FCG Pier - Argyle Ribbon Project
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- Sep 3
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Updated: Oct 11
September 11 – October 18th
Sharmistha Kar, Anindita Chakraborty, and Amsa Yaro
Closing Reception - Thursday, October 16th from 5-7pm
Exhibition presented in collaboration with Leah Thomas-Gray, the Creative Director of the Argyle BIA.
The Argyle Ribbon is a series of 53 painted art panels created by Sharmistha Kar, Anindita Chakraborty and Amsa Yaro that tell the story of the Argyle area of London, Ontario, installed at the Clark House (1903 Avalon St.).
As a blue collar manufacturing sector of the city, Argyle is unaccustomed to expression through public art. This project was created with the intent of breaking that trend by inserting itself into the working-class neighbourhood as a celebration of ourselves and a representation from where we’ve come, and to where we are going.
Through the use of acrylic and other materials manufactured by local trades, this artistic collaboration applies gathered research and community input of the former London Township related to the cultural stories, historic economies and development, industrial inventions, and settlements from the area’s original inhabitants to current times.
Please join us for the exhibition Closing Reception on Thursday, October 16th from 5-7pm.
Thank you to our funders the London Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and the London Community Foundation for their support to make our exhibitions and programming free and accessible for all.
For more information of the Argyle Ribbon Project, visit:
