Liz Oakley

Liz Oakley is an interdisciplinary artist with a background as a puppeteer. Working within an expanded and queered definition of puppetry, their practice orbits around the animation of objects, materials, sites, and situations. They create performances, events, and installations that playfully engage not only visuality but also tactile and kinesthetic senses, offering open-ended propositions that challenge norms and inject the surreal into the mundane. Liz is also an arts educator and facilitates art-making workshops with a variety of ages and communities. Currently, they work with kids in Vancouver public schools through the AIRS program and with people of all ages at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Liz is a queer and nonbinary white settler from New York City/Lenapehoking, currently residing in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.