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Join Charmaine Lurch from Monday August 21st to Friday August 25th, at the Haliburton Sculpture Forest to Make Bees. < All Events Wild Bee-Making Bee with Charmaine Lurch Join Charmaine Lurch from Monday August 21st to Friday August 25th, at the Haliburton Sculpture Forest to Make Bees. Monday, August 21, 2023 Friday, August 25, 2023 Address: Haliburton Sculpture Forest, College Drive, Haliburton, ON, Canada Event Brite Registration From Monday August 21st to Friday August 25th artist Charmaine Lurch will be in residence in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest on the Haliburton School of Art + Design campus to work with community members to create wire sculptures of wild bees which will be installed in the Sculpture Forest. This summer we are celebrating pollinators in our forest. There are more than 400 kinds of wild bees in Ontario—a third of these bee species are reliant on forest habitat. Wild bees come in an extraordinary array of unexpected colours. Over the winter Charmaine has been creating wire armatures for the bees. Community members are invited to join Charmaine under the big tent at the front of the College to make the legs and wings for the bees and wrap the bee structures with coloured wire– turning the wire armatures into multi-coloured wild bees. Participation is free and no experience is required. Youth ages 12 and up are welcome. In each of the weeks that Charmaine will be in residence she will be demonstrating the various wire sculpture techniques and sharing knowledge about wild bees, their incredible solitary lives and their vital role as a pollinator of plants. At the end of the week, we will install the bees created during the week in the Sculpture Forest. To join the bee-making bee you can sign up on Eventbrite or just drop by. You can come for a few hours, for a day. A couple of days or for the whole week. For more information contact: info@haliburtonsculptureforest.ca Times 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Monday August 21 - Friday August 25. Location: Haliburton Sculpture Forest Under the big tent in front of the College 297 College Drive, Haliburton ON K0M 1S0 presented in partnership with the Fleming College Haliburton School of Art + Design Photo Gallery: < Previous Next >

Richard Shanks' sculpture includes a surveyor's tripod, incorporating symbols of time, direction and significant dates in Sir Sandford Fleming's life. Visionary: A Tribute to Sir Sandford Fleming Richard Shanks Materials: Steel and bronze Description: Surveyor's tripod incorporating symbols of time, direction and significant dates in Fleming's life. Installation Date: January, 2002 Number on Map: 7 Go to Gallery About the Sculpture: The sculpture “Visionary” commemorates the life of Sir Sandford Fleming and his contributions to Canada and the world. Born in 1827 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, Sandford Fleming arrived in this region, travelling by way of Quebec City and Montreal to Kingston, and continuing by boat to what he described as " a nice healthy little town", Cobourg. The 18-year-old Sandford and his older brother, David, arrived in Peterborough by horse-drawn cart on June 17 1845, where Sandford made his home with Dr. and Mrs. John Hutchison. Sandford Fleming contributed much to this area. His drawings and maps accurately depict the Peterborough area as it was in the mid-1800s, and his copious diaries provide enlightening detail. In turn, the Peterborough community enriched his life - his wife Jeannie Hall, whom he married in 1855, was a Peterborough native, and the daughter of Peterborough's sheriff. Fleming was always searching for broader horizons and greater challenges. His keen intelligence and scientific and artistic ability involved him in many significant accomplishments that included the establishment of Universal Standard Time, which he recommended to the Royal Canadian Institute in 1879, and which was adopted universally in 1884, the design of a prototype of an in-line skate, which he tested and pronounced "altogether satisfactory", at the age of 21, the foundation of the Royal Canadian Institute in Toronto in 1849, the design of Canada's first adhesive postage stamp, the Threepenny Beaver, in 1851, appointment as Chief Engineer of the Northern Railway in 1855, the proposal for a coast to coast railway line spanning "British North America" in 1858, and advocacy of a submarine cable which would link all the nations of the British Empire by telegraph. Pacific Cable was finally completed in 1902. In 1968 the new Community College in Peterborough was named after Sir Sandford Fleming. This sculpture includes the elements of a surveyor’s transit, the compass, time, significant dates in Fleming’s life and the globe. < Back to Sculptures

Fagus grandifolia < Back Beech Ojibwe Name: azhaawemish Scientific Name: Fagus grandifolia Significance in Ojibwe Cultures: Azhaawemish means tattoo tree, it can handle you carving tattoos into it without it dying. How to Identify the Leaves: "American beech trees have broad crowns with bark that is smooth and a light bluish-grey that darkens with age. Its large oval leaves (six to 14 centimetres long) are dark bluish-green on top and lighter beneath. American beech nuts are edible and popular with many birds and mammals. They grow in pairs in bristly reddish-brown husks. Beech bark disease is currently threatening the species across its entire range." Sources: Image: https://www.ontario.ca/page/american-beech How to Identify Tree: https://www.ontario.ca/page/american-beech < Back Next >

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Noelle Dupret Smith < Back Originally Published On: August 7, 2018 Originally Published By: Haliburton Sculpture Forest Sculptures Redefined Written By: Noelle Dupret Smith Have you walked past the large, compelling sculpture in downtown Haliburton in front of Wind in the Willows Spa? That is “This Side Up #9 “Shall We Dance” by Michael Truelove. At first glance, this sculpture looks like a many-faceted hexagon. This piece piques my curiosity—demanding a closer look. In reality the sculpture is a deconstructed cube, however the artist has manipulated the flat pieces of steel so that the sculpture looks as if it is jumping towards main street. A black, steel sculpture in the Sculpture Forest, also requiring a deeper look, is “Terminus” by Marianne Reim. It stands mysteriously on a large boulder; set back from the path. Look closely and you can see hands covering a face; while a winged shape covers the head. I get a lot of interesting reactions to this sculpture from people on tours. For my group last week, it brought to mind “The Flying Nun” from the 1970’s sitcom. For me, a more sombre interpretation resonates. This sculpture was acquired in 2002, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. Pictures of women in burkas were in the news. For some people, the sculpture evoked this image. Look closer still and you see a barbed-wire ring on a finger—does this allude to an unwanted marriage or losing a partner at war? The longer you think about it, the more poignant the story. That is the great part about sculptures, everyone sees them differently. Sometimes you just need to look a little deeper to find your own story. Please wander down main street of Haliburton and see the Downtown Sculpture exhibition and visit Haliburton Sculpture Forest. The Sculpture Forest offers free tours, Tuesdays 10:00–11:30am and Wednesdays 12:10–12:50pm. You can see the Sculpture Forest in motion tonight (August 7) as the contemporary dance company, Throwdown Collective, performs with local artists (5:00pm picnic, 6:00-7:30pm show). www.haliburtonsculptureforest/re-imagined < Previous Article Next Article >

Explore the artists of the Haliburton Sculpture Forest. Sculpture Forest Artists Mary Anne Barkhouse John Beachli Michael Belmore Darlene Bolahood Simon Chidharara Brett Davis Mary Ellen Farrow Don Frost Aaron Galbraith Jiří Genzer Ian LaBlance Tizirai Gumbere William Lishman Kevin Lockau Susan Low-Beer Carolanne MacLean Scott McKay John McKinnon Metalgenesis Jake Mol Charles O'Neil Gord Peteran George Pratt Marianne Reim John Shaw-Rimmington Andrew Rothfischer Leo Sepa Richard Shanks Tarzan Sithole Doug Stephens Carole Turner Phillip Vander Weg Peter Wehrspann

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Don Dickson, Amy Doolittle All Sculptures Evolution Number on Map A Artist Don Dickson, Amy Doolittle Material Granite, Steel Installation Date August 1, 2003 Learn About the Artist This is a one of a kind bench carved out of a large granite boulder extended by decorative metal painted red. It came to the forest because many people who were walking the trails wanted benches to rest and reflect. Instead of placing utilitarian benches throughout the sculpture forest the Board of Directors held a competition for one-of-a-kind sculptural benches. It is called “Evolution” because of the evolution from carving things out of stone to shaping things out of metal that comes from the stone. At the same time they entered the Sculpture Forest competition they were invited to an international sculpture symposium in Latvia. Somewhere in a park in Latvia is a matching sculpture to our Evolution. More Photos Previous Next

Shadow Caster by Ian LaBlance allows viewers to enjoy ever-changing shadows on the ground. Shadow Caster Ian LaBlance Materials: Steel rods Location: At the foot of the walkway leading to the main entrance of the college Installation Date: June, 2006 Number on Map: 18 Go to Gallery About the Work: Shadow Caster is sculpture based on my joy of studying insects and fossils. It actually is a biomorphic shape based on bees and beehives and the fossil remains of a trilobite. This sculpture is made out of metal rods and has an articulating spine, creating cascading layers trapping pentagons and hexagons in shadows. Metal rod was used purposefully so that the viewer can look through it and constantly enjoy the ever-changing shadow. < Back to Sculptures

2018 < All Sculptures 2018 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $4,000.00 This Side Up #9, “Shall We Dance” Michael Truelove Artist Contact Information mike@trueloveprototypes.com www.michealtruelove.com

Noelle Dupret Smith < Back Originally Published On: August 21, 2018 Originally Published By: Haliburton Sculpture Forest The Importance of Layers Written By: Noelle Dupret Smith To paraphrase Shrek, “All good things have layers”. For these two sculptures both the physical layers and the layers of techniques play a key role in their identifies. As you walk by the V&S Department Store on the main street of Haliburton you will notice a large square sculpture, created by Darrell Markewitz. The many layers of this piece are what makes it so marvellous. Hence its name “Layers”, Markewitz carefully forged together strips of steel and various alloys; some polished, some rusting, some manipulated with different textures. It is hard to make a square look dynamic, but the range of techniques, materials and layers used by Markewitz showcases his talent and provides an additional sense of depth to the piece. Layering different techniques is what makes “Musical Inspiration” in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest, by Zimbabwian sculptor Simon Chidharara, so interesting. Believe it or not, Chidharara used only one piece of springstone for the entire piece. At the back of the piece the surface of the stone is rough and rust coloured. It has been left untouched and exposed to the air. Part of the woman’s headdress on the front the sculpture is a gunmetal grey, this is the result of Chidharara scoring the stone. Finally, the part that draws the most attention is the band of black on the front. Chidharara polished this section, heated it, and infused clear polish into the pores of the stone. The effect is a glistening jet black. On this background he scored narrow channels and filled them with crushed dolomite; creating sinuous white lines. The artist did a fabulous job of using different techniques on one material to create a layered effect. Please wander down main street of Haliburton and see the Downtown Sculpture exhibition of 6 sculptures and visit Haliburton Sculpture Forest. There are free tours of the Sculpture Forest, Tuesdays 10:00–11:30am and Wednesdays 12:10–12:50pm. www.haliburtonsculptureforest.ca < Previous Article Next Article >