Art I Fact explores the unfolding dialogue between urban landscape and nature where experience, material presence and environmental change converge. These artists’ imaginations were sparked by the discovery of a wind-blown bird’s nest woven through with a plastic blue and green ribbon. This object asks to examine our impact as humans on this earth. Since then, they have joined forces to observe, collect assemble and draw revealing traces of place, memory and transformation. Through painting, collage, drawing and assemblage each artist responds to life in the once wild and now overbearing urban environment.

Exhibit dates and events
Exhibition September 24 - October 4, 2026
Opening reception - Friday Sept 25, 5-9pm
Artists Talk with Andy Fabo - Sunday Sept 27, 2-3pm
Collage Workshop - Wed Sept 30, 7-9pm
Urban Ecology Talk with Olivia Dziwak - Oct 4, 2-3pm

Christine Hoeldke studied at Central Tech Adult Art Program, where she received the Outstanding Student Award. She has taken numerous workshops at Toronto School of Art. She has shown at Central Tech Gallery, Toronto School of Art, Arcadia Gallery, BMO Gallery, Propeller Gallery, and the Textile Museum, Toronto.

Carole Milon is a self-taught life-long artist, studying with individual artists along the way. Selected juried shows in Toronto include at John B. Aird, Propeller, Leslie Grove, Japanese Paper Place, Toronto Public Library and Etobicoke Civic Centre galleries as well as elsewhere in Ontario at the Orillia Museum of Art and History and Rails End in Haliburton.