During the February Open House Elliot Lake Arts and Heritage Centre, there will be a needle felt voodoo doll making workshop.  The workshop participation fee ($20 per person) includes all the materials and the instructions you need to create one voodoo doll. The workshop runs from 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM on February 8, 2025.   Tickets can be purchased at the Elliot Lake Arts and Heritage Centre, first come, first served.

The February Open House theme will be fiber arts.  Weavers will demonstrate how the warp and weft come together to create a work of art. 

In addition visitors will see the advancements made by the Model Railroad Club as they build their train layout. The Club started from scratch in the Fall of 2024.  Your behind-the-scenes look includes an operating model train on a track.  Experts will be on hand to answer your questions.

The newest exhibit in the ARIEL Arts Space will also be mounted for your perusal.  Come see the work of Algoma District artists from painters to woodcarvers.

One of these things is not like the other!  The one below is like the voodoo doll you can make during our February 8, 2025 Open House workshop. We celebrating hearts and needles by making felt voodoo dolls - our little twist on the over-the-top Valentine's shenanigans.

f you have not attended one of the Elliot Lake Arts and Heritage Centre's Open Houses, here are some details. They happen every second Saturday in the month.  They run from 10 AM to 4 PM at 14 Elizabeth Walk, and they are free.  The exception is our workshops as there are supplies that are consumed during the activity.  We will have ticket purchase instructions available for the February workshop January 20, 2025.  Until then, save the date, or send us an email to pre-order your tickets by clicking the button above.

Future Open Houses
The March workshop is calligraphy. If you are planning to make party or wedding invitations by hand, this workshop, March 8, 2025, is for you.

The April workshop will about making Easter baskets. The date for that is April 12, 2025.

The May Open House is May 10, 2025. We are throwing a party as it is the Grand Opening Elliot Lake Arts & Heritage Centre.

Pinsent Tailoring is a YouTube channel from the UK hosted by a young man who eschews modern clothing. Since he was 14 years old, Zacks has trod an independent sartorial path.  Now, he is a renowned tailor of period garments.  His clientele is world wide.  Through his videos the curious experience the Art inherent in clothing.  You will never look at a piece of clothing as a utilitarian necessity again. 

Art is everywhere.  Or not...take Tesla's "truck" for example.  Was it designed to be ugly? Regardless, it was designed...and someone determined that the design was good.  Art is in your kitchen in the shape of your kettle or the form of your water bottle. 

Art can be over the top, subtle or minimal.  SMEG is an OTT brand, as is Versace. Form following function is a cliche about design that does not preclude the Art inherent in any object. Take a look at any line of garage storage.  What makes it pleasing to your eye ?  The Art of design.
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Pour yourself a coffee - in a mug that just might have a reproduction of a Robert Bateman painting on it. Click on the video. Enjoy the journey and the Art.