Welcome to the Summer 2019 Art Bikers Blog!

Season 13 Art Bikers!

Update: At Salma's request, we applied a blur filter to her image to respect her updated photo consent. (September 2024)

Art Bikers is a mobile community arts program founded by 4Cs Foundation and run in partnership (since 2017) with Wonder’neath Art Society.

Begun in 2007, Art Bikers has been building community through all ages art programming throughout Halifax Regional Municipality in parks and public green spaces.

Art Bikers’ studio is located at 2891 Isleville Street, in Halifax’s north end.

Contact us:

By phone: 902-454-6860

By mobile: 782-234-5489

By email: artbikers@gmail.com

Follow us on social media

Instagram @artbikers

Facebook facebook.com/artbikers

Twitter @artbikersevents

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 June 2017

We are excited to introduce the Art Bikers for 2017. Two familiar faces, Merle Harley and Eric Diolola on either end. In the middle, we welcome Devon Pennick-Reilly and Jessica MacDonald. This is a great team who are very enthusiastic and excited to be making art with you this summer.

For much of June the team is in training, sharing information about the community and community arts, and improving our skills while continuing our learning in arts-based community development, anti-oppression, working with children and community to refine our program for you.

Merle, Devon, Jessica and Eric

In the studio at Wonder'neath Art Society- our home for the summer!

The Art Bikers participated in SWITCH Dartmouth last weekend. (Photos to come.) and this Saturday will be on the Halifax Commons from 5:30 - 7:30 providing some creative fun before the movie starts as part of Bike Week 2017. (More information on that here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1267001686745904/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&pnref=story )

Then on June 21st, we will be at the annual North End BBQ at Isleville Park - always one of our favourite events. Hope to see you there!

Keep visiting our blog or our Facebook page to stayed up to date on our upcoming schedule and to stay in touch. See you soon!

Art Bikers are awesome and so are YOU!

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.

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 Art Bikers Team 2012!

The 4Cs Foundation would like to extend a warm welcome to Leah Collins Lipsett, Claire Webber, Daniel Higham and Jacob Sutton. We are very excited to have this energetic and diversely skilled group of creative individuals working with us to deliver the Art Bikers program for its sixth summer season.

We are feeling especially fortunate this year to have received applications from such a large number of incredible candidates. We are grateful to have had the opportunity to meet and talk with so many talented, community-conscious artists and only wish we could have offered the opportunity to join the Art Biker’s team to more candidates.

Thank each and every one of you for your interest and support of Art Bikers and the 4Cs Foundation.

New season, new team!

The Art Bikers team for the summer of 2011 includes; Karen Hawes, Elizabeth Johnson, Jacob Sutton, Martin Tonner, and Jyelle Vogel; with Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez as Coordinator. We are excited to be meeting and creating community art with all kinds of folks throughout HRM in the next few months!
Stay tuned to this blog for updates on what we are doing and where we are going.
Your friends,
the Art Bikers.

Fresh Paint!

We're back! And we are putting a fresh coat of paint on the door to our Gottingen Street workshop. The trees are gone - replaced with "Dazzle Camo."

It won't be long before the new sign is installed too!

Art Bikers 2009

Art Bikers 2008

Art Bikers 2007