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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Sandwich Visionaries: Display at Common Ground Gallery
Location: Common Ground Gallery, 3177 Sandwich Street
Exhibition Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10AM to 5PM
Public Reception: March 22, 2025 from 12PM to 5PM
Check out our Special March Break activities at the link below!
Sandwich Visionaries is having a community art exhibition at Common Ground Gallery!
From March 8th to March 27th the visionaries are taking over Common Ground Gallery for a community display, a week long March Break art camp and our regular weekly workshops.
Sandwich Visionaries is an arts program for kids in the Sandwichtown neighbourhood of Windsor. From September 2024 to February 2025, we held free workshops three times a week at the John Muir branch of the Windsor Public Library.
In these workshops, kids worked with local artists and poets to try different kinds of art. We painted, drew, and made zines, illustrations, and animations. Through these fun activities, they learned about their neighbourhood. They explored the local environment and its connection to the new Urban National Park by learning about food webs and native species. They learned about comics and storytelling by sharing stories through pictures. They also designed murals to decorate empty buildings and community housing properties, imagined new ideas for shopfronts on the main street, and learned about the neighbourhood’s rich history.
We’re very excited to share our work with you at Common Ground Gallery. Please do come and visit!
Meet the Facilitator: Marc Ngui
Marc Ngui is a Sandwich based multi-disciplinary artist/designer/world builder. He was trained as an architect before venturing into the world of DIY comics, zines and self-publishing.
As a cartoonist, diagrammatician and illustrator, he has published two graphic novels and contributed to many non-fiction book projects (some of which have won awards.) His professional creative practice spans many disciplines, including illustration (for newspapers, magazines and websites), storyboarding, animation, web design, and film and video production (including scenic painting, video editing and art direction).
He has worked as a video journalist for the CBC and a comics journalist for the Toronto Star. His painting, drawing and installation work as a contemporary artist has been exhibited across Canada and internationally. His current practice aspires to help direct our collective creative potential towards generating a more equitable and Gaia friendly future.
