<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="980B42BE-50D3-4A58-9CB8-619A20430229" src="cid:6C50B5D7-ADC3-4401-BC2A-A7DE040B414C@Home" class=""></div><div id="x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" class=""><span id="x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" class=""><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><font color="#757B80" class=""><i class="">Tamarack Drive</i></font><font color="#757B80" class="">, Aaron T. Francis, </font><font color="#757B80" class="">2020.</font><font color="#757B80" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></font></font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><i class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""> </font></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="5" class=""><b class="">Aaron T. Francis</b><b class=""><br class=""></b><b class="">Tamarack Drive</b></font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""> </font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Tamarack Drive is a series of images from 1969 taken by Jamaican-born, Waterloo, Ontario based photographer Roy Francis. Originally captured on Kodak Ektachrome 35mm transparency film and developed by Roy at the family home on Tamarack, the series offers a candid glimpse of early Caribbean-Canadian life in Waterloo Region. Curated by Roy’s grandson Aaron Francis, whose grandmother, mother, and uncles appear here alongside one another outside the family home and on family trips to Niagara Falls and the Canadian National Exhibition.</span><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Installed as a series of six oversize window graphics located </span><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">on the street-facing side of <b class="">East Campus Hall, 263 Phillip Street</b> is a 25-minute walk from the Tamarack Drive neighbourhood where many of the images where taken. T</font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" class="">he </span><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">window takeover </font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" class="">expands the public presence of the gallery during lockdown</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" class=""> while importantly </span><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">providing a new context for the work Aaron presents on Instagram under the hashtag </font><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Vintage Black Canada</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">™</span></b><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">. In curating his family’s archive of</font><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> photography and slides he proudly represents a </font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Caribbean-Canadian</span><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> community </font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" class="">that has traditionally been underrepresented in Waterloo, while connecting with the broader African diaspora across Canada</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">. </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Aaron T. Francis is a doctoral student at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, a multidisciplinary artist, and a curator. The former chair of the City of Kitchener’s Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, Aaron has exhibited works from his Vintage Black Canada™ initiative at the BAND Gallery Toronto, the Gladstone Hotel, the Contact Photography Festival, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) as well as with Ryerson University’s Fashion and Race Database. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><a href="http://instagram.com/vintageblackcanada" class="">instagram.com/vintageblackcanada</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Special thanks to Jean Stevenson and Westmount Signs.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class="">The University of Waterloo Art Gallery acknowledges the generous support of the Region of Waterloo Art Fund.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><a href="http://artsfund.ca/" class="">artsfund.ca</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;" class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font size="2" face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class="">ADMIT EVERYONE</b><br class="">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font size="2" face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="">East Campus Hall, </span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class="">263 Phillip Street, Waterloo</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font size="2" face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><font color="windowtext" class=""><a href="http://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/" class="">uwag.uwaterloo.ca</a></font></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font size="2" face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><font color="windowtext" class=""><a href="http://facebook.com/uwag.waterloo" class="">facebook.com/uwag.waterloo</a></font></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font size="2" face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><font color="windowtext" class=""><a href="http://instagram.com/uwartgallery" class="">instagram.com/uwartgallery</a></font></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 16px; 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