Artist in Residence:
Back in the City
By Team Macho
Hi Everyone!
I have just returned from a harrowing month at a lakeside cottage in the hinterlands of Northwestern Ontario. Let me tell you it was rough. Nothing but swimming and painting wilderness scenes and bacon at every meal. I managed to survive to make it back to smog-laden heat of Toronto in one piece and as a bonus, I brought some news of a culturally significant effort being made by some great people all the way up in Thunder Bay! There is a really hard-working artist run center called Definitely Superior Art Gallery there and they have been running these great workshops all summer long. The Die Active Art Collective are focused on the youth of the city with an eye towards producing a number of awesome things like: A zine, a music compilation, stickers, buttons, patches, etc… Probably thing that you all reading this are familiar with, but most certainly not things that are readily accessible outlets in Thunder Bay. I certainly wish things like this had been going on when I was growing up there. And here is the best part: They are flying all of these things down to Toronto for CanZine! I know, right? That’s some serious dedication to zines. I saw some of the works in progress (and being an expat of the area myself I did a drawing for it) and they look super cool. Check out their table at CanZine and see what the youth of the wild North are up to!
Oh and here’s the URL of their site http://definitelysuperior.com/dieactive.html
August 24, 2009