Some places continuously inspire. For Owen Sound artist Kristine Moran, each visit to Moreland Place unlocks fresh inspiration, feeding a process that moves intuitively from line drawings to luminous large-scale canvases. It’s a practice built on layers of meaning and sustained by the strong circle of community she’s found along the way.
Ben Caesar is the owner and operator of Fiddlehead Nursery, a permaculture plant nursery based in Kimberley, Ontario. For the past fifteen years, Ben has focused on growing edible perennial plants and helping others design low-maintenance gardens rooted in ecological principles.
Chef Zach Keeshig, creator and owner of Naagan — the Owen Sound restaurant recently named by Time Magazine as one of the World’s Greatest Places of 2026 — is a master storyteller.
You arrive at the studio just before the music begins. Shoes come off at the door. Inside, the wooden floor is open and quiet. People drift in slowly, stretching, breathing, greeting each other softly. The atmosphere is intentionally ceremonial and community-oriented.
We were recently asked that our next show include colour. The winter has been long, the snow relentless and gallery goers could use a bit of colour this spring! The Durham Art Gallery, a small contemporary rural art gallery, welcomes Breanne Jeethan’s solo exhibition The System is Broken.
A condensed conversation between past poet laureate Rebecca Diem and the newly announced poet laureate Jennifer Frankum.
Wesley Bates chose the road less taken. Working in one of printmaking’s oldest traditions, the Clifford-based artist’s career has spanned commercial design, print making and book illustration — ultimately translating rural landscapes and human stories through the visual language of wood engraving.
Most of us have a memory of an early encounter with a book, a sense perhaps, that the object we just unwrapped, or found amongst the stacks at the local library, or unearthed from a dusty shelf in our grandmother’s attic, might be an invitation to a place we’ve never been, let alone knew existed.
In the summertime when I was a child, in the late 1970’s, my parents would drive us up north to stay in a rented ancient farmhouse near a pine forest. The interior walls were exposed thick log cabin timbers. It was a very small house with one open room on the main floor, a small kitchen at the back and a narrow stairwell that led to our bedrooms upstairs.
When Rony Lec and Myriam Legault moved to their 100-acre property south of Desboro five years ago from Guatemala, they brought more than their young family. They brought traditional varieties of amaranth, corn, beans, and squash that represented decades of work preserving Mesoamerican food traditions.