Apprentice, Art Apprenticeship Network 2024

Joanna Liang (she/her) is currently pursuing her BFA in Visual Arts and a minor in Art + Text at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her artistic practice encompasses a wide range of mediums including bookmaking, illustration, photography, sculpture, sequential art, and poetry. Recently she’s been focused on exploring the book arts, integrating aspects from all those mediums into her bookmaking. Using the book form’s potential for visual storytelling in ways that are both personal and communal, Joanna’s work often expresses longing for unknown futures while acknowledging the feelings of grief and helplessness of not knowing how to get there, especially in regards to the climate crisis. She is particularly fond of working with found human-made objects and gathered natural materials. She lives, creates, and learns on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.