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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Artist Talk: Deanna Bowen - They Tried to Destroy Us - Disproving Myths About Black Absence in Canada
Time and Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 2:30pm
Location:
School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor,
Performance Hall, Room 132 Armouries
353 Freedom Way, Windsor, ON N9A 3A7
Bowen will talk about her decades-long research-creation practice, an anti-Black petition from 1911, and recent projects that make critical/historical links between Bowen’s family history of enslavement in the US and migration to Canada, Creek Negroes & the Trail of Tears, British Imperialism under Queen Victoria and the white supremacist ambitions of the National Gallery of Canada’s collection circa 1888-1943.
