Posts made in September, 2010

Great News for MABELLEarts!

Posted by Leah on Sep 30, 2010 in Featured | 2 comments

MABELLEarts has been awarded $28,000 in operating funds from the Ontario Arts Council! This is a great victory for us as a company relatively new on the scene. These funds will be used to continue our ongoing projects, including the Women’s Sewing Room and the Memory Project. Many thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for heartily supporting the art that builds...

Night Walk

Posted by Leah on Sep 30, 2010 in Featured | 1 comment

On August 24th, MABELLEarts held a night walk led by artist-in-residence Elinor Whidden. Elinor will be creating a custom lighting system in the Mabelle Park created in collaboration with Mabelle residents. The purpose of the night walk was to explore the park in the dark, in order to better map out where our soon-to-be created lights should be installed. Participants used lanterns they...

Goodbye Lantern Garden Goodbye Summer

Posted by Leah on Sep 30, 2010 in Featured | 0 comments

This August marked our fourth incarnation of Lantern Garden – an outdoor art project for kids and families living at Mabelle. This year we welcomed a whole new set of kids and families into the park and worked together to create images of protection for our park. We made beautiful art, including two guardian statues for our new gardens and a giant dragon puppet (seen here). Our dragon...