Her wiggy, woolly family

 

Afke Benoît, at left, is a third-year Community Art Education student. She mounted a presentation of 16 of her all-wool creatures in the Fibres display window in the Visual Arts building. Each of the colourful creatures she designed and made for a fibres class is unique.

Afke, who spent six months in Siberia in 1997-98, is selling her creations as a fundraising venture, with all proceeds going toward sending a child to a riverboat arts camp for orphans in Russia.

The camp, in its fifth season, will take more than 70 orphans on a Volga riverboat for two weeks of painting, clowning, theatre, circus arts, music and dance, taught by an international volunteer staff. Afke hopes to participate in the camp next summer.
The camp is called Our Wiggy Family. Afke's creatures can be seen, and purchased, at Elle Corazon/L'Arterie, at 176 Bernard St. W. They also can be bought directly from the artist, at (514) 270-9009.