Cathy Majtenyi & Gregory Upshaw A thriving curio business – in the middle of a garbage dump. A university campus – in the heart of a refugee camp. A low-income community's power source – coming from the bottom of a public outhouse. African Inspirations: Turning Trial into Triumph contains more than two-dozen vignettes of [...]
Amar, originally from Lebanon, is a recent graduate of St. Catharines Collegiate where she was the top of the fine art class, specializing in several skills, such as painting, sculpture, photography, illustration, printmaking and ceramics.
O.K. Losier is an emerging St. Catharines-based creative. Their work has been displayed in the Brock VISA gallery, the St. Catherines Art Association and in the Brooklyn art library.
My passion is telling stories and creating a shared experience through multiple mediums, featuring themes including, but not limited to, LGBTQI2S+, trauma survivors, nature, mental illness and neurodiversity.
Cemile Kacmaz Ugurlu is a Self-employed Artist originally from Istanbul, Turkey, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul.
Observing the nature captured in this garbage can is intended to create environmental awareness among all the people who visit the park. Environmental conservation is the work of the entire community.
I am an acrylic painter, behavioural therapist and web designer. I am a book reader, daydreamer and storyteller. And I will be more things yet to come. Nice to meet you here!
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