ACHF Local Artist Spotlight

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Meaghan Sweeney
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Talysha Bujold-Abu

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Avery Lessard
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Tooty

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Remi
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Riot

In 2023, Drawslaw received two thousand dollars from the City of Windsor's Arts, Culture & Heritage Fund to highlight four local artists on their stream. This spotlight is very similar to the normal Drawslaw Guest Star streams, except with local artists.

## Julian Pawlaczyk

The first of the four artists, Julian Pawlaczyk is a 29 year old comic illustrator. They have been drawing since childhood, but for a while their artwork has mainly been focused on ***EIGHT. EIGHT*** is a comic created and drawn by Julian. It is a story about a young boy, who's village was massacred and destroyed by samurai, that dedicates the rest of his life to avenging his family and, with the help of an Old God, the young boy must learn to oppose his own gentle nature and release the warrior from within(You can find more about this story by clicking Julian's name above to be guided to their link tree),

## Meaghan Sweeney

Meaghan Sweeney is a contemporary mixed media artist. They apply mixed media techniques to her work to evaluate chaos and structure. Their practice is a manifestation of the experience of the psychiatric disorders: Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depression. It highlights emotional hurtles most people must face regardless of mental health. Their work has an emphasis on expressing vulnerability to promote individual and community healing through normalization of struggle. This goes along with their work in the Vanguard Collective, which they are the co-editor and vice president.

## Talysha Bujold-Abu

Talysha Bujold-Abu is an illustrator, administrator, and writer. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor in 2018 and a recipient of the Conundrum Press Mini-Comic Bursary for Black and Indigenous Creators. Additionally, she is a lemon seed and or plant enthusiast, mainly mediocre at crosswords but also decidedly devoted to them, an avid reader, and super into the following things; dice tossing, the Crystal Gems, and POPCORN!

## Avery Lessard

Avery Lessard is a tattoo artist, who, at the time of streaming, works at Inkwell Windsor. She is a good friend of Brodie and Maria and, in fact, she even introduced the couple. She has done multiple pieces on both of them and is Brodie's go-to tattoo artist. Many stream goers will recognize some of her pieces from Twitch or Instagram, specifically her tattoo rendition of Brodie's ironic skeleton cherries. Additionally, she has also done other, just as ironic but a little less renowned, things on Brodie like Crane with Snake and abstract postage stamp and a moth on Maria,

## Trivia

* Julian went to college with Brodie.
* Meaghan is Julian's dad, it's canon.
* Meaghan cursed Andrew with bugs. This curse mostly included flies, four of which appeared during her visit on stream, while other bugs, such as ants, appeared later.
* During Talysha's time guest starring, there was a mic mishap were Brodie and Talysha could be heard on the starting soon screen. Then to even the playing fields, Andrew also unmuted.
* Talysha's toothless old lady cat, Tooty, real name Nia, also appeared as a guest star.
	+ Supporting cast member Julian commented that the cat was a "little fart" and that "cats always put butt in face.
	+ Tooty was not the only cat to come on stream as in later episode, Remi and Riot, Avery's cats, popped by for a moment.
* Avery is the carrot part of the coleslaw, which is usually Brodie's thing.
	+ On the topic of food, Avery is also ramen noodles. Meanwhile, Andrew is only butter noodles, the blank canvas of noodles.