Creative Capital
of Canada

Cambridge artist riding a wave of success

With meticulous detail, the photorealist recreates waves, ripples and splashes of the oceans and seas that touch Hawaii, Montenegro and southern Italy.

What Does Creativity Mean To You?

Follow your curiosity in the Creative Capital of Canada with Brenda Halloran, Eric Bolton, Ajoah Mintah, Nick Benninger, and Kendra Ross.

Mark Pagett of Lancaster Smokehouse

Even when the customers and staff have gone home at night, The Lanc is busy. The restaurant’s smoke “pit” runs virtually all night as it low-and-slow creates the meats on the menu.

A Feast for the Small Screen

The local culinary scene has exploded. And chefs who once looked toward Toronto as the place to grow their careers are now sticking around these parts

Thinking Of Making The Leap? Advice From Full-Time Artpreneur, Jennifer Gough

Jennifer Gough is a multidisciplinary and contemporary abstract artist in KW and built a successful career in the art industry as an entrepreneur, artist, radio host, and most recently has been acting

Kitchener’s Taylor Thorne has a starring role in Netflix, CBC series Northern Rescue

Taylor Thorne is only 14, but with her disarmingly direct gaze and penchant for speaking her mind, the burgeoning dancer-turned-actor comes off like a consummate showbiz pro.

Streets, walls of old Galt turned into canvases

COZYING UP TO THE CAUSERIE: MARIT COLLECTIVE’S NEW CONVERSATIONAL SPACE

Lifetimes: University of Waterloo art department founder inspired generations of artists

When a reporter asked Nancy-Lou Patterson to express her feelings about her art she responded "Being creative is who I am. It is everything. It is what I am about."