The Waterfowl Park Artist-in-Residence and the Emerging Artist-in-Residence are Beginning Their Projects

|  Arts and Culture

Tantramar is excited to announce the programming for our Waterfowl Park Artist-in-Residence Michelle Czyzo, and Emerging Artist-in-Residence Pamela Wheaton. Please see their activities, and bios, below.

Artists’ Activities

About Michelle’s Project
Michelle’s project aims to forge a reflective art installation that celebrates the beauty of the Waterfowl Park while inviting community involvement and cultivating appreciation and participation. This artwork will provide the visitors with an opportunity to repeatedly join the artist in reflection by art making, encouraging ongoing engagement and connection with the park.
 
Michelle’s Activities
Michelle will be facilitating an Interactive Art Activity for Younger Audiences – multiple outdoor canvases will be displayed at various points along the pathways in the park and will enhance the connection between the viewer and the natural landscape of the park, integrating the artwork with its natural surroundings. Children and the young at heart are invited to become an artist themselves and even influence the finished art piece. Plexiglass panels mounted in wooden frames will provide a see-through paintable canvas where the public can get creative. Individuals will be invited to paint over Michelle’s drawings sketched on the canvases with washable paint sticks. This installation will allow the artwork to evolve daily, fostering continuous engagement and creativity. Pick up your paint sticks at the visitor centre and have a stroll through the park in search of the canvases. The first of several installations will take place on Saturday July 20th, between 12-4pm.
 
Michelle will also be working on a landscape painting starting in late July or early August, with an open house on August 4th. Please come by the Park and meet Michelle and see her work. Her large-scale painting will be integrating elements of local flora and fauna, insects, birds and waterfowl that make the marshland their home. This will be centred in or near the Visitor Information Centre. Michelle’s hours will be advertised on Tantramar’s social media, and will also be available at the Visitor Information Centre.
Check out Michelle’s Instagram:

 

Pamela’s Project and Activities

Pamela will be undertaking a Pet Wildling/Wonderling Project. Here are all the details:

What’s in a box? Anything you can imagine. Wildling or Wonderling; rooted in nature and realism or wild imagination. Inspired by tree swallow boxes and the joy they bring; wanting to create a magical Summer from everyday materials, mixed mediums, and nature finds. Swallow boxes can be claimed at one of two gatherings (‘Pet of the Month’ July 27th and August 17th) at the Sackville Visitor Information Centre. Select your Pet Wildling or Wonderling, personalize and decorate your cardboard swallow box, and wander the Waterfowl Park and show off your creation! Participants are encouraged to make/bring their own creations to the Information Centre for ‘Pet of the Month’ and enter their name for a chance to win 1 of 3 real swallow boxes (winners announced mid-September). Recognition for most whimsy, most wild, and most creative overall – take a photo and send it to ‘My Pet Wildling/Wonderling’ on Instagram. Also keep your eyes and ears open for Lost Pet Wildling/Wonderling Alerts (follow on Instagram or check in regularly to the Information Centre to be in the know). Wildlings/Wonderlings can sometimes be found hidden throughout the Waterfowl Park. Go and wander, wonder awaits!

A canvas will act as a display for a few chosen cardboard swallow boxes, allowing folks to come and peek inside. A painting entitled ‘Duck vs Swallow’ will be worked on throughout the project, incorporating the boxes in a creative way. Lastly some tree tunnels throughout the Waterfowl Park will become even more magical with carefully hidden mixed medium swallows swooping, rewarding those who pay attention while on their wanders.  

And check out Pamela’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mypetwildlingwonderling/?hl=en

About Michelle Czyzo – Waterfowl Park Artist-in-Residence

Michelle Czyzo is a talented creator that has been passionate about art since childhood. Born and raised in Norton, NB, she studied at Mount Allison University, majoring in Fine Arts and Japanese Studies. Throughout her career she has sought to include her artistic creativity in her roles, including visual merchandising, graphic design and marketing. Having exhibited her work in New Brunswick, Ontario and Japan, her most recent art works include a commissioned piece for North Perth Pride in Listowel, Ontario. She is now excited to practice her craft in her original home of New Brunswick. Her spare time is focused on her young daughter, two rambunctious cats and gardening.
 
About Pamela Wheaton – Waterfowl Park Artist-in-Residence

Forever with a sketchbook in hand, Pamela has always been artistic. Possessing a unique whimsical style, rooted in wildlife and rural landscapes. Completing the Foundation Year Program at University of King’s College, and MTA for literature, art history, and philosophy. Pamela likes spending her time transferring her many sketches to painted canvas, fabricating creations of mixed mediums, and drafting children’s stories. A local to the Tantramar area, when not painting/creating Pamela enjoys jogging through trails and open marshes, landscape gardening, renovating her homestead with her partner in Midgic just outside of Sackville, NB, and spending time with their 3 young kiddos. Forever creating, always excited for her next artistic endeavor.