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The Arty Crowd funding sources require inclusion of members who identify as belonging to priority groups encompassing: Indigenous, ethnocultural communities, rural or remote residents, youth, and Francophones (english and french). Hamilton Arts Council further wants to measure its success in attracting members from all the diverse groups we serve in the Greater Hamilton Area arts community, including those who are LGBTQ2S+, and persons with disabilities. We will use the aggregates of the information collected here to measure our success in making The Arty Crowd an accessible and safe space for all who join. We thank the members of the committee from the Safer Spaces Project who advised us in creating an inclusive self-identification process.

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Karen Klucowicz is a Canadian artist. Her concept-driven, expressive figurative works of art are focused on communication. Working in two series simultaneously, she explores the strength of individuals and how that strength affects relationships.

Figures and a neutrality to those figures, are essential to sharing Klucowicz’s concepts, stripping away notions of an individual or a culture to reveal and demonstrate their strength. Through colour, form and texture, she presents figures that neutralize bias in positions that express the idea, and then allows the act of painting to dictate the level of abstraction.

Karen's inspiration comes not only from personal experience, journaling and meditation, she also focuses on the environmental and cultural influences that she is exposed to. Creative retreats to locations outside of her roots in Ontario have greatly impacted the movement of her palette and concept directions. (Visit www.artbyk2.com for her studio chat on retreat portfolios and musings of the same as well as inspiration details in her gallery images.) Drawn to exploring outside of a canvas, some of her work has been stripped of colour, formal or traditional structures of presentation, mixes media, grounds and offers unique art installations. This exploration combines her love of materials and her passion for creating paintings.

Karen presently has a studio at The Cotton Factory in Hamilton, Ontario, painting and hosting art experiences for individuals and team building events. She firmly believes all should <em>“Live the power of art.”</em>©

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