Art & Culture
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Wild About Human-Centered Design
Have you ever thought about doors? More specifically, why some doors are intuitively easy to open while others stymie our instincts, leaving us standing like idiots as we try to figure out whether…
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Wild About Art and Urban Infrastructure
By their nature, cities are functional. Streets provide conduits for cars and bicycles, utility and sewer lines weave throughout our buildings, sidewalks and crosswalks create safer corridors for pedestrians. Layered over top of…
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Wild About Colour
What if I told you that colour doesn’t exist? First, a return to your elementary school science class might be helpful. When light hits objects around us, those objects absorb different frequencies. The…
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Wild About Reclaiming the Domestic Arts
Embroidery. Knitting. Quilting. Weaving. Each of these craft forms takes skill and time to do well and each has been used to tell stories as elaborate as any painting or sculpture. And yet,…
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Wild About the Women Artists of Beaver Hall
How many female Canadian artists can you name? Emily Carr, obviously. And maybe Mary Pratt. Beyond that, for many of us, the list becomes thin. Despite this, Canada has always had an abundance…
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Wild About the Lies Maps Tell
Maps are fully integrated into our lives in ways that they never have been before. We carry them with us everywhere, using them to generate directions, to check out a friend’s house on…
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Wild About Mary Pratt
At first glance, Mary Pratt’s paintings are warm and inviting—casual glimpses into everyday domesticity captured through still life representations of bowls of fruit and jars of jam. Look closer and a less bucolic…
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Wild About Public Art
Public art can take many forms, from murals to sculptures to land art and even ephemeral light and video displays. Public art brings our cities and communities to life, adding vibrancy and reflecting…
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Wild About Natural Forms
For as long as we have created art, we have incorporated representations of the natural world into our works. From prehistoric cave paintings in France to petroglyphs in North America, depictions of animals…
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Wild About Neighbourhood Maps
If you drew a map of your neighbourhood, what would it look like? Whether it’s the city as a whole or our local neighbourhood, each of us sees the place we live a…
