Art Windsor-Essex to launch digital museum of Iain Baxter& works

Iain Baxter& at his exhibit at the North Vancouver Museum in Presentation House. (judy_and_ed/flickr.com via The Canadian Encylopedia)

Art Windsor-Essex (AWE) has announced it has been chosen for funding to launch a digital museum of Iain Baxter&: What’s the Big Idea?

The funding is from Digital Museums Canada and will bring AWE a bilingual, accessible project.

“Iain Baxter& set out to become a schoolteacher, and it feels like a full-circle moment to create a project that will connect Iain, and his irrepressible ideation to educators and students,” said Nadja Pelkey, digital initiatives and partnerships coordinator with AWE.

“This is the time to think big and imagine outside of what we understand to be possible.”

The digital form will allow AWE to utilize his art through 3D models, animations, and illustrations.

“Digital technologies provide a means to explore some of Iain Baxter&’s ideas that have been considered physically or logistically impossible,” read a news release.

“Using 3D models, animations, and illustrations, users will explore impossible ideas from new perspective and engage with classroom-ready resources designed to train expansive thinking - the foundation of innovation.”