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Attend Dog Days of Ontario Culture Days, a conceptual project by artist Micah Lexier. Join us along the Open Streets Windsor East – End Route from 10am – 2pm on September 20th, 2026* with your four-legged friends to explore the culture of dogs and their humans.
In this dog-centred experience, you can participate in two components:
Guess Your Dog’s Age or Weight: A performance in which a “carnival guesser” attempts to accurately guess a dog’s age or weight. In exchange for a donation to a local dog charity, dog owners will receive a custom-minted coin as a memento of having participated in the project.
A Portrait of The Person Making a Portrait of Your Dog: A live drawing activation where visitors receive a free sketch of their dog by a local sketch artist, while a second artist sketches the first artist at work. Dog owners get to keep their sketch, while Micah Lexier keeps the second sketch, to be included in a subsequent publication.
This program is part of the Ontario Culture Days 2026 Creatives in Residence series, and is curated by Dave Dyment.
*(Specific location along path will be updated on the page and @artscouncilwindsor on instagram).
Partners:
Dog Days of Ontario Culture Days is made possible thanks to Tourism Niagara-on-the-Lake, the City of Toronto, the Province of Ontario, the Tourism Partnership of Niagara, and the Ontario Arts Council.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and producing partners Evergreen Brick Works, Town of Oakville, The Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre, Temiskaming Art Gallery, Waterfront BIA and Arts Council Windsor & Region.
About the Artist:
Micah Lexier is a Toronto-based artist whose activities include making, collecting, and organizing. His projects range in scale and permanence from printed ephemera to public sculptures. He has presented over 120 solo exhibitions, participated in more than 250 group exhibitions and has produced sixteen permanent public commissions. In 2015 Lexier was honoured with a Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Micah Lexier is represented by MKG127, Toronto.