2022 Completed Public Events

Lesia Mokrycke

Lesia presents this online exhibition, “The Island”. Lesia was one of our 2022 Halls Island Artists. Inspiration for their exhibition came from the unique time and place which is Halls Island. Please take a moment to enjoy this exhibition of drawings created by Lesia. This featured image will entice you to view the full exhibit!

CLICK HERE to enter “The Island”

Deborah Burian

2022 Halls Island Artist Deborah Burian created this video which demonstrates Gel Monoprinting. Take a look! You can easily try this technique yourself with very few supplies. Thanks Deborah for sharing your ideas and expertise!

Lori Twining

Unlock your creativity and go beyond limitations at this fun and informative workshop. Using examples and exercises, participants learned how to recognize markets and discover new opportunities to stretch their imaginations. Lori Twining's fiction and nonfiction works have appeared in literary magazines, anthologies, and a variety of media, including Best Canadian Literature, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Blank Spaces Magazine. She lives and writes in Grey County, and routinely blogs at Ascribe Writers.

Jane Selbie

Jane shared photos and highlights of her own experience as a resident of Halls Island earlier this summer. As Jane has participated in other artist residencies, she also offered insight into topics such as, at what point in an artist's career is a residency appropriate, how to find the right residency, tips on how to apply, how to prepare your work plan, tips for taking art supplies.

Lisa Cristinzo

Painter and installation Artist Lisa Cristinzo presented an artist talk and walk at the Haliburton School of Art and Design. We explored Lisa’s painting and walking practice and  what it means to be a painter that uses the environment as a source material while we experience a climate in crisis. This was followed by a walk around the Haliburton Sculpture Forest (weather permitting).

Lisa spent two weeks at the Halls Island Artist Residency located on Treaty 20 Michi Saagigg Territory/Koshlong Lake this past August. Her work considers what Landscape painting looks like now during a time of climate change and how to make ecologically informed decisions when “abstracting” nature for the means of painting. See Lisa’s work at https://www.lisacristinzo.com/

Lisa Ann Wright

Lisa is a singer/songwriter from upstate New York, and is a 2022 Halls Island Resident Artist. Sheshared her original songs reflecting on current social and political upheavals in the U.S., offering a little social commentary, a little snark, and hopefully more than a little humanity.  Ben Franklin famously wrote: “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Lisa thinks that “Love” has a place in Franklin’s pantheon of certainties.

Cleopatria Peterson

Everyone can make a zine! Zines are small low stress publications that are easy to make and share. In this workshop learn how to make a one-page zine with simply one piece of paper, scissors, and your creativity! Fill it with writing, art, collage, there is so much you can do with zines. Participants are asked to bring their own art supplies (crayons, markers ect) , paper (8.5 x 11 or 11x 17), scissors, collage materials, and glue.

This informative and fun workshop was presented by Cleopatria Peterson, a multidisciplinary artist who writes, printmakes, illustrates and loves self-publishing.