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Executive Director of Creative Industries in North Bay, Jaymie Lathem, sits down with Richard on today’s episode to not only discuss what it’s like to push yourself as an artist, but the ways we can beautify the community with art and projects Creative Industries is doing to help with this movement. Jaymie is an emerging artist based out of Northern Ontario. She studied drawing & painting at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the Alberta College of Art and Design. She received her BFA from Nipissing University in 2011. Jaymie remains a practicing visual artist with a focus in drawing and has exhibited work throughout Ontario. Over the past decade Jaymie has worked in various community based and creative sector organizations across the Nipissing Region. She has a strong passion for the arts and believes North Bay and it’s surrounding community can be a thriving creative base in the North. Primarily focused in drawing and themes of memory and identity, her work plays with the amount of visual informa