Emerging Cultural Leader Award (ARCCO)

An artist and youth outreach worker in Thunder Bay, Ont. has won an award from a provincial arts organization. Lora Northway has been named one of this year's Emerging Cultural Leaders by the Artist-Run Centres & Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO). The first-time award celebrates people who are "exceptional, emerging, creative champions." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/lora-northway-thunder-bay-artist-named-2015-emerging-cultural-leader-1.3314610

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Cover of Grain Magazine

Feature Artist: Grain Magazine

Grain, the journal of eclectic writing, is a literary quarterly that publishes engaging, diverse, and challenging writing and art by some of the best Canadian and international writers and artists. Also featuring an Interior spread on my work.

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

Graffiti Art Bike Tour by DieActive

tbay hearts northbay

finished a bigass wall in north bay as a gift to their city while we attended the dream big conference. xo

The Carolina Quarterly

http://thecarolinaquarterly.com/ 

What an exciting honour to be chosen as feature artist for a gorgeous art & writing book - The Carolina Quarterly. There's a delicious colour spread of some of my works, and over a dozen short stories by amazing writers.  The Carolina Quarterly publishes a variety of poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and artwork three times a year, you can grab this one online soon! #happy

Arts and Heritage Award Winner

 Winner of Cultural Educator Award, in good company with two other excellent nominees :)