Embassy Cultural House: Celebrating 40 Years of Cultural History is an exhibition that charts the past and present programs of the Embassy Cultural House. Beginning with the Embassy Hotel in 1983, the exhibition acknowledges the efforts made by a network of artists and activists in London, Ontario and internationally, including the current, re-invigorated community collective initiated in 2020. The exhibition has been coordinated by Ron Benner, Jamelie Hassan, Wyn Geleynse and Olivia Mossuto. Artworks will be exhibited at Satellite Project Space and with our community partners—Jill’s Table, Colour by Schubert and the Framing and Art Centre—through our Cloud to Street initiative. The Cloud to Street project was initiated by Tariq Hassan Gordon in 2020 and has continued to be an important exhibition format for ECH. Further programming will address this legacy, in addition to an upcoming publication expected fall 2023. 

Celebrating 40 Years of Cultural History includes works by: Jessie Amery, Stephen Andrews, Rebecca Baird & Kenny Baird, Ron Benner, Tom Benner, Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge, Sheri Cowan, Susan Day, Duncan de Kergommeaux, Patricia Deadman, Stan Denniston, Reid Diamond, Holly English, Soheila Esfahani, kerry ferris, Mireya Folch-Serra, Wyn Geleynse, Oliver Girling, Anahí Gonzalez, Gildo Gonzalez, Jamelie Hassan, Fern Helfand, Jared Hendricks-Polack, Spring Hurlbut, Martyn Judson, Sharmistha Kar, George Kubresli, Patrick Mahon, Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Catherine Morrisey, Olivia Mossuto, Kim Neudorf, Shelley Niro, Oscar Ortiz, Troy Ouelette, Judith Rodger, Thelma Rosner, Jenna Rose Sands, Roland Schubert, Jean Spence, Diana Tamblyn, John Tamblyn, Jeff Thomas, Larry Towell, Bernice Vincent, Don Vincent, Jade Williamson

About the Embassy Cultural House (ECH)
In 1983, artists Jamelie Hassan, Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990), which was located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as an online collective and art space by Tariq Hassan Gordon. The virtual and in-person programming is a collaborative effort by contributors, editors, partners and volunteers to celebrate the art community in London, Ontario—its past and present, and its many connections across Canada and around the world. As of 2023, the revitalized Embassy Cultural House has initiated over 20 projects and six publications. 


This Embassy Cultural House (ECH) group exhibition Celebrating 40 Years of Cultural History has been organized and installed by Ron Benner, Jamelie Hassan, Wyn Geleynse and Olivia Mossuto. The Embassy Cultural House thanks all of the ECH contributors for over 40 years of generously sharing their cultural work and especially the recent community that has come together over the last 3 years to bring both programs and an audience to the ECH’s initiatives.

Special thanks to Tariq Hassan Gordon, Myra and Roland Schubert, Sarah White, Jill Wilcox, Ruth Skinner, Andrew Kear, Patrick Mahon, Juan Bello and Shannon Taylor-Jones, Gallery Coordinator of Satellite Project Space. Thanks to Museum London, Western University and Fanshawe College for their commitment to financially support and maintain Satellite Project Space for the presentation of community art programs in downtown London. ECH gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council, the London Arts Council and the City of London.

The Embassy Cultural House and Satellite Project Space acknowledge with gratitude and respect that we live and work on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi, an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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