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In Conversation: Dr. Jennifer Willet with Julie Rae Tucker

Time and Date: Thursday, September 21, 2023, 7pm – 7:30pm

Location: 2nd floor galleries, AWE

Cost: This event is part of AWE at Night

  • Current AWE and/or Museum Windsor Members: Free admission to both Art Windsor-Essex and the Chimczuk Museum
  • Non-Members: $13.25 – Admission to both Art Windsor-Essex and the Chimczuk Museum

Join artist Jennifer Willet in conversation with Julie Rae Tucker, co-curator of the exhibition, Biocurious. BioCurious brings together works by eighteen artists whose works explore living materials as their subject matter, and in some cases, their artistic medium. The artists intertwine scientific and cultural knowledge to propose different ways of understanding living bodies and the land. 

Dr. Jennifer Willet is a Canada Research Chair in Art, Science, and Ecology and a Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor (Canada.) Willet is an internationally successful artist and curator in the emerging field of bioart. Her work explores notions of representation and body in relation to evolving biotechnologies with an emphasis on ecological metaphors.  (138 words) www.incubatorartlab.com   

Photo by Justin Elliott @jel_media 

About the Artist: Dr. Jennifer Willet

Dr. Jennifer Willet is a Canada Research Chair in Art, Science, and Ecology and a Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor (Canada.) Willet is an internationally successful artist and curator in the emerging field of bioart. Her work explores notions of representation and body in relation to evolving biotechnologies with an emphasis on ecological metaphors.  (138 words) www.incubatorartlab.com   

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