“It’s a fact that arts and culture improve health and well-being. The support of arts and culture institutions and arts festivals in the county is important to reduce social isolation and enhance well-being.” Katie Kennedy, curator at NCAM Today NFOTA’s Felicity Sidnell Reid interviews Katie Kennedy and Abigail Miller about the soon-to-open new facility for…
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Northumberland Art Lovers: Sarah Jacob and SMM Law
“It’s just very exciting to be around people who are using their energy to create, so you’re seeing things that are coming out of their imagination, out of their experience, out of who they are as people. There’s often something that matters intensely to them in their work.” Sarah Jacob Sarah Jacob, art lover, NFOTA…
Welcome Back, Blue Denim Press
Thank you, Blue Denim Press, for your previous sponsorship of the festival and for returning this year as a sponsor of the 2022 Northumberland Festival of the Arts! Since 2007, Shane Joseph, owner of Blue Denim Press, has been a core supporter of the arts in Northumberland County. We welcome him back and thank him…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Spirit of the Hills Writers’ Group
“I’m constantly blown away by the sheer number of people in this county involved in writing and publishing. I’m also awed by the amazing projects that have come out of this group.” Gwynn Scheltema In this series we feature interviews and discussions with Individual Artists, Leaders of Arts Groups and Organizations, Civic Leaders, and other…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Cardboard Reality’s bekky O’Neil and Keith Del Principe
“We know that art can feed you too. And maybe field grown vegetables are also art.” bekky O’Neil Today, we’re reposting NFOTA’s interview with bekky O’Neil and Keith Del Principe from Cardboard Reality. In this series we feature interviews and discussions with Individual Artists, Leaders of Arts Groups and Organizations, Civic Leaders, and other Arts…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Melanie Browne
My proudest moments are as an art teacher…the immense pride I feel when I see the light bulbs going off over their heads,…how engaged they are, how they’ve grown, and how they’ve tapped into their own sources of inspiration. Melanie Browne Port Hope artist Melanie Browne speaks with NFOTA’s Donna Wootton about teaching art, her…
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….
Northumberland Art Lovers: Douglas Syrota
I admired a house under renovation – a typical Ontario 19th Century Gothic cottage near Cobourg’s West Beach. Going forward six months, on another walk, I passed the house again and noticed a “For Sale” sign. The renovation had been completed but the house stood empty. While standing across the street and looking at it,…