First Fridays! – Diane Whitehouse - Mentoring Artists for Women's Art

MAWA’S NEWEST PROGRAM
First Fridays!
Diane Whitehouse:
Contemporary Painting Practice
Friday December 5 at noon
MAWA BOARDROOM
BRING YOUR LUNCH, COFFEE PROVIDED
Friday December 5
4pm – 6pm
mawa’s
Holiday
Reception
Join us for a glass of cheer and some
good tidings! Everyone is invited!
WELCOME BONNIE TULLOCH! Bonnie is a practicum
student with the University of Manitoba, Women’s Studies
Program, who will be joining us on Friday afternoons for
the rest of the year.
MAWA’S CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MAWA’S current Board of Directors: Tamara Rae Biebrich, Deborah Bowers (vicechair),
Shirley Brown (secretary), Roewan Crowe, Barb Flemington (chair), Connie
Jantz, Fay Jelly, Dana Kletke, Jen Loewen (past-chair), Lesley McKenzie
(treasurer), Alissa Schacter, Reva Stone.
STAFF Vera Lemecha, Executive Director, vlemecha@mawa.ca
Sarah Crawley, Administrative Co-ordinator, scrawley@mawa.ca
PHOTO: ERMIE MAYER
Join us for the launch of our new program, First Fridays, with Diane
Whitehouse. Diane has participated in many solo and group
exhibitions internationally. She has taught at the University of Alberta,
The Banff Centre for Art, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
and the University of Manitoba. She has served as a board member
for the St. Norbert Arts Centre, Plug In ICA and the Winnipeg Art
Gallery. She is a founding member of MAWA and Gallery. This
year Diane is a mentor in the Foundation Advisory Program.
After Diane Whitehouse’s presentation1/2 hour critiques will be
booked —bring your work!
First Fridays will take place the first Friday of each month,
except January and August. Watch the newsletter for
information on upcoming presentations. ADMISSION IS FREE!
HEADS UP!
DATE
NOVEMBER 8
November 16
November 21
November 25
DECEMBER 5
DEADLINE FOR
Bonnie Marin
Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba 2 pm
Wendy Wersch Memorial Lecture:
Brenda Austin-Smith,
2 pm Cinematheque
Programming Meeting 2 pm
Board meeting 7 pm
First Friday:
Diane Whitehouse, Contemporary
Painting Practice 12 noon
HOLIDAY RECEPTION 4 – 6 PM
December 24 – January 5 Office closed for the holidays
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MAWA and its projects are generously funded by The Manitoba Arts Council,
The Canada Council for the Arts, The WH & SE Loewen Foundation, The City
of Winnipeg, The Winnipeg Foundation, private donors and members.
JANUARY 6
January 16
January 24
submissions for the
February/March newsletter
Programming Meeting 2 pm
Brenna George, Video Pool Studio 2 pm

Message from Vera
These past few months have been
exciting times for us at MAWA. At the
request of the Board, I spent the
summer producing an assessment of the
organization. On Sep-tember 15 I had the
pleasure of presenting the results at a day
long retreat of the Board and staff. I am
pleased to report that after much enthusiastic
discussion, the Board has approved a
number of initiatives that will be implemented
in the next two years. These initiatives will allow us to move into our
20th year with programs that we believe will be responsive to the needs
of our members and the community in general. Here is a sample of the
things you can expect to see in the future:
1. The Foundation Advisory Program: in consideration of the 300%
more applicants than spaces available in the current program, we will be
hiring an additional mentor for next September.
2. In order to extend our mentorship programs to our ever-growing
national membership, we plan to establish a bursary program for one
Mentee from outside of our area to work with our Mentor in Residence
Program.
3. A Rural and Northern Coordinator will be responsible for
consulting with artists in rural and northern communities in Manitoba to
determine how MAWA might support these artists.
4. The First Friday of each month bring your lunch and join us for a
presen-tation by a guest speaker on one of a variety of topics relevant
to contemporary art practices. Meet with the speaker for an individual
consultation during the afternoon and join us at the end of the afternoon
for refreshments.
Join us December 5 for our inaugural First Friday with guest Diane
White-house who will speak about contemporary painting and schedule
individual consultations for the afternoon. See more information in this
newsletter!
And later on that afternoon, at 4 pm, come raise a glass with us to
celebrate the season. All are welcome!
We invite all of our MAWA members to attend Bonnie Marin’s
presenta-tion at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba on Saturday,
November 8. And in January join us for an artist’s presentation by
Brenna George. These are two events in our regular local artists’ lecture
series program.
Wishing you peace and joy for you and your families for this
holiday season!
Vera Lemecha, Director
mawa: culture
of community
Programs
The First Fridays series begins on December 5 at noon with
guest speaker Diane Whitehouse. Bring your lunch and join us
for an informal discussion on contemporary painting. After the
discussion half-hour individual consultations will be scheduled
with Diane.
Congratulations to the graduates of last year’s Foundation Advisory
Program: Front row, l-r: Karen Hutchinson, Leanne Cipriano, Lisa Wood,
Di Thorneycroft
Back row l-r: Shawna McLeod, Sigrid Dahle, Glennys Hardie, Aurora
Landin, Missing from photo: Jane Tingley. Mentors were Sigrid Dahle,
Diana Thorneycroft and Aurora Landin.
Mentor
by Mail
Program
Congratulations to
Leah Decter and Erika
MacPherson who will
be working with Rita
McKeough this year
in the Mentor by Mail
Program.
Erika MacPherson (in collaboration with Stephen Lawson) Roc Roc Chicken Hawk,15 min.,
2003. Still by Erika MacPherson
MAWA Members Price: $12 Non-members: $22
Out of Town Prices:
MAWA Members: $15 includes shipping costs
Non-members: $25 includes shipping costs
produced in celebration of MAWA’s upcoming 20th
anniversary is hot off the press and we’re ready
for your orders.
With essays byJennifer Fisher, Lori Blondeau,
Mireille Perron, Lynne Bell, Catherine Mattes and
Sheryl N. Hamilton
Artists’ works by KC Adams, Shirley Brown,
Susan Chafe, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan,
Jen Loewen, Rita McKeough, Ann Newdigate,
Edith Regier, Mary Scott and Karen Thornton
Chronology Editor: Sigrid Dahle
Chronology Research & Compilation: Grace Nickel
Foreword: Diane Whitehouse
Design: Susan Chafe Copy Editor: Alison Gillmor
In town the book can be purchased at the MAWA
office and both locations of McNally Robinson.
The members’ discount does not apply at McNally.
Out of town members: order your copy by
returning this form with your cheque or money
order. Order form is also available on MAWA’s
website at mawa.ca.
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Rozema’s “I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing,” on James’s The Wings
of the Dove, on symbolism in American literature, and on women’s
emotional responses to film. She is currently writing on women’s home
movie documentaries, and on Manitoba film for a forthcoming
anthology.
The Wendy Wersch Memorial Lecture Series, dedicated to autonomy
for women visual artists, is an annual event celebrating the life and
memory of artist Wendy Wersch. This series explores issues of
feminist art criticism, activism and practice. It is supported this year
by Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Cinematheque, the Winnipeg
Film Group, and donations made to the Wendy Wersch Memorial
Fund of the Winnipeg Foundation. If you are interested in making a
donation to the Wendy Wersch Memorial Fund please contact Cathy
Auld at the Winnipeg Foundation 944-9474 or make a cheque payable
to The Winnipeg Foundation and send it to The Winnipeg Foundation,
re: The Wendy Wersch Memorial Fund, 1350 One Lombard Place,
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 0X3.
Brenna George, The Language of Flowers, video still, work in progress
MAWA PRESENTS
Brenna George
Presentation, Video Pool Studio, January 24, 2 pm
Brenna George has worked in video since 1990. The National Gallery of
Canada owns Wallpaper, her most widely acclaimed video. Screening of
her videos have spanned the globe from Surrey Art Gallery in B.C. to the
Centre D'Art in Basse Normandie. She has fluid technical skills that
allow her to experiment with editing and compositing.
3RD ANNUAL WENDY WERSCH MEMORIAL LECTURE
The Wendy Wersch Lecture Series Dedicated to Autonomy for Women Visual Artists Presents:
a talk by
BRENDA AUSTIN-SMITH including video clips
2pm Sunday November 16, 2003, Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street
In this talk, Brenda Austin-Smith will share some of the responses of
women to classic Hollywood “woman’s films” (films of heartache,
romance, mother-hood, and female friendship). These films, produced
from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, were often dismissed by critics
as “tear-jerkers” and “weepies,” though women loved to watch and
weep at these films. Why were these films so popular, and why did
women cry at them? Austin-Smith will offer some analysis of emotional
responses to the “woman’s film” in order to release both these films
and their viewers from charges of sentimentality and triviality.
Brenda Austin-Smith is Assistant Professor of English and Film
Studies at the University of Manitoba. Her teaching and research areas
include feminist film theory, the study of narrative persuasion in fiction
and film, the novels of Henry James, the language of television, and
melodrama. She has articles published and forthcoming on Patricia
Bonnie Marin, Severed Artery, photo collage, 3 ft x 2 ft
JOIN US IN BRANDON FOR A PRESENTATION BY
Bonnie Marin
MAWA invites you to meet Winnipeg artist Bonnie Marin at the Art
Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba where she will discuss her work on
Saturday, Nov-ember 8 at 2 pm.
Over the past few years Bonnie has been concentrating on various
types of collage and artist books. She maintains a sense of humour by
using pop culture images mainly from the 1930's, 40's and 50's. She
explores the everyday occurrences of human life through such serious
themes as death to such ordinary things as meat. She is currently
working on a project titled Gross Anatomy, which includes over 300
photo-collage images of the human anatomy along with a companion
book.
Thank you to the AGSM for hosting this event.

member’s news
Katherine Bruce will be exhibiting recent drawings, paintings
and collaged mixed media work in Where do you Draw the Line?
at Site Gallery, 2nd floor, 55 Arthur Street, from December 2-30,
2003. Opening reception, Saturday December 6, 1-4pm.
Fay Jelly will exhibit her work at the Art Gallery of Southwestern
Manitoba in Brandon, from December 18, 2003 to February 8,
2004. Jennifer Woodbury writes: "Fay Jelly will present an
exhibition in December 2003 of her recent paintings of antique
lamps. Jelly cleverly uses the tradition of still life painting as an
ironic response to the painted female nude by imbuing the
inanimate objects with a languorous and very human sensuous
beauty."
Karen Cornelius will exhibit with INFINITE PROOF: An East
West Printmaking Collective December 3-20, 2003 at the Hong
Kong Institute of Education Gal-lery, Tai Po, Hong Kong.
A solo exhibition of recent paintings by Brigitte Dion, will run
from November 13, 2003 to January 4, 2004 at the Franco
Manitoban Cultural Centre (located at 340 Provencher
Boulevard). Everyone is welcome to attend the opening on
November 13 at 8:00 p.m.
Tonia Di Risio, of Halifax, has been invited to contribute a
Duratrans image derived from her existing series, Homemade
for the exhibition Illuminations, at Mount Saint Vincent University
Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, on display October 30, 2003
through until fall 2004. To prepare her tableau-style photo-graphs,
Di Risio sets up a doll's house peopled by photographic cutouts
of herself and her Italian-Canadian relatives. Though
photographed in directorial style, Di Risio's illusionism is
deliberately imperfect. Her pictures' "homemade" appearance
highlights questions of gender and ethnic difference that are
seam-lessly normalized in commercial photography. Homemade
will resonate decisively with the surrounding institutional
architecture, whose every detail declares public space to be
separate from private space.
Fay Jelly, Lamp I, 2003, 35" x 26" Oil on canvas)
Sandra Campbell will be showing a series of 16 x 20 b/w
photographs in an annual group exhibition. This year the theme
is Peace On Earth. Mennonite Heritage Art Gallery, 600
Shaftsbury Blvd. Winnipeg. The exhibition opens on November
14, 2003 at 7:30 and runs until January 3, 2004.
Haruko Okano will be conducting professional development
workshops at the Surrey Art Centre, 13750 88 Ave, Surrey, B.C.,
including Writing Grants and Proposals, Professional Artist
Kickstart, and Portfolio Makeover. For more infor-mation contact
the Surrey Art Centre at 604-501-5566.
The Magic of One Concert Series: A Collaborative Spoken Word
Concert Series With Storytellers and Musicians, organized in part
Brigitte Dion, Portal , 2003

Sara Angelucci, Stillness, 2002
by Mary Louise Chown, is taking place on various days from
October through April at the Unitarian Church Hall on Wellington
Crescent at 8:00 pm in the evening. Tickets $8 in advance, $10
at the door, $40 for all six concerts. Tickets are available at Prairie
Sky Books. For more information contact Mary Louise Chown at
489-6994.
Stand-Ins, a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring participants in
the 2000/01 Foundation Advisory Program, is touring to Calgary's
New Gallery, January 2– February 6, 2004. The exhibition
contains the work of Tamara Rae Biebrich, Heidi Eigenkind,
Elizabeth Garlicki, Lesley McKenzie and Lynne Schulz.
Attractive and seductive, the video installation, painting and
sculpture belie concerns with past and current notions of
femaleness, body experiences, and the value offered women
and their labours. Shawna Dempsey curates, and presents a
talk on Jan. 3 at 2 p.m. The New Gallery, 516D–9th Avenue SW,
Calgary, AB phone 403.233.2399.
Sara Angelucci’s work was included in The Found and the
Familiar: Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art, a touring
exhibition from Gallery TPW, Toronto. The exhibition was at
Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB, September 12 to October
17, 2003.
Tonia Di Risio, Nonna’s Livingroom, Duratrans
Linda Duvall, Ellen Moffat, and Rachelle Viader-Knowles
exhibited Guessed House at AKA Gallery in Saskatoon,
September 11–October 17, 2003. As a starting point, the artists
spent a weekend in the house of a stranger, temporarily
transplanting themselves into that person’s life. The
documentation gathered is the basis of the exhibition.
Megan Vun Wong exhibited Halcyon: new works, new
approach at Main Access Gallery, September 19–October 18,
2003. Halcyon is an exhibition that espouces the wherewithal of
modern humanity to become renewed, to become enthralled.
Work that expounds life-affirming energy is housed with work
that is ascetic and contemplative. Both works impel the hope
and the quest into the expansion of emotional depth and range,
the tuning of the spirit and the relentless search for meaning.
Pauline Braun exhibited I Can’t Believe it’s Coloured Pencil at
the Portage Arts Centre September 4–27, 2003.
Elizabeth Garlicki, mixed media, from the exhibition Stand Ins

Jean Smallwood presents Produce: An Exhibition of Painting at
Bread & Circuses Bakery & Café, 238 Lilac Street, from
September 21 to November 30, 2003.
To Conjure, curated by Sigrid Dahle, opens at the Dunlop Art
Gallery, Regina, on Friday November 14, 7:00 pm and runs until
January 11, 2004. Included in the exhibition are Richard Dyck,
Stan Denniston, William Eakin, Jennifer Hamil-ton, Kim Morgan,
Taras Polataiko, Jeanne Randolph, and Lori Weidenhammer.
Lori Weidenhammer will perform The Haunted Crinoline at the
opening reception.
William Eakin exhibited Reunion at Gallery 1C03, The
University of Winnipeg from September 25 to October 19, 2003.
Susan Coolen, from Montréal had work included in the
following exhibitons: In the Light of Six contemporary artists
explore the legacy of William Henry Fox Talbot at Kitchener-
Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario. Curated by Dianne Bos
and includes Dianne Bos, Ernie Kroeger,
Megan Vun Wong, Yearning II, diptych, 6’ x 4’
Daniel Olson, Helen Quinn and Andrew Wright. September 6 to
November 2, 2003. Sphere at Presentation House Gallery, North
Vancouver, BC. Curated by Bill Jeffries and includes Deanne
Achong, Holly Armishaw, William Eakin, Lynda Gammon, Lisa
Klapstock, Daniel Lee, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Michael
Euyung Oh, Lindsay Seers, Laurie Simmons/Allan McCollum
and Geoffrey Smedley. September 13 to November 2, 2003.
April Hickox exhibited Landscape and Memory at Leo Kamen
Gallery, Toronto, from September 13 to October 11, 2003.
Susan Coolen, (de)Cipher/Script, 2003, lamda prints, 40” x 50”
April Hickox, Early Apple, 1/7 black and white photograph, 30” x 30”, 2003

Grace Nickel, Sea Sconce, 2001, Ceramic, light PHOTO: ERNEST MAYER
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan explore the history of language
in a series of videos commissioned by the Royal Ontario Museum.
Entitled Archaeology and You, the installation opens in Toronto on
November 7 and will run for six months. Three viewing stations are
positioned among the classical sculptures of idealized beauty in the
Gallery of Ancient Greece, and feature the unex-pected image of
Millan, a contemporary lesbian. In the same way as artifacts are
brought together in the museum to create greater meaning,
Dempsey and Millan juxtapose shards of narrative to form a
meditation on the history of language and raise questions of how the
written word has impacted the con-struction of individual identity and
culture. Millan's reflections will encourage visitors to ponder "what
we have to say?" and "why do we bother writing it down?"
Joan Borsa has accepted the position of Head, Women's and
Gender Studies at the University of Saskatchewan beginning Dec.
01, 2003. She will continue with her independent curatorial work and
looks forward to the possibilities associated with a site that
encourages and supports research and creative and intellectual work.
Aurora Landin exhibited Recidivism at The Martha Street Studio,
September 26 to October 18, 2003.
WINNIPEG’S GRACE NICKEL is one of only ten ceramic artists from
around the world to be awarded a residency in Taiwan as a part of the
International Large Outdoor Ceramic Lantern Workshop later this fall.
This prestigious event is being organized in conjunction with the
2003 Yingge Ceramics Festival, an annual celebration of culture,
ceramics and tourism, which this year has ‘light’ as its central theme.
Throughout October, the group of professional artists selected (three
from Taiwan, three from the USA, one from Austria, one from the
Netherlands, one from Australia and one from Canada) will work in
the southern area of Taiwan, creating lanterns in studios at Tainan
College. In November, the artists and their new works will travel to
the northern part of the island to Yingge for the ceramics festival,
where thousands of people will attend over a ten-day period. At the
festival, the artists will show their ceramic lanterns and conduct
demonstrations of their techniques in clay. After the festival, the
works will be on exhibition in the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics
Museum for three months and will subse-quently become part of the
museum’s permanent collection.