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February Featured Artist, Anca Gaston
Posted on Friday, January 28, 2022 09:00 AM
February’s Featured Artist is Anca Gaston, a fine art photographer from Brantford. Anca has been passionate about photography since her teen years and enjoys spending as much time as possible photographing local wildlife and the night sky. She has won a number of photo contests, including being the Grand Prize winner of the 2016 Grand River Parks and Waterways Photo Contest with a photo of a bald eagle fishing, and the 2016 Winner (and 2017 runner-up) of the Canadian Wildlife Federation photo contest.
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January Featured Artist, Dominique Steele
Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2021 03:51 PM
January’s Featured Artist is 22-year-old Dominique Steele, who lives in Brantford and specializes in creating candles, wax melts and reed diffusers.
Dominique is working towards completing her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film Studies at Carleton University, while also studying to obtain her Real Estate license through Humber College. She started her side hustle, Valiant bydmnqe, in May 2021, making candles and wax melts with coconut soy wax and a wooden wick as opposed to a traditional cotton wick....
December Featured Artist, Ronald Beckett
Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2021 02:52 PM
December’s Featured Artist is Ronald Beckett, a composer best known for founding the musical production company, Arcady.
Beckett has had numerous compositions performed by ensembles throughout Ontario. He has written three operas that constitute a trilogy: Ruth, John, and I Am, all of which have bene given fully-staged performances by Arcady and Queens Student Opera. Beckett’s catalogue of compositions includes a dozen or so additional large-scale works for orchestra and chorus and an abundance...
November Featured Artist, Caroline McLaughlin
Posted on Monday, November 01, 2021 03:30 PM
November’s Featured Artist is Caroline McLaughin, the Artistic Director of Studio 5.6.7.8 in Brantford with skills in many artistic forms including dance, drama, singing and aerial arts.
Caroline grew up in Toronto dancing and singing her whole life. She began teaching at 16 and that was the spark she needed to pursue educating children. She is certified through Performing Arts Educators of Canada (P.A.E.C.) as well as Acrobatic Arts, which continually offers workshops, seminars and training to keep...
October Featured Artist, Lennox Beloved
Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2021 10:47 AM
October’s Featured Artist is Lennox Beloved, a self-employed freelance musician from Brantford who manages her own band where she is also the lead singer and bass player. As an artist, she experiments with many instruments including the fiddle/violin, guitar, mandolin, and percussion drums. Lennox can be seen playing in an assortment of posh venues either solo or alongside her 7-piece band.
Ever since she was a kid, Lennox has considered herself an artist. She initially pursued academics over arts,...