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Field Guide:
Community Art Project
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Field Guide: Nature & Neighbours is a 3-part community art project based in St. Moritz Park / Clair Hills, as part of the City of Waterloo Artists in Neighbourhoods Program.
Artist Allie Brenner has been working to engage community members in a Nature Walk and the creation of a Guide Book over the summer of 2025 and Mural Installation will move ahead in 2026.
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Field Guide: Book Launch
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Field Guide: Nature & Neighbours celebrates plants, animals, and nature discoveries in the Clair Hills trail system and St. Moritz Park. The guide is part of a community-engaged art project led by artist Allie Brenner with neighbours and community members.
Participants had the opportunity to attend a nature walk with both the artist and Dr. Rebecca Rooney, wetland ecologist. The walk offered moments to notice, reflect, and create, through sketches, creative writing and playful prompts, while learning about the local environment.
These creations come together with the artist’s drawing, design and collage practice to form this printed field guide. An ode to the creatures and community that call this neighbourhood home.
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On November 8, a community gathering was held at St. Moritz Park to mark the release of
Field Guide: Nature & Neighbours. Copies of the field guide were shared with participants who contributed through the nature walk and art tour, as well as with the broader community.
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Field Guide: Mural
Stay tuned!
More information coming in 2026.
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Allie Brenner
Allie Brenner is a multi-disciplinary artist & culture worker. Her work explores memory, time, place, materiality, and community building often drawing on the natural world as a source of imagery and connection. Working across illustration, sculpture, installation and community art practices, she produces work that engages with personal stories, collective experience, and site-responsive narratives.
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Rebecca Rooney
Dr. Rebecca Rooney carries out research in wetland ecology and is a world expert on biomonitoring and wetland assessment. She examines how human-caused and natural ecological disturbances influence wetland communities, including birds, invertebrates and plants.
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Project supported by the
Artists in Neighbourhoods Fund