Art Windsor-Essex respectfully acknowledges that we are located on Anishinaabe Territory – the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. Today the Anishinaabe of the Three Fires Confederacy are represented by Bkejwanong. We want to state our respect for the ancestral and ongoing authority of Walpole Island First Nation over its Territory.
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AWE at Night - March 2025
DATE: Thursday, March 20th, 2025
TIME: 5pm – 9pm
LOCATION: 401 Riverside Dr. W, Windsor, ON
COST:
- Current AWE Members: Free admission to Art Windsor-Essex
- Non-Members: $20
Accessibility: Accessibility and accommodation requests must be made at least two weeks in advance of the event. Please contact shinch@artwindsoressex.ca for questions.
Be sure to join us for this month’s AWE at Night on March 20th! Enjoy an evening filled with art activities, community discussions, guided tours, and great vibes.
Art Activity: Build Your Mascot⎮ 5pm – 8:30pm, 2nd floor, Education Studio
If you were a sports team, who would be in the stands cheering you on? A fiery dragon? A flamboyant flamingo in a hockey jersey? A glittery unicorn on roller skates? Now’s your chance to bring them to life! Join artist Kristina Bradt in the studio to sculpt, build, and design your very own team mascot.
Kristina Bradt is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist specializing in printmaking, painting, and installation. Her work explores personal memories through objects and places, often embracing chance and unpredictability in her creative process. A recipient of the Lois Smedick Emerging Artist Award (2022), she has completed commissions across Southwestern Ontario and curates The Tiny Art Vending Machine.
AWE 2024 Annual General Meeting⎮ 5pm – 6pm, 3rd floor, Solcz Family Suite
- 4:45 pm – Early Entry to AGM
- 5:00 pm – AGM Commences
- 6:00 pm – Adjournment / AWE at Night
A package of AGM documents will be provided by email to registered attendees prior to the meeting. Register here.
Note: The AGM is open to current members of AWE. Not a member? Click here!
Artist Talk: Behanaz Fatemi⎮ 6pm – 6:30pm, 2nd floor galleries
Join TD Curatorial Fellow, Niku Koochak, and artist Behnaz Fatemi for a discussion on remembrance, grief, and loss. Behnaz Fatemi engages with the traces left behind, the intangible yet persistent presence of lost moments, drawing from memory to anchor them in the gallery. Fatemi uses performance, drawing, sculpture and installation to invite us into this liminal place, of choice and its consequence, of leave-taking and loss.
Behnaz Fatemi is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist and PhD student in Visual Culture at Western University. Her work, which explores diaspora, trauma, and resistance, has been exhibited internationally. She has received several honors, including the Emerging Artist Award from Arts Awards Waterloo Region and selection for the 2023 CAFKA biennial.
This exhibition forms part of Below the 6, a series of exhibitions that focuses on artists based in Southwestern Ontario whose practices are socially and politically minded. The 2024-2025 Below the 6 series is curated by Niku Koochak. The exhibition is generously supported by TD Bank Group.
Community Conversation: Queerness and Disability⎮ 6:30pm – 7pm, 3rd floor galleries
What does it mean to navigate the intersection of disability, sexuality, and gender? Join us for a community conversation on Thursday, March 20th from 6:30pm-7:00pm, exploring disability and the embodiment of desire. Sexuality is often overlooked in discussions of equity and accessibility. By centering sexuality as a human right integral to our lived experience, this discussion builds a brave space that honours vulnerability and opens a dialogue that foregrounds sexuality among the complexities of living a disabled life.
Speakers and moderator will be announced soon.
Documentary Screening: Picture This⎮ 7pm – 7:30pm, 3rd floor Winterbottom Gallery
In Picture This, a new documentary by Jari Osborne, we follow Andrew Gurza, a self-described “queer cripple,” as he plans the second edition of Justify My Love—a sex-positive play party that the international media was quick to call a “handicapped orgy” when it launched in Toronto the year before. At the heart of the film is the uneasy dichotomy that disabled people face, of feeling either invisible or like a freak show, especially with regards to their sexuality. With its insistent and unflinching gaze, Picture This invites us to see them for who they are.
Virtual Q&A with Andrew Gurza ⎮ 7:30pm – 8pm, 3rd floor Winterbottom Gallery
Andrew Gurza is a disability awareness consultant and “cripple content” creator working to make the lived experience of queerness and disability accessible to all. His written work has been featured in Huffington Post, The Advocate, Everyday Feminism, Mashable, and Out.com. He has presented all across North America on what it means to be a Queer Cripple and the intersectionality of sex, queerness and disability. He is also the host of the DisabilityAfterDark podcast. Andrew will be joining us virtually from his home in Toronto.
Curator Tour of SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS ⎮ 7:30pm – 8pm, 2nd floor galleries
Artists and athletes—two worlds often seen in opposition—collide in SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS, where competition, strategy, and performance take center stage. This exhibition explores the shared drive for excellence, the spectacle of sport and art, and the unexpected connections between the arena and the gallery. Join us for a guided tour and discover how artists like challenge and celebrate the culture of sports. From logos and mascots to endurance and strategy, see how art and athletics push limits, break barriers, and inspire.
Music, food, and drink ⎮ 7pm – 9pm, 3rd floor galleries
Let’s celebrate! Head up to the third floor to join us for music, food and drinks by Windsor Eats, and good vibes.