Alisa + Missy
and their Song and stitchesTheir Project
This lockdown has been challenging for all of us. When it first started, I was excited about quite a full year of exhibitions. That all ended quite quickly, but I still felt very creative and wanted collaboration and discussion and feeling like I was moving forward.
I saw the call for the Co-Create Residency and got really excited. Music is so inspiring to me and has been at the centre of my life for as long as I can remember and the thought of visual artist and musicians collaborating really inspired and interested me. I was so lucky to be teamed up with Missy! We were both very happy working pretty independently but checking in about initial ideas and deadlines. Sort of letting our art speak for us to each other. I was very inspired by Missy’s lyrical style and we came up with the idea for me to make a doll, her to write a song and then for us to exchange and be inspired by each other’s work to create more work. In the end, I created two pieces and she created two songs and it was a very beautiful process of being true to my own process but allowing myself to be inspired and influenced by Missy’s words.
Emily
Old House
The Artists behind the Characters
Missy Bauman
Missy’s fearless songs and transformative shows prove her fierce dedication to the craft of songwriting, performance, and singing. After winning the “Songs from the Heart” award from Folk Music Ontario, becoming a finalist in the international John Lennon Songwriting Competition, and receiving a nomination from the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, her sophomore album “Sweet” is bound to be her boldest and brightest yet.
Photo credit: Courtney Basler
Alisa McRonald
Alisa McRonald’s woven weirdos live in the ironic pop-culture paradise of a Queer GenX Feminist. Her work is a tactile fruit salad with a soupçon of the esoteric.
Her work has been featured in publications such as: The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar Japan, Nylon Magazine and Giant Robot Magazine. Alisa has won the Best of Craft and Design award for Toronto Outdoor Art Fair 2020.
Alisa and I worked on creating two characters in our chosen medium – she crafted a doll and I wrote a song from the perspective of a character. After we had finished our character we switched – I wrote a song for the doll that she created, and she made a doll out of the song I had written. We both loved the idea of starting
independently and then “switching” to make something based off the others’ idea. We knew that the project would have to be significantly independent due to the pandemic. I really admire her work and was excited to create these stories that she brought to life!
