Seeds for Grassy Mountain: A Native Plant Workshop
With Alana Bartol and Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed
February 28
2-4 PM | Workshop
Free for members/ Non-members: $10.
Admission to the gallery is included with the participation fee.
Join artists Alana Bartol and Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed for a hands-on workshop exploring art, ecology, and restoration. Unfolding in two parts, this workshop invites participants to learn about the artists’ collaborative project Seeds for Grassy Mountain, which responds to the histories and futures of coal mining in Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass.
Through drawing and discussion, participants will reflect on species and habitats at risk, experiment with milk and charcoal drawings, and learn about native plants and seed preparation techniques. Each participant will take home native seeds to grow and care for.
This workshop is organized in conjunction with Entwined, curated by Mona Filip, and on view until March 15, 2026.
About the artists
Photo: Karin McGinn
Alana Bartol
(she/they)
Alana Bartol (she/they) is a Canadian artist of Northern European settler descent. Their work reflects on how extractivist mindsets, rooted in their own culture’s tendency to see land and water as resources, continue to shape relations with the natural world. Through site-responsive projects, Alana interrogates extractive logics while creating possibilities for remediation and reciprocity. Rooted in more-than-human relations, their work has been presented nationally and internationally, including at Walter Phillips Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta, Images Festival, and Berlin Feminist Film Festival. Longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2019 and 2021, Alana is an Assistant Professor at Alberta University of the Arts.
Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed
(she/her)
Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed is a herbalist, botanist, artist and educator based in Carstairs, Alberta, Treaty 7 Territory. She is the co-owner of ALCLA Native Plants, a nursery that supplies locally-sourced and genetically-diverse plants and seeds for nearly 200 grasses, wildflowers and shrubs. Her practice centres around engaging community with our more-than-human relatives as an antidote for extractive capitalist expansion, climate change, and malaise resulting from disconnection with the living world. She is formally qualified with a Master’s of Science in Herbal Medicine from London, UK and a Bachelor of Science in Botany from the University of Calgary.
