Sue Finch 
Anne Blackwell 
John Metcalf 
Dee Davie 
Lois Eggleston 
Danita Hardesty
Early in the summer of 2017 “Give a Bird a Home” started out as a small art installation to be created by and for only CWAG members. Since then, the project has grown to include local residents, business, schools, boy scouts and the city, building partnerships which will strengthen the community. The project has grown to encompass resource conservation, (i.e. recycling, upcycling), habitat building & conservation, natural pest control, education, community involvement and art. This project will increase the number of people impacted by art. Whether it is by viewing, creating, or the way they think of art. Art can be functional, educational, environmental, emotional as well as spiritual. We hope to inspire young and blooming artists to tap into their talents, to broaden their definition of art and its role in the community.
The Bird House project has continued to grow in 2018. Local artists, businesses, residents and students from Winchester Trail continue to build and decorate bird houses that will be installed though out the community. The art teachers and over a thousand students, grades 3, 4, 5 will build and or decorate an estimated 250 bird houses. The give A Bird a Home project is being included in the STEM curriculum where general classroom teachers will touch upon the following: bird habitat, nesting and migration habits, diet, bird identification and study of bird calls. Students will be researching through a course called Design Time and applying their research in the art classes. Student bird houses will first be installed on school property during spring nesting season. Other houses will be sent home with students for placement in their yards. Teachers will select houses to be exhibited at the Canal Winchester Art Stroll on May 12, where Canal Winchester residents, CWAG members and local businesses will bring their art inspired bird houses for display and donation. In the weeks following the Art Stroll the guild will work in coordination with the urban forester and the boy scouts to install those artistic bird homes a long local bike paths, walking paths, various assisted living facilities, and the local golf course for bird habitation. The more elaborately decorated bird houses will become part of a public art installation to be place along the bike path near Thrush Drive.
CWAG would like to thank the community and especially the teachers for embracing this opportunity to teach and make a difference outside the classroom!