Acclaimed Algonquin artist Claude Latour’s public art piece is installed at the Flora Footbridge

 The sleek new Flora Footbridge (named after former the legendary Conservative MP and Foreign Affairs Minister Flora MacDonald) crosses Colonel By Drive and links the Old Ottawa East and Glebe communities via Clegg Street and Fifth Avenue. It opened with little fanfare in June 2019 and this new public space has

Celebrate local Algonquin Artist Claude Latour at intimate vernissage

 Celebrate the works of the Algonquin artist, Claude Latour with Ottawa Life Magazine! Latour has recently returned from the west coast with an exciting new body of original mixed media works entitled “Makwa’s Return”. Makwa’s Return will be exhibited at Patrick Gordon Framing, 160 Elm Street. Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin

Makwa’s Return — Algonquin artist Claude Latour

 Photo: Eight Fire • 60” x 40”, 2019  One may travel far away, but the beckoning of home and how it affects us is always close at hand. For visual artist Claude Latour, this couldn’t be more true. Growing up in Ottawa, Latour reflects on how living in various blue