Lorna Brown - Mentoring Artists for Women's Art

november . december . 2006 january 2007
611 main street winnipeg manitoba canada r3b 1e1
204.949-9490 info@mawa.ca www.mawa.ca
Lorna
Brown
Public Lecture
JANUARY 27
2 pm
Studio Visits
FEBRUARY 15
Register early.
No fee.
applications
must be
received in
the mawa
office by
4 pm friday
december 1st
2006. no email
applications.
$100 fee is
payable upon
acceptance
into the
program.
participants
must be mawa
members.
to apply
submit the
following
mentor in residence
Lorna Brown
january 22 to march 5 2007
THE MENTOR IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM provides an opportunity
for four mid-career or senior artists to work closely with an established
Canadian artist for a six-week period. Mentors provide advice, support
and information that contribute to the development of the Mentee’s art
practice. Mentors visit the Mentee's studio, discuss professional
practices (such as applying for exhibitions and grants), visit exhibitions
together, and generally work to move the Mentee’s art practice to the
next level. Mentees meet once a week with their Mentor and once a
week with the entire group. Participants graduate from this intensive
program with new skills, knowledge and inspiration.
Lorna Brown is a Vancouver-based artist, educator and curator
and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1984.
Between 1989 and 1999, she taught studio and critical studies at
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and Simon Fraser University’s
School for the Contemporary Arts.
Brown was the Director/Curator at Artspeak between 1999 and
2004 and she continues an independent curatorial practice. Recent
curatorial projects include Set, a series of exhibitions, performances
and events (setproject.ca). Set, co-curated with Jonathan Middleton,
premiered new work by UK artists Rod Dickinson, Tom McCarthy and
the collective Szuper Gallery, as well as a collaborative installation
by Vancouver artists Judy Radul and Geoffrey Farmer.
Currently, Brown is the project curator for a series of site-specific
artists’ projects in the spaces and
systems of the Vancouver Public Library.
This series, titled Group Search: art in the
library, presents work by Marina Roy, Kathy
Slade, Jillian Pritchard, Dan Starling,
Antonia Hirsch, Mark Soo and Laiwan.
Brown’s on-going research into
boredom informs her recent writing and
artwork, including “To live boredom, one
must have style”, a book review of A
Philosophy of Boredom for Fillip Magazine,
and After The Structure of Boredom,
which will be exhibited at Gallery 1C03 in
March 2007, in a two person exhibition
with Bernie Miller titled Casualty.
• Up to 20 slides, CDs, videos, or other visual documentation of your work,
with title, date, and medium
• Resumé • Description of what you would like to work on while in the program
• Cover letter with your phone number, address and email address
• Self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of your materials
TOP: Szuper Gallery, Set: The Extras, Performance, Vancouver
Public Library, 2005. Photo courtesy of Scott Massey.
MIDDLE: Geoffrey Farmer and Judy Radul, Set: Room 302,
installation view, Artspeak, 2005. Photo courtesy of Catriona
Jeffries Gallery.
BOTTOM: Szuper Gallery, Set: The Extras, performance,
Vancouver Public Library, 2005. Photo courtesy of Scott Massey.
Full documentation at setproject.ca

Computer Camp
mawa computer camp
So . . . what exactly is Linux
and why would I want to use it?
schedule
inside
2
1
Lorna Brown
2
Computer Camp
3
First Fridays
4
Lecture
natalija
subotincic
5
Lecture
nadin gilroy
Heads Up
6
Opportunities
7
Wendy Wersch
Memorial
Lecture
8-11
Foundation
Mentorship
Program Grads
12-13
Member’s News
Are you tired of expensive software? Oppressive operating
systems? Continuous, expensive upgrades? Then join Felix
Jodoin and Reva Stone for their exceptionally informative
Introduction to Linux Workshop. Try out Ubuntu Linux and learn
about the software applications it includes such as the office
suite, the email client, the web browser, and image, video and
audio editors.
I'd like to use it . . .
how do I install it on my computer?
Follow up with the Linux Computer Camp where you will actually
install Ubuntu Linux on your computer. You'll learn how to use
Linux as a desktop operating system, and the applications it
includes such as the office suite, the email client, the web
browser, and even image, video and audio editors. Works great on
older computers—you'll be amazed at how much snappier they
become and how much more time you have because you don’t
have to do Spyware & Virus cleanup.
Linux is a free and Open Source operating system, and will always
be that way. An operating system is the part of the computer that
manages the devices and programs; without one, nothing worthwhile
on the computer would be possible. It includes completely
free software, installed and ready to go.
reva stone is a Canadian artist well known for her
work with digital technologies, including video, net art,
interactive installations, robotics and responsive 3D
environments. Currently she is working with voice and
face recognition technologies. Stone has exhibited her
work internationally. She is also active as a curator, a
writer and an educator.
Introduction to Linux Workshop
Saturday, November 4, 2006, 1-3 PM
Admission is free for the
information session.
linux computer camp
Saturday, November 18, 2006,
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Installation of Operating System
Sunday, November 19, 2006
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Installing Great Software
Saturday, December 2, 2006,
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Questions, Experimenting With
Your new Software And Extras
Registration for all three sessions:
members: $50, non-members: $90.
Registration fees fully payable at time
of registration.
REGISTER EARLY
AS SPACES ARE LIMITED
felix jodoin has been MAWA's technician since 2003.
He introduced open source to MAWA members with the
presentation Open Source Means It's Free, in conjunction
with our 2004 Computer Camp, and he presented on the
philosophy of open source as a panelist at the
Leadership Winnipeg Conference. He has contributed to
the development of the Platform website. He is systems
administrator for the MAC lab at Kelvin High School.
For further information contact the MAWA office at 949-9490 or info@mawa.ca

First Friday
marie-jeanne musiol
12 noon november 3
walking auschwitz: a perspective
COFFEE
PROVIDED.
BRING
YOUR
LUNCH,
ADMISSION
IS FREE,
EVERYONE
WELCOME.
Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Camp (periphery): the outskirts,
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, 1994-2002. Digital print and lightbox, Le Vieux-Port, Montreal.
This subjective artist walk
exposes how one can approach
from different perspectives the
site of Auschwitz, a vast museological
complex whose didactic
interpretations changed with the
Communist downfall in 1989. The
artistic experience of such a
charged place as Auschwitz implies
both a personal connection and
a way of looking at the many
elements that shape the way the
story is told. What is represented,
how and why?
Marie-Jeanne Musiol’s photographic installations have been exhibited in solo and group shows at public and private
galleries, artist-run centres and museums in Canada and abroad.
In conjunction with her exhibited work, Marie-Jeanne Musiol has produced limited edition books in which text and
photographs intersect. Her travels to distant regions have also transformed archeological itineraries into journeys of
a more personal nature. She has worked extensively in Auschwitz, probing the nature of living memory through a
series of photographic installations and the video Do Falling Leaves Go Unseen? (1995). Two other videos, Bodies of
Light. Fields of Light. States (2000) and Mirrors of the Cosmos (2006), register various aspects of electromagnetic
fields around plants. In the book Bodies of Light (2001), she presents recordings of energy emissions around
biological bodies.
Individual consultations with Musiol will be scheduled on a first come basis with registration at 1 pm, immediately
following the presentation.
tamara rae biebrich
and tricia wasney
12 noon december 1
The Winnipeg Arts Council (WAC) offers funding to individual artists
and arts organizations and manages a Public Art Program. With
increased funding from the City, WAC continues to evolve and offer
more and more opportunities for artists. tamara rae biebrich,
Program Administrator and Tricia Wasney, Manager of Public Art will
present an orientation on opportunities and grant programs for
artists.
Individual consultations with biebrich and Wasney will be scheduled
on a first come basis with registration at 1 pm, immediately following
the presentation.

Local Artist Lectures
admission to lectures is free
and open to all
Natalija
Subotincic:
TOP: Elevation
of Freud's
Consulting
Room: Freud's
corner and the
famous
analytic couch
where he sits
behind his
patient
“listening, but
not seen,” ink
on mylar, 1998.
BOTTOM
LEFT:
Durer's
Perspective
Window/Dining
Table,
composite
digital
photograph,
2006.
natalija subotincic
2 pm . saturday november 25
Collecting the bones of everything I ate for seven years
led me to follow two paths: one was to create a dining
table, and the other was to begin reading Sigmund
Freud’s writings. Freud too was a collector and carried
out his practice and research surrounded by this
personal collection of antiquities. As an architectural
designer I am fascinated by how we construct and define
our dwelling places by the things we keep around us.
These constructed spaces simultaneously reveal and
conceal subtle and profound aspects of our very being.
This is evident in Hilda Doolittle’s reflection on Freud
during her analysis in 1934 where she states, “He said
his little statues and images helped stabilize the
evanescent idea, or keep it from escaping altogether.”
Freud at the Dining Table will explore where obsession
coincides with envisioning place.
freud
at the
dining
table
Natalija Subotincic is an Associate Professor of
Architecture at the University of Manitoba. She is currently
collaborating with the founders of the Museum of Jurassic
Technology on the design of an extension to the museum’s
facilities in Los Angeles, California. Her most recent creative
research includes: Interpretation of Rooms, an ongoing
spatial analysis of the relationships between Sigmund
Freud’s theories, his collection, and the rooms he and his
patients occupied; and Incarnate Tendencies – An
Architecture of Culinary Refuse, a social and architectural
re-evaluation of the ‘threshold’ between food preparation
and food consumption as manifest in a dining table,
published in Eating Architecture, MIT Press, 2004.
BOTTOM
RIGHT:
Bone
Collection: Her
and Him, black
and white
photograph,
1990.
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Local Artist Lectures
admission to lectures is free
and open to all
nadin gilroy and
Carolyn Gray
(Annabella),
Ffionn and the
Three Sisters
Meet Chaos,
shadow play,
2005. Image
courtesy of
Sheila Spence.
nadin gilroy is an artist mainly concerned with
live performance using the body, voice, objects, light,
shadow and sound in a wide range of experimental
presentations, from theatre to puppets to installation.
Originally from Zurich, Switzerland, gilroy performed, cocreated,
and assistant directed numerous critically
acclaimed projects in Switzerland, Germany, Austria,
France and Italy. This background in theatre has always
included an intensive studio practice which enables
continuous work on self-created projects, research and
skill cultivation.
Currently in progress for nadin is an installation project
which addresses the state of being an immigrant, of
having left the familiar but not quite arrived in the new
familiar, and involves creating a three dimensional shadow
which is able to move independent from its source.
Collaboration and working with other artists in various
disciplines is important to nadin's practice and on-going
development as an artist. Bringing different disciplines
nadin gilroy
2 pm . saturday december 9
611 main street
together and striking partnerships with artists whose
work relates to her own is essential to her vision.
Currently gilroy is a member of Winnipeg's Adhere And
Deny, an experimental puppet/object theatre group, and
has performed or assistant directed nine of their shows
over the last four years: Prometheus Bound, Requiem,
Antigone, Three Sisters: A still Life, Yeliena, Canticle,
The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, And See If Memory Is
There, Haiku. gilroy and Carolyn Gray (artist, performer,
writer) founded Annabella – a company devoted to all
aspects of performance projects, from conception to
creation and presentation. Their first performance opened
in December 2005 and has been two years in
development. Ffionn and the Three Sisters Meet Chaos
is an elaborate shadow play depicting the struggle between
darkness and light played out against the backdrop of
the darkest time of the year. She is also collaborating on
a new work with Steve Bates, a Montreal based audio
artist, exploring the connections of reverberation found
in sound and shadow in the visual world.
Heads Up
5
november 2
First Annual MAWA Volunteer Photo Shoot
6 pm, 611 Main St.
Annual General Meeting, 7 pm, 611 Main St.
november 3
First Friday Marie-Jeanne Musiol, 12 pm, 611 Main St.
november 4
Introduction to Linux Workshop, 1-3 pm, 611 Main St.
november 18
Linux Computer Camp begins!
10 am – 2 pm, 611 Main Street.
november 25
Lecture: Natalija Subotincic, 2 pm, 611 Main St.
november 26
Wendy Wersch Annual Memorial Lecture Series
Jane Buyers, 2 pm, Cinematheque, 100 Arthur St.
december 1
Deadline for submissions to
Mentor In Residence program: 4 pm
First Friday, Winnipeg Arts Council, 12 pm, 611 Main St.
december 9
Deadline for submissions to February/March newsletter: 4 pm
Local Artist Lecture: nadin gilroy, 2 pm, 611 Main Street

6Opportunities
upcoming grant deadlines
winnipeg arts council
Professional Development Grant Program
There is no set deadline. Applications will be received
throughout the year at least one month prior to the
activity to be undertaken.
manitoba arts council
Travel / Professional Development Grant in the Visual Arts.
Deadline: Four weeks prior to project.
Travel / Professional Development Grant for Aboriginal
Artists. Deadline: Four weeks prior to project.
NOVEMBER 30
Aboriginal Arts Creative Development
Aboriginal Arts Mentorship, Training and Development
DECEMBER 15
Deep Bay Artists' Residency in Riding Mountain
National Park of Canada
JANUARY 15 Major Arts Grant
canada council for the arts
Travel Grants to Inter-Arts Professionals –
Deadline at least six weeks prior to departure date
NOVEMBER 15
Inter-Arts Program: Dissemination Grants
(for Individuals and Organizations)
Inter-Arts Program: Creation/Production Grants
for Individuals
Capacity Building Initiative: Annual Support
for Aboriginal Administrative Artistic Practices (Pilot)
DECEMBER 1
Assistance to Visual Artists: Project Grants
JANUARY 1
Travel Grants to Professional Visual Artists, including
Artists in Photography, Fine Craft and Architecture, and
Independent Critics and Curators
FEBRUARY 1
Assistance to Aboriginal Curators for Residencies
in the Visual Arts
Assistance to Culturally Diverse Curators
for Residencies in the Visual Arts
Grants to Professional Independent Critics
and Curators
her circle ezine
ongoing call for submissions
Her Circle Ezine is an online literary and arts journal
dedicated to exploring the feminine experience in the
world community. Through intelligent works of writing,
art, and photography, women around the globe share
with us what it means to be a woman and artist in
society. Themes addressed should include Identity,
Gender and/or Ethnicity, Culture and Status.
http://www.hercircleezine.com
call for project proposals a special
collaboration between dazibao and prim
2007-08 residency
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15, 2006
Dazibao centre de photographies actuelles, Montreal,
and PRIM, in a joint collaboration, are excited to offer a
unique residency for an artist to both produce and
exhibit a project. The chosen proposal will consider the
specific mandates of both organizations and,
consequently, will raise issues pertinent to photography
and challenge its relationship to sound, video and
digital media.
www.dazibao-photo.org
4001 Berri Street, Suite 202, Montreal, H2L 4H2
Telephone: 514.845.0063 info@dazibao-photo.org
PRIM
www.primcentre.org
2180 Fullum Street, Montreal, (Quebec) H2K 3N9
Tel: (514) 524-2421 info@primcentre.org
2007 prairie outdoor exhibition
The Winnipeg Folk Festival is an outdoor music festival
that takes place in Birds Hill Provincial Park on July 5-8,
2007, and has an annual attendance of over 40,000
people. The Festival is looking for visual artists to exhibit
work in this beautiful outdoor setting. The majority of
spaces are open fields, where the work would have to be
freestanding. Work can also be installed in trees, tents,
on fences or trailers. Proposals for stage back-drops or
sound tower scrims are also encouraged.
Submissions from individual artists and groups of artists
as well as independent curators are welcome.
Exhibiting artists will be paid artist fees and receive a
pass to the Festival. Deadline: January 12, 2007
www.winnipegfolkfestival.ca
Send proposals to the attention of:
Prairie Outdoor Exhibition The Winnipeg Folk Festival
#203-211 Bannatyne Ave. Winnipeg, MB R3B 3P2
ahelene@winnipegfolkfestival.ca 204-231-0096
call for submissions
printmaking residency for artists
2007-08 at the Atelier de l’Île of Val-David, Québec
The Atelier de l’Île, Québec, invites professional artists to
submit their proposals for the 2007-08 Residency
programmes in printmaking. The Atelier de l’Île provides
a spacious studio setting with equipment for etching,
lithography, silk-screening, woodcut, papermaking,
photographic and digital art forms within print media.
Deadline for application: January 31, 2007
For more information please visit www.atelier.qc.ca
or contact: Atelier de l'Ile, 1289 rue Dufresne, Val-David,
Québec, Canada, J0T 2N0 Tél. (819) 322-6359

Wendy Wersch Memorial Lecture
Jane Buyers,
Left:
Inscriptions
#19 (detail),
porcelain with
pigmented
shellac,
plaster and
watercolour,
2005.
Right:
Chronicles #6,
etching and
drawing, 2005.
wendy wersch annual memorial lecture series presents
Mending
a talk by jane buyers
Jane Buyers’ talk for the Wendy Wersch Memorial Lecture
proposes a way of reading the art work of a number of
recent women artists as a kind of mending. Broken,
discarded, mundane, useless objects are salvaged and
transformed into compelling new narratives using
repetitive, meticulous, labor intensive methods similar to
women’s traditional needlework.
Jane Buyers is a visual artist working in sculpture,
drawing and printmaking. She is Professor and Chair at
the University of Waterloo’s Department of Fine Arts. She
studied Fine Art at York University (B.A. 1973) and Women’s
Studies at O.I.S.E. (M. ED. University of Toronto, 1990).
Jane works with a variety of materials including wood,
steel, bronze and ceramic, and in a range of scale,
including public outdoor works. She has exhibited widely
across Canada and internationally and her work is in a
number of private, corporate, and public collections. She
was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 2002.
This lecture is presented by the Wendy Wersch
Memorial Lecture Committee and Mentoring Artists for
Women's Art. For further information please contact Bev
Pike at 284-0616 or Gaétanne Sylvester at 957-7217.
2 p.m. november 26 2006 at cinematheque
100 arthur st. winnipeg
free admission - light refreshments will be served
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Graduates of the Foundation Mentorship Program 2005-06
kathryn mackenzie is an emerging artist
with a penchant for turning things inside out. She has
recently received two grants for Outside-In House, a
straw bale sculpture and video project which will
involve as many people as possible in the creation,
burning, and video documentation of the work.
Katherine worked at Art City for many years and
currently works for the Spence Neighbourhood
Association. Here, she works with artist Leah Decter,
helps to administer Winnipeg's first WITHART Public
Art Grant, and acts as a liason with the community.
She feels that public art is integral to the cultural
longevity of a community, and has been inspired by
works in Mexico, San Fransisco, and Winnipeg, and on
train cars moving across the prairies.
jennie o is a self-taught visual artist born in 1975
in Mississauga, Ontario. Jennie has lived in Winnipeg
since she was four years old. Jennie's affinity for art
and community has led her to where she is today. She
is currently the Studio-Coordinator of Art City, an
inner-city drop-in centre in the West Broadway
neighbourhood. Perhaps best known for her dolls,
Jennie also enjoys drawing, crafting, painting, and
making sculpures from found objects. She recently
exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in the
Supernovas show and is currently exhibiting in a selfportrait
show that will be touring the United States for
a year.
Kathryn MacKenzie
Straw Bale Bench
video still, 2005.
Kathryn MacKenzie
Arena, video still, 2005.
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Jennie O
Does it really matter what I'm thinking?
ink and acrylic on paper, 2006.

Kristin Nelson
One Painting of
Christopher Noels
Left or Right Ear
in a Box
oil on panel and
silkscreen on
cardboard, 2006.
kristin nelson received her B.F.A. in Visual Arts from the Emily Carr
Institute in 2003. Her work deals with contemporary queer identities and
includes paintings of women, drag kings, queers and lesbian activists, and
her practice is informed by the people she meets and a desire to share their
identities with others. She has participated in numerous events including A
Loving Spoonful Silent Auction, Vancouver, and the International Drag King
Extravaganza 7 (IDKE), Winnipeg. In 2006 is producing a series of “Drag King
Trading Cards” during IDKE 8, Austin, Texas. Kristin has exhibited works at
Center A, Gallery Gachet, and The Regional Assembly of Text in Vancouver.
She is also interested in craft and DIY culture. Merchandise by the artist may
be found under the label Local by Kristin.
Kristin Nelson
Christopher Noels Left Ear, oil on canvas, 2006.
Jen Moyes
A Subject of
Anotomical
Comparisons
(unfinished), oil on
canvas, 2005.
jen moyes Painting has opened a world of creativity and personal
expression, which has been unfounded in any other experiences, or
mediums of art. It is a world that is at once privately provocative and
publicly prudent. For the past three years I have been studying the
history of painting, queer theory and contemporary cultural issues
pertaining to women's bodies and sexuality. What was once a selfindulgent
quest into personal expression and desire for the female
body has now become a critical inquiry into how the female flesh has
been historically imagined and contemporarily constructed.

Graduates of the Foundation Mentor Program 2005-06
kerri-lynn reeves works with textile, video,
installation and performance. She received her B.F.A.
with Honours from the University of Manitoba in 2003,
and attended NSCAD University as a visiting student.
Reeves is a third generation Western movie aficionado,
first generation non-farm-wife-feminist. Her upbringing
on the family horse farm informs her investigation of
how the past, present and future influence one another.
talia potash is a photo-based
artist with a background in Fine Arts
and Conflict Resolution Studies. She
works at Art City, a non-profit
community arts center in West
Broadway, Winnipeg. Potash has
been involved with Art City since its
inception in 1998 and is currently the
Assistant Director. Over the years, she
has taught photography and ceramics
to both youth and adults. Potash lives
and works in West Broadway and
feels a strong connection to her
community. She has exhibited her photographic
work in many of Winnipeg’s
artist-run-centres, including Ace Art,
Graffiti Gallery, Platform Gallery, as well
as the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
Talia Potash
Assemblage #1, found objects, aluminum
plate, beads, lace, yarn, rephotographed
C-Print, 2006.
Her work explores gender roles and self-identity. Over
the past year Kerri Lynn has refined her inclination to
create more immediate collaborative works by showing
and creating in a variety of traditional and nontraditional
venues. She is currently researching a major
video project and concentrating her practice at the site
of her own family's history in southwestern Manitoba.
Kerri-Lynn Reeves
How The West Was Fun; Scene From John Wayne's 'Rio Bravo'
video still of interactive collaborative public art event/video installation, 2006.
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Karen Schulz
Sampling City Hall (from the Playing Tag series) stencil on photograph, 2006.
For karen schulz, participation in MAWA's Mentoring Program has
been integral to the evolution of her emerging art practice, which includes
printmaking, experimental drawing, portraiture and video. Her education in
the ways of Art at Arizona State University, Red River Community College
and Manitoba Printmakers Association is a continuing adventure.
Karen is inspired in part by a childhood spent in the rural community
of Grandview, Manitoba where she was born, family life in Winnipeg where
she currently lives, and by the sheer pleasure of modifying reality through
her art. Her print Continued.... was recently purchased by the Art Bank of
Canada.
Karen Schulz, On Hold, oil on canvas, 2006.
nicole shimonek works in new media, installation and performance, focusing on themes of discovery and resolution using
animals and personae as subject matter. Her video work has screened both nationally and internationally and her performances have
been shown in solo, street, and collective events. She is an active member of Winnipeg's arts community, sitting on the boards of send
+ receive and Adhere and Deny and working for Video Pool Media Arts Centre. During her year as a MAWA mentee, Nicole has been
teaching herself MAX MSP, creating a 3-D animation/projection of a shark idling in water, as well as creating a collection of handmade
worry balls. These pieces will be exhibited at Plug In ICA in the spring of 2007.
www.nicoleshimonek.com
Nicole Shimonek, Shark (in progress), animation still, 2006.
Nicole Shimonek, Handmade worry balls (in progress)
birdseed, sand, balloons, felt, 2006.

Member’s News
In The Blink of an Eye
Public opening Jan. 25 at The Winnipeg Art Gallery. FREE!
The WAG has commissioned twelve artists from throughout Canada
to create experimental shorts which will be shown in the gallery, Janthrough
April, 2007, and projected in the Globe Cinema before feature
films. For five nights in January, these media works will also be
projected on the exterior of the art gallery building. Curated by Shawna
Dempsey and Lorri Millan, the program includes new work by Divya
Mehra, Erika MacPherson, Rebecca Belmore, Simon Hughes, Sandee
Moore, Daniel Barrow, Collin Zipp, Ken Gregory, Richard Fung, Dana
Claxton, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, and Mike Hoolboom.
Mary Krieger is one of more than twenty-four artists showcased "In
Plain View," a new studio tour in Winnipeg. Artists are opening their
studios to the public for the first weekend in both November (4th and
5th) and December (2nd and 3rd), from noon to 6 pm. A map will be
published to help people navigate from studio to studio. Mary will be
showing recent paintings and woodcuts at The Edge Artist Village and
Gallery, 611 Main St.
Divya Mehra, Pants, video still.
Group Search: Art in the Library
Group Search is an exciting new collaborative project of the
Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, the City of Vancouver
Public Art Program, and Other Sights for Artists’ Projects Association.
Six temporary projects by Marina Roy, Laiwan, Dan Starling & Jillian
Pritchard, Antonia Hirsch, Mark Soo, and Kathy Slade will be presented
between September 2006 and March 2008, in a program curated by
Lorna Brown. The projects include web-based art, installation,
bookworks, interventions and performances and will be located in
the varied spaces, stacks, and systems of the library. Whether
infiltrating the print, audio and special collections, linked to the
electronic catalogues, or placed in the reading and listening areas,
the artists address the contemplative and active spaces of the
library, the containment and exchange of information found there,
and to the activities of searching and locating, borrowing, reflecting
and returning, that library users undertake.
Video still by Sandee Moore
Call Numbers: Library Recordings by interdisciplinary artist Laiwan,
will launch in January 2007, allowing you to turn your catalogue
searches into musical compositions.
Dana Kletke, I’ll Wait for You, wool, cotton, stone, hair, 2006.
The project is funded by proceeds from the Library Square
Endowment Fund, with generous assistance provided by the
Canada Council for the Arts, Spirit of BC Arts Fund, and the BC Arts
Council.
For more info please contact curator Lorna Brown,
groupsearch@othersights.ca. For information on Laiwan's project,
email llchung@sfu.ca.
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Mireille Perron will be giving a presentation at the forthcoming University
Art Association of Canada Annual Congress. Her presentation is titled
"Point-of being" and is part of a session organized by Jennifer Fisher
and Monika Kin Gagnon. The session explores the senses in various
art contexts. This year UAAC Congress is hosted by the Nova Scotia
School of Art and Design, November 2 to 4, 2006.
Mireille Perron in her studio. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Astres / Stars / Goleuadau is Agence TOPO’s latest multimedia creation; an e-poetry
project based on a poetic body of work of the Canadian-Welsh author Childe Roland
and the images of Canadian photographer Susan Coolen. Astres is exhibiting as an
installation, with Coolen’s photography in the project room at Harbourfront Centre,
Toronto. September 16 – November 5, 2006. and the project Astres is also included
in ‘Expanding the Space’, as an artistic component of a scientific conference being
held in Valencia, Spain, October 3-6, 2006. http://www.expandingthespace.net/
Mary Krieger, Winter White, detail of woodcut, 2006.
Crafting Contemporary Art
The Manitoba Arts Network anticipates touring “Crafting Contemporary Art” a
two-fold celebration of the International Year of the Craft 2007 and a celebration of
women and contemporary feminine craft. MAWA members Dana Kletke, Fay Jelly,
Kerri-Lynne Reeves and Karen Wardle are included in this visually lush and
conceptually complex exhibit by artists using traditional materials in a non- traditional
manner. Curator Kristen Pauch indicates: Combing in-depth knowledge of their
materials with a respect for the significance of craft within art history, these artists
embrace and expand the possibilities of fabric, metal, thread and clay. Representing
various regions of the country and levels of experience/art training, the women offer
diversity in their approach to their mediums and in the topics that interest them.
What connects the artists is a demonstrated commitment to explore issues of
current significance, using the mediums and techniques that have been passed
down through generations of makers.
For more information about this exhibit and other programs please contact
Karen Wardle, Visual Arts Program Coordinator ph: 943-0036 or email
info@communityarts.mb.ca. The Province of Manitoba, Manitoba Arts Council and
Gardewine North are supporters of this exhibition.
Catherine Owen will be reading from her new book of prose/lyric poems on homelessness,
drug addiction and schizophrenia, entitled Cusp/detritus (Anvil Press, 06) on
November 17th at 7 pm at McNally Robinson, and at Brandon University in the
Elephant Room in the Knowles Douglas Student Union Centre on November 18th at
7pm. She will be accompanied by photographer and collaborator Karen Moe. Several
of the images from the book will be on display at the reading and Moe will also be
performing songs from her EP Stoic Pharmacy (2006).
Janet Carroll will lead a bookbinding workshop at the Manitoba Crafts Museum Library
Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006, 1-5 pm. For more information call Andrea Earl, 487-6117.
Susan Coolen, Alien Orbs (detail), 2003.
Karen Moe, 'Girl's Suitcase' Detritus: East Vancouver
Alleyways, 2004.
Magic of One Productions, co-curated by Mary Louise Chown and Laura Cowie,
is offering storytelling and music concerts in November and January
November 17 Tales from the Ramayana
Laura Cowie, Jamie Oliviero, Tom Roche
Music: George Berman, Harmonium & Nigel Baseley, Tabla
January 26 Giving Birth Beside the Buffalo:
The True Story of Marie Anne & Jean Baptiste Lagimodiere
Ruth Stewart-Verger (Ottawa storyteller), Mary Louise Chown
Music: Sierra Noble, Don Freed
January 27 Workshop with Mary Louise Chown and Ruth Stewart-Verger
on preparing and telling stories from oral history.
Concerts take place at the Unitarian Church Hall, 603 Wellington Crescent, 8:00PM.
Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door, available at McNally Robinson Booksellers,
Prairie Sky Books, and from Mary Louise Chown, 489-6994.
Susan Coolen’s work “PLIEZ” is included in the new book TRASH, edited by John
Knechtel and published by Alphabet City Media, Toronto and MIT Press. TRASH
features a selection of images of Susan Coolen's ongoing collection of paper
airplanes found in the streets of Montreal and other cities around the world. TRASH
launches in Toronto on October 5, 2006 and an installation of PLIEZ will exhibit at
David Mirvish Books, October 7 – 28, 2006.

Current Board of Directors
tamara rae biebrich (Past-Chair), Shirley Brown, Patricia Bovey, Louise Duguay (Vice-Chair),
Elvira Finnigan, Cheyenne Henry, Amy Karlinsky (Chair), Dana Kletke (Treasurer), Holly Procktor,
Catherine Toews, Iris Yudai (Secretary)
STAFF
Vera Lemecha, Executive Director: vlemecha@mawa.ca
Stacey Abramson, Office Administrator: info@mawa.ca
Vanessa Kroeker, Program Assistant: programs@mawa.ca
Leah Fontaine, Cultural Liaison and Outreach Coordinator: culturalliaison@mawa.ca
DESIGN Susan Chafe
611 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 1E1
(204) 949-9490 info@mawa.ca http://www.mawa.ca
MAWA and its projects are generously funded by The Manitoba Arts Council, The Canada Council
for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, The WH & SE Loewen Foundation, The Winnipeg Arts Council, The
Winnipeg Foundation, Thomas Sill Foundation, donors and members.
Join us for the 1st Annual
mawa Volunteer
Photo Shoot
Dear Volunteer
We know that you did not volunteer for MAWA this past
year so that you could receive recognition, or add to your resume.
We also know that MAWA's success depends upon its volunteers.
You have helped us in many ways: working on committees, assisting at
openings, painting walls, moving furniture, fundraising, shaping policy, and
giving us your time and energy to make MAWA a success. We appreciate it!
You are being honoured and celebrated
at a special volunteer recognition event.
The event begins at 6:00 p.m.
on Thursday November 2nd
(that's right, just one hour before the AGM)
Here is what the evening looks like:
6:00 doors open for a light refreshment
6:25 members organized for shoot
6:30 sharp! Shutter is opened and closed. Don't be late!
6:45 Members arrive and validate memberships for the AGM
7:00 AGM begins – Refreshments after
We'd love to have a group photo of all our volunteers.
We will send you a copy, too. This is our way of saying
Thank-you! Can you make it?
Please RSVP via email or phone to Stacey Abramson,
Office Administrator @ 949-9490 or info@mawa.ca