Presented by the City of Mississauga and Visual Arts Mississauga

Lisa Hirmer, We Are Atmosphere, 2024, part of Seeds to Sow in Barrie, Ontario, image courtesy of the artist

Artist Talk & Networking Opportunity

November 27, 2025, 7–9pm (doors open 6:30pm)
Visual Arts Mississauga
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Join Mississauga’s public art program, in partnership with Visual Arts Mississauga, for a night of inspiration and connection.

Lisa Hirmer is the City of Mississauga’s stormwater public artist in residence. In this inaugural role, Lisa has immersed herself in the work of the stormwater projects team to propose new public art and raise awareness of how stormwater work addresses climate change, sustainability, regeneration and connections with nature.

In her artist talk, Lisa will share insights into her interdisciplinary practice. Spanning photography, sculpture, installation, social practice, community collaboration and sometimes writing, her work explores collective relationships both within human communities and between humans and the more-than-human-world (which is to say other species as well as planetary forces like water, wind, geology, and so on).

Informal networking with local artists and arts colleagues will follow the talk. Light snacks and a raffle door prize provided. Space is limited so registration is recommended. Doors open at 6:30pm.

Lisa Hirmer, City of Mississauga’s Stormwater Public Artist in Residence

About the Artist

Lisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist whose work, in one way or another, is about the collective nature of being—the parts of life that can only exist between things. Spanning photography, sculpture, installation, social practice, community collaboration and sometimes writing, her work explores collective relationships both within human communities and between humans and the more-than-human-world (which is to say other species as well as planetary forces like water, wind, geology, and so on).

Her work has been shown in galleries across Canada and internationally including at Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Guelph, Cambridge Galleries, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Tom Thompson Gallery, Fondation Grantham, Harbourfront Centre, KIAC, Peninsula Arts, CAFKA, Third Space, Queens Museum, and Flux Factory, among others. Her public art experience includes an ongoing artist-made garden for nocturnal pollinators in collaboration with Christina Kingsbury called Moth Garden; and a public art installation for the City of Barrie as part of Seeds to Sow curated by Katie Lawson. Her book of poetry, Forests Not Yet Here, which emerges from texts written for participatory works, was published by Publication Studio Guelph in 2020.

Lisa was selected for this role by an arms-length jury, through an open call to artists.

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