This is the last week to catch the fruits of the The Helen Schuler Nature Centre’s 'Drawn into Action: A Community Mapping Project.
Organizer Becky Little was impressed 30 local artists including a Gilbert Patterson School Grade 7 art class took up the opportunity to immortalize their favourite local spots in their own unique artistic way.
“The pieces were all so very different. There was a very broad scope,” Little said adding numerous different mediums and artistic styles were utilized including textile art, photography, a pillow, line and ink drawings and paintings.
“Jarett Duncan and Lawrence Krysak went back to 1987 when they were kids and used to hang out together. They used icons from Legend of Zelda to mark theior favourite places,” Little said adding artist Troy Nickle, who had some of his work on display along the trails near the Helen Schuler Nature Centre last summer, used grass and soil from his favourite places in his piece.
The 30 unique pieces are on display at numerous downtown locations including the Bowman Arts Centre, the fourth avenue professional building as well as at local businesses including Classique Dance Wear, Tompkins Jewelers, Anna Banana and Sterling Mutuals.
This interactive, creative art project began in March 2010, and was designed to connect people to Lethbridge’s local ecosystems and to give a voice to the grasslands, local history and culture, our watershed, wildlife species, and land-use perspectives.
Over 20 different art pieces will be on display from Oct. 15 until Nov. 8.
The 'Drawn into Action' Mapping Project was coordinated by Helen Schuler NatureCentre thanks to generous funding by The W. Garfield Foundation, Oldman Watershed Council, Prairie Conservation Forum, Shell Environmental Fund, and RBC Blue Water Project.
