Our new makerspace is for budding artists of all ages to feed their creative impulses. Dubbed Mindful Makers and designed in collaboration with local artist and muralist Cindy Scaife, you’ll find the space downstairs in Weston Family Community Gallery (in between the café and Weston Family Learning Centre). Packed with recyclable materials like paper, cardboard, wood bits and paper straws, It’s a place to build, create and experiment. Right now we’re asking: how can you use your imagination to transform a flat painting into a 3-D world? For even more inspiration, this iteration of Mindful Makers showcases Canadian painter Tom Thomson’s masterpiece The West Wind. Take a close look and ask yourself: what might it feel like if you were able to climb into this painting? What would you smell? What could you hear? What does the landscape look like beyond the picture frame? ABOUT THE COMMUNITY GALLERY The Community Gallery in the Weston Family Learning Centre is an exhibition and project space which provides a platform for artistic experimentation and dissemination. Focused specifically on the processes of making art, and those ideas that feed into contemporary artistic practice, the gallery seeks to take risks and push the boundaries of how work is traditionally represented within formal institutions. The space draws also on the voices of those groups, regardless of age, sex, profession, and socio-economic constraints, who are at once represented and marginalized within normal institutional channels. In doing so, the Gallery steps away from conventional definitions of what is meant by the word "Community", seeking new interpretations and evolutionary paths for the possibilities of art-making. The Community Gallery is comprised of the main space and a smaller space called The Nook.