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Cassandra Getty

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​​Cassandra Getty began her curatorial work in the mid-1990s in Ontario and British Columbia. Over the last two decades she has worked in public museums in Windsor and London, Ontario. At the Art Gallery Windsor she served as Curator of Historical Art and the Collections and Collections Manager. In that time she was an integral part of the growth of AGW’s permanent collection, and toured exhibitions across Canada, and in the United States and Japan. In February 2010, Getty joined Museum London as Curator of Art. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including Kathleen Munn and Lowrie Warrener: The Logic of Nature, the Romance of Space (2008), Arthur Heming: Chronicler of the North (2012), Myfanwy MacLeod, Or, There and Back Again (2013), L.O. Today (2013), Kim Adams: One for the Road(2013), Kim Ondaatje (2014), Robert Fones: Signs | Forms| Narratives (2017), and BGL: Spectacle + Problems (2018). She has developed more than 20 catalogues, and over the last decade her projects have earned four OAAG Awards.
 
Getty holds a BFA from the University of Windsor’s School of Visual Arts, and an MA in the History of Art from the University of Victoria. She is currently an adjunct professor in the Visual Arts Department at Western University. 
Kim Moodie: All But Not, (2011). Museum London exhibition catalogue for touring show, featuring and essay by Cassandra Getty and responses by Robert Enright, Gavin Foster, Ihor Holubizky, Micah Lexier, Daniel Li, Adrian Norvid, Sophia Moodie, Ed Pien, Amy Spence, Jeannie Thib, Jane Urquhart, and Christine Walde.
Exhibition catalogue of Museum London touring exhibition on the life and career of well-known, eccentric historical artist, author, and illustrator, Arthur Heming: Chronicler of the North (2012). Features scholarly essays by Arlene Gehmacher, Cassandra Getty, Jaleen Grove, Candice Hopkins, and James Stone.
Museum London catalogue for touring exhibition Kim Adams: One for the Road (2013), co-curated by Melanie Townsend and Cassandra Getty, with texts by Melanie Townsend, Robert Enright, Cassandra Getty, and Julian Jason Haladyn.
Imaging Disaster 2013 Museum London exhibition catalogue, with texts by co-curators Adam Lauder and Cassandra Getty. Features historical Canadian and contemporary artworks, including by Joseph Légaré, Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge, Ed Burtynsky, Iain Baxter&, Daniel Hutchinson, Martin Golland, and Kelly Richardson.
Museum London (2013) exhibition catalogue for L.O. Today, featuring drawing-based artists Jason McLean, Billy-Bert Young.
Kim Ondaatje (2013). Museum London exhibition catalogue for touring exhibition, co-curators Melanie Townsend and Cassandra Getty, essays by Dennis Reid and Lora Senechal Carney.
Myfanwy MacLeod, Or There and Back Again, Museum London/Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition catalogue (2014), co-curators Cassandra Getty and Grant Arnold, with essays by Grant Arnold, Cassandra Getty, Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Joseph Monteyne, and the Music Appreciation Society.
Transamericas: A Sign, A Situation, A Concept. (2017) Museum London, Co-Curators Diane Pierce Toledo and Cassandra Getty.
BGL: Spectacle + Problems. Catalogue of April 28 to August 26, 2018 Museum London exhibition, with an interview (Cassandra Getty and Bruno Sinder) and an essay by critic Christine Redfern.
Patrick Howlett: Part-Time Offerings, (2018). Museum London exhibition catalogue with texts by Annie Cash, Robin Peck, and Cassandra Getty
Lamina Stamina: Kelly Jazvac is a Museum London exhibition catalogue for the exhibition at Museum London from May 5th - September 9th, 2018. It features an introduction by Cassandra Getty and essay/Interview with Isa Tousignant.
Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images, Art Gallery of Windsor touring exhibition catalogue, with texts by curator Cassandra Getty, and Jerry Fielder.
The Logic of Nature, the Romance of Space: Elements of Modernist Canadian Painting, Art Gallery of Windsor and Robery McLaughlin gallery catalogue (for two exhibitions, on Kathleen Munn/Lowrie Warrener, and Bertram Brooker). Texts by Lisa Daniels, Cassandra Getty, Adam Lauder, Sarah Stanners, and Georgiana Uhlyarik.

EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou Smoke, and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Jared Hendricks-Polack, Jessica Irene Joyce, Ira Kazi, 
Shelley Kopp, Jenna Rose Sands, Mireya Seymour, Venus Tsao, Diana Tamblyn, and Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the mentorship program established by Western University's Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.

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