Every Chip Stand

Skeleton Park Arts Festival is thrilled to announce the most recent exhibition “Every Chip Stand” by Chantal Bennett and Joel Kimmel at The Elm Cafe.

Chip Stands are a ubiquitous part of Ontario’s landscape. Most chip stands began as a vehicle of some sort that morphed into a semi-permanent, retrofitted, DIYed shack. They are not pretty, nor do they pretend to be. They are not pristine eateries; you will be eating your food on the side of the road. Chip stands are a highlight of a road trip, a welcome rest stop, a lunch break, and a place to go with your friends and family.

In Ontario, we can find chip stands in all kinds of vehicles from school buses to outmoded Canada Post trucks, from double-decker buses to antiquated train cabooses. These are the chip stands we love to draw, the vehicles that never go anywhere, and never will because they can’t, unless they’re towed away.

It is the whimsy and the idiosyncrasies of the chip stand that have drawn us to illustrate more than 100 of them in the last 8 years, and we’ve barely scratched the surface of Ontario’s chip stands.

Chip stands are a part of Canadian culinary history and its landscape, and many of the older, classic vehicles are disappearing and being replaced by shiny, efficient food trucks. Our goal in this Every Chip Stand project is to document these places that so many people love before they are lost.

Chantal and Joel will do an artist appearance on November 17 at the café from 2-4pm. Don’t miss it!

To know more please visit: https://skeletonparkartsfest.ca/elm-cafe-gallery/
https://www.everychipstand.com/