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Fern Crescent Residency - 23740 Fern Crescent
Thank you to all who applied for the Fern Crescent Residency.
We are currently reviewing applications.
Artist Natali Leduc at Fern Residence
Location: 23740 Fern Crescent, Maple Ridge (below the Maple Ridge Lapidary Club)
Natali Leduc has an academic background in Sculpture, French Literature and Creative Writing. She studied at the University of Houston, the University of Ottawa, and at Rice University, where she earned her PhD. She has taught sculpture, French language, literature and creative writing at the college level, as well as bookbinding, and art bicycle workshops for at-risk teenagers. Natali creates objects and situations as solutions to real and imaginary problems, with a fondness for interactive contraptions, performances, and experimental puppet shows that often deal with absurdity, and play with the idea of progress.
You are welcome and encouraged to get in touch with Natali and/or to check her out on Facebook.
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Samples of Natali's Work
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Samples of Natali's Work
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Samples of Natali's Work
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Samples of Natali's Work
Calling all folks interested in arts-based projects! Explore the tabs below to get involved with Natali's current projects.
Get involved with this limited, in-person project!
The A-Maze-A-Tron 2200 is a sculptural edible maze located on the lawn of the Fern Crescent Artist Residence that will feature vegetables, herbs and edible flowers, grown directly into the maze “walls”. There are many active ways to collaborate and get involved. Contact Natali to discuss how you or your family or organization can participate outdoors at natalile@telus.net.
Maple Ridge residents are invited to come visit and enter the A-Maze-A-Tron 2200 throughout the summer to experience how it changes through the season (following COVID-19 protocol).
Be a part of this local project that involves an online digital recording, mail and limited, in-person component!
Check out this video for an introduction by Natali to "The Little Library of What?", a community project by Natali Leduc where residents have the opportunity to write, illustrate and bind a book...then to share it with the community for FREE! Everyone is welcome to participate.
Share stories, recipes, thoughts, poems, etc. with the rest of the community. There is plenty of flexibility in terms of style, format, content, language and pace. We make four copies of each book: one for the writer, one for the illustrator, and two for "The Little Library of What?".
The books that are submitted will have a copy placed in a "little library" located at the Fern Crescent Artist Residence location and a second copy will be included in a mobile library that will travel to schools, retirement homes, community events and the Maple Ridge Library.
The Pumpkinotron 440 is a community art project led by Natali Leduc - a giant display of cosmic-themed illuminated pumpkins that is part of Celebrate the Night festivities, hosted annually by the City of Maple Ridge in October.
Get involved with this fun project by growing pumpkins (early summer is ideal) and/or signing up to help carve donated pumpkins. Quantities of pumpkins can be limited, so sign up early!
Contact Natali for more information.
Public Art
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Yvonne Chui
Recreation Manager Arts & Community Connections
Email Yvonne Chui
Telephone: 604-467-7415