Co.Lab Gallery presents

CNIB

DREAM WEAVER PROJECT

Opening Event Friday September 6th, 6-8pm

Exhibition on display from September 6th - September 18th

The Dream Weaver project with artists Betty Carpick and Zoe Gordon celebrates the creativity, dignity, and resilience of people living with sight-loss through art making and storytelling. Generously funded by donors of the Dr. S. Penny Petrone Fund and the John Rafferty Memorial Fund, whose grants through the TBCF made this arts program possible and the Thunder Bay Community Foundation.

The event will also provide an opportunity to meet the artists.

The Dream Weaver Project celebrates the creativity, dignity, and resilience of people living with sight-loss through sensory art making and storytelling. To participate in the community and the world at large, access to creative culture helps people with low vision and blindness enjoy an improved quality of life. This interdisciplinary project builds upon the skill-building, experiences, and relationships developed during the 2023 project, The Wild Rainbow where participants explored ways of experiencing colour. Both projects are conceived and guided by Betty Carpick.

For the art making and sharing phase of the Dream Weaver project, participants explored different tactile mediums and sculpture techniques through weavings inspired by materials used by Indigenous peoples in the past, present, and future.

Each participant has also had the option to participate in a sound recording based on the prompt: “What gives you strength and resilience?”

Zoe Gordon provided the audio recording and design.