PineRidge Arts Council
Ajax Creative Arts
From left: Barbara Talbot; Hi Sook Barker,
Cyril Cox, Helen Jozkoski and
Cathy with show convener Don Hightower at
the 2005 Fall Show and Sale photo
by Lou Scnhippering
2006 Shows
SPRING SHOW
Friday, April 28 from Noon to 9 p.m.
Saturday is 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
FALL SHOW
Friday, October TBA
22 Sherwood Road at Linton
Pickering Village, Ajax, Ontario
Phil Wood – President
Don Hightower –
Vice President
The year long project for about 30 Ajax
Creavtive Arts members was the designing and painting of
ceiling tiles for the children’s wing of
the Rouge Valley Health System
(formerly Ajax Pickering General
Hospital).
Cheryl Helferty and Kim McCann arranged
this project and Winsor & Newton donated the
acrylic paint for the first set of tiles.
The first set “Fish”
was designed by Cheryl Helferty, Ajax.
The second set “Circus”
was designed by Madelaine Alter,
Courtice.
The third group of six tiles
“Kids painting a fence”
was designed by Michael Jack, Whitby.
The fourth set “Hot Air Balloon”
was designed by Kim McCann, Pickering.
The fifth set “The Whole World”
was painted by young student artists of
Kim McCann’s in August, 2003.
Designer Courtney Bernard.
The sixth and seventh sets
“Zoo
Animals
and Imagine”
were designed by Irene Leach, Pickering.
The eighth set “Bugs”
was designed by Jean Cairns, Ajax.
Individual ceiling tiles were also
designed
and painted by other members of
Ajax Creative Arts.
Cheryl Helferty left, tile above by
students of Kim McCann
Left artists: Jean Cairns, Cheryl and
Pamela Auguste, Ajax Creative Arts President
Tile “Bee
Well” by Arlene Baxter
Neila Persad, Joan Greenhead, Hazel
Powell,
Courtney Bernard, Mrs. Bernard and
Elizabeth Gray
Kim McCann’s students right did the
left tile below.
Tiles below on right ‘Imagine’ by Irene Leach
‘Imagine’ above was designed by Irene Leach
Ajax/Pickering Hospital Tile Project by
Ajax Creative Arts
above mural “Bugs” was designed by Jean Cairns, Pickering
project by Cheryl Helferty, Ajax
Photo by Mary Cook
Phyllis Allison
“Butterfly” tiles above by Joan Greenhead
Ajax/Pickering Hospital Tile Project by
Ajax Creative Arts Mural designed by Kim McCann, Ajax
Artists from left: Elizabeth Gray,
Pickering
and Cheryl Helferty, Ajax
Photo by Mary Cook
Dianne Kerr from hospital Child Health
Unit in red with Man Auguste, News Advertiser photographer Ron
Pietroniro gets down for the shot and Danielle Milley right,
interviews Cheryl and Kim McCann
“Fish” designed by Cheryl Helferty
Courtney Bernard holds a tile from “The Whole World” set she designed
“Circus” tiles designed by Madelaine Alter,
Pam and Cheryl in one of the rooms in the
children’s ward.
Ajax/Pickering Hospital Tile Project by
Ajax Creative Arts
Mural designed by Michael Jack, Whitby
Artists from left: Hazel Powell, Elizabeth
Gray,
Kim McCann and Jean Cairns
Photo by Mary Cook
