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"Twenty years of work. Thousands of people. One consistent belief..."

Legacy & Memory

For organisations with stories worth preserving — anniversaries, heritage, institutional milestones. These projects create lasting visual archives, co-authored by the people who lived them. more...

Brescia University

Centennial Mural

Founders, faculty, and students surface a century of Brescia University stories.

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Red Road to DC

Travelling Mural

Hundreds paint collective memory into lasting legacy for land and future.

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Vancouver 125 Murals

Stories of Peoples

Migration stories surface into shared memory, shaping collective legacy.

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Totem Pole Journey

Collective Witness

Dozens of communities make visible their connection to place.

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Team Culture & Alignment

For teams that need to build something together — shared vision, trust, and understanding. These experiences produce real artworks and real shifts in how people see each other.

London Sanctuary

Strategic Input

Everyone revisits the mission by sharing and witnessing what matters to them.

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Participation House

Community Building

Non-verbal participants and influential decision-makers exchange through action.

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Mount Royal University

Affinity Group Build

50 LGBTQ students and teachers across 4 campuses make connections

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Ursuline College Chatham

Rethinking Learning

Students & teachers reflect on the founder's pedagogy and envision a future.

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Community Voice & Research

For organisations doing meaningful work in the world who need to understand, document, or amplify what their communities know. Art as inquiry. Creativity as data.

City of Guelph

What is Care

70 participants in Guelph investigate community recovery post-pandemic.

Egale

Sensitive Dialogues

LGBTQ+ older adults and homecare workers foster dialogues for insight.

City of London

Pandemic Chaos

130 people document a dozen concepts relevant to 2020 global lockdowns.

Muslim Resource Center

Stories of Hope

Syrian youth reflect on home and land while sharing their migration story,

Events & Activations

For events that want to be more than events. Drop-in, spontaneous, high-energy art-making that turns any gathering into a collective experience — and leaves a visual artifact behind.

Georgian Partners

Mingle and Create

AGM guests translate collective intelligence through interactive collage.

School District 68

Elevating Keynote

Large canvas showcases previous reflections on keynote speaker's subject.

Travelling Mural

Sparking Wonder

Travelling canvas sparks attention and Wonder from conferences to summits.

Paddle To Lummi

Engagement Booth

Painting station engaged hundreds in documenting the 3-day event.

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"The community love, mindful hosting and deep engagement that I witnessed in how Melanie approaches social art projects was inspiring and illustrated connection through creativity."

Michelle Baldwin, Senior Advisor,
Community Foundations of Canada