Join us Thursday, May 9 at 7 pm
Doors open 6:30 pm - MAIN GALLERY - FREE EVENT
7 speakers, 7 minutes, 7 slides - this exciting style of speaker event is back at Glenhyrst and get ready for an action packed evening with the following amazing speaker. Stay for networking and snacks afterward!
Carol Lyn and Dan Brown have been redesigning and designing houses for 30 years, changing the landscape of local architecture. While the masses want new houses to look new, this couple wants new construction and renovations to look like it’s always been there.
Fearing nothing and leaving nothing on the table in detail and origination of material, they want to share their talents and quick vignettes as an expression of art form.
Celebrating their 40th project, they have many stories to tell. They treasure their finds by shopping vintage and divert building material from landfill.
They have a growing audience on their YouTube channel - Reign of the Chatelaine and look for you to subscribe and follow their adventure of house restoration and builds. Their houses stand alone inside and out. Knock on their current turquoise door as they present details of unique inspiration in colour.
Mabe Kyle (they/them) Expressive Arts Therapist in Training. Peer support worker in practice. Maker of poetry, pottery, and photography who loves being creative. Adventurer who calls many places home across border lines. Builder of communities who enjoys being active. Embracing friends, family, and their neurodivergent mind. Keener for desserts served at every meal with the sweetest tooth you may find. Yearning for disability justice and liberation for the collective. Learning how to express gratitude and be kind. Embodying a life without binaries who is very introspective.
Aliki Mikulich is a practising artist with a degree in Art and Art History. Her mediums include painting, pottery and printmaking. She has been involved in various activities around the community including workshops and group installations in local elementary schools, teaching workshops at Glenhyrst and Brantford Potters Guild, working as Program Manager at the Brantford Arts Block and helping in creating various pieces of work around town.
She sits on the Public Art Working Group, Grand Culture Group, and is the organizer of the Holmedale Art Crawl as well as a part of the Grand River Festival Organizing Committee. Her work with the Brantford Potter’s Guild includes managing the pottery shop at Glenhyrst and being Studio Assistant at ClayWorks Studio.
Aliki is an enthusiastic advocate of all things local. Her topic for 7 x 7 @ 7 is viewable art in Brantford. She will be discussing pieces that can be found; some in obvious sight and some more cleverly hidden around the city.
Adrian Pynenburg is a Brantford Ontario based contemporary sculptor. Adrian connects his farming background, a career in design and marketing with his experience in woodworking to create organic and rhythmic shapes with an emphasis on the beauty of natural materials. He finds his inspiration by transforming wood into unexpected shapes that ebb, flow and at times appear to defy gravity. His work ranges from harmonious and unified pieces to those that delve into tension and conflict. Adrian recently won an honourable mention for a submission at the Neilson Park Creative Center in Toronto.
Murray Angus - Murray was born and raised in Brantford, he’s been married to his wife Jane for 49 years, they raised three daughters and now have six grandchildren.
When he was 13 he started working after school and Saturdays in his fathers jewellery business in downtown Brantford. After graduation from B.C.I. he attended George Brown College in their Horology program and became a watchmaker. He left the jewellery business in 1999 and took a position at OLG Casino Brantford, retiring from there after almost 20 years. Murray has been involved in community events for most of his life. Some volunteer positions include the Brantford Highland Games, The Wayne Gretzky Celebrity Sports Classic and Theatre Brantford. Since retiring he has been volunteering at the Brant Historical Society.
Working downtown in the family business gave him a appreciation and a love of our city’s downtown architecture and its historic buildings.
7 x 7 Speaker Event
My name is Alicia-lynn Morin, I have lived here In Brantford since 2018. I have a drive and passion for art and expression. I decided to pursue art as a another full-time gig in order to heal from my past trauma and to reconnect with my roots.
I am a 2nd generation cree for Lac La Ronge, Saskatchewan. My mother is a residential school survivor, my passion for art has been apart of my life for as long as I can remember, to help with healing from the generational traumas that were inflicted from childhood to adulthood. I took many paths in my life and some were darker than I could ever imagine and with 6 years of freedom from addiction I proudly hold and cherish my sobriety. I have learnt embrace my culture now more than ever, from teachings to learning daily. And to use art as my expression to freedom.
Nancy Benoy is a self-taught artist and educator in Hamilton, Ontario. Nancy’s practice spans over 20 years. Her art and teaching practices are rooted in self-expression, experimentation, processs, and a craving to breathe life into her work. Materials play an integral role: saturated inks, luminous watercolours, lush pastels, rich acrylics, found objects, and natural resources speak to her and find their voice in her works. Colours, texture, layers, and movement are captured. Nancy is constantly exploring, evolving, and challenging herself to capture a feeling, a mood, a memory, or a yearning. Nancy advocates for art in the community, facilitating accessible, playful, and process-based art workshops at various locations in the Hamilton area, including Dundas Valley School of the Art and Art Gallery of Hamilton. She was nominated for the City of Hamilton Art Educator award and co-recipient of the City of Hamilton Arts Champion for her podcast “ArtToGo.” Among other spaces, her work has been shown at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Assembly Gallery, and Paul Elia Gallery. It can be found in private collections in Canada, the US, and the UK. Nancy is currently at a residency at the Glenhyrst Gallery in Brantford, Ontario.
More recently Nancy has been thinking about sustainability in her art practice. Diverting/salvaging materials from landfills and basements, adding an element of intentionality to her creative drive. Thus, the abstract assemblages have been born.