• Art is an outstanding tool for teaching not only developmental skills, but also academic subjects such as math, science, and literacy. The most effective learning takes place when children do something related to the topic they are learning. When children study any given concept, they learn it better and retain it longer if they do an art activity that reinforces that learning. This information has been recognized by teachers since the time of Confucius, when he said: "I hear and I forget.  I see and I remember; I do and I understand."

    Community arts is an emerging field promoting creative artistic practices with groups and communities to express diverse identities and raise awareness about social, political and environmental issues. It democratizes art, emphasizes working together as much as the finished product, and embraces a wide range of activities, including participatory mural production.

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    Ursula Neufeld-Mosaic Artist

     

    I have the great privilege of working with Communities and School children to create beautiful Mosaic pieces on benches, gardens, fences, windows and 3-d structures.  I work with teachers to create an exciting environment where the children learn through hands on experiences with tile, tools and many other materials. I create large mosaics for indoor or outdoor use.  As well small individual projects that enhance children's learning through the arts.  The projects will be adapted to the developmental level and skill of the participants....high school to elementary.

     

    Through the years I have created projects that incorporate communities.  I work with the community members to create a meaningful theme and ways to depict that message through mixed media.  I teach the skills needed to create a mosaic that will create beauty within that community for hundreds of years to come.  The length of these projects have taken anywhere from 3 months to 3 years.

     

    In my own work I love to play with colours and textures.  I find working in the abstract with a variety of materials feeds my need to create and be creative. I have used materials such as light, glass, stucco, tile, porcelain, metal, gold on various substrates. I love working on 3 dimensional substrates that I have carved and prepared for the various tesserae.  

     

     

     

     

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    Human Heart Mosaic

    Culture Canada

    Jamie Oliveria.....group mosaic

    Created this human Mosaic with almost 800 school children.  Central Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba.  2013

    Chile, Santiago mosaic

    International Mosaic Artist project....Santiago Chile

    http://www.creativemanitoba.ca/news-events/events/member-events/display,event/1556/winnipeg-mosaic-artist-ursula-neufeld-participating-in-a-global-project-in-puente-alto-chile://

    Canadian representation in Chile......

     

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    Chile....Puento Alto Mosaic Project results

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlR0fJERXvM

    Mosac artists throughout the globe gathered for 2 weeks in Santiago Chile, to create a dynamic mosaic mural under the direction of Isidora Paz Lopez.

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    Strathcona Stars

     

    part of a community mural

    Students made their homes in the mosaic stars.  The bicycle wheels turn as the wind blows.  The clouds are painted with stucco.

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    Every child is a star....Dufferin School

    star theme with entire school

    Dufferin elementary school Art Teacher Melissa Ryz and I worked with the over 300 students to create a star that represented them as individual spirits.

     

    We borrowed the teachings of Manitoba elder, Wilfred Buck, incorporating Cree constellations into the installations of the stars. 

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    Elmwood High School Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Canada)

    Worlds apart

    We are all responsible for respecting each other now matter where we where born.

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    Kildonan East Secondary School Winnipeg

    part of a larger mural with Art Students

    Mosaic Moon

     

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    Elmwood High School

    Indigenous student group turtles

    Turtle Moon

     

     

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    Polson elementary School 

    Childrens benches

    Outdoor benches....Kindergarten to Grade 3

     

     

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    Riverside Lion's Seniors residence - Canada's Birthday 150

    Four signs for outdoor garden

    Outdoor signage. With Little Bluestem Landscaping.

     

     

     

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    North Y youth centre

    Winnipeg Arts Council YMCA Skate park

    https://winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/skate-363

     

     

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    David Livingston Community School

    David Livingston School Community Treaty

    Community treaty created 2018 with the children of David Livingston Community School.

     

     

     

     

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    Westdale Middle years school

    Living in Charleswood.....

    Students of Westdale school created this mosaic that has the woods, deer, water and the youth of the community.

     

     

     

     

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    Teulon Elementary

    First Peoples tribute

    Students create seven sacred teaching mosaic.

     

     

     

     

     

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    Whitemouth Kinsmen park...with artist Annie Bergen

    Sonova Spot

    Annie Lee and I created the base bench out of polystyrene mesh and cement. The community came and helped mosaic the finished piece.

     

     

     

     

     

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    Historical grindstones in Edison Park

    Edison Park

    Little Bluestem collaboration. Edison Park In North Kildonan.

    https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/herald/2019/09/19/mosaic-celebrates-local-natural-history

     

     

     

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    David Livingston Community School

    Community treaty project

    Dream Catcher copper mirror.

    https://www.winnipegsd.ca/_ci/p/9280

     

     

     

     

     

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    David Livingston Community School

    Community treaty project

     

    Reconciliation / treaty mural

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/treaty-david-livingstone-school-mosaic-1.4688068

     

     

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    David Livingston Community School

    Love is the Eagle....with eaglets.

     

    Process in creating Eagle mural with Grade 5 and 6 students.

    https://www.winnipegsd.ca/_ci/p/21893

     

     

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    David Livingston Community School

    Love is the Eagle....with eaglets.

     

    The mosaic mural hanging on the front entrance of the school.

     

     

     

     

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    Gujarat India

    India Government sponsored 2 month india residency.

    Grout painting on Bus depot wall in India.

     

     

     

     

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    Hugh John McDonald after school program. Eagle/Love

    after school program

    mosaic eagle

     

     

     

     

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    Hugh John MacDonald Middle Years

    Community poem, 7 teachings, neighbourhood

     

     

    Hand carved tree, stucco, stained glass 7 teachings and flowers of the world in tile.

     

    Year 3

     

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    Hugh John MacDonald Middle Years

    Team mosaics....Team truth

     

     

    Mosaic created by team Truth Year 2

     

     

     

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    Hugh John MacDonald Middle Years

    Community mural....year one.

     

    Created with students, teachers and community. Mosaic by Ursula Neufeld Painting Annie Bergen

     

     

     

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    Hugh John MacDonald Middle Years

    Front hallway now and the future.

     

     

    Tile mosaic

     

     

     

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    Gordon Bell High School

    Human rights mural by students

     

     

    Tile mosaic

     

     

     

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    Gordon Bell High School

    Treaty one land

     

     

    Tile mosaic

     

     

     

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    Gordon Bell High School

    Human rights mural by students

     

     

    Tile mosaic

     

     

     

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    Luxton Community School

    Reconciliation Residential school angels dancing on the Aurora. The heart our future.

     

     

    Tile mosaic, mirror, glass, ceramic.

     

     

     

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    100 years of teaching at Faraday School

    Entire school created this dedication to 100 years of Community building, learning and child development.

     

     

    Tile mosaic, mirror, glass, ceramic.

     

     

     

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    The History of Fisher Branch School Grade 5 to 8 students

    Fisher Branch train station with the history of the people that created it.

     

     

    Tile mosaic, mirror, glass, ceramic.

     

     

     

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    The History of Fisher Branch School Grade 5 to 8 students

    Fisher Branch train station with the history of the people that created it.

     

     

    Tile mosaic, mirror, glass, ceramic.

     

     

     

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    Beaverlodge School

    Beaverlodge school mosaic mural.....meteorite.

     

     

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    Beaverlodge School outdoor classroom

    3 of 12 cement seats for outdoor classroom

     

     

    Tile mosaic, mirror, glass, ceramic.

     

     

     

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    Beaverlodge School Bench series

    History of Charleswood through the eyes of the children.

     

     

    Tile mosaic, mirror, glass, ceramic.

     

     

     

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    Beaverlodge School Bench series

    train station and school

     

     

    Tile mosaic, mirror, glass, ceramic.

     

     

     

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    Lord Selkirk School

    Human rights mural

     

     

    Tile mosaic, mirror, glass, ceramic and stucco.

     

     

     

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    Mulvey School

    A school by the river

     

     

    Tile mosaic, mirror, glass, ceramic.

     

     

     

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    DMSMCA

    Four seasons

     

    Tile mosaic, mirror, glass, ceramic.

     

     

     

  • Contact Us

    Don't be afraid to reach out. You + us = awesome.

    Studio 166 Oakdean Blvd.
    8 to 10:00
    204-479-9037
  • Artist in Manitoba Schools

    A glimpse at the many projects with schools in Manitoba.

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    Athlone Recycled materials on can's.  Used for plants.

    John M King elementary school

    Butterfly

    Athlone School Empty Bowls  program - Ted Harrison themed mosaics

    Athlone School Ted Harrison Mosaic

    Wellington elementary school animals of the 7 teachings

    Seven teachings

    Flowers of Manitoba

    Flowers of Manitoba  Elementary School Project.

    Lily pads and frogs

    Frog Cycle Pond

    Beaverlodge elementary school Grade 6 mosaic bench.

    Beaverlodge Bench

    Beaverlodge elemenatry School. Grade 6 project.

    Beaverlodge Bench

    Mosaic self portraits...entry way of Hugh John MacDonald School.

    Hugh John MacDonald middle years School.  School entryway.

    Students made base out of styrafoam, mesh and acrylic.  Students applying words, wood, and stucco.

    Hugh John MacDonald Tree of Life 

    Middle years project Flowers of the World representing the students of the school.

    Hugh John McDonald Mosaic "Who are we"  "Do  we have a Voice"?  "Is that Voice Heard"?

    Greenway elemetary school cement stepping stones

    Kindergarten/parents project

    Using found materials.....designing your own butterfly.

    Elementary School Butterfly project

    Indirect method of creating flowers for the outdoor gardens.

    Flowers for Butterfly Garden Mosaic.

    Display feeling through Mosaics

    Emotions displayed through Mosaics.

    Mosaic patterns

    Patterning through mosaics

    Wellington Elementary school butterfly garden

    Wellington School butterfly garden 

    Parent group made the trees for the boreal forest mural.  Animals by the students of Wellington School.  Painted mural by Wellington Art teacher and students.

    Wellington Boreal Forest Animals in the Boreal Forest.

    The rain cycle in tile.

    Wellington School mosaiced bench.

    The School by the river Mosaics....they will be installed on the Mulvey elementary school fence in Spring of 2014.

    The School by the River  Mulvey Elementary School

    8 panels created from Stories.  The theme...the school by the River.

    The School by the River.......

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    Mama Bear...the protector  A project of the COACH students...off site.

    Three of eight panels of the Jamie Oliveria created stories with the students of the School by the River.

    Mulvey School The School by the River Stories.

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    Mulvey Elementary School Mosaic

    High John MacDonald Mural created by students, community members and teachers of Hugh John MacDonald School.

    Hugh John MacDonald School.

    Communities celebrate the students and communities work.

    Hugh John MacDonald Mural Celebration

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    Hugh John MacDonald School..rep. their many cultures.

    Windows used to create Human rights pictures.  Tile, mirror, stained glass, tempered glass, ;aint and collage background.

    Argyle Alternative School

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    Argyle Alternative School

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    Argyle Alternative School

    Windows to the Soul ......  what is Important to you in your life.

    Argyle Alternative School

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    Argyle Alternative School

    Windows of the Soul....Mosaic on Windows.

    Argyle Alternative School

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    Strathcona School 

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    Riding mountain park mosaic

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    Charleswood history 

     

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    Beaverlodge School Mosaic Benches

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    Elmwood High School 

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    Elmwood High School

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    Elmwood High School

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    Dufferin School

    Every child is a star

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    One Dufferin class made space vehicles to travel around the Dufferin Solar system.

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    Hang on....

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    Turtle constellation

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    Wellington school

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    Elmwood High School Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

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    Elementary School E. Kildonen

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    Norval Morriseau Flowers

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    Bird tree mosaic with painting by Annie Bergan.

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    Moon and star mosaics.  Excellence theme.

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    Mosaic Dancing Sun

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    Beaverlodge School

    students installing flowers

     

     

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    Mixing Mortar

     

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    Beaverlodge School

    Outdoor classroom

     

     

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    Beaverlodge School

     

     

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    Gordon Bell High School Human Rights theme

     

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    Gordon Bell High School

    We are all the same on the inside

     

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    Gordon Bell High School

     

     

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    Gordon Bell High School

    Water 

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    Gordon Bell High School

     

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    Teulon Elementary...Year 1

     

     

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    Polson Elementary School 

     

     

     

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    Polson Elementary School

     

     

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    Beaverlodge School

     

     

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    Beaverlodge School

     

     

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    North Y youth centre

     

     

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    North Y youth centre

     

     

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    North Y youth centre

     

     

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    North Y youth centre

     

     

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    North Y youth centre

     

     

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    ARt room David Livingston school.

     

     

  • Artists and volunteers celebrate our collective honour.

    Red Road Lodge...Restoration Mural

    Mural of the Year

     

    Restoration mural...Logan and Main St. Winnipeg.  Community mural.

    Community mural creating by the many community members and local Artists over a 3 year period.

    Four Season panels  Created by the Community members of the West end neighbourhood.

    Daniel Mac St. Matthews community Association

    Based on the Art of Freidrich Hunterdwasser.

    ommunity members worked over a 3 month peiod to create the many mosaic pieces that  adorn the facade of the building.

    Coffee or Tea.....at the Elwick Village Resource Centre

    Window panel depicting the friendly sharing of Coffee and Tea at the centre.

    A glimpse of the houses on the Elwick Village mural

    Elwich Village Community 

    resource Centre

    Village people and gardens

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    Elwick Village Resource Centre

    Community members and staff created the words and panels for the front of the building over a 3 month period.  A diversity of materials where used to create the letters and front panels.  Children of the community created the "my families" located beside the door.

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    Flowers of Chile connected to the First nations symbols in a moon.  On Puento Alto, Chile, Municipal office exterior.  Part of a global mosaic project coordinated by Isadora Paz Lopez.

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    Riverside Lions Signage

     

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    Riverside Lions...signage for outdoor garden

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    Riverside Lion's Canada 150

     

    Garden signage Riverside Lion's

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    Riverside Lion's Canada 150

     

  • Fine Art for Sale

    Please contact Ursula Neufeld by e-mail at Creativity1957@gmail.com or call 204-479-9037 for purchase enquiries.