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Drag takes visual arts alumni to centre stage

Drag performer Juice BoxxAlumnus Jo Primeau aka Juice Boxx recently appeared on Canada's Drag Race All Stars (PROVIDED BY J. PRIMEAU/University of Windsor)

By Kate Hargreaves 

On the road from UWindsor's School of Visual Arts to Canada's Drag Race, artistry has always taken centre stage for Jo Primeau (BFA '11). 

Better known as drag persona Juice Boxx, Primeau began performing back in 2016 after graduating from UWindsor and moving to Toronto to study makeup and special effects at Complections Makeup Artistry (now CMU College).  

Work in television, film and events, followed by a role with MAC Cosmetics, eventually led Primeau to drag. 

Microbes strut the catwalk in Bioart fashion show

Student dressed in a yellow raincoat covered in fake leaves with spiralled pink pool noodles on their headVisual art student Delia Poirier walks the runway as Lyme disease (JUSTIN ELLIOTT @jel_media/University of Windsor)

By Kate Hargreaves 

Black mold, salmonella, E. coli and even brain-eating amoeba took over the CAW Student Centre March 16. 

What sounds like a health and safety nightmare was not, in fact, a biohazard but rather a Bioart fashion show coordinated by School of Creative Arts professor and Canada Research Chair Dr. Jennifer Willet.