Example of Alyssa Light’s Crafts-woman-ship
Alyssa Light was born to create. As a 3 year old she would sit and make button bracelets from her grandmother’s mending box. In the past 10 years her interests have focused around paper, paint, fabric, and embellishments. Alyssa is an eclectic teacher who believes that communities are created around love and art. With a passion for creative expression she facilitates engaging workshops that awaken the creative Spirit and foster the imagination. Her commitment to each participant is demonstrated in her communication, interaction, and listening. In 2005, while in school for Goldsmithing, Alyssa was chosen to make the 20th anniversary gifts for Blue Rodeo. Alyssa travels all over Ontario to teach classes to women, children, families, and people with special needs. She designs programs that are shared in quilt shops, yarn stores, local libraries, schools, and with community groups. Alyssa regularly volunteers in local high schools with the goal of inspiring budding artists and opening new doors of opportunity for them. Full time she heads a Sensory Exploration Arts Program in the Deaf community.
More Examples of Creative Works
Yvonne Westover is an artist and maker who shares her passion for art in workshops for elementary schools, day programs and girly get-togethers. Since her childhood was inspired by her mother and grandmothers who taught her to paint, knit and sew. Yvonne has been fascinated with the idea of making something with her own hands that did not exist before. Yvonne acquired formal artistic training through a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Guelph and has pursued her creative interests (when not working for an airline) through travel, workshops, practice and most recently her children. Becoming a mom shifted her creative focus to exploring the imagination of children and how our creative spirit gets lost as we grow up. Facilitating workshops in the elementary school system have led her to volunteer at a Sensory Arts program for Deaf Adults with Special needs, where the process of being creative brings sheer joy to the clients. Yvonne considers it a badge of honour to go home with paint stained hands after a day of making art. Yvonne is slightly obsessed with finding visual inspiration in everyday life and manages to point it out often to whomever will stop and take a look.