Public Art Collaborations 

​Collaboration is a by-product of being in community.  Combine three decades of teaching art, living in a small town, a few golden opportunities, and it happens quite naturally.  I learned to be less protective of my work, more invitational and curious instead, and found myself saying out loud, well, let’s just see where this thing takes us, shall we?  Here are some of my favourite projects, photo album style, which came together because all kinds of different people so generously participated.
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OCTOPUS, OCEANS and US

A large octopus installation to encourage community engagement at the IMPAC5 (Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress) conference.
(plumbers pipes, irrigation tubes, wire fencing materials, orange tarp,  spray paint, tyvek wristbands; 50'x10')

Themes:  Ocean . Sustainability . Marine Protection . Indigenous Conservation . Culture . Dialogue


​What Floats My Boat

2 birch panels (acrylic and paper sails; 48x24 diptych)
Themes:  Community Building . Conversation  . Vulnerability

Left Wing + Right Wing = Lift

Five birch panels (acrylic and mixed media;  4'x16')
Themes:  Politics . Civil Dialogue . Public Art . Governance

The Conversation

Three separate unstretched canvases (acrylic, collaged papers, permanent markers;  8'x22')
​Themes:  Ocean . Sustainability . Creation Care . Dialogue

Living Between the Trees

Six attached birch panels (acrylic and 340 individual leaves designed and created by members of the church congregation;  9'x18')
Themes:  Community . Creativity . Collaboration . Process . Faith

#beloved

Three birch panels (acrylic;  8'x12')
Themes:  Community . Support . Identity . Helping Hands . Relationship

Lifeline

Grumman canoe (acrylic, river stones, red yarn;  17')
Themes:  Relationships . Endurance . Team . Community . Expression

Work In Progress

Framed canvas (acrylic, embroidered threads;  72"x28")
Themes:  Process . Creative Process . Structure . Form