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Jan Fretz - Window to Waterloo Region Interview March 2023
Jan Fretz is a multimedia artist and art teacher living in Waterloo Region. See more of her work on her website www.janfretz.com. Jan displayed her work in the 44 Gaukel Street window gallery in the month of March 2023.
Thank you to the City of Kitchener and Region of Waterloo Artsfund for the space and artist fees that made this exhibition possible.
Bill Schwarz - Window to Waterloo Region Interview April 2023
Bill Schwarz is an artist in Waterloo Region and a member of Art$Pay. His work represents architecture seen in the places he visits. His dynamic and colourful painting can be found in hospitals, hospices and Ronald McDonald Houses all over Canada.
His work was featured in the window for the month of April. More of his work can be viewed online at www.kirkwoodwagnergallery.com.
Heather Kocsis - Window to Waterloo Region Interview February 2023
Heather Kocsis is a Waterloo Region artist and a member of Art$Pay. She creates wall sculptures that connect with our sense of place and safe spaces. Heather's art is featured in the window gallery at 44 Gaukel St, Kitchener for the month of February 2023. More of her work can be viewed on her website: www.HeatherKocsis.com
Laura Cook - Window to Waterloo Region interview January 2023
Laura Cook is a Waterloo Region artist and a member of Art$Pay. She uses her camera as her tool to "paint" the detail she sees in the world. Laura's art is featured in the window gallery at 44 Gaukel St, Kitchener for the month of January 2023.
Kat Hernden - Window to Waterloo Region interview December 2022
Kat Hernden is a Waterloo Region artist and a member of Art$Pay. She uses acrylic paint and thread to portray what she sees as geometric abstraction. Kat's art is featured in the window gallery at 44 Gaukel St, Kitchener for the month of December 2022. See more of Kat;s work on her website katherndenartist.com
Conan Stark - Window to Waterloo Region interview November 2022
Conan Stark’s work is on display at 44 Gaukel St, Kitchener, Ontario for the month of November 2022. Conan’s work shows his collection of portraits and matches them with camera illustrations that help tell the stories of his subject’s relationship with their early cameras. www.conanstark.com
Elizabeth Forrest - Window to Waterloo Region interview November 2022
Our October artist is printmaker, Elizabeth Forrest. Elizabeth is a mokuhanga printmaker who studied in Japan for 11 years. She lives, creates and teaches in the Waterloo Region. Her collection in the window repurposed print proofs into a commentary on female work.
Carol Folino - Window to Waterloo Region interview September 2022
Carol Folino's work was on display at 44 Gaukel St, Kitchener, Ontario for the month of September 2022. In the interview, Carol talks about how world events and her own feelings about them influence her work. In her recent series, Carol creates detailed portraits in acrylic. www.carolfolinoart.com
Marion Anderson - Window to Waterloo Region interview August 2022
Marion Anderson talks about the work she is displaying in the window gallery of 44 Gaukel St in Kitchener in August 2022 and about what inspires her to create abstracted multimedia landscapes as she lives and works in New Dundee. aldercreekstudio.ca
Trevor Waurechen - Window to Waterloo Region gallery interview July 2022
Trevor Waurechen is a printmaker, cartoonist and light installation artist who exhibits regularly in Waterloo Region. See more of his work at www.waurechen.com
