Weave Community Art Project

A kaleidoscope weaves art and science together through colour and light. When looking through the lens of a kaleidoscope we can see the myriad of colours, textures and new patterns we create just by looking through the circular lens. A community is full of diversity like the colours, textures and patterns in a kaleidoscope and each one of us is woven together through the circular lens that creates a unity of us all. Being chosen as the 2018 Visual Artist for the Kaleidoscope Community Art Project - Weave Community is an honour and I am so excited to merge my art practice and passion in working with the community this Summer in Coquitlam. I am thrilled to be hosting this community art project for the City of Coquitlam.

"My life is fully integrated when I am merging art and my passion in working with children and families. I love creating opportunities for engaging art projects in the community."

The Weave Community Art Project uses the symbol of a circle for 3 neighbourhood park events and the Kaleidoscope Arts Festival. The circle provides a space for everyone, a wholeness, and unity like a colour wheel, a mandala, a medicine wheel, the earth, and the lens of a kaleidoscope.

Small circular weaving kits will be given to neighbours at the park nights where they can make or take a weaving kit. The Weave Community Art Project will be at 3 park events in Coquitlam: July 12th - Galloway Park, 3404 Galloway Avenue, July 19th - Rochester Park, 1390 Rochester Ave, and July 26th - Bramble Park, 2775 Panorama Drive.

This fun, easy hands on project is designed for all ages and abilities and will explode into life sized looms to activate the festival space as a collaborative community art project. Participants of all ages will weave their part of a community circle by using reclaimed, locally sourced and recycled fabric, ribbon, and other materials provided to fill the life sized looms that will be standing upright and created on the ground activating the space with vibrant colour, textures and circular forms for an impactful display at the festival. During the festival the variety of looms in the space will allow many participants at a time to engage in the collaborative community art project.

"Weaving our threads tying us through our diversity in the community."

The Weave Community Art Project aims to encircle all participants in hopes of making personal connections to the art of weaving community connections and inter generational dialogue about the materials, colours, textures, and the environment. This community art project will unite all ages at the festival in an inclusive and vibrant space. In addition to the impactful community art project, participants can also make or take a small circular weaving kit as a keepsake of this community art project as a symbol of the unity created by the community at the 2018 Kaleidoscope Arts Festival.