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Monday, January 21, 2019

Kerrisdale community art

In the spring of 2009, I was hired by the Kerrisdale Community Centre to work with residents to create two thousand and ten postcards.You can see all the postcards here. It was my first paid gig as a community artist. It was also my first paid gig after being a full-time mum for several years.
Many of those postcards were made by students at Kerrisdale Elementary School. 
This spring, exactly 10 years later, I'll be returning to Kerrisdale Elementary to do another community art project. This time, I'll be working with the grade 6/7 classes on a weaving project that brings attention to the problem of plastic pollution in the oceans. Thanks to Artstarts in Schools and the Vancouver Biennale Big Ideas in Schools for grants to support this project.