Community Art
COMMUNITY :: SOCIAL PRACTICE :: RELATIONAL PRACTICE
Linda helps women feel connected to community by dreaming, creating, and facilitating inclusion-based art projects. The art sessions are designed to bring women together – women who might not otherwise have opportunity to meet.
Although Linda is primarily a painter, her community pieces are cut-paper collages, and it’s not unusual for a project to have more than 10,000 pieces of paper in it, just like the one you see here.
The designs are drawn out like a jigsaw puzzle so when people arrive to the sessions, they receive papers and adhesive, then glue the papers into marked places.
Community art is welcoming, not intimidating
Working with papers rather than paint feels less intimidating for those who don’t have any art experience, and the goal is for everyone to feel successful.
It’s all about coming together, working on a common project, while sharing their stories and making connections.
Because the projects are sponsored, the original artworks are not available for purchase. You can, however, buy prints in different sizes, on gallery quality wrapped canvas, or mounted on archival paper.
For more information, please contact Linda: linda@nikkel.ca
Bringing people together through art is something I strongly believe in. I’ve invited women from various cultures and backgrounds to gather together to create something beautiful while getting to know each other. It’s about breaking down barriers and building connections.
More than 300 women from our community helped create these four pieces. The collection hangs at University of the Fraser Valley.
This is what it looks like when we all come together to create a common piece!