Take a stroll down King Street between Cross Street and Sydenham Road and view a collaborative effort between poets and artisans. King Street Artwalk is a unique chance to view visual art created by artist members of the Carnegie Gallery, which inspired the accompanying poems written by members of the Tower Poetry Society.
On the ARTwalk page of the TPS website you can view five series of Artwalk Poetry and Art from past years. Each of the selected art works and accompanying poems may be viewed and read in the storefronts of the businesses listed below from the week before through the Arts Dundas weekend.
| Strawberry Fields Cabin Fever Casuals Modella Ladies Wear Kids ‘N Krafts Terraware Lillian’s Style Shoppe Heirlooms Bridal Shoppe Amarrettos Picone’s Farm Market Coco Tea & Chocolate Cumbrae Farm Meats Herb Bowes Cleaners |
Gray’s Florist Cruikshanks Apparel Jack Mills Real Estate Booth Furniture Horn of Plenty Mickey McGuire’s Stephen L. Ross Eva Skin & Beauty Dundas Community Services Curry Elkin & Kelly Adeline’s Family Restaurant |
Below is a poem by Tower Poetry Society member Jean McCallion that inspired the fibre art wall hanging created for last year's Artwalk by Carnegie artist member Lorraine Roy, illustrated to the left. For more examples of Lorraine's exquisite textile art and a description of her "collage with nets" technique, visit her website. (photo taken from TPS website)
TOUGH ROOTS
Dead as a stone? No.
These roots live.
Quickened by pulsing sun,
a tough tree vibrates outer warmth,
relays inner strength,
feels the tug of stubborn roots.
Unflinching under the lash of storms,
a tree remembers it held fast
when ice catapulted from far north
in lightning hails of thunder.
Isolated in back acres, concrete cities,
stubborn roots stone-contained
resist, no matter what machines
stutter angrily overhead
with great teeth.
© Arts Dundas 2008