April / May 2004 - Mentoring Artists for Women's Art

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MENTORING ARTISTS FOR WOMEN’S ART
301 - 245 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada R3B 0S6
t. (204) 949-9490 f. (204) 949-9399
info@mawa.ca http://www.mawa.ca
APRIL / MAY 2004
happy 20th birthday mawa!
MENTOR IN RESIDENCE
Mindy Yan Miller
JUNE 21–JULY 16, 2004
Applications must be received in the MAWA office
by 4 pm, Friday, April 30, 2004
The mentor in residence program is designed for mid-career and senior
artists. This intensive program involves individual weekly meetings with
the Mentor as well as weekly group meetings. The program is geared to
meet the needs of the individual artists and in addition to time spent in
the studio, past participants have worked on grant applications, artist
statements and visited exhibitions together. Participants in previous years
have reported gaining new skills, knowledge and inspiration from this
intensive program.
Mindy Yan Miller studied surface design and art at Parson’s School of Design (N.Y.C.) and the
Nova Scotia School of Art & Design (Halifax). In the early 1980’s she opened a textile design
studio, employing five full-time painters. In spite of its success the artist writes that her
“social ideal of producing an affordable product produced near sweatshop conditions and
conflicted with [her] need for making to be meaningful.” The business was sold and she
redirected her activities around the production of art that “drew out the utilitarian function
of textiles as content.”
A number of monumental installations followed. Constructed from hundreds of pounds of
carefully layered used clothing, these works were awesome testimonials to excessive
consumption and the evanescence of memory. Sometimes honorific, sometimes
blasphemous, her work frequently invokes dialectic relationships between craft and
mechanical production, labour and consumption, and ownership and representation.
Attic The upper floor of a textile museum in an 18th century house was blocked off with
a wall of folded worn clothing built around an original set of beams. Approximately 1200
pounds of used clothing, wood stud wall, wire. 183” x 277” 2002.
Photographer: Richard Max Tremblay.
Exhibited in North America and Europe since the mid 1980’s, Mindy Yan Miller’s work has
recently been featured at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), Galerie La Centrale
(Montreal), Mercer Union (Toronto), Musée Marcil (Saint-Lambert, Québec) and Artforum
Berlin (Germany). An active member of galerie articule (Montreal), her curatorial activities
include Pied–a-terre (1993), Ruth Liberman & Allan Switzer (1994) and Hôpital (2001). She
lives in Montreal, teaches in Fibres at Concordia University and is the mother of a beautiful
and willful little boy.
TO APPLY: Submit a current cv, a
statement explaining what you would
like to work on with Mindy and slides,
video, or other support material. For
information call MAWA at 949-9490.
More information on Mindy Yan Miller
is available in the MAWA office, which
is open Tuesday and Friday 10 to 4 pm.
APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO
Mindy Yan Miller, c/o MAWA,
301-245 McDermot Ave,
Winnipeg, MB, R3BOS6
FEE: $100 payable upon
acceptance into the program
RESULTS WILL BE
ANNOUNCED FRIDAY, MAY 7
drop out (no.6) Installation with empty Coke cans
arranged on the floor with a “peace and love” motif
dropped out. Arrangement varies according to the
space. This configuration has about 5,500 cans. 4
3/4” x 126” x 252.” 2001

Message from Vera
MAWA has been working to encourage and
support women in the development of their art
practices for 20 years this April. We are inviting
our members and friends in the community to
celebrate this event with us on Friday, April 2 from
4–6 pm. April 2 is also First Friday and Shirley
Brown, of Deloraine, Manitoba, will discuss the
impact of isolation on artists. As a successful artist
who lives and works in Deloraine, Manitoba, with
a population of 1040 or so, Shirley is well-situated
to address issues affecting rural artists. May’s First Friday will feature Susan Chafe,
designer of MAWA’s newsletter and many other publications including artists’
books through the Lives of Dogs collective. Susan’s dual careers as artist/
graphic designer, positions her well to provide an overview of graphic design
processes for those of us who work with designers and for those who want to
utilize graphic design and printing processes to produce their own artwork.
We are fortunate to have Mindy Yan Miller and Rebecca Belmore as this
year’s Mentors in Residence. Mindy, who has exhibited her installations internationally
and teaches at Concordia University, will be here June 21 to July 16.
Deadline for application to work with Mindy is April 30. Please see the upcoming
newsletter for information on the Rebecca Belmore residency in September.
Celia Rabinovitch, Director of the School of Art, University of Manitoba, will
present her work as artist and writer on April 17 at 2 pm. A former Winnipegger,
who had been residing in California, Celia returned in September to take up
her position at the School of Art. Please join us in welcoming Celia and finding
out more about her practice. I would like to thank aceartinc for donating space
for this presentation.
As MAWA reflects on our 20 year history, we are proud of our many
accomplishments in supporting women artists: the many women who have
successfully completed our mentorship programs, participated in our symposiums,
workshops, publications and other programs. We are looking ahead to
the next two decades of additional mentorships, increased programming, and
more opportunities for artists. This year we have added the successful First
Friday series and next fall we will have additional mentors in both the
Foundation Advisory Program and the Mentor in Residence Program. We are
planning to increase participation in our programs by rural and remote artists.
These are just a few of the new initiatives that we are developing to keep
MAWA relevant and responsive to its members. In order to facilitate the
offering of our expanded programs and in recognition of the escalating rents in
the Exchange Area, MAWA is examining the feasibility of the purchase of a
building in collaboration with Crossing Communities Art Project. As the cycle of
gentrification hits the Exchange Area, as it has every major city in the country,
the Board is planning for a stable situation for MAWA. One in which we can plan
for the future secure in the knowledge that we will be able to build on what we
have. We are excited about the possibility of partnering with Crossing
Communities in this venture. We will keep you updated on developments in
upcoming newsletters.
Our first joint Spring Art Auction with the Women’s Health Clinic takes
place on April 25. Some outstanding work will be auctioned so please do join us
in celebrating MAWA, the WHC and especially the women artists who are
participating. I look forward to seeing you there.
Vera Lemecha, Executive Director, MAWA
DATE PROGRAM HEADS UP!
APRIL 2
First Friday: Issues of Isolation for Rural Artists:
Shirley Brown 12 pm
First Friday and MAWA 20th Birthday Reception 4 – 6 pm
APRIL 17 Celia Rabinovitch aceartinc 2 pm
APRIL 25 MAWA/WHC Spring Art Auction
Preview 12 pm, Auction 2 pm, The Millenium Center
APRIL 30 Deadline for application to Mentor In Residence Program 4 pm
MAY 7
JUNE 21
First Friday, Design and Print Media for Artists:
Susan Chafe 12 pm
First Friday Reception 4 – 6 pm
Mindy Yan Miller residency begins
Herd Mentality from a collaboration between Shirley Brown and Sheila Spence, 1996
FIRST FRIDAYS
MAWA BOARDROOM Bring your lunch, coffee provided!
12 NOON APRIL 2 SHIRLEY BROWN
ISSUES OF ISOLATION FOR RURAL ARTISTS
Shirley Brown will discuss issues surrounding isolation—the drawbacks
and ways to combat them. Isolation and "rural" attitudes can be detrimental to
an artist. Are we all isolated to a certain degree?
Shirley Brown uses paint and multi-media to explore her interests in
celebrity, power and unexpected disaster. The black humour she enjoys often
figures in her work.
She has studied with many professional instructors in class, workshop and
retreat situations. After participating in the MAWA Foundation Advisory Program,
Shirley became serious about her art. Since then, her work has been exhibited
in group and solo shows across Canada. Shirley has been the recipient of a
number of awards from Manitoba Arts Council and Canada Council. She was
in a residency program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her work is included
in various private and public collections such as the Manitoba Arts Council and
Canada Council Art Banks.
Shirley lives and works on her farm near Deloraine in southwest Manitoba.
APRIL IS THE MONTH OF MAWA’S BIRTHDAY!
JOIN US APRIL 2 FROM 4–6:00 PM TO RAISE A GLASS TO CELEBRATE
MAWA’S 20TH BIRTHDAY IN THE MAWA OFFICE, EVERYONE WELCOME!
12 NOON MAY 7 SUSAN CHAFE
DESIGN AND PRINT MEDIA FOR ARTISTS
Susan Chafe will speak about how to prepare materials for print media
projects, books, catalogues, newsletters, etc., both for the artist and for the
editor or curator. She will answer questions such as how to document your
work for publications and what is required to put a publication together. She
will also discuss the options for making artists' books on desktop printers and
the difference between image quality for the internet and for print media.
Susan has worked as a freelance designer in the arts for many years and
founded an artist's book collective called Lives of Dogs in 1995. She is also an
artist who works with sound, installation and sculptural media and has
exhibited her work across Canada. She has been a mentor in the Foundation
Advisory Program and has designed MAWA’s newsletter and the recent
publication Culture of Community.
After her presentation, Susan will be available for consultaions about
individual projects.
Following the lunch hour presentations, you are invited
to book a 1/2 hour consultation with Shirley or Susan.
JOIN US ON MAY 7 FROM 4-6 FOR REFRESHMENTS
THANKS BONNIE!
Bonnie has worked with us this year as a practicum student with the Women’s
Studies Program of the University of Manitoba. She has worked on organizing
our artists’ files, archiving our files, assisting with hospitality for First Fridays,
research in regard to the Caroline Dukes Legacy, and in many other ways. We
appreciate Bonnie’s willingness to pitch in wherever she was needed. We are
really going to miss her.

FOUNDATION ADVISORY PROGRAM
September 1, 2004 to August 31, 2005
MENTORS: SHIRLEY BROWN, AGANETHA DYCK, AMY KARLINSKY, GRACE NICKEL
SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED IN THE OFFICE BY 4 pm on FRIDAY, MAY 14
The Foundation Advisory Program is a mentorship program during which
senior artists share their experience with women who are in the early
stages of developing their art practices. This non-hierarchical program is
designed to help women visual artists develop skills, define their decisionmaking
philosophies and provide access to the information, resources and
support they need to realize their goals. In addition to developing a
relationship with their mentors, the program is geared to provide a peer
group from which to receive valuable critical feedback and support. Selfreliance
and resourcefulness are encouraged.
Mentors meet with their mentees individually once a month and the
entire group meets monthly for critiques, discussion, gallery visits, and
other activities that are agreed upon by the group according to needs and
interests.
FEE: the cost of the program is $200 for one year. A deposit of $50 is
required on acceptance into the program, the remainder to be paid by postdated
cheque.
TO APPLY: Participants are selected by the mentors based on the quality of
their work. Mentors also consider their ability to work with each applicant
based on mutuality of practice or concept. Students are not eligible. Your
application should include the following:
• Up to 20 slides or other documentation of your work (audio, video, etc.)
• Current curriculum vitae
• A paragraph on why you are applying to the program and what you
would hope to achieve during the year.
• You are encouraged to include a description of what you plan to
work on during the 2004–2005 year.
Drop off or mail your submissions to the MAWA office, 301–245
McDermot Avenue, R3B 0S6. For further information contact Sarah
Crawley, Foundation Advisory Program Coordinator, at 949-9490. The
MAWA office is open Tuesday and Friday, 10 am to 4 pm.
SHIRLEY BROWN
Shirley Brown uses paint and multi-media to explore her interests in celebrity, power, “falsities” and
unexpected disaster. The black humour she enjoys often figures in her work. She has studied with many
professional instructors in class, workshop and retreat situations.
After participating in the MAWA Advisory Program in 1986 with mentor Diana Thorneycroft, Shirley
began to take her art seriously. Since then, her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows across
Canada. In 2000 she curated and organized The Library Project, a traveling exhibition which toured to rural
Manitoba, the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina.
Shirley has been the recipient of a number of awards from Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada
Council For the Arts. In 1993 she was awarded a scholar-ship to attend a residency program at the Banff
Centre for the Arts. Her work is included in various private and public collections including the Manitoba Arts
Council and Canada Council Art Banks.
She has conducted a number of slide lectures and workshops in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta,
British Columbia and Manitoba. In 1999–2000, Shirley served as a mentor in the Foundation Advisory
Program. She was Artist in Residence at the Dunlop in Regina in 2002.
Shirley lives and works on her farm near Deloraine in southwest Manitoba.
Shirley Brown, knuckle2, oil on plywood, 4' x 3'
Shirley Brown, Saturday Night At The Movies,, oil on masonite, 8' x 12', 1989 Shirley Brown, bird 10, pen and ink, 16" x 12"

AMY KARLINSKY
Amy Karlinsky is a writer,
teacher, editor, curator, and critic.
She has degrees in visual art, art
education, and art history, from
York University, University of
Calgary, and the State University
of New York, respectively. Amy
has worked in a variety of art
institutions across Canada, as an
art educator, curator and director,
including the Nunatta Sunaqutangit
Museum in Iqaluit, the
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
in Kleinburg, and the
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre
PHOTO: WILLIAM EAKIN
in Guelph. For the past seven
years, she has taught part-time at the School of Art, University of
Manitoba in the areas of theory and criticism, writing about art, and
Canadian art history. She has also taught for University of British
Columbia, University of Regina, Capilano College; and has
experience teaching art in public and private schools. Her art
criticism has appeared in Border Crossings, Blackflash, C
Magazine, Fuse, Galleries West and the Inuit Art Quarterly; and her
essays have appeared in exhibition catalogues/ CD-ROMS from
Gallery One One One, SNAC, The Winnipeg Art Gallery (Reva
Stone, Home Show); and Manitoba Printmakers Association
(forthcoming). Amy edited the MAWA Inversions: Women and
Humour issue. Recent activities include co-curating the
Wintercount public art project with Colleen Cutschall; a research
trip to Cape Dorset for the development of an emerging artists’
project, supported by the Manitoba Arts Council and the University
of Manitoba; an exhibition catalogue on Aurora Landin, and an
essay on Winnipeg-based artists for an internationally touring show.
Amy is a Visiting Fellow in St. John’s College and Adjunct Professor
in Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. She is the
freelance, visual arts critic for The Winnipeg Free Press.
Aganetha Dyck, from Inter Species Communication Attempt. Bee altered pen and ink drawings embossed with
honeycomb on Braille text. 2000, ongoing project. PHOTO: PETER DYCK
Aganetha Dyck, Wax tablets on Alcoholics Anonymous Braille text, pen and ink drawings on wax tablets
altered by the honeybees. 1999–2000. PHOTO: PETER DYCK
working with the bees for six to ten
weeks each year. Thus some works
will take years before completion.”
(Aganetha Dyck, Inter Species
Communication Attempt, Virginia
MacDonnell, DeLeon White Gallery,
Toronto)
AGANETHA DYCK
I don't know what I'll understand, I have to wait and see, the questions have
just begun. The art is in the future. – Aganetha Dyck, 2001
“Aganetha Dyck is a sculptor and multi media artist with interests in art and
science collaborations, particularly inter-species communication systems
through her collaborations with honeybees.
In creating her signature ‘hive’ sculptures many people labour under the
false assumption that Aganetha Dyck merely places objects in the hives and
leaves them there. If this were the case, the bees would soon smoother the
objects into oblivion. Her process of working with the bees is delicate and timeconsuming.
It is further complicated by the fact that she only has a window of
Aganetha has exhibited internationally
including The Canadian Cultural
Centre, Canadian Embassy, Paris,
France; The Yorkshire Bee Project,
Camellia House, Yorkshire Sculpture
Park, Britain; Aganetha Dyck, Winnipeg
Art Gallery, curated by Shirley
Madill; Nature as Language, Gallery
One One One, University of Manitoba,
curated by Serena Keshavjee; Musée
d'Art et d'Histoire, Langres, France;
Earthly Gestures, Art Gallery of
Greater Victoria; The Library Project,
touring exhibition, curated by Shirley
Brown; Manifestation Internationale de 'art de Quebec, l'Oeil de Poisson,
Québec; Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Fashion and Art, Hayward
Gallery, London, England; amour–horreur, Gallerie La Centrale, Montreal,
Quebec, curated by Gail Bourgeois; Between Body and Soul, Leonard and Bina
Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University & Bronfman Centre, Montreal; fetish,
Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, curated by Renee Baert; and Home is Where the
Heart is, Westergasfabrieken, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Currently, she is working on a scanning process with artist Richard Dyck
who scans the honeybees as they create art in the darkness of the beehive. The
world-renowned scientist Dr. Mark Winston, Simon Fraser University, and his
assistant, Heather Higo, have guided Aganetha to draw and paint collaboratively
with the honeybees. Both projects are in progress.

GRACE NICKEL
Grace Nickel is an internationally recognized ceramic artist,
having successfully won competitions in Japan and Taiwan. She
has participated in several residencies at the Banff Centre for the
Arts in Banff, Alberta and has been an Artist In Residence in
Canada and Australia. She has exhibited her work extensively in
North America and abroad. In 2003 she was invited to participate
in a Ceramic Lantern Workshop in Taiwan with a subsequent
exhibition taking place during the Chinese Lantern Festival in 2004
in Taipei. Grace recently had work accepted into the 1st Taiwan
Ceramic Biennale with the exhibition opening in February 2004 at
the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum.
Grace’s work appears in many public and private collections
around the world. She has completed a number of site-specific
installations, including Meditation Window at the St. Norbert Arts
Centre in Manitoba in 1992, Sanctuary, a piece created for NCECA
in Minneapolis, USA in 1995 and A Quiet Passage, a solo
exhibition held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2002. In that same
year the Winnipeg Art Gallery nominated Grace for the Saidye
Bronfman Award, the most prestigious award for fine craft in
Canada.
Grace also works on site-specific commissions, including tile
installations and sculptural lighting for public and private
architectural spaces. In 1999 she created a site-specific
architectural tile triptych for Winnipeg’s City Hall in honour of the
Pan Am Games, which were held in Winnipeg that year.
In addition to her studio practice, Grace Nickel teaches
ceramics at the University of Manitoba and has long been an
active member of Winnipeg’s art community. She has been a
mentor in MAWA's Foundation Advisory Program twice and is a
former Director of MAWA (1992-1996). She currently assists with
fundraising efforts at Art City on Broadway and is on the
programming committee of the Manitoba Crafts Council.
Left: Grace Nickel, Terminus Ultimus, from A Quiet Passage, 2002, ceramic, glass.
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. PHOTO: ERNEST MAYER, COURTESY OF THE
WINNIPEG ART GALLERY
Below: Grace Nickel, Light Sconce #7, from A Quiet Passage, 2002, ceramic, glass,
light. PHOTO: ERNEST MAYER, COURTESY OF THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY
MAWA’S CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Tamara Rae Biebrich, Roewan Crowe (chair), Glennys Hardie,
Connie Jantz, Fay Jelly (secretary), Dana Kletke (treasurer), Lesley
McKenzie (vice-chair), Reva Stone, Iris Yudai
STAFF Vera Lemecha, Executive Director, vlemecha@mawa.ca
Sarah Crawley, Administrative Co-ordinator, scrawley@mawa.ca
Newsletter Design: Susan Chafe
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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 Winnipeg Arts Council, The
Winnipeg Foundation, donors and members.

members’ news
The Martyrdom of St. Peter, Diana Thorneycroft, 2002, 32x26", C-print. Photo courtesy the artist
Bottom: Melancholy Dollies, Dana Kletke. Photo courtesy the artist
Diana Thorneycroft’s installation Martyrs Murder, will be exhibited at The
Justina H. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto from May 20–
June 17, 2004.
Sarah Crawley’s ala lingua, a solo exhibition of large photographic prints, will be
showing at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba from Thursday, April 29 until
Saturday June 5, 2004. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 29
at 7:30 pm.
Dana Kletke will be taking part in the group exhibition New Works by Old
Friends: An Art Show and Sale with the Kusina Collective at the Adelaide
McDermot Gallery from May 7–9, 2004 with an opening reception on Friday May
7, 2004. Other members of the collective include: Paul Robles, Tom Robles,
Catherine MacDonald, Ruby Yudai, Iris Yudai, Joel Simkin and Christopher
Read.
Megan Vun Wong’s exhibition Halcyon, which opened February 2 at the Pavilion
Gallery, continues until April 5, 2004. Wong’s work arises from an exploration into
the essence of the universe where energy and resonance are everywhere,
where the principles of oneness and synchronicity must be reawakened within
contemporary society. The Pavilion Gallery is located at 55 Pavilion Crescent,
Assiniboine Park. The hours are Tuesday–Sunday 11:00–5:00. For more
information call 888-5466.
Aganetha Dyck will be exhibiting her works Sports Night In Canada (bee works)
and Hockey Night in Canada, (17 shrunken woolen toques) in a group exhibition
titled Break Away! at the Kelowna Art Gallery—an exhibition in conjunction with
the Memorial Cup finals in Kelowna, B.C., taking place April 3, 2004. The
Kelowna Art Gallery has also invited Aganetha to create an installation in their
central glassed in courtyard. Aganetha will revisit the first body of work she
completed as an artist, Sizes 8–46, the shrunken sweaters from 1976–1981, and
will create between 30 and 50 newly shrunken sweaters. The exhibition will run
from April 2–October 17, 2004. Aganetha will also be a guest artist along with
Walter May (Calgary) at Prairie North workshop at Grande Prairie Regional
College, Fine Arts Department from May 14–May 27, 2004. For information go to
www.prairienorth.org
Winnipeg ceramic artist Grace Nickel is one of only 105 finalists from around the
world to have work selected for the First Taiwan Ceramics Biennale 2004. Four
jury members from Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States
made the final selection of entries. The exhibition will run from January 23 to
June 13, 2004 at the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, the Biennale's
sponsor. Opening ceremonies took place on February 13th.
Nickel recently attended a residency in Taiwan where ten international artists
were invited to create lanterns (2 metres or larger) as part of the Taipei County
Yingge Ceramics Museum’s annual ceramic festival. The works made during the
Large Outdoor Ceramics Workshop
were shown in Taipei during the
Alethea Lahofer
in performance
Chinese Lantern Festival, which took
place in February, two weeks after the
Chinese New Year. In Winnipeg, Nickel’s
work is currently included in the "student"
component of the Robert Archambeau
exhibition that opened at the Winnipeg Art
Gallery on February 20, 2004. This exhibition,
called Robert Archambeau: Artist, Teacher,
Collector, runs until May 30, 2004.
Shawna Dempsey curates Live in The Centre: An
Incomplete and Anecdotal History of Winnipeg
Performance Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, June
12–August 8, 2004. Exhibition includes work by
Alethea Lahofer, Sharon Alward, Daniel Barrow,
Ken Gregory, John Gurdebeke, Grant Guy, Doug
Melnyk, Michael Olito, Alex Poruchnyk, Jennifer
Stillwell and Lori Weidenhammer. Live
performance by Sandee Moore, Nicole
Shimonek, Victoria Prince and Vav Jungle
begins at 7:30 p.m., June 12.

Megan Vun Wong, Perpetual, 2004, 26” x 26”, mixed medial
Flit, video still by Daniela Sneppova
Linda Duvall, eavesdropping, photo courtesy the artist
Doily, Lois Klassen
Sarah Crawley, untitled (from the series ala lingua), 2003, 24” x 30”, photographic print.
Photo courtesy the artist
Grey Matters opens Thursday May 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Adelaide McDermot
Gallery. Seven women artists, all students over 40, met in classes at the
School of Art, University of Manitoba. Realizing most promotion of artists is
directed to the under 30 emerging artists, they decided to form a collective and
have their first exhibit. They celebrate creativity, and the uniquely feminine
experiences of being wives, mothers and students. Come and join in their
celebration Thursday, May 27. The exhibition continues until June 2, 2004.
Curiouser is a collaboration between photographer Susan Coolen and jeweler
Laurie Wright, which showed in February 2004 at *new* gallery in Toronto.
Sharing a fascination with unusual forms found in nature, the two artists follow
a curiously parallel path. *new* gallery is located in the Case Goods Building,
The Distillery, Toronto. For more information go to designerbeads.com/curiouser
Annette Lowe exhibited her drawings in Black & White with Robert Lowe’s
photographs, at the Wayne Arthur Gallery, 186 Provencher Blvd, from March 5
to March 31. Annette will also be exhibiting a series of frog paintings in the
concourse area of the Winnipeg Concert Hall from March 27th to June 5th, 2004.
Ellen Moffat presents Civil Fugue, 2004, twelve digital text-images on Bike
Advertising Racks as part of Future Cities, April–October 2004, at the Hamilton
Art Gallery.
Flit: Peregrinations through the 'quick change', a tele-collaboration by Daniela
Sneppova & Terry Billings will be showing at Paved Art and New Media,
Saskatoon, March 26 to April 24, 2004.
As part of The Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Future Cities project, Linda Duvall has
been eavesdropping in Hamilton’s bars, malls, streets, and restaurants over the
last few months. Individual eavesdropped bits of conversation have been
attached to the backs of wrapped chocolates. These chocolates will be
redistributed back into public locations, beginning April 15, when Future Cities
opens. This 7-month long international exhibition will be staged in outdoor and
indoor spaces in the downtown area and focus on the multi-layered character
of the concept of the contemporary city using Hamilton as a core subject.
Catherine Cote invites MAWA members to the premiere of Two Artists
Working Overtime. This exhibit features new work by Cote and Jim Corbett.
The evening also marks the launch of the Corbett/Cote Online Art Gallery. The
Gallery offers artist representation, workshops and related art services. The art
show and online gallery launch takes place Friday, April 16 at 7:00 pm at the
Adelaide McDermot Gallery located at 318 McDermot Ave. and runs until April
21, 2004. For more information log on to
or call 204-795-2475.
Lois Klassen has launched LOISzing, a web log that documents her art-actions
and projects. This log highlights the process of on-going interventions such as
Comforter, her blanket-making mail art project, and related items about
interventionist and community-engaged art works. LOISzing offers opportunity
to comment and dialogue. See http://loiszing.blogs.com
Elizabeth MacKenzie’s exhibition Reunion is at the Richmond Art Gallery from
March 5–April 15, 2004. Vancouver artist Elizabeth MacKenzie continues her
investigation into the play of memory on an image of her mother. In this
installation, MacKenzie works with a single photograph, taken when her
mother was approximately the same age as the artist is now. MacKenzie
redraws this image repeatedly, each representing a gestural and intuitive
response to the photo. The result is a flickering portrait of an ambiguous face
that shifts and dissolves from one image to the next.

2 pm Saturday, April 17, aceartinc
2nd floor, 290 McDermot Ave.
Celia Rabinovitch discusses her art in the context of the development
of modern and contemporary art in Canada and the USA, Canadian
regionalism, and the major artists and thinkers she has known in
Canada and the USA. She will also discuss the aims of her writing on
culture, and her understanding of art within the broader context of
history of religions.
MAWA PRESENTS
Celia Rabinovitch
Good, Bad, or Indifferent:
Images and Anecdotes
From a Life in Art
CELIA RABINOVITCH is an artist and
writer. Born in Manitoba, and educated
in Fine Arts (B.F.A. hons.) and the
History of Religions (B.A.) at
theUniversity of Manitoba, her focus is
in painting and in art in relation to the
history of knowledge. Her paintings
have been shown in fourteen solo
exhibitions in Canada, Europe and the
U.S., most recently representing
Canada in Vienna, Austria, 2000 in a
four person international show, Quattro:
Internationale Gruppenaustellung, and
in the invited exhibition, Biennale
Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea,
in Florence, Italy, December 1999. She
has received awards from the Canada
Council for the Arts, the Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade
of Canada, and the Edna St. Millay
Colony for the Arts. Forthcoming
exhibitions include SOMARTS Gallery,
San Francisco, November 2004 and
Gallery One One One , University of
Manitoba, 2005. Her recent book,
Surrealism and the Sacred: Power, Eros,
and the Occult in Modern Art
(Westview Press, Boulder Colorado,
and Harper Collins-Canada, Icon
Editions 2002) is a groundbreaking work
in the history of art and the history of
religions. Other publications include
features for Artweek, (San Jose) C
Magazine, (Toronto), The Dictionary of
Art (London), American Ceramics, and
Metalsmith (New York). Her most
recent publication is a chapter in the
book Women, Art, Technology, ed. Judy
Malloy, (M.I.T. Press, Boston, 2003).
She earned a Ph.D. in art history and
the history of religions at McGill
University, Montreal, and her M.F.A. in
painting at the University of Wisconsin.
While teaching at the University of
Colorado at Denver, she worked with
associates of the Torres-Garcia, Latin
American constructivists. Rabinovitch
has also taught at McGill University,
Montreal, California College of Arts and
Crafts, Syracuse University, Cabrillo
College, and University of California
Berkeley. Currently, she is Director of
the School of Art, The University of
Manitoba.
PHOTO: DALE BARBOUR
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR APRIL 25
MAWA/WHC SPRING ART AUCTION
PLEASE CONTACT SARAH CRAWLEY AT 949-9490 or scrawley@mawa.ca
Sunday April 25
The Millennium Center, 389 Main Street
Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art and Women’s Health Clinic
invite you to attend a fundraising art auction featuring original works of art by some of
Manitoba’s most exciting and accomplished contemporary women artists including Reva Stone,
Diane Whitehouse, Diana Thorneycroft, Shirley Brown, Bev Pike, Eleanor Bond, Aganetha Dyck,
Lita Fontaine, Dominique Rey, Aliza Amihude.
There will also be works by outstanding national artists including
Arlene Stamp, Gail Bourgeois, Barbara Todd, Barb Hunt and many more
PREVIEW AND MEET THE ARTISTS 12 –1:30 pm
spring art
auction 2004
LIVE AUCTION 2:00 pm WITH AUCTIONEER TERRY WACHNIAK
CASH BAR CASH VISA MASTERCARD
A chance to win an exquisite photograph by DIANA THORNEYCROFT
RSVP BY APRIL 19 TO KAREN AT WOMEN’S HEALTH CLINIC 947-2422 EXT 126
Reva Stone, Imaginal Expression 6, Giclée print, 18” x 24” (detail)