Karina Miki Douglas-Takayesu, a Timmins librarian and multi-talented artist in several media, has one of her paintings going up in the canteen area of the legislature building at Queen’s Park in Toronto for a year.
How it came about would make a great script for a Hollywood movie.
She, along with several artists from our region whose work has been accepted, entered the competition last summer. Douglas-Takayesu hadn’t gotten any response.
Then while at a library conference in Toronto this week, she got an email from the coordinator looking for her painting of a Timmins skyline. Douglas-Takayesu had somehow missed two earlier emails.
“The ironic part is I had just been walking around Queen’s Park taking some photographs in the snow the night before,” she says, “and all of a sudden, it’s like ‘I’m here, but my artwork, which also happens to be 36 inches by 24 inches is not with me.’”
That started a whirlwind, with her husband packing the painting in a television box and sending it by courier to her in Toronto.
There are many more details in the audio link below.
