Guide to the Good Award & Studio Visit

What an honour to have received the 2022 Let’s Do Some Good Award for my role in co-creating last April’s Community Spirit Treasure Hunt.

This Guide to the Good award was conceived in memory of Katherine Saunders, who was the social enterprise’s Publication Specialist in 2018-2019.

The award recognizes a Guide to the Good member company that the review panel deemed best exemplifies the organization’s intent – “to build sustainable, flourishing communities through local, social and green choices, collaboration, and community-mindedness.”

When I received the inspiration for this Treasure Hunt, I reached out to Guide to the Good. Their team helped me find 11 local businesses to display 60 of my paintings. We then invited the public to get back out into the community after the pandemic to engage in person with local businesses and to play with a chance to win one of their favourite paintings.

The project was a 2-month full-time investment of my time and energy.

I knew the benefits for both myself and the community extended beyond the great feedback I received. This award confirms it.

Thank you! Receiving this award really touched my heart & soul.

The beautiful pottery award mug by DollFace Pottery will be a constant reminder of why I do what I do – Let’s do some good!

The week before receiving the call that I won the award, Kim Todd and Melissa Wong of Guide to the Good came by for a studio visit & chat.

Enjoy this 6.5-minute video they created for their “Inside Scoop” series.