Arts Matter: Personal quotes

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Artist Alejandro with salt and pepper beard close cropped hair and a blue and white baseball shirt. His quote reads "Art is everywhere from when you wake up until you close your eyes."

2018

Head shot of Linda Duvall wearing of orange scarf. She wears glasses and has grey curly hair to her shoulders. Her quote "Arts organizations are crucial." Linda Duvall, Visual Artist

Andrew Hunter, Senior Curator at the Art Gallery of Guelph with quote "it's going to be through creative thinking and not traditional western thinking that reconciliation will happen and be possible."
Andrew Hunter, Senior Curator at the Art Gallery of Guelph

 

M. Craig Campbell Artist-Blacksmith - Campbell smiling with long hair past his soldiers and wide rimmed glasses. "Creativity is our failure."
M. Craig Campbell Artist-Blacksmith
Danica Lorer, storyteller with the quote "mouth to ear, heart, we make connections through art."
Danica Lorer, storyteller
Janelle Pewapsconias, spoken word artist smiles at the camera. She has long dark hair over her left soldier and a chunky necklace. Her quote reads " The arts give voice to our problems and our solutions."
Janelle Pewapsconias, Spoken Word Artist
Director and Curator of the Mann Art Gallery, Jesse Campbell with light shoulder length hair smiling at the camera. Her quote says "the arts are a vehicle for us to know more about our world."
Jesse Campbell, Director and Curator of the Mann Art Gallery
Kathryn Ricketts President of the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance and Assistant Professor in Arts Education at the University of Regina. Her quote reads "arts organizations are like the fascia between the bone and the muscle."
Kathryn Ricketts President of the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance and Assistant Professor in Arts Education at the University of Regina
Jackie Latendresse, Artistic and Executive Director of Free Flow Dance Company - wearing a white shirt, her red hair tied back. Her quote reads: Art is a part of the development of critical thinking."
Jackie Latendresse,  Artistic and Executive Director of Free Flow Dance Company
Lucas Regazzi, Curatorial Intern, AKA wearing glasses and his hair shaved closely to his scalp. His quote says "Art gives me a lot of hope."
Lucas Regazzi, Curatorial Intern, AKA
Maia wearing a blue shirt and blue rimmed glasses smiling at the camera. She has short dark hair. Her quote reads, "Kids need art."
Artist Maia Stark.
Risa Payant with dark shoulder-length hair wearing a blue sweater with the quote "the arts are hugely powerful tool for us to understand each other."
Risa Payant Saskatchewan Arts Alliance board member Executive Director of Common Weal Community Arts
Artist Adrian Stimson wearing a blue button down shirt his quote "As artists we somehow are able to create doorways that people can enter in and perhaps avoid binaries."

 
Adrian Stimson, Interdisciplinary Artist
Artist Alejandro with salt and pepper beard close cropped hair and a blue and white baseball shirt. His quote reads "Art is everywhere from when you wake up until you close your eyes."
Artist Alejandro Romero
Brenda Niskala Executive Director of SaskBooks - her quote reads " if you're standing behind a group of people who are saying the same thing, it gives you a lot more ability to make things happen and change for the better."
Brenda Niskala Executive Director of SaskBooks
Joel Bernbaum Founding Artistic Director of Sum Theatre. His quote reads "An arts organization has the ability to be a community centre to be a magnet, to be a spark and to be a flame."
Joel Bernbaum Founding Artistic Director of Sum Theatre

*All images taken by photographer Evie Ruddy