“Art is the way I experience life…It’s a way of living.” Ixchel Suarez Donna Wootton speaks with textile and fibre artist Ixchel Suarez about Oak Heights Art Gallery, relocating to Northumberland County, the Canadian Tapestry Centre–her not-for-profit organization which works with young people, those with special needs, and older adults–and upcoming events at the gallery,…
Category: Art for Change
A Cup of Conversation: Slow Art Day at the Art Gallery of Northumberland
“I am learning how to look at pictures. What has changed is my capacity of feeling. Art opens the heart.” Jeanette Winterson On April 2, the Art Gallery of Northumberland is celebrating Slow Art Day with A Cup of Conversation, an opportunity to explore art works and have conversations about art with other art lovers…
Art for Change: What Can We Do? by Diane Taylor
“One of these beautiful prints stands tall on my desk as I write these words and fills me with inspiration, and gratitude that good is everywhere, and hope that peace is not illusive.” Diane Taylor This series explores how art can change our lives and bring more beauty, connection, and community to the world. Northumberland…
Art for Change: Dane Swan on Changing the Face of Canadian Literature
Poet and writer Dane Swan talks to NFOTA’s Kim Aubrey about his experiences compiling and editing Changing the Face of Canadian Literature: a diverse Canadian anthology and his vision for the future of Can Lit. Dane Swan was a visiting writer at the 2019 Festival of the Arts and will be leading a workshop and…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Melody Crowe
Whenever I teach indigenous people–our own people–the language, I see it as a relearning. I always feel like that language is there. It just needs to be able to be relearned. Melody Crowe NFOTA’s Felicity Sidnell Reid interviews Melody Crowe, elder of the Alderville First Nation, artist, educator, change-maker, and dedicated preserver of Ojibway culture….
A Residential School Memoir: a review by Diane Taylor
We first posted this review August 13, 2021. A shorter version subsequently appeared in The Globe and Mail. “A book should be the axe for the frozen sea within us,” said Franz Kafka. Such a book is The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir published in 2015 by the University of Regina Press….
Three Women’s Takes on The McMichael Collection’s Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment
Olinda Casimiro, Executive Director of the Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cynthia Reyes, author, former journalist and producer-director with the CBC, and Kim Aubrey, writer and art enthusiast, share their reactions to Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment, curated by Sarah Milroy and currently on exhibit at the McMichael Collection. Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists…
Celebrating Resilience by Jennifer Trefiak
“For some of us, the past two years have been a blessing, and for others, it’s been a time of struggle. For the arts sector it has been both.”–Jennifer Trefiak Today artist Jennifer Trefiak gives us her take on “Celebrating Resilience,” the theme for the upcoming Northumberland Festival of the Arts, September 16 – October…