Christopher, a well-known visual artist, dancer, teacher, entrepreneur behind SeRnA custom Artwork, and muralist, who completed the“Essential Workers” mural on Dundas Street West during the COVID-19 pandemic, is an enthusiastic advocate for the arts and provides opportunities for both youth and adults to “learn, grow and find their passions through the arts and express themselves passionately and freely.”
Born in Trenton and moving to Belleville at age 8, Bennett is proud of his roots but acknowledges he followed a solitary and self-directed path. He discovered rap at age 8, graffiti art and hip hop at age 12, but when he looked around at the art forms in his community he realized, “there is no one else doing graffiti art here, no break-dancers,no rap music here – why not?”
Bennett has indeed become a well-known artist in this community, and his accomplishments continue to inspire.
THE ABOVE PROVIDED BY FIONA CAMPBELL OF THE QUINTE ARTS COUNCIL
The virtual Arts Recognition Awards are tonight (Thursday 7 p.m.).
