About the Webinar:
This webinar explores how the Artist in Residence Studio (AiRS) program bridges art, heritage, and community learning through its Tecumseh Elementary School project, led by local printmaker Julie McIntyre and the AiRS team. Through an interview-style conversation between Maria Paula Arias (Heritage BC) and Maggie Milne (AiRS’s Artistic Director), participants gain insights into how artistic practice can deepen our understanding of place, history, and collective identity.
The Tecumseh project brings together 403 students and 18 teachers in a year-long exploration of their school’s cultural and environmental heritage. Through collaborative art-making (ranging from silkscreen banners to quilt-based expressions of Truth and Reconciliation) students and teachers engage with Indigenous knowledge, local history, family memory, and community storytelling.
This webinar unpacks how the AiRS model supports these kinds of transformative, place-based heritage projects, offering inspiration and guidance for educators, heritage professionals, and artists alike.
About the Presenters:
Maggie Milne, Artistic Director, AiRS Program
Maggie Milne Martens is an artist, educator and the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Artist in Residence Studio Program or AIRS. Maggie is a long time advocate for the arts within education and has decades of experience facilitating art engagement projects with diverse communities and teaching in a variety of community, primary and post secondary settings. Maggie holds a BFA and MA in Art History and is a phD candidate in Arts Education at SFU.
Julie McIntyre, Lead Artist, Tecumseh Project
Master printmaker Julie McIntyre studied at the Banff Centre in 1986 and received her BFA from Queen’s University. She has made her home for the past 32 year on the unceded Coast Salish shared lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, (Vancouver, BC). Julie has had solo shows of her print-based work in 22 public galleries across Canada and participated in well over 45 juried exhibitions, including 25 international credits. She has taught workshops across Canada for 35 years and has been a popular Artist in Residence with the Vancouver School Board for over 15. She is currently the AIRs artist at Waverley Elementary and continues to work with the Burnaby Art Gallery’s educational programs.
This webinar was recorded on March 27, 2026.
It has a run-time of 1 hour and 3 minutes.