Lorna Brown - Mentoring Artists for Women's Art

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.