Thank you @timminsmuseum for inviting us to bring SOUVENIR: Never Just Passing Through to the North where it belongs. If you are in or visiting the Timmins area, please stop in to visit. Exhibition runs until June 21, 2026. Thank you to the @ontarioartscouncil for their generous support. #Souvenir #northernontario #Timmins #queerart #Sweetthings @jamesfowlerart@pearlvangeest@cityoftimmins
The postcards are loaded. The spinner is spinning. Tonight we open Souvenir: Never Just Passing Through at the Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre and we would love to see you there.
Curated by SweetThings (Pearl Van Geest and James Fowler), the exhibition features work by Francisco Alvarez, Schem Rogerson Bader, Kristy Boyce, Joey Bruni, Terre Chartrand, Terry Dame, Michel Dumont, Cesar Forero, James Fowler, Charlie Hunter and Mike Wyeld, Jennifer Pereira, Paul Raiche, Jean-Marc Raymond, John Rubino, Walt Segers, Cai Sepulis, Christian Bernard Singer, Sabrina Sumersall, and Pearl Van Geest.
Join us tonight, Thursday April 16, from 5 to 9 PM at 325 2nd Avenue, Timmins, Ontario. On view through June 21, 2026.
With gratitude to the Ontario Arts Council for their generous support.
@pearlvangeest@sweetthingscollective@jamesfowlerart@timminsmuseum@cityoftimmins@ontarioartscouncil #queerart #2slgbtqia #northernontario #visualart
SweetThings is back on the road! Van packed. Heading North | @pearlvangeest + @jamesfowlerart are bringing SOUVENIR: Never Just Passing Through to @timminsmuseum . Generously supported by the @ontarioartscouncil
Opening Thursday, April 16 · 5–8pm
On view through June 22 #2slgbtqia +
Tomorrow, we are heading to the OAEA Make It Matter Conference as guest speakers, and we couldn’t be more excited.
Through our collaborative practice @sweetthingscollective , we’ve spent years thinking about how art can build relationships across communities, how mapping, mark-making, and storytelling create space for connection around queer ecology, environmental justice, and belonging. Getting to bring that conversation into a room full of art educators feels genuinely meaningful.
See you Saturday!
@pearlvangeest@oaeaontario@jamesfowlerart
#OAEA2026 #MakeItMatter #ArtEducation #OntarioTeachers #CreativeClassrooms
Syzygy - Objects As Companions For Travel Through a World That Misreads Us. A tour through the exhibition on now at El Museo de Artes Mazatlan. It’s been an honour and pleasure to co-curate, along with James Fowler, this second year of Syzygy, focusing on 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, with curators Melissa La Porte, Cesar Forero and Virginia M Eichhorn. Being in Mazatlan with Cesar and Melissa has been wonderful, working so well together. Meeting Syzygy’s organizer, host and artist, the gracious and dynamic Dory Perdomo has been wonderful!! Mazatlan is spectacular! Thanks to all the artists whose work has made the show very powerful!
Prepping for Mexico. @pearlvangeest and @jamesfowlerart putting the final curitorial touches on a new exhibition, Objects as Companions for Travel Through a World That Misreads Us, part of the SYZYGY Project, opening February 6 @museodeartedemazatlan #queerart ##sweetthings
SweetThings are on the move! @pearlvangeest and @jamesfowlerart are checking out some amazing new spaces for QUEER UP NORTH 2026. Watch for the call for submission in the new year. #queerupnorth #canqueer #artresidency #lgbtq #queerecology
Thank you @huronculturaloffice for the opportunity to present the work we have done on the QUEER UP NORTH Artist Residency today at the Huron County Culture Summit. Thank you to our collaborators @throbbingrose and @nrccprojectspace . We gratefully acknowledge @canada.council and @ontarioartscouncil for their continued support of this important initiative, the only one of its kind in Canada. We look forward to the next iteration of Queer Up North we are planning for August 2026. Watch for a call for submissions in the new year. #queerupnorth #canqueer #lgbtq #artresidency
Thank you @huronculturaloffice for giving @pearlvangeest and I the opportunity to present our work today for the Huron County Culture Summit. The work we’ve done to develop the Queer Up North Artist Residency is so important to us. Thank you to our collaborators @throbbingrose and @nrccprojectspace for their support. We gratefully acknowledge the @canada.council and @ontarioartscouncil for their support of this initiative. Photos @ricky.golightly #canqueer #lgbtq #artresidency #queerupnorth
