Sauga Arts HUB

Mississauga Stories
2025-12-30
An exploration of identity, home and belonging.

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Visit two historic sites to experience four unique exhibition projects that share stories rooted in themes of identity, home, and belonging.
Exhibition schedule
The following programs will be on display from August 10 to December 18:
Leaving Home

Bradley Museum, Anchorage Gallery from August 10 to September 10.
Curated by Maysoon Sheikh, Leaving Home features stories of migration and what it means to leave home.
Learn about the experiences shared by all communities and reflect on your own history by writing a letter back home or mapping your journey of leaving home

Generation X Marks the Spot

Bradley Museum, Anchorage Gallery Hallways from September 21 to December 18.
Curated by Dayo Kefentse, Generation X Marks the Spot showcases a timeline of events and authentic media clippings from 1988, wherein a local shooting involving a Black teen spurred youths in the Black Action Defense Committee to investigate police training, policies and attitudes towards visible minorities. Learn more about the actions that were inspired as a results of the incident.

No Place

Bradley Museum, Anchorage Gallery from September 21 to December 18.
Curated by Arezu Salamzadeh, No Place relates to what it means to desire proximity to a place and identity outside one’s own, and to bridges notions of identity, place, and desire.
For this installation, these themes will be explored through the landscapes and myths of the American Southwest, featuring custom sculptures of saloon doors, horses, and more.
Get excited for a three-part drag karaoke series from October to December, led by Arezu’s drag persona Rolls Rice.

Panel discussion
Dreamland

Small Arms Inspection Building on August 31 from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
Curated by Hibah Mian, Dreamland poses the question: “Is it possible to exist in two places at one time?” which illustrates new ways to understand the passage of one space to another, the move from a home to a house, while learning stories of trauma and transformation.
Learn more and register for the panel discussion.

No Place Exhibition
2025-12-30
No Place

Visit the Bradley Museum installation exploring what it means to desire closeness to a place and identity outside one’s own.

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Curated by Arezu Salamzadeh, No Place explores core themes of identity, place, and desire. The exhibition showcases the landscapes and myths of the American Southwest, featuring fantastical sculptures, authentic saloon doors, cow-boy inspired artifacts and more.
In addition to the exhibition, Arezu will also be hosting a three-part drag karaoke series from October to December as her drag persona Rolls Rice.
Arezu Salamzadeh (she/they) is a queer, neurodivergent, mixed-race, Mississauga-based artist who creates objects, performances, music, and spaces for people to interact with and move through. They ask questions about nostalgia, selfhood, power, desire, and loneliness through a language of humor and play. She received her BFA, Honors, from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2016 and her Masters in Visual Studies, Honors, from the University of Toronto in 2022. They have since exhibited at galleries, museums, and unconventional venues throughout Canada, the US, Italy, and the UK. Overall, she shares a desire for a space to have discourse around multiple narratives of history, identity, and queerness.
Arezu was selected from the Museums call for BIPOC curator’s campaign, which aims to confront the legacy of cultural institutions as traditionally white, colonial spaces with Eurocentric curatorial practices, by facilitating an annual exhibition for local creatives who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous or Person(s) of Colour). The project aims to address this feedback in an effort to create welcoming and inclusive facilities that showcase, and amplify the voices of the diverse Mississauga community.

CLARKSON SOCIETY OF ARTISTS – 60TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
2025-12-30
This exhibition celebrates the work of the Clarkson Society of Artists—one of Mississauga’s most longstanding art groups. The community-based, non-profit association consists of approximately 40 local artists working across a broad range of mediums, styles, and techniques.
First organized in 1963 as the Clarkson Art Group, the members began by meeting in various homes, and then moved their gatherings to a local church basement, where they continue to hold their weekly workshops and meetings to this day.
Their dedication to artistic growth has resulted in numerous exhibitions, including their annual Spring Show and Sale at Visual Arts Mississauga. Many members have participated in juried shows both nationally and internationally, some are art instructors, and some belong to prominent art associations, receiving prestigious awards for their contributions.
The membership of the Clarkson Society of Artists has changed and evolved over the years, but their core motivation to support artistic development within a social, closely-knit group has remained constant. This exhibition showcases the work of all the society’s current members, who have selected some of their favourite artworks to share with our audiences.

Arts on the Credit Virtual Gallery - October 2023
2025-12-30
Arts on the Credit is getting ready for their in-person Artworks show at the Waterside Inn on November 4 & 5. Their virtual gallery for October 2023 is a sneak peek at all the works and artists you can see then!
View the virtual gallery here: https://artsonthecredit.ca/gallery/
