The Archway Society for Domestic Peace presents the second year of the Creatrix Rising Exploring Stories Through Art Exhibit at the Caetani Centre, March 7-13, 2025.
Through the fall and winter, local artists have offered workshops for women who are survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Participants have had the chance to express themselves through various art forms, to heal and explore their stories through art.
Workshops in acrylic, poetry, watercolour, voice expression, and more have brought the creatrix out in each woman. The exhibit showcases their creative works that are an expression of their journey of healing.
Creatrix Rising was launched because women in Archway programs had been asking for an opportunity to share their art and grow as artists, and because we know the power that art has in the journey to healing.
Artist-in-Residence
Liz Toohey-Wiese is an artist-in-residence at the Caetani Cultural Center for the months of February and March. She normally resides on the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in Vancouver. She is a graduate from the MFA program at NSCAD University. She completed her undergraduate degree in painting at Emily Carr University, also undertaking coursework at the University of Victoria and the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Liz has taken part in solo and group shows across Canada, and has undertaken artist residencies at the Sointula Art Shed (2019), the Caetani Cultural Center (2020/21/22/25), Island Mountain Arts (2021), the Similkameen Artist Residency (2023), Artscape Gibraltar Point (2023), and the Klondike Institute for Arts + Culture (2024).
Deeply interested in the history of landscape painting, her paintings explore contemporary relationships between identity and place. Her most recent work explores the complicated topic of wildfires and their connections to tourism, economy, grief, and renewal.