Art Bikers Season 12 Training Moments

Young participants engaging with our newest Art Biker during a training session at Wonder'neath's Open Studio.

Art Bikers hone their facilitation skills and support the creative ideas of youth and families during lively drop in sessions that are free to the public!

The whole team works with Art Bikers co-founder to learn about their gifts, talents, and skills and then discusses what we are bringing individually and collectively to communities around Halifax. Beginning our brainstorming session is always a season highlight!

A trip to the storage locker is always part of our preparation: inspecting trailers and bikes, restocking first aid kits, checking supplies... these are some of the specifics that keep us busy before we meet with all of you this summer!

The first ride of the season was to Bayers-Westwood to check on a mural that Art Bikers helped create. It was a gorgeous sunny day and children were eager to inspect the mural with us and share their cartwheels and back flips! Looking forward to returning to this community in the summer.

2018 Art Bikers Team

We are so lucky to have three returning Art Bikers this year - Devon, Eric and Jessica - and we are super excited to welcome Imogen to the team. Training started yesterday with co-coordinators Heather and Melissa at Wonder'neath Art Society, where our studio is located this summer. We are off to a good start and look forward to connecting with you in the community!

Visit here again soon for updates and our schedule.

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2018 Art Bikers Team (Left to right: Standing - Devon and Jessica. Seated - Eric, Imogen, and Terri, guest and Art Bikers co-founder. In front, Heather. And, Melissa, behind the camera.)

ART BIKERS 2017: The season starts!

Art Bikers welcomes two new team members: Devon Pennick-Reilly and Jessica MacDonald join Eric Diolola and Merle Harley (returning Art Bikers).

This year we are pleased to offer Art Bikers through a partnership with Wonder'neath Arts Society http://www.wonderneath.com/ Art Bikers will work out of this wonderful artist and community space located at 2891 Isleville street in Halifax, NS.

Our training starts May 16th with our first public activity on June 4th for SWITCH Dartmouth http://switchhfx.ca/dartmouth/ Hope to see you there!

In the meantime you can join Art Bikers at Wonder'neath Open Studio on May 19, 20, 26 and 27 http://www.wonderneath.com/about-open-studio/

Bicycle Plates! Bike Expo HRM Bike Week

The Art Bikers love to support and be part of Halifax Bike Week. We usually join in the activities at the Bike Expo bringing some art-making creative fun. We were happy to see the Expo return to the Commons this year.

This year we packed up materials for participants to make "license plates" for their bicycles. Of course you don't need a license plate for your bike, so we thought this was a fun way for participants to personalize their bikes. We think from the photos below you agree with us that the participants seemed to think so too!

Art Bikers 2015

The ART BIKERS team is hired! Training has started. We are excited to have Merle Hardy and Eric Diolola, both previously Art Bikers, return and to welcome Wil Brask and Evan Cameron to the Art Bikers team.

Today is Day 3 of the training and right now the Art Bikers are busy collaborating on a "map" that "fits together" the skills, talents and gifts each individual brings creating a cohesive and dynamic team portrait. There's lots of chatting and laughter and tons of creativity filling the studio.

Almost ready to go!

The Art Bikers team will be starting work on May 11th. Our first month, as with other years, is a combination of in-studio training and experiential training in the community.

Here's a few places you can meet us in the next month:
On May 15th, 23rd and 29th the team will take part in Wonder'neath Open Studio http://www.wonderneath.com/new-blog-1/ You can join us there.

Or meet us on June 7th at SWITCH Dartmouth http://switchhfx.ca

And stay tuned for our plans for our 100 in 1 Day Halifax intervention on June 6th https://halifax.100in1day.ca

We'll be tweeting our schedule this year. You can follow us on Twitter @artbikersteam
And of course on Facebook, too https://www.facebook.com/artbikers

Looking forward to seeing you this summer!

WHEELS II: Art Bikers Open Studio

We had such a good time last summer opening up the studio and inviting folks in to make bicycle rim art with us that we are doing it again! Two dates this year: June 7 and June 14th Noon to 4:30 pm.
June 7th WHEELS is also part in the 100 in 1 Day Halifax event and celebrating the beginning of Bike Week.

We will be making bicycle rim/wheels art and adding to the installation at the 4Cs office with your help! Join us in transforming bike rims into mandalas of colour and texture.
Use your creativity to transform a bicycle wheel using any type of materials. Your wheel will become part of a large installation outside the Art Bikers studio in the entryway to the 4Cs Foundation.

How to participate:

Join the Art Bikers at the studio on Saturday June 7 and/or June 14 Noon to 4:30 pm
to transform your wheel and help with the installation.

We will have bicycle rims and all kinds of art-making materials - but feel free
to bring your own to add to the collection!

For more information:
Jyelle Vogel at artbikers@gmail.com or 422-4805

The 4Cs Foundation office is located at Suite 104 5663 Cornwallis St, Halifax

Welcome 2013 Art Bikers!

WELCOME 2013 ART BIKERS!

presenting....the 2013 Art Bikers....
A sextet of vastly skilled and highly enthusiastic humanoid individualists, ready to unleash their repertoire of fun theatre, music and art activities throughout the HRM.

We are pleased to present:

Maggie Pearson
Art Style: crafty & comical/fabrics
Favourite Things: chips & quilts
Hobbies: book reading & bike riding
I love Halifax because: This is where I arrived
My bikes name is: Whitey
Secret Superpower: raising the bread

Eric Diolola
Art Style: mixed media/graphics/sound design
I love: beaches & breakfast
I love Halifax because: the outdoors
My bikes name is: Betty
Supah Powah: making scribbles

Patrick Peachey
Art Style: theatre/film/3d projects
I love: crazy art projects
Hobbies: nerding it up & READING
I love Halifax because: well...the ocean!
My bikes name is: Bonapart
My Superpower: storytelling

Sandy Escobar
Art Style: drawing/large paintings/theatre design/illustration
I love: long deep conversations, blanket forts, cheesecake & neon colours
Hobbies: sketching in my sketchbook & telling terrible jokes
I love Halifax because: of all the great communities, cool neighbourhoods & friendly people
My bikes name is: Herman
Secret Superpower: vision

Jacob Sutton (returning & Sr. Art Biker)
Art Style: spraypainting
Hobbies: making beats to DJ & playing drums
I love Halifax because: it's so beautiful and always inspires me for whatever I'm working on
My bikes name is: Senior Adventure Time
Secret Superpower: cross dimensional awareness & astral projection

Tara Grude (returning Program Coordinator)
Art Style: I've got my hands in EVERYTHING but I produce a line of scarves
I love: adventures (and everything is)Hobbies: cooking Pinteresting recipes, vintage shopping & house walks
I love Halifax because: of it's lovely people and oceanside splendour
My bikes name is : she's also a Betty
My Superpower: bringing fun opportunities for kids!

Welcome Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez

4Cs Foundation warmly welcomes Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez as the new ART BIKERS Coordinator.


Rodrigo is a professional artist with expertise in public and community art. He is very interested in research oriented educational approaches, cultural theory, and the contemporary discourses on Arts Education. Rodrigo brings fifteen years of transformative community arts experience, as well as project planning, design and coordination skills to the program. He has worked with community participants in the Men’s’ Centre for Social Re-adaptation in Santa Martha, Acatitla, in Mexico city, with youth at Toronto’s Red Door Family Shelter, and with Canadian newcomers in both Toronto and Halifax, as well as in his own practise as an artist.

We are thrilled to have Rodrigo join us to inspire the Art Bikers team and the broader Halifax community this summer.


Welcome, Rodrigo!



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