PAVED Arts

PAVED Arts is pleased to announce our 2026 artist in residence: Barbara Reimer!

May 29 to July 27, Barb will be working with a number of alternative processes and materials for lens based media, and hosting workshops for our community. Reimer has a history with eco-processes that predates almost all of the plethora of internet resources available on the topic today. Some are what one would call “sustainable” and others include the plastics and silver-based materials we have been accustomed to with the “historical” image. While sustainability is one goal, Barb also looks to accessibility and responsibility to/for the work and utilizes processes that use up the collected, donated, or expired supplies and “waste” of the studio.

Our annual production residency provides for a longer term of engagement with the centre, organized around workshops staged by the artist in residence, as an interactive means to develop contacts and foster relationships in the direct community.

☀️ Stay tuned for announcements about related workshops and events this summer.

Image: Barbara Reimer, (Above) ‘In the Rhubarb’, 2025. Black and white 120 film scan of rhubarb, developed in coffee and garden waste. (Below) ‘Plato’s cave’, 2023. Black and white 8mm expired film ends scan of the bay at skaströnd, iceland; developed in coffee waste.