Artist: Gaby Orbach
Title: Contemplation
Medium: Handmade art jewelry, polymer clay
Creatively responding to the mystery of one’s thoughts existing in one’s mind while bringing forth more wonderment.
Artist: Gaby Orbach
Title: Serenity
Medium: Handmade art jewelry, polymer clay
This work is a creative response to the peacefulness of mind and body, such as a satisfying yoga workout together with a feeling of calmness.
Artist: Eva Halus
Title: Châteaufort Community Garden with a “Matisse” view
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size: 41” x 25”
Date: 2021
The designer of the garden, Mark, created lots of visual art in the garden this summer. One of his objects, a bird bath feeder, in which he arranged a sculpture-like stone and some plants and fruits, giving the impression of a near-cubist painting of Matisse. I pushed more this illusion in my painting by adding at the back of the garden a window from Matisse’s studio giving to the sea-side.
Artist: Eva Halus
Title: Contemplation
Medium: Watercolor and pastel
Size: 49” x 31”
Date: 2021
This is a creative response to my friend Louise at the edge of Viktor Lake in Saint-Sauveur, in a magic afternoon this summer.
Artist: Eric Skipp
Title: A Pleasant Winter Day
Medium: Oil
Size: 24” x 20” I was out walking in the Laurentians north of Montreal and was looking for a subject to paint. I captured this beautiful winter scene in a photograph first, and then painted it at home using the photograph for inspiration.
Artist: Eric Skipp
Title: Summer Evening
Medium: Oil
Size: 18” x 24”
I saw these lovely flowers in a vase at a friend’s house, and decided that I wanted to paint them with the lighting of a summer evening.
Artist: Edna Katz-Silver
Title: Four Faces
Medium: Acrylic and bronze on canvas
Size: 20” x 24”
This is a family portrait, led by the shape of a mother who contains the faces of her three children, enmeshed in co-creating a life-giving abstraction. Engaging with the harsh angles of the world, the elemental metal is offered in contrast to the soft colours: art as alchemy, a site of treatment and knowledge beyond language.
Artist: Edna Katz-Silver
Title: My Lady
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, framed
Size: 24”x40”
This is an existential self-portrait, wherein transparent layers express a life lived from multiple perspectives and experiences. In combination they compose a spirit that flows like a series of diaphanous veils, undoing any singular or fixed identity; aligning instead to create a figure that stays curious, desirous and elegant, despite life’s harsh edges.
Artist: Arianna Garcia-Fialdini
Title: Spreading kindness
Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper
Size: 8” x 11”
Date: 2021
This work is a creative response to my experience co-facilitating an art hive for the first time this past session and the profound realization that despite the limited amount of male presence I have witnessed, art truly is for all to make, communicate and share regardless of gender, beliefs, and background.
Artist: Arianna Garcia-Fialdini
Title: Dive-in
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: 8” x 11”
Date: 2021 This work is responding to the idea of change and the unknown, and how sometimes it’s best to not think it through too much and just dive in.
Artist: Anita Cooperstone
Title: In Memory of my Husband
Medium: Markers on wood
Date: 2016
I made this painting in honour of my late husband.
Artist: Alice
Title: Untitled
Medium: Wool
Date: 2021
Pour tous les bébés de mes enfants.
J’ai appris à tricoter pour l’armée française quand j’avais sept ans pendant la guerre.
For all my children’s babies. I learned to knit for the French army at the age of seven during the war.
EngAGE Living Lab & Concordia University Art Hives present:
CREATIVE RESPONSES
An online community art exhibit
Online Vernissage: Thursday December 16th, 2021, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
In October of 2021, the Concordia University Art Hives put out an open call for creative works of all mediums and disciplines as a form of creative response, questioning “what works” in acknowledgement to thinking about and solving or working through challenging personal or social problems.
Participants were encouraged to respond with an image or two of their choice as well as 2-3 sentences that share with the wider community what their submitted work is responding to.
A special and warm thanks to all who made this exhibit possible. We look forward to continuing to connect with you all both in-person and online at our various activities.
Come join us on Thursday, October 28 from 2:30-4:00 pm for the Creative Science Shop on the theme of strengthening personal agency in community spaces.
Pandora Hobby presents her research findings, related to developing personal agency in community spaces.
Hélène Arsenault and Sharon Leslie will share their stories from discovering art hives to being active community leaders.
A free discussion on what could motivate us to join an art hive or other community space and shift to actively get involved in our communities.
The Creative Science Shop is a semi-monthly studio online meet-up, welcoming an exchange of ideas, innovations, scientific and artistic projects. This intergenerational group brings together passion in the arts and sciences from older adults, students, and researchers.
By Dante Reda
LOYC 498
Based on the community book drop-off model, the community Art Drop-off allows individuals to express themselves and find solidarity through creativity and community. Community book drop-offs have been a powerful tool to encourage readings, repurposing used goods, and helping one another. The community Art Drop-off will be used similarly as a tool to combat isolation, improve communities, and embrace creativity.
The Art Drop-off will be placed in an area that is more frequented in order to maximize exposure. The model will provide a dropdown table that will allow individuals to draw on while producing their artworks. Art supplies such as chalk, colouring pencil, pastel, arts and crafts, and paints will be provided within the drawers of the Art Drop-off. There will also be a backboard that the guests can present their art on that will be protected through fibreglass to withstand the elements. Being mindful of all those that would be interested in using this type of tool. Some communities may not be able to interact with the Art Drop-off as accessibly. I hope to work with other organizations such as libraries and resident homes to provide accessibility and mobility to these individuals and find other means for these community members to also gain access to a public good. This model is easily replicable and can be applied everywhere, I hope to be able to create other models and place them within other neighbouring communities as well. This project was inspired by observing the social determinants of health, within the mental health sector the access to having creative outlets and a sense of support through community (Salas, 2020).
References
Salas C. (2020) What should we expect from art in the next few years/decades? And what is art, anyway? Medium. https://carmensp.medium.com/what-should-we-expect-from-art-in-the-next-few-years-decades-and-what-is-art-anyway-be9f75c3d1ae. Published May 20, 2020. Accessed June 14, 2021.
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