FLEET: Edmonds

Intersection of Humphries St & Rosewood Ave, Burnaby

June 9 - July 7, 2025

Artist Workshop: Creatures & Dandelions June 29, 2025 from 10 AM - 2 PM

Join us in welcoming Sophia Zarders to FLEET! Zarders will be visiting the FLEET: Edmonds studio from June 9 - July 7, 2025. Zarders’ studio practice explores the critical intersections of identity, history, and pop culture through illustration, figurative painting, sewing and video. They will use the FLEET studio to continue exploring interdisciplinary approaches to clothing and figurative painting. They plan to merge a previous “paper doll” and “garment” series to create mixed media figurative paintings that combine fabric, acrylic paint, paper, found objects and other textural materials.

Sophia Zarders (she/they) is a mixed race Black femme visual artist, illustrator, and educator from the unceded, ancestral land of the Tongva and Gabrielino peoples (Long Beach, California). As a professional illustrator, their work spans across print and digital spaces, including literary, editorial, educational, political, and public spheres. Their studio practice explores the critical intersections of identity, history, and pop culture through figurative drawing and painting, video, and clothing. Sophia currently resides in the unceded, ancestral land of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, British Columbia) and teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and Langara College.

Image (above): Untitled illustrations, colored pencil and watercolor on paper. 11x8.5 in.

Images (below, left to right): Image of the artist. Photo by Patrick Sales, graphics by Sophia Zarders; Identiploistation installation, mixed media, various dimensions. Photo by Michael Love.