Artcite annual FUN(d)raiser and art sale is back in the gallery for 2021!

(un)happy objects is group exhibition curated by Adrienne Crossman featuring the work of Madelyne Beckles, Shellie Zhang, Vida Beyer, and Kaythi. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s concept of the unhappy object, these artists take on subjects often seen as “difficult,” such as queer identity, cultural heritage, race and feminism, through the recontextualization of cultural iconography.

In Emancipate the Landscape, Kiki Symonè, Mbonisi Zikhali and Talysha Bujold-Abu come together to create a collaborative story that celebrates the brilliant resilience and inherent elegance of everyday Blackness.

Yakonikulanestka Evangeline John will activate the Artcite gallery for a full month this summer. Her artistic goals are grounded in “learning more Indigenous art forms such as wood carving, cornhusk work, flat stitch beadwork, sewing, basketry, and more. Yakonikulanestka’s art has always been Indigenous-focused, bringing awareness to Indigenous issues, and giving positive representations of Indigenous Peoples through art. Most importantly, she devotes her art to the continuation and revitalization of Indigenous art forms.” (Yakonikulanestka Evangeline John)

This June, Artcite Inc. has teamed up with Stone and Sky Tiny House to facilitate a week long residency with local artist Erik Johnson. Johnson will utilize the Stone and Sky Tiny House to work on his new interview series, ‘Off the Rails.’ This project aims to highlight local historians, artists and writers who are publishing, performing, and writing the Black history in the Windsor/Essex region, including the Underground Railroad in Sandwich Towne. This residency was made possible with the generous financial support of the Windsor Storyteller’s Collective.

Colton Hash's Fractured Waves is an interactive exhibition that investigates the impact if industrialization on The Salish Sea and Lake Erie by utilizing data visualization.

Artist Kama La Mackerel revisits stereotypical landscapes of Mauritius, their home-island “from beaches to waterfalls, from sugarcane fields to the seven coloured earth of Charamel,” reclaiming these sites which are so often portrayed in postcards and tourist brochures (La Mackerel).

In End of Daze, Kiera Boult, Samantha Noseworthy and Rihkee Strapp engage with Y2K aesthetics, problematizing nostalgia and drawing from popular media in order to interrogate how the dominating culture has, and continues to, fall short.