Façade is a public art program held at Lakeshore Collegiate Institute (LCI) that provides opportunities for students from different educational streams to work collaboratively on art projects. The objective of this program is to expose students to a wide variety of art practices that will allow them to beautify and leave legacy pieces within their school. Each year, the Façade project changes. Since 2009, participating LCI students have worked with professional artists to create 2 murals, a mosaic wall, a sculptural bench, and a series of self-portraits.
Chawntay Barrett (she/her) is an emerging artist and facilitator based in the Greater Toronto Area. Community is an important aspect in Chawntay’s creative practice, as she is a recent alumni of the ArtworksTO Next Stream program and the Remix Project. Chawntay works primarily with oil and acrylic paint on canvas as well as with digital media for illustrations and design. As a woman of afro-Caribbean descent, Caribbean culture is a vital underlying theme in many of her artworks; the majority of her work explores the black experience in the modern era.