PAVED Arts

🎚 Live Audio Workshop w/ Barrett Ross Thursday, May 28, 2026, 6–9 pm PAVED Arts, 424 20th St. W. Saskatoon Have you heard!? The AKA/PAVED Arts Event Space has a brand new Allen & Heath Qu-5 digital mixer! In this workshop, audio engineer, Barrett Ross, will guide you through all the tricks of live sound mixing so you can get the best sound for DIY performances. Barrett will also show you how to use the Qu-5 for live recording, turning the event space into an audio recording studio. Artist Bio After graduating from RAC in Ontario, Canada, Barrett returned to his home province of Saskatchewan to begin his career as an Audio Engineer. After working for various other production companies, Barrett formed PR Productions with Kevin Niessen in 2009. In addition to being an experienced live sound technician, Barrett is also an accomplished touring musician and recording engineer. Having toured over a dozen countries on three continents, as well as recording multiple Juno nominated albums. ✏️ Register through the link in our bio. Free for members, $30 for non-members.

Open Studios Friday May 8, 5-7pm Saturday May 30, 12-1:30pm We are excited to announce a couple of upcoming open studio dates this spring along with introducing our current cohort of incredible artists! Soheila Fallah Colin Farnan Rawda Mabrouk Chikako Ogawa Andie Palynchuk respectfulchild 敬兒 Stefanie Smith During the open studios the public are welcome to walk through the studios and see all of the incredible work these are artists have been creating in the space for last few months!

We’re Hiring 📣 Production Coordinator $18.00/ hr 30 hrs/week Start Date: June 2, 2026; End Date: August 7, 2026 Deadline to Apply: Friday, May 8, 11:59pm CST PAVED Arts is seeking applications for the position of Production Coordinator. This 10 week job offers a unique opportunity to gain community engagement experience, work directly with youth and professional artists, and coordinate the programming and presentation of new works created by emerging artists in Saskatoon. This position is funded through Canada Summer Jobs and applicants must meet their eligibility criteria. Learn more about this position through the link in our bio 🔗

We are honoured to be recognized in the Media Organizations, Festivals, and Collectives category at this year’s Arts of Celebration - Connection event at the Conexus Arts Centre on May 25, 2026! SK Arts invites the arts community to vote for your favourite artists, administrators and organizations to receive the cash awards. 🗳️ Check out the recognized artists/organizations and cast your vote by May 8, 2026. Link in bio! Photo: Ulrike Veith, Post Human (Billboard Project), 2022.

PAVED Arts will be closed Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4. See you back in the gallery and production centre next week!

🎬 DIY Filmmaking: Workshop w/ Gavin Baird Thursday, April 23, 2026, 6–9 pm In this workshop, Gavin Baird will present on his experience directing & producing short & feature length films in Saskatoon. There will be discussion on all aspects of production, and have time to answer participant questions on any aspects of interest involving filmmaking. Gavin Baird will talk about his process dealing with funding bodies, what he’s learned being a juror for grants, and his experience making films with little to no budget. Gavin Baird is a Metis artist born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Primarily interested in telling stories set in his homelands, his projects have received funding from imagineNATIVE & Netflix, SK Arts, and Creative Saskatchewan. His work has been screened internationally at a variety of film festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam & Festival du Nouveau Cinema. His latest film Klee was selected as one of TIFF Canada’s Top Ten short films of 2025. Free for members! Sign up for this workshop through the link in our bio. Images: Klee (film stills), writing & direction by Gavin Baird, 2025.

The Riversdale Art Walk is tonight, March 20, 4–8 pm! Stop by our building at 424 20th St W to see all of these projects: •’Latent Swamp’ by Kelly Jaclynn Andres opening in our window gallery, main gallery, and media gallery •Open Studios @aka_artist_run & @pavedarts •@blackflashmag in the lobby •The Last Kisses in Iran in the event space @isgask @skcommonweal •Tours of the @pavedarts production centre End your art walk back at PAVED with the ‘Latent Swamp’ reception 8–10 pm. Enjoy snacks, drinks, and the artist in attendance as her “researcher persona.”

Update: All spots now filled Call for Participants: The Water Lentil Trials Thursday, April 23, 2026 Session Times: 12 pm, 2:30 pm, 5 pm What happens when duckweed shifts from pond surface to plate? Water lentil (Lemna minor), often called duckweed, is one of the smallest and fastest growing flowering plants on Earth. It has been studied as a high-protein food source and as a bioremediation plant. Yet for many of us, it remains unfamiliar, or even unthinkable, as food. The Water Lentil Trials invites participants into a paid tasting and discussion for Latent Swamp, exploring the water lentil as a site of curiosity, ecological possibility, and cultural imagination. Sign up through the link in our bio.

PAVED Arts is happy to announce our 2026 Members Micro Grant recipient — Soheila Fallah @falah.soheila ! With this grant, Soheila Fallah will use our production centre and grant funding to complete her project ‘Hypnopompic Fragments’. ‘Hypnopompic Fragments’ is a multimedia installation exploring memory, displacement, and the persistence of lived space. The work consists of fragmented architectural forms that resemble familiar environments without fully functioning as them. Stairways that lead nowhere, doorways that open onto absence, and tower-like structures appear as parallel architectures—spaces that feel recognizable yet remain unusable. Soheila Fallah is an Iranian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Saskatoon. Working primarily through sculpture and installation, her practice explores memory, displacement, and the emotional charge of architectural space. Drawing from Iranian heritage and personal experiences of migration, she creates immersive environments that ask how space holds memory, and how memory reshapes space. Her work invites viewers into quiet, contemplative encounters that blur the boundaries between physical structure and emotional landscape.

Latent Swamp Field Lab w/ Kelly Jaclynn Andres Saturday, March 21, 12–3 pm PAVED Arts, 424 20th St. W. Saskatoon Latent Swamp Field Lab is a 3-hour participatory workshop exploring the relationship between ecological systems and generative image models. Participants engage with duckweed growth modules to examine how datasets are constructed and how curated image ecologies shape AI-generated outputs. ✏️ Sign up through the link in our bio! Free for PAVED members, $30 for non-members. Image 1: Kelly Jaclynn Andres, ‘Duckweed Growth Module III (washing a print)’ (detail), mixed media, 2026. Image 2: Kelly Jaclynn Andres, ‘Duckweed Training Model (512px)’, Digital print from StyleGAN checkpoint output, 2026.

Kelly Jaclynn Andres / Latent Swamp March 20 – April 24, 2026 Open during the @riversdaleartwalk March 20, 4–8 pm Opening reception: Friday, March 20, 8–10 pm Latent Swamp is a speculative wetland in which machine learning, living systems, and human participation co-compose one another. The work unfolds as a hybrid habitat of biological and technological life, combining prototypes of duckweed growth modules for living duckweed cultivation, bioremediation processes, cyanotype printing, latent-space animation, and custom-trained generative models. 🕐 Gallery Hours Tuesday–Friday: 12–6 pm Saturday: 12–4 pm Image: Image: Kelly Jaclynn Andres, ‘Duckweed Growth Module II’ (detail), mixed media, 2026.

Visit @pavedarts during the Riversdale Art Walk for an incredible exhibition by Kelly Jaclynn Andres, whose art practice entangles ecology, technology, and forms of perception. @aka_artist_run will also have their artists in residence open their studios during the art walk! #openstudio #artexhibition