Penelope Stewart is a Toronto artist whose work celebrates the architecture of the beehive, as well as the beauty of the beeswax which she uses to create walls of tile motifs that celebrate both the development of architecture and the social model of the beehive. Stewart works with actual beeswax as material for her art, favouring its colours, scent, and texture.

Governor General’s Award-winning multi-media artist Aganetha Dyck’s work is celebrated for its originality, mystery, and fragility. She describes herself as a collaborator with honeybees, “interested in language and communication; how knowledge is transported and transcribed between humans and other species.” Her research has included “the bee’s use of sound, sight, scent, vibration, and dance … studying the bee’s use of the earth’s magnetic fields as well as their use of the pheromones (chemicals) they produce to communicate with one another, with other species and possibly with the foliage they pollinate.”

Contemporary visual and performance artist Diane Borsato’s work explores the relationship between art and everyday life. While an Artist in Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario, she produced “Your Temper, My Weather,” a major durational performance involving the participation of one-hundred beekeepers. The installation, and walk from the Museum of Nature to the NAC in Ottawa,  highlights the special reciprocal relationship that bees and beekeepers share.