Smaller prints, 6" x 9", watercolor monotypes.
Commune (1-6), 32" x 40", multi-method monoprints on foam core.
Work shop documentation by Annie France Noël
Every Saturday from April to June, 2025, in conjunction with the Centre des arts et de la culture de Dieppe (DACC), we invited audiences of the Dieppe, Moncton, and Acadian communities to participate in a communal printmaking space. Attendees would learn and create their own floral watercolor monotypes which are then formulated into a collective collage of transfer-types aptly entitled Commune.
It is a sprawling a collection of works combined into ecological wreaths that blend indigenous and introduced specimens of the Petitcodiac River Valley, specimens from the Fredericton Botanic Garden from a previous 2023 residency, and those of participant's gardens who were generous in contributing to specimen bouquets.
Whereas the previous iteration of this project, Aversion, keenly focused on the juxtaposition between floral splendor and climate frustration, Commune instead focused entirely upon community, localized ecology, networking, integration, and public outreach. Commune aims to continue across the Maritimes and the rest of Canada as individual projects and intentions entwine together with each previous engagement eventually forming something national.
In 2007, the City of Dieppe undertook the transformation of its former City Hall into an arts and cultural hub, now known as Le Centre des Arts et de la Culture de Dieppe. The 1,335 square metre building was converted to provide a tangible public benefit to the Dieppe community in multidisciplinary arts.
The CACD has been growing in popularity since its official opening in 2010 and is now the beating heart of arts and culture in the Greater Dieppe area.
The center wishes to further involve community actors in its promising programming and unifying projects in order to promote arts and culture. Through its strategic projects, exhibitions, performances, artist residency and outreach programs, the center allows many students from schools in the Francophone and Anglophone districts to develop their skills in the arts and culture, in a professional creative space, with trained artists. By participating in these projects, the youth of Greater Dieppe have the opportunity to attend the center, interact with artists, have powerful experiences and appreciate artistic production and creation.
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