Creative Commons Wall

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Part 1)

created visual art and poetry during a series of on line workshops led by Klyde Broox and Nathan Eugene Carson in collaboration with Afro-Canadian Caribbean Association of Hamilton (ACCA).

Their imagery suggests possibilities for creative and supportive interplay between persons and places, while portraying the written word as an echo of the spoken word. Nathan and Klyde guided participants through an online process which blended analog and digital techniques to read images as text and treat texts as images. This artwork illustrates connections between drawing and writing, it embodies ideas about “painting” scenes with words, and approaches the paintbrush as a pen; cursor as scissors or chisel; poetry as verbal painting; and drawing, painting, sculpting as storytelling.

Creative Commons wall with image/poem works by youth from ACCA (details above), and a mural by students from W.H. Ballard – Aiden, Chelsi, Isis, Jorja, Lyla, Madison, Paige, Sadie and Trinity – produced in a one-day workshop with Dámarys Sepúlveda

Klyde Broox

“I write with my voice…” Jamaican born and groomed dubpoet, Klyde Broox has been based in Hamilton, Ontario, since the 1990s. Klyde is internationally recognized for “a socially-instrumental artistic practice informed by principles of community engagement and popular education.” Since the 1980s, Broox has done numerous international readings, workshops, and guest lectures. His writing has been published in various anthologies, reviews, journals and books.

Nathan Eugene Carson

BFA OCAD, lives and works in Hamilton. His drawings and paintings have been shown at Verso Gallery, Lennox Contemporary, Gallery One (Toronto), and at Oswald Gallery and Carnegie Gallery (Hamilton). Carson’s work was featured at the AGO First Thursdays, with the RBC Emerging Artists Projects and StreetARToronto. Recent exhibitions include a major solo project at the Power Plant, and an installation at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

Part 2)

Two panels for the inaugural mural were created in collaboration with students from W.H.Ballard in a workshop production with visual artist Dámarys Sepúlveda.

Dámarys Sepúlveda is a Visual Artist who utilizes a broad range of painting, print making techniques and materials. Dámarys is a strong advocate of Art for Social Change, and an active member in several art organizations in BC.

She graduated from the Nicaraguan Fine Arts Academy with a Visual Art Diploma. In 1984, she received a two-year scholarship to participate in a hands-on learning experience, teaching visual art to children in L’arc Children’s Art School, Barcelona, Spain. In 1988-1989, she conducted a guest artist residency at York University’s Print Studio (Toronto, ON) with Professor Eugenio Tellez.

Her paintings and prints have been exhibited in Nicaragua, Barcelona, Toronto, Vancouver, Mexico and Hamilton, Ontario.

Images from on line sketching workshop: Aiden, Chelsi, Isis, Jorja, Lyla, Madison, Paige, Sadie and Trinity.