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From Newmarket artist's workshop to the Smithsonian: The Breathe project
What started as an idea in one Newmarket artist's workshop has grown into a massive art project involving more than 1,000 artists from countries worldwide that has caught the attention of prominent museums such as the Smithsonian Instituition in Washington.
The Breathe project has been capturing the ethos of the COVID-19 era by creating elaborate beadwork face masks as art pieces.
The project was the brainchild of Newmarket Metis artist Nathalie Bertin and her British Columbia counterpart, Lisa Shepherd. But Breathe has grown much faster and larger than the founders could have anticipated.
When asked why the project exploded in the way it has, Bertin believes that it offered the artists involved a chance to connect with one another during a time of hardship.
"I think people need to connect, and the pandemic took that away from a lot of us.
We are seeing now, in the second wave, that a lot of p