Learn more about the Great Lakes ecology at a FREE art and science fair for all ages. Artist Jennifer Willet and special guests invite you to enjoy presentations, workshops, artworks and scientific displays, live music – and a parade!
Dr. Jennifer Willet (she/her) is an artist, a Canada Research Chair in Art, Science, and Ecology, a Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor and the Director of INCUBATOR ArtLab, founded in 2009. She is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists in the Royal Society of Canada. Willet is a leader in the Canadian bioart community and works internationally as an artist and curator in the field. In 2018, Willet opened a new state-of-the-art bioart laboratory, and in 2020 a storefront bioart studio and community engagement centre in Windsor, Ontario.
The Arts Council Windsor & Region (ACWR) is a community arts council and arts service organization that serves all disciplines of individual artists, arts organizations, and non-arts partners in promoting, developing, and realizing creative activity since 1980. The organization provides the Windsor-Essex Region with valuable services, like ArtSpeak Gallery, professional development workshops, the New Voices program, free space arts residencies, individual grant consultation, an in-office resource library, a website which hosts updated resources, a community arts calendar, and the weekly ArtsNotes newsletter.
Parks Canada protects and presents outstanding representative examples of natural landscapes and natural phenomena. There are 37 national parks and 11 national park reserves in Canada that represent 31 of Canada’s 39 terrestrial natural regions, and protect approximately 343,377 square kilometers of lands in Canada. These wild places, located in every province and territory, range from mountains and plains, to boreal forests and tundra, to lakes and glaciers, and much more. Parks Canada is responsible for protecting these areas, and for managing them for visitors to understand, appreciate, and enjoy in a way that doesn’t compromise their ecological integrity.
