THUNDER BAY -- For Vivian Wood-Alexander, guerrilla gardening is art.
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery educator hosted Art In The Garden on Sunday as she encouraged children and their grandparents to make the city’s soil their canvass.
“Guerrilla art is a kind of gardening so the idea of taking a seed bomb and putting it somewhere – kids enjoy that,” Alexander said.
“It’s a type of art where you are going out into the community and planting whatever your project is out there. So little seed bombs are going to grow and you’re going to have plants growing in unusual places.”
Throughout the afternoon, Alexander urged families to shape small clay portions into bowls leaving enough space for soil and unidentified seeds. They rolled the clay into balls to bring home and plant anywhere they choose.
“Art is all around us,” Alexander said. “Somebody once said, ‘If you reach and touch five things, an artist will have had a hand in most of them.’”