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Share the great work you are doing with Canada’s arts and learning communities through a featured project on your mapped profile. Inspire your peers by sharing your research, exhibiting student work, promoting community arts classes and more. You can also add an event to our calendar, or submit an entry to our community blog.

Peruse the featured projects listings to discover the great work being done across the country for inspiration in your own work, and to explore possible partnerships and collaborations.

  • Art Smarts - École James Nisbet

    This week-long Art Smarts project involved students from Grades 1, 2, 3 from École James Nisbet. I harvested birch trees and 1/4" circles were cut to represent 'beads' for the pattern which was inspired by a Métis floral pattern I designed according to the space provided. The...

    Artists in schools | Indigenous Arts | Murals | Visual & Media Arts

  • Arts Canopy

    Since October of 2016, Arts Canopy has been providing arts based programming in music, visual arts, dance/movement, and poetry for people with dementia. It addresses the mental wellbeing of this growing population by providing meaningful ways for them to remain active, to retain their dignity,...

    Dance | Music | Visual & Media Arts

  • Musical Workshops

    Kathryn Patricia Cobbler is a multi-faceted musician–educator who engages audiences of all ages in interactive performances, residencies and musical workshops.  Kathryn uses Multiple Intelligence Theory and interdisciplinary programming to fuel creative experiences. Interested in...

    Music

  • Art Vancouver

    Art Vancouver, produced by The Vancouver Visual Art Foundation a non profit society, is held annually at the Vancouver Convention Centre for 4 days. We have just completed our 5th annual art fair, exhibiting between 90 - 120 artists/galleries coming from across Canada and around the world. Our...

  • Negotiating Spaces

    Negotiating Spaces is an evolving installation working to continue an intergenerational dialogue about the effect of the railway on individuals memory and identity in Canada. Bringing together Indigenous and settler narratives, this project strives to create an alternate archive of images and...

    Visual & Media Arts

  • The Littlebirds

    The Littlebirds started in 1990 as part of an education program run by the Yardbird Suite. Gordon Towell was the director of the youth band that met every Saturday morning from 9am to 12 pm. Gordon’s tenure was short lived as he returned to school to start a doctoral degree. Dean McNeill...

    Music

  • Amesbury Cultural Experience

    With the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council, Amesbury Cultural Experience was a 25-week project. Miss Coco was in partnership with a middle school whose student population requested access to cultural arts. This culturally-responsive after school series was...

    Artists in schools | Dance | In-school performance | Music

  • Mosaic Mural

    Using the same set of materials, 200+ students, JK-8, created 300+ flowers that represent the unique virtues and characteristics we each hold. No two were exactly the same. Integrating them into this cohesive #mascot is a visual representation of the strength and beauty of a diverse population...

    Artists in schools | Murals

  • Arts-based anti-bullying workshops

    Arts-based anti-bullying workshops for schools and NGOs using a comic-book as a teaching tool

    Workshop