic painting
and immersive live art experiences. She is the creator of GET MELTED, a body-painting concept that
began as an intimate photoshoot series and evolved into large-scale live performances,
transforming the human form into a living canvas in real time. Her work explores identity, sensuality, power, vulnerability, and transformation, and has been presented at cultural events and exhibitions, including Diner en Blanc, The Taboo Show, and Gastown. Sunday Set, Ambleside Music Festival, Monstercat Festival, and various smaller gallery and pop-up
shows.
Through both canvas and body-based work, Erica creates art that is visceral and unapologetic,
inviting viewers into moments of intensity, intimacy, and personal reinvention.
She is also the founder of EMM Gallery and EMM Creative, where she brings art into the real world
environments through immersive, large-scale experiences that blend visual storytelling,
performance, and event design.
Sunday, May 31
Allen, Ciara
Ciara Allen is an Irish multi-media artist, now living permanently in Vancouver, Canada. Spanning
the past 17 years, Ciara's creativity has seen her work her artistry throughout the Music, Art, Film
and TV industry. Both a published Author and an Emmy-nominated Makeup Artist, Ciara's goal in
life is to remain curious, creatively challenged and to continually evolve, both in her skills and her
understanding.
Ciara has been unconsciously developing a style of pattern in her paintings that focus around the
idea of connectivity and togetherness in a time of division and passivity.
Liu, Vals
Vals Liu, a multi-talented artist. He draws creative inspiration from the startling characteristics of
contemporary society combined with traditional Chinese culture. Vals mixes materials, colours
and shapes to communicate a sense energy, conflict, and evolution. He is a multidisciplinary artist
proficienit in drawing and painting, photography, graphic and illustration design.
Vals Liu moved to Vancouver BC from Shanghai China in 2001. His artworks were on exthibit in the
Hilton and Sheraton Hotels, Shanghai China in 1990-1991; at Winsor Gallery in Vancouver
Downtown in 2002-2003. He created VSA Art+Design Studio and VSA Youth Art Foundation since
then. As a top 1% Art Educator winner, he has been training and guiding over hundred youth
achieve top art colleges and art competition awards for over 15 years