Kemp award goes to Events for Life art program

The Events for Life art program is the recipient of The Blue Mountain Foundation for The Arts 29th annual Robert G. Kemp Arts Award.
Events for Life is an outstanding project submitted by Maureen Munden, an artist and arts educator with many years experience providing arts programs to children, youth and individuals with special needs. Munden will present a year long arts program for 25 adults with special needs in Thornbury with opportunities for education, experimentation, and exploration.
“I am so excited to be able to offer this opportunity to explore creativity and expression with Events for Life participants, a chance to discover and express in different ways,” said Munden. “Our wonderful community of adults with differences will have the chance to be who they are, I will have the opportunity to spend an entire year with them and build upon their needs and interests, grow the program with them and for them. One of our participants says, ‘I love to learn art and new art techniques as it helps me keep calm.’ We are thrilled to have this chance to change lives through art.”
In September Events for Life will be showing their art in a show at The Blue Mountain Library Art Gallery in Thornbury. ‘A Look Around’ will explore the world around us through photography, painting and other artistic projects that compliment the recent Forest School Program and provide an opportunity for individual artistic expression.
The $5,000 award was created in 1989 from a trust fund administered by the BMFA with an intent to provide encouragement and or recognition to the artistic development of an individual or group residing in the Southern Georgian Bay area. Each applicant submits a project proposal that will benefit the community.
“The bar was set very high this year,” said organizers. “Competition was fierce with several exceptional submissions. We encourage each applicant to continue working on all the worthy projects that were submitted.”