The Community Arts & Heritage Education Project.

SHOW & TELL

Artists- Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant.  The Fort Frances Museum is a Recommender Gallery for this program.  Visit www.arts.on.ca/Page122.aspx for application form & guidelines.

EVENTS: www.fortfrances.com/event-links

LEARN & GROW

CREATING A CREATIVE COMMUNITY

the Community Arts & Heritage Education Project Presents What Hooks You Here!

“What Hooks you Here?”  we all develop a sense of place, a reason why we live in here. With the input of local artists, poets, writers, children and community members, the local Community Arts and Heritage Project will create a community art piece based on your ideas. Geography, Relationships, Experiences….. What hooks you here?

Process

-Writing, drawing, painting, Share your ideas and contribute to the final designs.-Develop Designs and prepare materials-Hooking the Community.  The designs will be hooked by various groups in the community and by school children. As long as a person is able to pull up loops, they can contribute to the project.

-Community Celebration. Sharing art work, writing, and revealing the finished rug hookings.

Collaborating on creating the final piece.A Community Portrayed in Wool-The art and craft of rug hooking began with early settlers cutting up old clothes and blankets and pulling the strips through pieces of burlap to make mats to warm their floors. A bent nail was used to pull up the hand cut strips.

Rug Hooking has evolved and so have dying methods. With narrower cutter heads and the ability to dye wool, almost anything can be portrayed in wool. The simple act of pull­ing up loops can be done by anyone. The subject matter is limitless.  The artwork would be put onto a backing, the wool dyed and some in­structions would be given to the various groups who volunteer to hook on the project.

Debbie Ballard and Judy Kielczewski spearhead the project and provide instruc­tion to everyone who wants to hook on the project. Both are currently enrolled in the OHCG teachers training program. Debbie has been hooking for 30 years and Judy has been hooking for 6 years. They both are active in a small hooking group in Fort Frances. It is estimated that this project would take up to one year to complete.

 Visual Communication Workshop- Facilitator:  Valerie Larson, visual artist.  This informative, hands-on workshop takes participants through a series of fun activities designed to increase your awareness, understanding, expression and creativity. 

Drawing is a tool to help solve problems, create new ideas and assist in communication. Drawing leads to discoveries; it stimulates the imagination and thinking.  Using a loose, experimental attitude, we will complete a visualization drawing, by defining what we envision in our mind and pushing it out onto paper.  Some basic sketching techniques will be explained and demonstrated.   For expanded thinking, we will brainstorm to generate ideas and visual images. 

These techniques can provide you with a foundation in which to build and develop verbal and visual skills to communicate with more clarity and efficiency. The exercises in visual development can also increase mental ability by using both hemispheres of the brain, helping a person accomplish more and reach their full potential.

 

 Are you Hooked?- Contact the Museum to find out more. Get your group involved. 

Supported by : Cahep Provincial Wide Roll Out. Moffatt Fund.

with the Fort Frances Writers Group, VALLA Learning, FFRug Hookers, FFMuseum

THE CREATIVE CONNECTION in your COMMUNITY.

Include yourself or your group by contacting Pam at pcain@fort-frances.com

EVENTS: http://fftimes.com/around-town

ARTISTS:

Pamela Cain, Visual Artist and Educator. Painting, Drawing, Papermaking, collage, plaster and sculptural pieces.  Learning through the Arts Instructor. Bachelor of Fine Arts. Contact pjhaw@shaw.ca. 807 274-3816.

Neen Martin, Visual Artist. Rock paintings. Acrylic Instruction. Critter Quarry. 807 482-1512. www.critterquarryfortfrances.com

Valerie Larson. Visual Artist. Painting. valerie.larson@shaw.ca 807 274-9693.

Marke Henteleff. Potter. Gallery, Studio and Classes. www.blackduckpottery.com (807) 482-3658

Cher Pruys, Visual Artist. Studio and Classes. Painting, Drawing, Floor Cloths, all mediums. www.artbycher.ca 807-486-3613.

CREATIVE CRAFTS:

Debbie Ballard and Judy Kielczewski (OHCG teachers training program). Debbie has been hooking for 30 years and Judy has been hooking for 6 years. They both are active in a small hooking group in Fort Frances.

North Country Quilters.

MUSICIANS

Borderland Community Orchestra.

BANDS

Phoenix Project Band.  275-5257. abuscan@sympatico.ca

MUSIC TEACHERS

Cher Pruys www.artbycher.ca 807-486-3613.RCM Representative for Fort Frances, Studio and Instruction, Beginners through ARCT., Classes in Rudiments, Harmony and History.

WRITERS

Fort Frances Writers Group. Meets the First Wednesday 6:30 p.m. at the Fort Frances Public Library

FESTIVALS

Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts. http://ff-festival.com/

Fort Frances Folk Festival

DRAMA

Fort Frances Little Theatre.

GALLERIES

Fine Line Art Gallery, 529 Mowatt Ave. Fort Frances.  Paintings, Pottery, Jewellry, Glass. 807 274-2242.

PRESENTERS

Tour de Fort Entertainment Series www.tourdefort.com tourdefort@jam21.net

Kid's & Company, Family Entertainment Series. www.kids&co.ca

Border Concert Series. E.W. Backus Auditorium, International Falls, Minnesota.

VENUES

Townshend Theatre. http://www.fort-frances.com/townshend.

HERITAGE

Rainy River Valley Field Naturalists. Meets the First Monday of the Month at the RRFDC. http://www.rainyriverfieldnaturalists.org/

Rainy Lake Conservancy. http://www.rainylakeconservancy.org/

CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS:

Fort Frances and District Stamp Club. Meets at the Fort Frances Museum the second Saturday of the Month (except July & August) Featuring min-stamp Auctions and Door Prizes.

Valley Adult Learning Association (VALA). 807 274-3553. fax 807 274-2838.  vala@jam21.net www.vala.ca. Lifelong learning, personal growth, and discovery.