Ribbon Cutting Mural Event near the lake. Mayor of Toronto was there to give speech about the art cultural exchange. Many mural artists were attending

Ribbon Cutting Mural Event Collage

Thanks to Stephanie @bellefleurhaus for inviting me to a ribbon cutting event last night..

The city of Toronto and the city of Chicago partnered for a cultural exchange. Chicago sent Justus Roe @justusroe to paint a massive bridge. He had assistance from some other artists including Stephanie who have been working on this for a couple of weeks now.. Later this summer we will send an artist to Chicago to work on a mural there.

My pictures from the top left

1) The Ribbon cutting event with the Mayor and Justus Roe. That is the actual bridge in the background, its a huge structure. (Without a drone its impossible to show how large a project that this was.)

2) Stephanie and Justus taking a selfie together after the ribbon cutting

3) Stephanie posing in front of the bridge..

4) Stephanie in front of the section that she designed and painted

5) View of the sunset from the actual bridge… this where I had posted a lot of these sunset pictures from last year.

6) I’m throwing in this photo of Nick Sweetman’s bee that I captured back in May.. because I got to meet and talk to Nick for the first time !

7) This would be @nick_sweetman eating some cake at the event. I’ve posted a lot of his work (he organized the butterfly project a month ago).. so it was amazing to get to chat with him.

8) @bkez who invited me to her art event two weeks prior.. so it was great to chat with her as well..

9) And…. yes.. the Sunset over the water from last night

This is the 3rd art event in a month now that I have been invited to because of my instagram account.. It’s so great that the artists connect with their fans and keep connected to the public like they do.. Wonderful to see ! Pretty exciting !

Thanks to everyone ! You are all so amazing !

Mural Project at this Toronto location: