Sherri Helwig

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Arts Management professor at the University of Toronto (@utsc.utoronto.ca), arts consultant, wildlife rescue driver, Canadian, and proud mom. Not in that order. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 #AcademicSky #CanadaSky

A young woodpecker on the left, being fed by a male adult woodpecker (with a red patch on the back of its head) on the right, both hanging from a peanut-filled bird feeder, with green leaves from a birch tree out of focus behind.
"Arthur's" room at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) in Ontario, Canada. The image shows a curved wall of windows and a small table with boxes and files on it, and four wooden chairs around the table.
Image shows a paper coming out of a blue envelope, which is on top of a leather portfolio embossed with the University of Toronto logo. Text on the paper says "As you will be on an approved research leave, this will confirm that you have no assigned teaching or service duties for the period from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027." which is a quote from the workload letter from my academic department that made me smile.
A large, very pregnant striped skunk, viewed from the back, with front legs up on a small stand that is holding a shallow green water bowl. Her face is turned to the left so that we can see her profile, and a drip of water can be seen dripping from her mouth.
A striped skunk standing on its hind legs to have a drink of water from a bird bath that is close to the ground.
Text alongside black and white headshot: Sherri Helwig rejoins AJAM Editorial Board We are pleased to announce today that Sherri Helwig has returned to the Editorial Board for AJAM. Sherri was instrumental in the early development of AJAM, and we welcome her back. Sherri is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Arts Management Specialist / Arts and Media Management Major in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Welcome back, Sherri!
Young man's torso wearing a T-shirt with the Women's March on Washington logo, dated January 21, 2017.
Photo of a backyard with a sauna outbuilding on the left, a gazebo on the right, circled by snow-covered trees, all with a bluish tint.
Head-and-shoulders image of me in the foreground, smiling and wearing a wide-brimmed hat, round sunglasses and a scarf that I had used to keep sand out of my mouth, with wind-swept sand dunes and a blue sky with clouds in the background.
Recovered pre-Inca ruins, walking areas, fountains and palm trees in the foreground; shantytown shacks on the mountain in the distance.
Map showing flight path from Toronto, Canada through Cancun, Mexico to Lima, Peru.
Small fluffy goldfinch bird with its head turned and tucked beneath a wing, sleeping on a perch inside an outdoor caged birdfeeder. Behind the bird one can see a tall pillar of sunflower hearts seed.
Line of trees in silhouette across the centre, with layers of storm clouds (with sun behind) and bits of blue sky above the trees and reflected in water below.
Dark cloudy sky, with the sun trying to break through, over dark but sun-dappled water.
Side view of a male Monarch butterfly hanging on to my finger, with another butterfly on purple coneflowers in the background.
Light green Monarch butterfly chrysalis; because the external surface is thinning (getting ready for the butterfly to emerge in 6 hours or so), it is turning translucent, which makes the orange, black, and white wings of the butterfly visible.
Two cat ears peeking up over the corner of a china cabinet.
Female Monarch butterfly, with wings outstretched, feeding from pink Common milkweed flowers, against a muted dark green background.
Adult female raccoon, standing with one front paw in a green birdbath, facing the camera, with a drop of water dripping from her mouth.
Head and shoulders of a small red fox, one eye closed and one slightly open, mouth open and tongue out, licking its lips. Behind the fox are plain wooden deck balusters with green yard and garden beyond.
Hawk facing left, standing on a smaller bird on green grass. The hawk has a dark red/amber-coloured eye, rust and white chest and legs, and grey head, back, wings, and tail, and has small feathers from its prey in its beak.
Tree trunk showing a new hole (obviously the home of wildlife of some kind) and dead branches sticking out at impossible angles.
Small raccoon, drinking water from a bird bath.
Image showing the head, shoulder, and one front paw of a groundhog facing left, standing on a concrete pad.
Young skunk in long grass.
Half clean, half dirty cedar deck.
Root system - the underside of a microgreen tray.
American crow standing in long grass.
Adult Blue jay bird standing on a branch of a maple tree.
An adult male bright red bird is transferring a seed into the mouth of a brown and red bird.
A male Baltimore oriole standing at a feeder, eating grape jelly with its beak slightly open.
Sunset reflected in the windows of a white bus.
Creek bed lined with large rocks and tall dry grasses, with sun shimmering on the moving water.
Closeup of red fox (head, neck, and shoulders) looking directly at the camera, with wood railing behind it, and greenery of trees behind that.
Black and white photo of two people - a young woman and her daughter - on the side of a road. The young woman is feeding something to a wild deer.
Several large brown mourning doves in various stages of rest and sleep. Most in one row, and two side by side in a second row, on deck furniture and cushions on a sunny winter day.
Young boy with curly hair in a swimming pool, leaning forward to kiss a large dog (lying on a deck at the edge of the pool) on the nose.
Cooper's Hawk standing on snowy branches of a maple tree.
Two cats cuddled closely together.
A small sauna outbuilding with cedar shakes on the walls, snow on the roof, smoke coming out of the chimney pipe, and tall evergreen trees in the background.
A brown Cooper's Hawk standing on a maple tree branch that is dusted with snow. Its back is to the camera, but it is looking over its shoulder at the photographer. There are many branches in the background, and the sky behind is almost white in the morning sun.
A black squirrel and a Cooper's Hawk on branches of a large maple tree, looking at one another, backlit by the morning sun that makes the sky look white. The tree branches are bare except for a dusting of snow.
A housecat on a rug, looking outdoors through a floor-to-ceiling window at a raccoon who is standing on a wooden deck.
The image shows people speaking at a gathering. One says to another, "I'm a fiction writer in the grant-proposal genre."
The interior of a cedar-lined sauna, with two benches, two backrests, and a wooden bucket with ladle.
Vibrant blue sky and pink clouds at sunrise.
Raccoon barely hanging on to a birdfeeder on my back deck.