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Join the Art Gallery of Windsor’s Special Initiatives Coordinator, Derrick Carl Biso and local artist April Morris on January 29th at 7pm on Zoom for a virtual workshop. Tune in, chill out, and learn something new! And then use your new skills to create your very own collage! We invite you to share what you make with us to be included in our virtual, community Zine library. We encourage you to use what you have at home! 

Suggested Materials: Paper, magazines, newspapers, coloured paper, pencils, markers, scissors, glue stick and anything else you would like to use

Stick around for an amazing DJ set by harriet_Fran and feel free to dance along!

If you are able to, please consider supporting the Art Gallery of Windsor’s programs and initiatives by becoming a member or making a donation today. 

 

April Morris (she/her) is a visual artist and an arts educator who lives and works in Windsor, Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), a Bachelor of Education, a Certificate in Arts Management, and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor. Her paintings study urban spaces that she photographs on her exploratory walks in the city. April sees the city as a place of unnoticed messages and questions how it impacts her and her sense of place.

 

As an arts educator, April has worked within her immediate community to foster ongoing professional development and to instill creative learning. April has taught various art lessons at local public schools, the Art Gallery of Windsor, SB Contemporary Art, and the University of Windsor. In each of these educational facilities April has designed and delivered a variety of lessons teaching individuals of all ages about the value of the creative arts. April is an advocate for the arts and is dedicated to encouraging art and creativity in her hometown Windsor.

 

Mx. Derrick Carl Biso (they/them/theirs) works at the Art Gallery of Windsor as the Special Initiatives Coordinator. They are a queer non-binary white settler from the province of Prince Edward Island. They work as a designer, artist, educator, and philosopher living in Windsor, Ontario. Their artistic practice & research is currently focused on identity, relationships, responsibility, ethics, the erotic, history, mythmaking/myth-breaking, and conscientization. Derrick graduated from the University of Prince Edward Island with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Diversity and Social Justice Studies. They are studying Psychology & Visual Arts at the University of Windsor and live with their wife, Janet, and cat, Eleanor.

harriet_Fran (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist from the Midwest who creates generative systems that dispel planned obsolescence. As a founding member of Matilda Techno Collective, she has worked to design many audio-visual performances and installations by collecting and repurposing scavenged materials from the local environment. Her practice draws on her experiences working in maker spaces, collaborating on developer teams, designing content management systems at a housing coop, digitizing and archiving records at an artist house museum, teaching courses at multiple universities, and performing and installing public artworks. Her artworks envision how residual materials from her local environment can function practically and artistically.