Imaginarium Adventures In Art

Sweet Imaginarium memories Happy Easter!

May we raise children who love the unloved things - the dandelion, the worms & spiderlings. Children who sense ... the rose needs the thorn & run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards sun... And when they're grown & someone has to speak for those who have no voice may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the ones. ~ Nicolette Sowder wilderchild.com Art by Lucy Campbell lupiart.com

Collingwood Summer Music Festival is calling on all artists 16 & under to join their art contest! Let the theme of MUSIC inspire to design a cover for their festival program booklet! Not only will the winner’s artwork be the cover of the Collingwood Summer Music Festival booklet; they will also receive a digital pass ($125 in value) for their festival in July. Please submit artwork at Collingwood Public Library (55 Ste. Marie St.) ... Deadline for submissions: April 21, 2021 For details visit: https://collingwoodfestival.com/

Massive Thanks to Lory MacDonald! She opened up her studio and gardens for us to play in this past summer!! Nottawa became Imaginarium’s home base. Our Collingwood and Creemore camp locations stayed closed all summer long. Good that we are creative people who think outside ‘the box’. Fun times with our mini camps!!

Small groups of young artists all summer long! Parents (and probably kids) so grateful for some creative fun and a little ‘normalcy’ for their children in a very unfamiliar time!

I’m excited to share the 7th Creemore Art Challenge brought to you by Purple Hills Arts and Heritage Society! This is a found object sculpture challenge inspired by land artist, Andy Goldsworthy. This is a fun way to get outside and appreciate our natural surroundings, be with friends and family and get creative at the same time. View the art challenge on Instagram: @purplehillsarts, check out their news letter, Facebook page ( Purple Hills Arts and Heritage Society or go to ...their website: https://phahs.ca/author/julie-2-2/ Have a great weekend! Jordan

February is Black History Month. Meet Selma Hortense Burke (1900-1995), an American sculptor and member of the Harlem Renaissance movement, who is best known fo...r a bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which inspired the profile we see on the dime. She created many pieces of public art, including Duke Ellington, Mary McLeod Bethune and Booker T. Washington. Burke was born in North Carolina, the 7th of 10 children, and attended a one-room segregated schoolhouse. She often played with the riverbed clay found near her home and would later describe the feeling of squeezing the clay through her fingers as a first encounter with sculpture, saying "It was there in 1907 that I discovered me." Burke traveled to Europe twice in the 1930s, and studied in Paris, where she met Henri Matisse, who praised her work. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1941 from Columbia University. She died at 94. Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Burke's best-known work is a portrait honoring President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms. The plaque (shown here) was unveiled by President Harry S Truman in September 1945 at the Recorder of Deeds Building in Washington, D.C., where it still hangs today. See more

We did it!!! My mum and I have the first copy of our children's book, The Sockpicker!! She wrote the story, I did the pictures and put it together, and tahdah......it's finished! The Sockpicker is a story of a little girl named Amanda, who's household chore it is to fold the laundry. A job that she doesn't mind too much except when it comes to matching the socks...there are always socks missing of course. One day as she empties the contents of the dryer she discovers a little creature trapped in one of the socks, and he then takes her on a journey to learn just where all those odd socks go! The book has 30 pages, with 16 love-and-labour-filled illustrations. We have no idea what we will do with it yet but we hope to get a few copies printed to send to the children we love far and wide! Our story? My mum wrote The Sockpicker (she has written many wonderful children's stories...none of them published...yet!), and about 10 years ago asked me to illustrate it. And 10 years, and many many draft attempts later, it is finally finished!!! She read it to me tonight over zoom, and needless to say, we are so happy. So happy with the final product and with the whole process of committing to doing something together and getting it done, because it is a something that really matters. Really, an exercise in making meaning, between a mammy and her kid who mean so much to each other X

Round two of holiday gift wrap printing at Tuesday’s After School ART CLUB! Awesome patterns and prints!

I’m at our pop up gallery today until 4pm, with these babies and more! The pop up closes on December 20th so come visit while you can! 143 Mill Street in Creemore.

Hey Creemore peeps...

It’s that time of year again! After School ART CLUB is getting ready for the holidays during our Holiday gift making session! Hand printed gift wrap and Santa bags are just the beginning!