Kids’ Corner – Stewart Hall Cultural Centre

Marta Barnes, Flernmingo, 2021

MINI-EXHIBITION: PLANIMALS – A WHIMSICAL WILDLIFE

Have you ever seen a Wombanana? Or a Flernmingo? This summer, come and meet these fantastic beasts in the Kids’ Corner. Illustrator and author, Marta Barnes presents a series of surrealist watercolours inspired by her love for animals, plants and her world travels.

Created during the confinement, the artist decided to take up an art challenge during a livestream on her Instagram account. The prompt for “Planimals” involved rolling two dice – one to choose a plant and the other to choose an animal – and combining them into a surrealist form. Within a few minutes, a new wildlife was created right in front of the viewers’ eyes. After a few challenges, a whimsical watercolour series was created.

A pair of dice will be available for those who would like to live this experience and create their own fantastic beast.

STEWART HALL – KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

Sunday to Friday: 1 to 5 p.m.

Wednesday: 1 to 8 p.m.

Closed on Saturdays in June, July and August

MINI-EXHIBITION: LAKESHORE WEAVERS GUILD

The Lakeshore Weavers Guild is celebrating their 60^th anniversary having been in residence at the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre since 1963. The Weavers are an integral part of the Pointe-Claire community, participating yearly in the Pointe-Claire Artisan Show and the Cultural Rendez-Vous. We are excited to share some of our history and joy in our fiber craft with this mini-exhibition from current and passed members. A floor loom will also be displayed for occasional demonstrations.

STEWART HALL – KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

MINI-EXHIBITION: WHAT DO YOU SEE FROM YOUR IMAGINARY WINDOW? – PATRICIA DAVID

Patricia David is an artist who uses glass in order to create dazzling mosaics that resemble luminous paintings. This mini-exhibition is dedicated to the ideal surrounding a window, specifically the perspective it offers us onto the exterior world and all its wonders: an animal, a plant, a landscape, a snow-covered city… The artist presents glass mosaics inspired by children’s drawings on the following theme:  What do you see from your imaginary window?

STEWART HALL — KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

MINI EXHIBITION
WELCOME TO MY MINIATURE WORLD – TAMAR COHEN, MINIATURE IT

As a child, Tamar Cohen only dreamed of becoming an artist and creating miniatures like the ones she would see in the local museum. Before moving from Israel to Montreal with her family, she had a career as a gymnastics teacher and training in the art of silversmithing.

During the pandemic, she began to explore her creativity and fulfilled her childhood dream of creating miniatures! Already, her work has been featured in magazines such as the “DollsHouse World” and “DollsHouse & Miniature Scene”. Making miniatures and dioramas allows her to create a world of various architectures and environments that only exist in her mind!

STEWART HALL – KID’S CORNER

Free admission

MINI EXHIBITION
MARINE UPHEAVALS – CARMELLE PILON

Carmelle Pilon is an artist who works and lives in Montreal. Over the past decade, she has developed a protean practice that includes painting, print art and installation. This stopover of her exhibition, Marine Upheavals, expresses her concern towards the environment and showcases the multiple language practice that she exploits. She presents to you several paintings found in the corpus of works created in 2021. Each painting represents both the splendor of the ocean and one of its disturbances, such as; global warming, oil spills, plastic pollution, deadly migrations or impacts on biodiversity.

STEWART HALL — KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

MINI EXHIBITION
ODE TO NATURE – LA BOUTURE, MARIE MALGORN 

Trained in graphic design, creativity is Marie’s playground. Founder of La Bouture, she creates flowers made of high-end crepe paper which are sculpted, shaped and dyed by hand, in Montreal.

Marie resolved to bring paper flowers back into fashion as they require no water, don’t cause any pollen allergies, and they do not wilt. Furthermore, they are unique and sustainable, and allow her to express all of her creativity by working with paper and colours.

Bringing you joy and poetry is La Bouture’s philosophy!

STEWART HALL — KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

MINI EXHIBITION
WHAT WE IMAGINE – VALERIE MCKEE 

In this watercolour exhibition, local artist Valerie McKee invites us to revisit our familiar surroundings through the lens of imagination. Influenced by plein air painting and daily sketches, she reimagines familiar places (parks , streets in her neighbourhood, etc.), while introducing animal characters with human traits into her playful creations.

STEWART HALL — KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

Page taken from Morna MacLean’s scrapbook  — MacLean Family Archives

MINI EXHIBITION
CHRISTMAS AT MULL HALL 

This exhibition unveils a moment in time at Mull Hall when the MacLean family lived there (1919–1940).  Discover a dollhouse and some of its original furnishings that once belonged to Morna MacLean, who lived at Mull Hall well before the advent of the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre!

STEWART HALL — KIDS’ CORNER

Free admission

WHIMSICAL SEA CREATURES…AND OTHER IMPROBABLE SPECIES
CATHERINE BOUCHARD

Discover the playful world of Catherine Bouchard through her sardine cushions fished from the sea, her wacky animal sculptures and her colourful paintings. Inspired by the 70s, her creations stand out by the richness of their colours and astonish us with their free spirit.

UNTIL SEPTEMBER 19
Free admission

IN THE MANNER OF MANON GAUTHIER – Virtual exhibition

In fall 2020, the Pointe-Claire Public Library organized a series of virtual workshops between illustrator and collagist Manon Gauthier and grade 3 and 4 students from École Marguerite-Bourgeoys. Through these workshops, students discover various albums illustrated by the artist and are initiated in the artist’s technique so that they can create their own collage, accompanied by a short story.

ARTISTS: École Marguerite-Bourgeoys, grades 3 and 4

We would like to thank the teachers, the school École Marguerite-Bourgeoys, the Centre de services scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, and the artist Manon Gauthier.

Click on the links below to see the artworks:

Group 301 – Class of Sylvie Demers: part 1 | part 2
Group 302 – Class of Isabelle Charbonneau: part 1 | part 2
Group 303 – Class of Marie-Hélène Milot: part 1 | part 2
Group 309/409 – Class of Marianne Lirette: part 1

PAPER STORIES – MANON GAUTHIER

Manon Gauthier is a self-taught illustrator and collagist who previously worked in graphic arts. Since 2006, she has illustrated numerous books in Québec, Europe and Asia, such as Poésies pour la vie by Gilles Tibo, and De Jade Janvier à Dany Décembre by Bertrand Gauthier. Her work has received numerous awards and she has been nominated four times for the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award. Manon also leads creative art workshops in elementary schools.

UNTIL JUNE 20
Monday to Sunday, 1 to 4:30 p.m.