Artist and teacher Jennifer Hicks is bringing together Owen Sound artists and local community organizations for Doors Open in June 2019.

Doors Open Ontario is a province wide celebration of community heritage that offers access, enhances awareness, and encourages excitement about our heritage. Doors Open provides residents and visitors a like a unique opportunity to explore and enjoy sometimes hidden and always interesting places within our community - all free of charge. This year the regular Doors Open Owen Sound event is expanding to include a visual art exhibit.

Local artists have partnered with organizations to research and record aspects of the development of Owen Sound through artistic expression on a door.

Textile artist Pam Woodward is creating a door themed around local aquatic life with the Georgian Bay Lacemakers https://m.facebook.com/Georgian-Bay-Lacemakers-677530588951650/

Painter Lydia Knox https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ArtofLydiaKnox?fbclid=IwAR3k14ByZ0lT8jAmLUvx0rYs0MwBLmIx-vMw9aNHOOHKVCoWJkBII-SGkRI with Leslie Bankes of Curvy Lines art school https://m.facebook.com/profile.phpid=100000790228537&ref=content_filter are working with Owen Sound Community Living.

Mural artist Billy Goodkat https://m.facebook.com/billygoodkat/ is working with our local Canadian Mental Health Association.

Owen Sound Poet Laureate Lauren Best teams up with Youth Elevating Youth https://m.facebook.com/youthelevatingyouth/ to showcase an original creation on a door.

Special thanks for all doors, donated by Owen Sound Habitat for Humanity, and for co-operation from Owen Sound City Hall.

Coordinator Jennifer Hicks explains, "I'm thrilled that the Doors Open Owen Sound event has welcomed our participation! Art focused on heritage and place history informs us of the past which gives us an opportunity to broaden ourselves in the present. It's wonderful that our talented artists have teamed up with Owen Sound non profits because community art can provide a platform to highlight often overlooked considerations and gives us a way to see ourselves in a greater context socially and psychologically."

If you would like to be involved contact Jennifer through her website at hicksinthesound.simdif.com

source: media release