Artcite Inc., Windsor’s only non-profit, artist-run centre for the Contemporary Arts, presents its 4th annual VISUAL FRINGE in partnership with the 2011 Windsor International Fringe Festival featuring the works of over 80 Windsor-Essex, Detroit area and U.S. artists in various downtown galleries businesses and storefronts from July 15 – 30, 2011. Artcite’s VISUAL FRINGE is an open, un-juried and curated series of off-site exhibitions, mixed media site installations, interventions and performances… Exciting and cutting edge contemporary art by local and international artists coming to a downtown storefront near YOU! Area artists participating in Visual Fringe 2011 include: Nasseme Albonaimi; Kacie Auffret; Josh Babcock; Marcy Boles; Collette Broeders & Samantha Therrien; Allen Bukoff; Christine Burchnall; Michael Califano; Sandra Caradonna; Dean Carson; Denial & Dave Houle; Rebecca Draisey & Maria Parella Ilaria; Yara El Safi; Murad Erzinclioglu & selected FAM Fest artists (Denial, Steve Gibb, Chad Howson, Dave Kant, Alina Petrichn, Maryam Youssef); Joan Farago; Flock of Marys (aka Korinne Robertson & Mark Zelmer); Cole Fortier; Clare Fox; Clare Fox; Jodi Green & Peter Zimmerman; Jon Hanlan; Bernard Helling; Dave Houle; Dennis Hunkler; Ed Janzen; Kenneth Labutte; Blaine Lavigne; Brandon Lemire; Christopher Mangin; Veronica Murawksi; Marat Paransky; Alina Petrichyn; Walter Petrichyn; Jon Pickell; Esther Rabinovitch; Paul-David Rearich; Erin Rhea; Lee Rodney w/ Mark Marok; Donita Simpson; Natalie Sinn; Graeme Skelton; Martin Stevens; Stephen Surlin; Maicee Swift; Nicolette Westfall & Gulnaz Turdalieva; Sean Westlake; Sandi Wheaton; Lindsay Whalen; Carol Anne Winters; Richard Wood; and Marilyn Zimmerman Visual Fringe is located in sites throughout downtown Windsor!
Visual Fringe 2011
VENUES:
Artcite Gallery, 109 University Ave. W. features the mixed-media installation “MONSTER”,
by Minneapolis artist Roxanne Jackson. “MONSTER” continues at Artcite through August 6, 2011.
Visual Fringe 24 hour store window displays:
537 Ouellette Ave. (formerly The Bookmark)
328 Pelissier St. – Windsor Workers Action Centre
101 University Ave West (formerly Perfect Print)
484 Pelissier (The Studio)
510 Pelissier St. – The Printhouse (519) 551-3825
Visual Fringe off-site exhibitions & viewing hours:
@ 110 & 116 Park and
406, 410, 424 & 430 Pelissier
Sat July 16 1-5 PM
Sun July 17 1-6 PM
MON. TUES. WED July 18-20 CLOSED
Thurs July 21 3-7 PM
Fri July 22 3-7 PM
Sat July 23 1-5 PM
SUN, MON. TUES. WED July 24-28 CLOSED
Thurs July 28 3-7 PM
Fri July 29 3-7 PM
Sat July 30 1-5 PM
Visual Fringe 2011 Take-Down and Pick-up begins Aug 3 1:00 PM
Visual Fringe Partners – drop in during business hours:
266 Ouellette Ave. (The Coffee Exchange)
361 Ouellette Ave. (Frenchy’s Poutine)
440 Ouellette Ave. (Fringe Festival Office)
250 Pelissier (Villains Bistro)
318 Pelissier (Terra Cotta Gourmet Pizzeria)
510 Pelissier (The Printhouse)
90 Park Street West (The Gallery at Visions of Canada Eyewear)
68 University Avenue West (Milk Coffee Bar)
157 University W. (Phog Lounge)
Participating Associated Galleries (open during their regular hours)
THE HOUSE
POP HAIR GALLERY
SB CONTEMPORARY GALLERY
Special Visual Fringe EVENTS:
The Bookmobile Project, presented by Windsor professor Lee Rodney will be “spreading the (written) word” in front
(and inside)
of Artcite on Fri, July 22 and Sat July 23, (other days TBA). FREE.
FREE Visual Fringe Public Walking Tours
Saturday July 23, start at 1:30 pm and 4:00 PM; meet at Artcite 109 University Ave. W
PLUS!! Mama Draw Workshops
Sat July 23, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM, in the 406 Pelissier off-site gallery space.
SB Contemporary Art ARTourist Bike Tour
Saturday July 23 (contact SB for info -possibly rescheduled due to HEAT)
FREE VISUAL FRINGE CHILDREN’S WORKSHOPS!
Saturday, July 23, 12:00 – 5:00 pm
New events every hour! Artcite will be offering free drop-in children’s art classes on the Buskers street mall,
NEW LOCATION: The Buskers Mall has been moved to the OLD WINDSOR ARMOURIES, we will be
in front, outside,
under the Artcite event tent, near (east of) the corner of Ouellette and University.
These free classes are intended for children ages 6-12, and are scheduled to begin every half hour
between 12:00 and 5:00 pm. Each class will be taught four times throughout two hour periods.
12:00 – 2:00 — Katie Romain and Nik Steel will teach children how to make a unique, festive,
and fully playable Kalimba, a type of musical instrument that is played using a person’s thumbs.
1:00 – 3:00 — Mathew Romain will teach children how to make a dancing marionette,
a type of puppet that hangs from and is controlled by strings.
2:00 – 4:00 — Suzanne Konyha will teach children how to make one of several types of books,
such as a pop-up book, an accordion-style book, or an adorably cute pocket-sized book.
3:00 – 5:00 — Margaret Romain, with the assistance of her helpers Nik and Katie,
will teach children how to make a small, colourful, and fully-flyable kite.
Materials will also be available all afternoon for children to sketch,
colour, paint, or collage their very own artist trading cards.
Kid’s Face-painting by Melissa Piva (associated artist – fee may apply)
Sat July 23, 12:00 – 5:00 pm, on the Busker’s Street Mall, Ouellette Ave and University.
FREE Mama Draw Workshops
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM, in the 406 Pelissier off-site gallery space.
Stitch’n’Bitch / Artist Trading Cards VISUAL FRINGE Session
Thursday July 28, 6:30 PM AT PHOG LOUNGE 157 University Ave West
Click here to see the art installation for Visual Fringe by our crew.
ADMISSION is FREE to attend all Visual Fringe Project off-site and Artcite gallery exhibitions. Visual Fringe presents a perfect opportunity for the whole family to take a leisurely walk through the downtown core and see exciting new art by emerging and established Windsor-Essex County, Detroit area and U.S. artists.
Our Children’s Workshops, Walking Tours and The Border Bookmobile pictures!A full Saturday afternoon: July 23, 2011.
Click here to see the Flickr set.
Art in store window spaces during visual Fringe 2010
What is this thing called “FRINGE” ?!?
Fringe Performance Festivals have been entertaining audiences for over 50 years, beginning with the original festival in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1947. Over the past 20 years, the Fringe movement in Canada has grown to 18 festivals, and Canada now enjoys more Fringe Fests than any other country in the world!
For the last 3 years, with the generous project support of downtown Windsor landlords, business owners and the City of Windsor, Artcite has partnered with the Windsor International Fringe Festival to bring VISUAL ARTS to the Fringe experience!