Category: Arts

Deck your halls and jingle your bells. Halloween is over, and now it’s time to think about the next major Canadian holiday: Christmas.

Artists from Ottawa and beyond are being encouraged to submit their work for this year’s Community Galleries selection, a City of Ottawa program that displays the artwork of both local and regional artists in public buildings across Ottawa.

On what seemed like a regular afternoon at Elgin Street Public School, a group of students sat cross-legged on mats at the back of the class to hear something most had never heard before, a banjo.

Bronze, clay, glass, wax, and other materials have transformed the Old Ottawa City Hall on Sussex Drive into a sculptural mecca.