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631 Main Street
Location Map
'Restoration'
This multimedia Mural featuring ceramic tile pieces and a large quantity of found objects was 3 years in the making.
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Location: SE corner Main & Logan; North Face
Occupant: Red Road Lodge
District: City Centre
Neighbourhood: Civic Centre
Artist(s): Annie Bergen, Lee Holleron, Ursula Neufeld (Ursula Neufeld Mosaics), Stacy Lee Hildebrand (all unsigned)
Year: 2012
Sponsors: Ceratec Ceramic Tiles, Neighbourhoods Alive! (Manitoba), Manitoba Arts Council, Take Pride Winnipeg!
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Mural of the Year 2012
Annie Bergen: "The 'Restoration' Mural started in 2009, when Manitoba Arts
Council and Neighbourhoods Alive funded a project we hoped would introduce
something new to the Murals of Winnipeg. In this three-year project, we engaged the
community in the creation of a huge mosaic/Mural located on the North wall of the Red
Road Lodge. This project has made a huge impact in the community and involved the
community members throughout the entire artistic process. Materials were collected in a
resourceful and environmentally respectful manner: Hundreds of ceramic tile sample boards (which were on
route to the landfill) were taken apart and incorporated onto the Mural. Also, glass and
pottery remnants were collected from local stores and potters, broken chinaware, jewelry
and ceramics donated from thrift stores, and so on."
Lee Holleron: "Restoration has been a life changing experience
for myself, my Family and Friends. Many different relationships have been
created between the artists and this neglected part of our city. Almost 4 years in its
creation, we lived and breathed the Main Street and its culture... it represents countless
hours of moving tile, cleaning tile, sorting tile, storing tile, by far one of
the heaviest medium to work in. Plus cement."
"We involved the whole community around us, and invited them to
discover the peacefulness of art. Annie and I raised our child, Aurora
Sol, on Logan Avenue as we worked like crazy to finish each year
before the mortar wouldn't stick in the cold. Endless hours were
contributed to the project, which evolved throughout on the creativity
and passion of so many People, from so many stories. I feel that our
Karma is still full from the love and time and struggle we had as a
family, and, with our friends, contributed to help make a little better
life for the ones we touched throughout this time on Main Street. This
is what Restoration means to me."
Ursula Neufeld: "We hope that by bringing art and people together
and pushing that art and those people to say something and to be
something that we will all grow stronger as individuals and as
communities."
"Community art is art made by people. Lots of people. Anyone in the
community that wants to participate. Big people, little people, people
people from the community and people from far away. People that
are artistic, people that aren't. But that's not the point. The purpose
of community art, as we see it, is to involve a broad family of people
in the creative process. And we do that with tile, paint, mirror, dishes
and lots of shiny gems. And all these people, together, create. And,
with a little guidance from us and a whole lotta magic, something
beautiful materializes like this Mural on the Red Road Lodge. So
many hands and fingers and eyes and stories are embedded in the
community mosaics that you'll see here. Again and again, we've been
part of the magic that happens when hands are busy and hearts are
free."
Annie: "We have learned much throughout this process working with the community of
Main Street and have found great joy and positive results sharing this mixed-media
process with the youth of Hugh John Macdonald with projects since then at their school."
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