ArtworxTO Spotlight: Sidia Atabales-Schnitzler

Meet this week’s #ArtworxTO’s Spotlight Emerging Artist Sidia Atabales-Schnitzler. On her first day of preschool, Sidia Atabales-Schnitzler made a dramatic scene. She didn’t want her mother to leave. Teachers comforted her by allowing her to paint. That began her artistic career. Now, as an adult and emerging artist in Toronto, Ontario, not much has changed. The more everybody pushes towards the next new thing, the more inclined she feels to pull back. Sidia investigates methods and imagery used in the past, and finds where her 21st century perspective fits or contrasts. She is a recent graduate of Centennial College’s Fine Arts Studio program, and was awarded the Peter Dickinson award for being a creative innovator.