Summer Project at the Winter Garden

Youth Apprentice

The Creative Art Works team at the Winter Garden in Brookfield Place

In the summer of 2018, I had the opportunity to work as an apprentice with Creative Art Works at the Winter Garden in Brookfield Place. In a team of nineteen CAW Youth Apprentices and three Teaching Artists, we were commissioned to create four large canvasses for CAW's long-standing supporter, RBC Capital Markets. We executed the paintings on the second-floor balcony, where passersby were encouraged to ask questions and observe the paintings progress

Paint the Unexpected

A group of RBC representatives wanted art that would reflect RBC's core values of:

  • community
  • collaboration
  • diversity and inclusion
  • accountability and integrity

Tenjin Ikeda, a member of the RBC focus group and a professional print-maker, challenged our Youth Apprentices to design something unexpected:

Corporate art can be very boring, because there’s a perceived expectation of what corporations want, which can be interpreted as sterile or somber. So, don’t give us what you think we want. Don’t give us stock photos. Be real. Be bold. Be honest. Challenge our expectations.