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The Windsor Symphony Orchestra brass quintet performed in King’s Navy Yard Park Sunday afternoon.
Plein air artist Carolyn Hardy was one of the painters in King’s Navy Yard Park during the Amherstburg Art Crawl.
By Ron Giofu The third annual Amherstburg Art Crawl was held last weekend, with events and activities geared for youth and adults. Starting with the Art Crawl Social last Friday night at The O and ending with a Windsor Symphony Orchestra (WSO) brass quintet Sunday afternoon in King’s Navy Yard Park, the rest of the weekend was filled with tours both guided and self-guided “unleashed” tours, stops at museums like the Amherstburg Freedom Museum and the Park House Museum, and St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, where a group of 11 artists gathered. There was also a photography exhibit at the Marsh Historical Collection, plein air and on-street artists and artisans, a popular Junior Art Crawl for children and
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youth, and a Saturday evening performance by The Bishop Boys. The Amherstburg Art Crawl was organized by the Art Amherstburg Society. “Outstanding” was the word Art Amherstburg Society chair Richard Peddie used to describe the event. “It wasn’t without a couple of hiccups,” he said, but “it exceeded expectations.” An estimated crowd of 150 people attended the Art Crawl Social, an event that raised over $1,000 that will be put towards future art crawls. That will pay for additional art, advertising for next year’s event, and expenses that will be needed to present the Amherstburg Art Crawl. The three new murals in the “Art Alley” painted by artists Jermaine Baylis, Dennis and Dylan White and Kevin Burdick were
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Amherstburg resident Matthew Zaidan was one of the artists stationed along Richmond St. during the art crawl.
officially unveiled Saturday afternoon. “What was special was having the three artists here,” said Peddie. Baylis said he wanted to honour people important in local Black history. His work features his great uncle Donald Harris, who was a champion of Black history in town during his 99 years, Amherstburg Freedom Museum co-founders Mac and Betty Simpson and Wayne Hurst, the latter having served as mayor from 19972000 and again from 2003-14. Dennis White said he and Dylan were happy “to be part of the art scene in Amherstburg.” While they do a lot of local murals, “we don’t want to do it all” and said it was great to meet other artists. “It’s wonderful to be part of that,” said White. Burdick said he “wanted it to be weird”
when speaking of his mural. He wanted to get inside the imagination of a fiveyear-old and let the idea develop. A Michigan resident, Burdick said he would be pleased to come back to Amherstburg. Ron Dejonge of Everjonge Construction said his company was proud to be part of the event. He added it was important for his family as well. Peddie said he was impressed by how the youth art contest went and those new pieces of art were also unveiled Saturday. Vice chair Trudy Dempsey was praised for how that turned out. “That was pretty special,” he said. Dempsey said the youth art contest was one of her favorite things she was involved in. She said she was very proud of the children who entered.
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