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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Reception for Safa Youness: غربة / Ghurba.
Time and Date: Thursday, December 5 at 6:00PM
Location: Dry Goods Gallery, 1012 Drouillard Rd, Windsor, ON N8Y 2P8
Cost: Free
The 2024 RBC Emerging Artist in Residence is generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Project.
Save the Date: Safa Youness, RBC Emerging Artist in Residence, will soon be concluding her residency at AWE, and we look forward to installing her incredible work at Dry Goods Gallery in an exhibition entitled Safa Youness: غربة / Ghurba. The exhibition will be seen in the window at Dry Goods on Drouillard Rd. from December 7th – February 17, 2025.
Join us on Thursday, December 5 at 6:00PM at Dry Goods for an opening reception and to hear @safa.youness speak about her exhibition.
Safa Youness is the current AWE RBC Emerging Artist in Residence. The RBC Emerging Artist in Residence (EAIR) is a paid opportunity for emerging artists in Windsor-Essex who want to learn, grow, develop, and show their art while engaging with the public. The Emerging Artists will have the opportunity to focus on making their art and share their skills and experiences with the public in a series of programs or activations. The 2024 RBC Emerging Artist in Residence is generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Project.
The 2024 RBC Emerging Artist in Residence is generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Project.
Meet the Artist: Safa Youness (صفا يونس)
Safa Youness (صفا يونس) – is a Palestinian artist contending with the reality of living on the stolen land of Turtle Island.
To remember and express the joy (سعادة), resistance (مقاومة) and steadfastness (صمود) of her loved ones, familiar and unfamiliar, she reflects on photographs taken by her family members during the 1970’s in the refugee camp of Ein El-Hilweh, south Lebanon. She centres the experience of Palestinian life in diaspora following the Nakba – her family’s history of displacement in Lebanon. Her work is a practice in remembrance.
