Lorna Brown - Mentoring Artists for Women's Art

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.