Wildflower gets a face lift, check out the new red building!
Wildflower Art Centre ia located at 3363 Spruce Dr.SW, in Calgary, AB
For the past ten years I have been privileged to work as a fine arts instructor at the city run facility the Wildflower Arts Centre. In 2012, the City of Calgary's department of Recreation celebrates 100 years serving Calgarians. As we mark this milestone, I wanted to take a minute to highlight one of our city's hidden gems.
My first summer working at the art centre was teaching "Arts Ventures", art day camps for children. We listened to the golden oldies on the radio and dived into numerous projects, using everything from clay and recyclables to conte and acrylics. Looking back to when I first started I really didn't know how to teach art classes, but through a lot of trail and error I began to find my rhythm. The summer was filled with all sorts of projects, we made kites, musical instruments, painted t-shirts, artist trading cards, filled our sketchbooks, and every week tackled the dreaded paper mache project! In the years to come, I taught a variety of ceramic classes including hand building and wheel throwing to children, teens, and adults. As my own practice evolved into one of painting, I taught ceramics less and less. To this day I continue to teach my favorite programs; oil painting, Teen Art Studio, and Adults Arts Combo.
As Recreation celebrates 100 years in Calgary, I pause to reflect on all the great art, wonderful students, and exceptional colleagues I have been lucky to teach and meet over my ten years at the centre.I raise a glass to the next 100 years of recreation in Calgary and the continued access to fine and performing art programs to Calgarians from all walks of life!
For more information about Wildflower and it's programs please visit
http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Recreation/Pages/Arts-centres/Wildflower.aspx
