Walking as Art - Art as Service - Upcoming Local Beach Cleans.

Jill Price
May 11
2 min read

Close-up of a Kodachrome slide showing a smiling child at the beach. Text reads "KODACHROME TRANSPARENCY, PROCESSED BY Kodak." — **Me at the age of 7 at the beach in Picton, Ontario**

Well it has been an interesting year trying to find my new footing as an artist. As many others will agree, transitioning from an academic setting back into one's everyday practice and life is much more difficult than doing a graduate degree. Luckily I have had the opportunity to attend three artist residencies over the last 10 months - with each of them helping me to put one foot in front of the other while exploring new approaches to performativity, writing, and image making while still respecting values outlined within my UN/making Methodology.

As a result, I am currently in the last leg of creating a multi-modal exhibition for the MacLaren Art Centre that will open on July 10th. Entitled Between Here and There: Walking for Tomorrow - this project is a continuation of a project I began last summer and fall entitled Wht-trSH that has led to five more regional beach clean-ups, which will contribute to installations and assemblages within the exhibit.

second hand nurses / doctors scrubs with sleeve and back decals that read UN/making Network as well as outline three definition of UN/make when you place it into context with the word harm... which leads to disappear that which creates harm, deprive of rand or office those who create harm, and change the nature of what or whom creates harm... — **Reclaimed nurse's / doctor's scrubs reprinted with UN/making Mantra.**

So, if you love to spend time at the beach and need to get in a few extra steps each day, I encourage you to join me starting today at 4:00 pm on Centennial Beach where we will spend a little bit of Mother's Day caring for Mother Earth. I have enough gloves, buckets, garbage pickers, and UN/making Network shirts for 10 participants, so simply click on the Eventbrite links below to register.

As part of this project, I would like to give a big shout out to Patricia and Sammy at Simcoe Printing for working with me to create these new shirts using used goods.

Upcoming Beach Cleanups:

Barrie – Centennial Beach https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1344668542809?aff=oddtdtcreator Date: Sunday, May 11, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Meeting Point: South side of Centennial Beach washrooms
Barrie – Johnson's Beach https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1345700409149?aff=oddtdtcreator Date: Sunday, May 18, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Meeting Point: Lifeguard Chair #1
Innisfil – Leonard's Beach https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1350198352619?aff=oddtdtcreator Date: Sunday, May 25, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Meeting Point: To be determined.
Barrie – Minet's Point https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1350248723279?aff=oddtdtcreator Date: Sunday, June 1, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Meeting Point: Garbage can at edge of parking lot close to beach entrance
Barrie – Centennial Beach https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1351419134009?aff=oddtdtcreator Date: Sunday, May 11, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Meeting Point: South side of Centennial Beach washrooms

Looking forward to seeing people at the beach and at the July 10th opening at the MacLaren Art Centre.

Jill Price Studios and the UN/making Network respectfully acknowledge that they reside on Treaty 16 and Treaty 18 Lands, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe peoples, including the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Pottawatomi nations, collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy.