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Graphic Recording Catch-up 2015!

7/3/2015

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A couple of months ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with Andrew Guilbert of Avenue Magazine. I really liked discovering his enthusiasm for the wide range of creative happenings that are going on around this town. I'm afraid I talked his ear off a bit about all the stuff that I am excited about in my neck of the woods (there is just so much... don't get me started! But do check out the upcoming Inglewood Night Market on Friday, July 10th!).

We also talked about graphic recording, with the idea that readers of Avenue Magazine might be interested to find out more about this cool and strange job description that has somehow ended up being mine. I wasn't exactly sure what the outcome of our conversation would look like, so imagine my surprise when I heard that it showed up in this month's edition of Avenue. (Thanks, Andrew!!)

Hence my attempt to actually put a few new pictures up on this site, in case readers actually head over here to take a look at what this is all about. You can find out more about graphic recording here. This blog is the place I try to post pictures of whatever I'm currently working on or wondering about. In 2015, I've been fortunate to have had so many opportunities to work on cool projects, that there's been very little time for me to post anything. So here's a "catch-up" post with pictures from a few recent projects, to give you some idea of what graphic recording is all about - at least in my version of this practice. If you'd like to learn about this from the official source, I'd recommend checking out the International Forum of Visual Practitioners. They are holding their annual conference in Austin, Texas, in about a week! I won't be able to make it there this time around, but check it out - there might still be room for you there!

The copyright for all of the pictures of the work I did for the organizations mentioned below, is owned by the organizations (as listed in the section titles). That's how it works: after I draw it at your event, it is now yours to keep! Thanks to all of these organizations for allowing me the permission to use the images here, in order to let some of those Avenue readers have a glimpse of some local graphic recording.

And apologies that these online images are really too small to do justice to the detail in the original images. You can also take a look at my photo gallery, in which there are a few more close-ups from past projects.

Green Line Southeast Transitway "Transit Oriented Development" Charrette

You can learn more about this totally exciting urban initiative here. Suffice to say this was one of the most fun - and challenging - projects I've worked on. Each of the pictures below is actually about 32x40" and was drawn in real time at sessions that were about three hours long. I coloured them in afterwards. Stay tuned for more pictures from the next charrette, which are still at the printers'!
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Lewis Farms Facility & Park, Edmonton

I drew these pictures at an enormous public engagement event in Edmonton a couple of months back. Now I am excited to see what happens with all these great suggestions from future users of this facility!
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Campus Calgary/Open Minds

I loved collaborating with Campus Calgary/Open Minds, an organization that brings local students into real-life "classrooms" such as City Hall, the Zoo, the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, Canada Olympic Park and other cool places. This picture shows the pencils that always seem to end up in my hair clip. I've done it for years and now I can't stop.
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Federation of Calgary Communities "Beyond the Four Walls" Conference

Some people don't realize how important volunteer organizations like Community Associations can be. This group is doing amazing stuff to support CAs, and wants to spread the word! I hope this picture will help to communicate that. You can learn more about the FCC here (on their quite lovely website).
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IAFNA 2014 Conference

I had a lot of fun working in Banff at the annual conference of the International Association of Facilitators (North America). I am not a facilitator, but in this line of work, I am always crossing paths with event facilitators. This is a pretty fascinating line of work, too. Diane MacDonald of Diane MacDonald & Associates Inc. invited me to partner with her for a workshop at the conference, and here's one of the things that came out of that!
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Alberta Museums Association

The AMA, based in Edmonton, hosted a really interesting and thought-provoking summit on the subject of making museums more relevant and accessible to Albertans - or really, coming up with ways to let Albertans find out more about how amazing, relevant and accessible our museums already are!
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Andrew Sibbald School

And this list wouldn't be complete if I didn't mention Andrew Sibbald Elementary School in Lake Bonavista. Its whole community welcomed me as a very new artist in residence and worked with me from January till June 2015 to help come up with ways we could use graphic recording as a tool to capture what learning looks like. I think we ended up with some good results. Here's a graphic recording that reflects what some of the teachers had to say about what makes their school special. Thanks, Andrew Sibbald!!
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5/30/2018 01:57:16 am

Getting the chance to talk with people who seem to have the same wavelength as your feels nothing but great. You get the chance to share stories with them, and know them as a person eventually. That was what happened between you and Andrew Guilbert of Avenue Magazine. He seemed to be a very cool guy, and I will always admire those people who have a good sense of humor. I always have the desire to meet people who have this kind of personality. They seemed easy to deal with.

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