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Bancroft Mosaic

Bancroft

Millennium Park

166 Hastings Street North
Bancroft, Ontario
6-foot diameter, 2021

Key Partner:

Maggie’s/Tamarack Resource Centre

Community Partners:

Town of Bancroft

Kijicho Manito Madaouskarini Algonquin First Nation

Algonquin Arts Council

North Hastings Community Trust

North Hastings Children’s Services and the Youth Advisory Board

Algonquin Inòdewiziwin Child and Family Centre

Community Corridor of Inclusion and Resilience project

North Hastings Community Integration Association

Many stones in a frame. Some have writing on them.

Participant places stones in a frame in a swirling patterns

Stones placed in a small circular frame in a turtle pattern

Countdown artist uses a grinder on one mosaic frame on installation day

Countdown artists Andy and Wy-J kneeling on the mosaic, filling cracks with cement

Countdown installation team gathers around the mosaic on a sunny day

Participant art installation on poster board at unveiling

Elders Noreen and Ada Tiney smile at unveiling event, seated at a table with medecines on it.

Sweetgrass braid is hund nearby the mosaic before it is unveiled

close up of the eagle motif on Bancroft mosaic

Shawashkong Ikwe singers sing and drum at unveiling

Large tents over the mosaic on unveiling night, before the mosaic has been revealed. Small teddy bear sits atop the covered mosaic

Bancroft Credits

Anna Camilleri, Lead Artist & Public Artwork Designer
Tristan R. Whiston, Co-Lead Artist
Roberta Della-Picca, Associate Artist & Elder
Andy Trull, Associate Artist
Wy Joung Kou, Associate Artist & Communications
Margo Charlton, Evaluation Consultant
Katie Yealland, Production Lead & Photography
Donna Reid, Site Coordinator & Community Support (Maggie's/Tamarack)
Tanya MacKinnon, Community Support (Maggie's/Tamarack)
Jacqueline Lopez, Community Ambassador (Maggie's/Tamarack)
Holly McMurray, Community Ambassador (Maggie's/Tamarack)
Tariq Sami, Graphic Design

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