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You and I don’t know each other – but I felt a connection with you.

Giving Their Time

A few weeks ago a handful of our youth participated in a fundraiser for Attawapiskat. Attawapiskat is a small northern Ontario community...

Art Show….Sneak Peak!

The youth of Innercity Arts have been working hard, creating some amazing art for the upcoming art show. Here’s a sneak peak! Please come...

Small Things With Great Love

Mother Theresa is quoted as having once said, “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” This is...

heARTfelt Thursdays: Male Figure in Blue

Claudia grew up in a home with drugs and conflict, prompting her to leave at the age of 17. Claudia ended-up on the streets and using...

heARTfelt Thursdays: Nothing to See Here

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” ― John Steinbeck The wonderful thing about art...

heARTfelt Thursdays: Nursery Drawings

“Every artist was first an amateur.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Laura is a very quiet and intensely shy person. She has recently started to...

heARTfelt Thursdays: Overlap and Blur

“And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister’s...

heARTfelt Thursday: All in the Detail

This piece is called “Topsy-Turvy”, and has a very unique quality to it. Try imagine that you are looking at it upside down, or even try...

heARTfelt Thursdays: I Just Need Somebody to Lean On

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We...

heARTfelt Thursdays: Mufasa

“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.” -Goethe Below is a piece entitled “Mufasa” by a member of...

heARTfelt Thursdays: Sci-Fi Dragon Fly

“Dragon Fly” or “Homesick”, Mixed Mediums: acrylic and ink on canvas. “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because...

heARTfelt Thursdays: relearning creativity

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” –Muhammed Ali Below is a ink on paper art piece done by one of our Passion 4 Youth art...

heARTfelt Thursdays: alone and searching

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow…”-Kurt Vonnegut We here at Ottawa Innercity Ministries...