DATE: Thursday, November 20, 2025
TIME: 5pm – 9pm
LOCATION: 401 Riverside Dr. W, Windsor, ON
COST:
Accessibility: Accessibility and accommodation requests must be made at least two weeks in advance of the event. Please contact [email protected] for questions. ASL Interpretation will be available for Vanessa Dion Fletcher’s artist talk.
Design your own self-portrait doll, team up to make a giant mural using pool noodles, and craft a beaded bracelet with your favourite colours!
Articulated Self-Portrait Dolls
Design your own self-portrait doll! We’ll provide the template and all the materials – you bring your creativity! Explore identity, storytelling, and style through doll-making and design.
Pool Noodle Prints
Let’s work as a team! We’ll use pool noodles and paint to create a collaborative mural. A playful way to explore texture, pattern, and teamwork. You can also make your own print to take home!
Beading & Bracelet Station
Choose your colour palette, sketch your design, and craft a beaded bracelet!
The International Children’s Art Show is a unique and valuable project that connects international communities and encourages conversations about the similarities and differences between our cities.
Kissing Cousins: New Acquisitions in Conversation pairs recent acquisitions with historical works from AWE’s collection, highlighting how Canadian artists have always been in dialogue with the issues of their times.
This exhibition was organized collaboratively with Ella Chiang, Zoe Port, and Lana Zagoric, three dedicated Art Windsor-Essex interns who have quietly and assiduously helped grow AWE’s collection over the past few years. In Kissing Cousins, they reveal how connections are found between works in AWE’s collection and proposed acquisitions, showing the care and intention behind collecting activities.
Organized by the Windsor Essex Housing Corporation and Canadian Mental Heath Association Windsor Essex County
More details to come. Speakers TBA.
Join Colette Dion Montoya (Isleta Pueblo/ San Felipe Pueblo) and her American Girl dolls, Inky & Vita, along with some of their closest friends, for an evening of storytelling and sharing! Colette will also introduce the book A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power. Take home paper doll colouring sheets and moccasin patterns!
Colette Denali Dion Montoya is an enrolled member of Isleta Pueblo and a descendant of San Felipe Pueblo, living in Toronto. She is an Indigiqueer librarian, archivist, and oral historian working at the intersections of oral history, text, and memory.
Colette’s research engages depictions of Indigeneity in children’s media and their influences on young people’s understandings of settler colonialism, nationhood, and Indigeneities. Outside of academia, Colette explores the material cultures of Indigenous and queer childhoods through her American Girl doll photography.
ASL Interpretation will be available for this artist talk!
Join artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher for a talk on BIG Doll | XWAT Naaniitus, an exhibition that celebrates making from the heart rather than the head. Both personal and collaborative, the project invites audiences of all ages to take part in creating an artwork while reflecting on how education systems can limit creativity. By transforming the intimate act of beadwork into something large and public, Fletcher reveals the beauty of process, imagination, and shared learning.
Let’s celebrate! Head up to the third floor to join us for music, food and drinks by Windsor Eats, and good vibes.
