Artist & Curator Tour and Conversation

The Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) is a public, not-for-profit, art gallery located in the Mississauga Civic Centre, right on Celebration Square and across from Square One Shopping Centre. The AGM is proud to admit people free of charge, serve communities, and provide positive visual art experiences for all visitors and is generously supported by the City of Mississauga, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, private citizens and its members.First. New. Next.The AGM provides platforms for exhibitions, collections and experimentation in contemporary culture with a recent focus on artists and cultural producers from Indigenous, newcomer and youth communities. Through a broad range of educational programs, artist projects and other forms of critical dialogue, the AGM seeks to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, foster community, and provide spaces where alternative modes of thought are supported and activated in tangible ways.Land AcknowledgementThe Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) would like to acknowledge and give thanks to the land on which we work.The AGM has the privilege of operating in the territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation and homeland of the Wendat, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee nations.

Art Gallery of Mississauga

Join us on Saturday, September 20, 2025 for a special Artist & Curator Tour and Conversation

Registration required. Donations welcome.Join us for an engaging afternoon at the Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) with exhibiting artist Winsom Winsom and the AGM's Senior Curator Shannon Anderson. This special event offers visitors an opportunity to tour the exhibition The Search for the Black Madonna and Green Tara alongside the artist and curator, gaining deeper insight into the stories, symbolism, and spiritual layers behind the works. Winsom will reflect on her decades-long practice and personal journey, touching on how its influences have shaped her practice. The discussion will also explore the process of developing this exhibition, and Winsom's collaborative project with her daughter, artist Tara Darrall.Don't miss this rich and reflective conversation.Refreshments will be provided.This event is part of Culture Days- Canada’s celebration of arts, culture, and heritage from September 19th - October 12th, 2025. Thousands of free events are presented in hundreds of communities across Canada, welcoming millions of participants to create, share, and celebrate a life enriched by arts and culture.Culture Days encourages the public to discover and champion the importance of arts and culture in their communities, and inspire year-round support of local artists, creators and organizations.Find more free events at culturedays.ca ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONOver several decades, Winsom Winsom has expressed her own spiritual journey through her multimedia work and shared her knowledge as a mentor, teacher, and advocate for the arts. For this artist—who has travelled the world and now calls Mississauga her home—art and life are inextricably connected. Her work explores themes of freedom, survivance, resilience, and renewal within the context of the Black Atlantic experience. As a person of African, Maroon, Arawak, Spanish, and Scottish ancestries, Winsom draws from her mixed heritage to incorporate extensive symbolism and ritual references in her work, interpreting the elements, land, animal, and human presence within the context of Afro-centric value systems.Featuring both existing and new bodies of work by this senior artist and self-described “child of the universe,” The Search for the Black Madonna and Green Tara traces the trajectory of Winsom’s emotional, physical, and spiritual journeys. The exhibition includes an expansive collaborative project with Winsom’s daughter, artist Tara Darrall. Together, they explore the layers of their mother-daughter relationship through a suite of paintings. Guided by aspects of the seven chakras—the energy centres within our bodies—these works are a personal meditation on the artists’ intertwined development of their identities. ARTIST BIOAn influential figure of the Canadian art world, Winsom Winsom has exhibited her work across Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean, including solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the Image Factory Gallery (Belize), the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery (Kingston), and the African American Museum (Boston), as well as group exhibitions at the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), A Space Gallery (Toronto), Articule (Montreal), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), and the 2024 Toronto Biennale, Precarious Joys. Her work has been recognized with multiple awards and grants, including an Honorary Doctorate from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, the Marilyn Lastman Award from the City of Toronto Arts Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Since 2021 she has been based in Mississauga. Winsom is represented by Clint Roenisch Gallery in Toronto. Funding for the Art Gallery of Mississauga is provided by the City of Mississauga, Canada Council for the Arts, TD Bank Group, Rama Gaming House, and Charitable Gaming Community Good.For more informationCall us at 905-276-3200Visit us at <a href="http://www.artgalleryofmississauga.com/" title="http://www.artgalleryofmississauga.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.artgalleryofmississauga.com</a>Email us at contact@artgalleryofmississauga.comFollow us on:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/agmengage/" title="https://www.instagram.com/agmengage/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/AGMEngage" title="https://www.youtube.com/user/AGMEngage" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">YouTube</a> | | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/agmengage" title="https://www.facebook.com/agmengage" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a>

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