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MARQUEE SHOW Artificial intelligence is going to change everything, says Steve McDonald, who is building the marquee show at this year’s Creemore Festival of the Arts around the topic of Adapt [...]

At first blush, the Creemore Festival of the Arts looks like a well-oiled machine, drawing thousands of visitors each fall, but it wasn’t always so. How did this tiny village become known as an [...]

Editor: I was saddened to read of the passing of Phil Stevenson, my former partner and co-founder of The Creeemore Echo. Given the glorious state of the current Echo it is easy to forget that the [...]

Editor: Mr. Ford has disappointed and lied to us on so many issues ranging from education to health and cost of living to the current Greenbelt fiasco. Steps must be implemented to effect the [...]

The name Jamila Monahan and her beautiful, unique ceramics, seemed to burst onto the Clearview arts scene out of nowhere. I came across Monahan’s work last year at the annual Two Dirty Aprons [...]

Laura Sargeant’s art career began with a cow named Olive. After 20-plus years working as a general contractor, Sargeant found herself at loose ends when she and her partner moved to a farm in [...]

The Bulls  Martha Bull grew up in a very artistic family and loved to paint watercolours as a child, but says that wasn’t enough to make her an artist. She says that a great many children who are [...]

Illustrator Paulette Dennis, a long- time participant in the Creemore Festival of the Arts and one of the founding members of the Purple Hills Arts and Heritage Society, grew up surrounded by [...]

  Your favourite sweater could become part of Creemore history. During the Festival of the Arts weekend, weaver Emily Worts will have her loom set up at the Creemore Log Cabin during an [...]

When Beth Seaborne agreed to run an interactive activity at last year’s Creemore Festival of the Arts, she imagined that her target audience would be children. She set up sensory bins and a [...]