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SPRING BLOSSOMS WITH CREATIVITY IN DUFFERIN | | | | |
MEET ART CONSERVATOR
ALISON DOUGLAS – JUNE 16
Enjoy a glass of wine or beer with appetizers, and meet, mingle and learn as you listen to Alison Douglas describe her fascinating work as art conservator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. With highly specialized equipment and superbly honed forensic skills, she has come to know many of Canada’s iconic artists in microscopic detail – helping to preserve their artistic legacy for generations to come.
| | Tickets are $25, including wine/beer and appetizers, at Hockley Community Hall in Hockley Village. Registration is required. | | APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR REED T. COOPER BURSARY FOR ARTISTS | | |
Beckie Morris, 2025 recipient of Reed T. Cooper bursary
On receiving the bursary, Beckie told DAC, it "will enable me to explore projection mapping, digital rendering, and immersive stage technologies which will expand the ways that I bring stories to life.”
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DAC offers this bursary to support the ongoing growth and development of practising artists. Named to honour the memory of longtime Mulmur artist Reed Cooper, it is awarded annually to a visual artist in Headwaters Region (Caledon, Dufferin County and Erin) who has been working professionally for a minimum of five years, and who displays a unique talent and a potential for excellence. Applications are accepted from June 1 to September 30.
Last year's recipient, Beckie Morris, has continued to wow Theatre Orangeville audiences with her stunning set designs.
Our artist liaison Deb Menken (a former Cooper bursary recipient), and Cooper family representative Sheila McCutcheon will be supporting this year's application review. The Dufferin Arts Council awards up to two bursaries of $3,000 each per year, based on a review of proposals received.
Read about other past bursary recipients at Artistic Legacy - In The Hills.
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DAC COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Dufferin Arts Council board member Jonathon Neville presented performance awards to three young musicians at the Orangeville & District Music Festival Gala (L-R): Gabriella Chingono, Kennedy McAuslan, and Gabriel Chingono. The festival receives a DAC Community Project Grant.
| | Island Lake Path, Best Friends, and Daisy Mae, by Judi Island | | JUDI ISLAND’S PAINTINGS ARE INFUSED WITH IMPRESSIONISTIC COLOUR | | |
Judi Island describes her impressionistic landscapes as more about the interplay of light, colour and shape “than a realistic depiction of the subject.” However, Dufferin residents will have no trouble recognizing her scenes of Island Lake, for example, as well as her contributions to public art in Orangeville, including a mural of a boy and his calf at Alder Street Recreation Centre and another Island Lake scene on one of the town’s painted utility boxes.
With an honours degree in fine art, Judi taught art in Toronto for several years. But after a car accident in 1993 that left her with incomplete quadriplegia, she largely set aside her artistic pursuits to regain her strength through therapeutic riding. She eventually represented Canada in six international competitions, including the 2004 Athens Paralympics, bringing home several medals, including four gold. Along the way, she also designed the logo for the paralympic equestrian team.
Over the past decade or so, Judi has returned to her art, working largely in acrylics which she says, “allow me to work quickly and spontaneously.” Along with landscapes, her current subjects include children at play and a humorous series of farm animals she calls “animals with attitude.”
| | CELEBRATE DIVERSITY IN DUFFERIN DURING THESE ARTY JUNE EVENTS | |
Orangeville’s Celebrate Your Awesome has become a much-anticipated, fun-filled, family-friendly event that celebrates diversity, pride and inclusion. The full day of exuberant festivities on June 20 is packed with music, dance and drag shows, as well as food and other vendors, on Second Street and in Alexandra Park (behind Town Hall).
And to make June a truly diverse and arty one, consider visiting the Ebb & Flow Gallery Takeover in Shelburne Town Hall, where Streams Hub presents a month-long exhibit highlighting the creativity of youth and emerging artists from Dufferin County as they explore themes of movement, change and self-expression.
Or visit the Museum of Dufferin’s new Home & Heritage Photography Exhibition in which photographers from across Ontario capture diverse cultural perspectives through images of food, traditions, community and the spaces we inhabit.
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WRITERS MEET WRITERS AT ORANGEVILLE LIBRARY
Two twice-monthly programs at the library give authors, new or experienced, a chance to hone and discuss their work with fellow writers.
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SUMMER CAMPS SPARK KIDS' IMAGINATIONS AT THE MUSEUM
The Museum of Dufferin offers a full program of creatively themed, week-long summer camps for kids aged 5 to 7 or 8 to 12, including these creativity-inspiring ones:
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Our Vision
To help build a more diverse and inclusive community in which artists continue
to flourish, excellence is celebrated, and every person in their own way feels inspired
to sing, dance, tell stories and create.
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