MAWA may june july 09 - Mentoring Artists for Women's Art

may, june, july, august, 2009
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Recession and the Arts
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Canadian economic forecasts continue to look glum, with
increased rates of personal bankruptcy and rising unemployment in
most parts of the country. Less personal wealth translates into less
revenue from taxation, a situation that has led the federal government
to forecast a deficit of $34 billion for the current year, a
projection that many claim will be higher.
The implications of shrinking tax-based budgets will have
ramifications for those of us in the arts. Recently the Province of
British Columbia reacted to an anticipated annual deficit of $495
million by slashing the budget line for arts and culture from $19.5
million in 08/09 to less than $11.8 million in 09/10 (a 40% decrease),
with further reductions projected in years to come. This gutting of
arts funding was framed as essential belt-tightening. But is it essential
or ideological?
Alberta, despite a reputation for not being the most artsfriendly
province, has committed to keeping cultural funding stable
and has even suggested a slight increase in forthcoming years. This
staying-the-course is even more significant in light of Alberta’s
projected $4.7 billion deficit this year. Perhaps Wild Rose
Conservatives have studied the recent statistics regarding the income
generated by the arts in Canada; perhaps Alberta realizes that
funding of the arts makes good economic sense.
According to the Canadian Conference of the Arts, the cost of
creating jobs in arts and culture is lower than in any other sector of
the economy. Currently more Canadians are employed in arts and
culture than those directly employed in the automotive industry, and
the cultural sector employs twice as many people as the forestry
industry or Canadian banks.
Arts and culture not only efficiently create employment, arts
and culture create wealth: a recent study shows that the direct impact
of the cultural sector in 2007 was $46 billion and the indirect impact
was $84.6 billion, or 7.4% of our gross domestic product. According
to Statistics Canada, culture also netted a trade surplus for the
period 1997-2006. Cultural exports doubled from 1997 to 2006,
from 1.5 billion per year to 3 billion per year, whereas the cost of
cultural imports to Canada ranged from 1.5-2.8 billion per year.
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2 Artist lectures
3 First Fridays
4 Field Trip to Long Plain Powwow
Impact of Your Gift
5 Women Artists and Mothering: Film
Stitch ’n Bitch
6 Over The Top Fabulousness
8 What’s New at MAWA:
FMP Extension
Resource Centre News
WAM! Wall
9 What You Missed
10 Members’ News
14 Heads Up Calendar
Cam Forbes live drawing with overhead projector, MAWA, February 2009.
In short, our sector contributes a lot to the Canadian
economy: jobs (and resulting taxes), and billions of dollars in revenue,
generated at home and abroad. We are not a frill, a non-essential
service, or an indulgence. We are an efficient economic engine! And
we certainly aren’t parasites sucking on the public purse or decadent
ne’er-do-wells looking for a free ride. In fact, we make our contribution
to the nation’s economy at the expense of our own wealth. Recent
statistics from Hill Strategies show that even though we contribute
billions of dollars to our nation’s economy, the average income of a
Canadian visual artist has actually dropped from $20,936 in 2000 to
$13,976 in 2005, a new low, a level $6,824 below the Statistics Canada
low-income cutoff.
Fortunately in Manitoba we haven’t yet felt the effects of the
recession as sharply as other parts of the country. Our recent provincial
budget projects a surplus of $316 million for the fiscal year. Hurray
for slow growth! Manitoba governments of different stripes have
long known that art is important in attracting people to our
province, keeping people in our province, building a sense of place,
and creating a diverse economy. Manitoba boasts the highest level of
provincial arts funding per capita in the country, second only to
Quebec. Our arts councils, provincial and civic, help to make our
communities livable and vital.
Cultural workers and audiences have plenty to celebrate in the
arts, particularly here in arts-friendly Manitoba. However, now more
than ever, it is essential that we educate the general public and
political leaders regarding our contributions: aesthetic, cultural,
spiritual and economic.
Team Executive Directors
Shawna Dempsey, Lorri Millan and Dana Kletke

Free! Artist Lectures
Suzie Smith
POPULAR CULTURE, MULTIPLES,
AND MASS PRODUCTION,
Saturday June 20, 2009, 2pm, 611 Main Street
Allyson Mitchell
LET'S GET IT TOGETHER:
COMMUNITY BASED ARTS PROJECTS
WITH ZERO (OR LITTLE) FUNDING
Tuesday July 21, 2009, 7:30pm, 611 Main Street
Grounded in Riot Grrrl, radical feminist art practices, anticorporate
politics and a general philosophy about sharing the toys,
Allyson Mitchell has collaborated with community groups to
facilitate art making for over 10 years. She has worked with queer
youth, economically disadvantaged kids, street involved folk and
other “outsiders” to make films that are inexpensive and easy. She
presents her experiences and strategies, illustrated by images and
film clips.
Suzie Smith. Photo by Sheila Spence.
Suzie Smith will talk about her own art practice as well as
projects she has initiated through Martha Street Studio.
Suzie Smith is a Winnipeg based interdisciplinary artist.
Often using screen printing, drawing, and collage as her tools, she
creates multiples that come together into larger installations. Her
work is about looking at our surroundings in a new way and
encouraging the viewer to do the same. In September 2008, she had
her first solo exhibition at Open Studio in Toronto. She also works
as Coordinator of Education and Outreach Programming at Martha
Street Studio, where she has organized a variety of programs
including the Steamroller Print Festival and 2007’s SERIPOP
exhibition.
Allyson Mitchell, Barb and Barb, mixed media, 2006.
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Suzie Smith, Second Hand Records (Fly), screen print on record cover, 12” x 12”, 2008.
Allyson Mitchell is a maximalist artist working in sculpture,
performance, installation and film. Rising from her experience in
DIY activist culture, Mitchell also works collaboratively with fellow
filmmaker Christina Zeidler as Freeshow Seymour, and was a cofounder
of fat performance troupe Pretty Porky and Pissed Off.
Mitchell lives in Toronto, where she is an Assistant Professor in the
School of Women’s Studies at York University.

Free! First Friday Lectures
Rosalie Favell:
Your Digital Portfolio
Friday May 1, 2009, noon, 611 Main Street
Internationally renown photo-based artist Rosalie Favell will discuss the
do’s and dont’s of digital support material: how to format and size images
to ensure that you are representing your work to the highest standards.
Perfect for anyone applying for a grant or submitting digitally to press,
or galleries or our Foundation Mentorship Program.
Rosalie Favell uses a variety of sources, from family albums to popular
culture, to present a complex self-portrait of her experiences as a
contemporary Aboriginal woman. Her work has appeared in numerous
solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in national and international
venues.
V. Elaine McIntosh:
Symbolism in Anishinabe Art
Friday June 5, 2009, noon, 611 Main Street
Rosalie Favell, The Artist in Her Museum/ The Collector, 2005.
Elaine McIntosh will discuss symbolism in Anishinabe art. The
Woodlands Style image vocabulary will be explored – its history, its
symbolism, and the legends that inform it. Elaine will draw examples
and talk about the evolution of this important Aboriginal art movement.
Interested in drawing from a very young age, Elaine McIntosh is a selftaught
artist who has been painting seriously for the past 20 years. Her
work ranges from portraits to wildlife, and combines different media
such as prismacolour, paints, pyrography and printmaking. Born in St.
Boniface and raised on the Sagkeeng First Nations Reserve in Manitoba,
she has taught in schools and friendship centres throughout Ontario.
Many of her works are in private collections in Canada, USA and Europe.
Milena Placentile:
Dancing at the Revolution
Friday July 3, 2009, noon, 611 Main Street
Daphne Odjig, Devotion, 1977.
Independent curator, Milena Placentile, will discuss possibilities for
social and political activism through contemporary art curation. Topics
of conversation will include relevance, resonance and resistance, also
known as “thinkin’ up opportunities so people who don’t give a damn
might be encouraged to think again”.
Milena Placentile is a curator and writer who has had the pleasure of
working with and for many organizations including Video Pool Media
Arts Centre, Peacock Visual Arts (Aberdeen), SMART Project Space
(Amsterdam), A Space Gallery (Toronto) and, most recently, The
University of Winnipeg's Gallery 1C03.
Smashing a white cube at the My Culture Includes My Scene launch party,
Ottawa Art Gallery, 2005. Photographer unknown.
Note: there will be no First Friday or Stitch ’n Bitch in August or September.
The First Fridays and Stitch ’n Bitches fall on the long weekend of those months, so go fishing! And we’ll see you in October.
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Powwow Field Trip
Field Trip to Long Plain Powwow, west of Portage la Prairie
With artist Lita Fontaine
SATURDAY AUGUST 1, 2009. CARS LEAVE MAWA AT 5 PM. RETURN BY MIDNIGHT.
Lita Fontaine. Photo: Jana McGee.
Join MAWA for this annual celebration of Aboriginal culture at Long
Plain First Nation, featuring traditional arts and dancers from across
North America.
Please bring your own food for the evening and/or some food to
share, a lawn chair, a blanket (it might get chilly!) and some insect
repellent. Transportation will be provided via carpooling. Although
the field trip and powwow entrance are free, we will be splitting
nominal gas costs.
To get a sense of the Long Plain Powwow, check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTa1oiYWGQo
Long Plain Powwow, 2007. Photo: Cynthia Münster.
Lita Fontaine’s work includes photography, mixed media and
installation. Selected exhibitions include: The Sacred Feminine, Urban
Shaman Gallery, March 2006, and Lita Fontaine: Without Reservation,
The Winnipeg Art Gallery, January 2002. She will be mentoring next
year in MAWA’s Foundation Mentorship Program.
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Impact of Your Gift
DID YOU KNOW…
• Since it’s inception, MAWA has reached thousands of artists
through our mentorship programs, artist talks, workshops,
symposia, critical reading groups and newsletters.
• MAWA has increased programing this year despite working
through a deficit.
• Last year, applications to MAWA's Foundation Mentorship
Program exceeded our current capacity by almost 400%.
• There are many ways to give to MAWA and support women in
the visual arts and many ways to designate your gift to have the
most impact. You can give to mentorship of emerging artists,
education through workshops & lectures, MAWA’s future by a
gift to the Legacy Fund or make a general gift to be applied
where it’s needed most.
WAYS OF GIVING
Directly to MAWA
Donate by cash or cheque. Please indicate if you would like to
designate your gift to a specific program/purpose and mail or drop
off your donation to MAWA, 611 Main St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1E1.
You can also leave a bequest in your will. Please call us for more
information or speak to your estate planner.
A Gift of Securities
You pay no capital gains tax on gifts of appreciated securities. Please
contact your financial advisor to arrange this charitable gift.
Online through Canada Helps
Simply go to our website at www.mawa.ca and click the “Donate
Now” button. Canada Helps is itself a charity, and makes supporting
MAWA even easier by allowing for a one-time gift or a monthly
donation on your credit card.
To MAWA’s Legacy Fund
through the Winnipeg Foundation
Canada’s first community foundation, The Winnipeg Foundation,
accepts gifts on MAWA’s behalf. Make cheques payable to The
Winnipeg Foundation. Indicate “MAWA Legacy Fund” in the memo
line and mail directly to The Winnipeg Foundation, 1350 One
Lombard Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0X3. The Winnipeg Foundation
also accepts credit card donations. Call the Winnipeg Foundation
for details at (204) 944-9474.

MAWA Celebrates Mother’s Day
Sculptor Janis Wunderlich at
work. Photo: C. Lewis Studios.
Screening of Who Does She Think She Is?
with special guest filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll
May 15-17, 7 p.m., Cinematheque, 100 Arthur St.
General admission $8, Students and seniors $6
MAWA, Winnipeg Film Group and Cinematheque members $5
Discussion following the Friday May 15 screening with the
director and local artists Gwen Armstrong and Elvira Finnigan.
In a half-changed world, women are often faced with a dilemma:
Your children’s well being or your own? Responsibility or selfexpression?
Who Does She Think She Is?, a documentary by Academy
Award winning filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll, features fierce
women who refuse to choose. These range from ceramic artist Janis
Wunderlich, a happily married Mormon and mother of five, to Maye
Torres, a New Mexican co-parent of teenage sons, who creates
painting and sculpture. Through their lives, we explore some of the
most problematic intersections of our time: mothering and
creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. The
documentary also includes historical contexts and wry commentary
by the Guerilla Girls.
Pamela Boll’s documentary about five women who heeded their
instinctual desire to make art over the fears and protests of their
families is also a call to arms: Rise up, ladies, with those chisels and
paintbrushes and pens! Varied in birthplaces and backgrounds, these
women all grapple with the same dilemmas: how to nurture others
(husbands, children) without destroying the best part of themselves
(otherwise known as: I’d rather be in the studio than the kitchen).
– Village Voice
Presented in collaboration with The Winnipeg Film Group.
Free! Stitch ’n Bitch
MAWA’s Stitch ’n Bitch group meets from noon – 4 pm
at 611 Main the first Saturday of every month to tie one on!
And lately, we’ve been guerilla knitting!
Art, installation and old traditions meet activism, or just plain fun.
Knit Graffiti is “bombing” cities across the nation with a bang. From
Paris to Houston, Vancouver to Mexico, poles, trees, bike racks and
even public buses are being wrapped with knitted yarn by hipsters
wielding sticks and scissors. But vibrant yarn wrapped around the
urban landscape is nothing to fear. Tagging the city with bright
vibrant yarn swatches that can easily be removed leaves nothing but
a smile upon the face of those who participate and the eyes that
behold the sweater-wearing pole. MAWA is providing the Stitch ’n
Bitch group with large needles and pink and orange yarn to start
those swatches for a knit-tastic graffiti tagging time. Knit experts
will be on hand to show you how to stitch your own swatch. But
MAWA’s Stitch ’n Bitch group is not limited to knitting. Come with
your own projects and share what you are working on; start
something new, mend, bead, or finish that great project you started
at the last Stitch ’n Bitch. We will have some supplies on hand and
plenty of opportunities for bitching! Come out, bring a friend! It’s
a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon, and a great way to catch
up with our amazing community.
Note: there will be no First Friday or
Stitch ’n Bitch in August or September.
See you in October!
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Over the Top! MAWA’s Annual Fundraiser and 25th Birthday Bash!
Over the Top! . . .
Without the generous donations from artists, our event would not be possible. With 135 donated works of art, together we raised over
$24,000 in support of MAWA programming and activities marking this our most successful fundraising event to date. MAWA would like
to express our heartfelt gratitude to the following artists:
Sharon Alward
Aliza Amihude
caroline barrientos
Connie Bart-Hamel
tamara rae biebrich
Lisa Bissett
Pauline Braun
Jill Brooks
Sandra Brown
Shirley Brown
Rhian Brynjolson
Derek Brueckner
Sandra Campbell
Sarah Crawley
Roewan Crowe
Susanna Danyliuk
Dena Decter
Leah Decter
Kelly-Jo Dorvault
Brook Drabot
Aganetha Dyck
Neil Dyck
Jeanette Dzama
Maurice Dzama
William Eakin
Heidi Eigenkind
Daphne Enns
Patricia Eschuk
Cliff Eyland
Linda Fairfield
Anne Fallis Elliott
Elvira Finnigan
Cindy Flynn
Cam Forbes
Hannah Godfrey
Rebecca Hadfield
Jan Hall
Jacquelyn Hebert
Karen Hibbard
Lorna Hiebert
Michelle Hooey
Takashi Iwasaki
Amy Jeanne
Fay Jelly
Jeanette Johns
Karen Jonsson
Shawn Jordan
Kevin Kelly
Dana Kletke
Koni
Kathryn Koop
Wanda Koop
Meg Kroeker
Garland Lam
Louise Lamb
Monique Larouche
Annette Lowe
Robert Lowe
Bonnie Marin
Tracy Marshall
Sandee Moore
Shaun Morin
Kristin Nelson
Alison Norberg
Keith Oliver
Cheryl Orr-Hood
Tracy Peters
Bev Pike
Denise Prefontaine
Holly Procktor
Candace Propp
Kerri-Lynn Reeves
Chris Reid
Dominique Rey
Kelli Rey
Paul Robles
Melanie Rocan
Margerit Roger
Kelly Ruth
Wendy Sawatsky
Karen Schlichting
Morag Schonken
Tim Schouten
Karen Schultz
Cindy Singer
Suzie Smith
Sheila Spence
Darren Stebeleski
Brenda Claire Stuart
Leslie Supnet
Susanne Sutherland
Tammy Sutherland
Gaetanne Sylvester
Ewa Tarsia
Amy Teakle
Diana Thorneycroft
Wai Tien
Inga Torfadottir
Llamour Torres
Patrick Treacy
Susan Turner
Racheal Tycoles
Garrett Van Winkle
Terry Vatrt
Lisa Waldner
Karen Wardle
Tricia Wasney
Diane Whitehouse
Lisa Wood
Collin Zipp

. . . a sweet success!!!
MAWA would also like to thank the tremendous support of the following individuals and business who generously donated cash,
merchandise or gift certificates to Over the Top! Fillmore Riley, Assinboine Credit Union and the Winnipeg Foundation who sponsored
cupcake tables; Wishes and Dreams; Photo Central for the fabulous camera; Black Pearl Coffee; and our neighbors who lent us anything we
needed from ladders to sound systems! The overwhelming support from these business and individuals will help to fund many of MAWA’s
programs. Thank you to all these businesses and individuals for their donations:
aceartinc.
Artists’ Emporium
Ashton Gallery
Bill Thiessen
Border Crossings
Arwen Helene
Rod Biebrich
Barbara Hiebert
Bar Italia
Cosmo Restaurant
and Lounge
David Woo
DeLuca’s Restaurant
Delta Winnipeg Blaze
Bistro and Lounge
Edward Carriere
Finger in the Dyke
Productions
Kerri-Lynn Reeves
J.L. Despic
Tan Fx Massage Fx
Judith Putter,
Investors Group
Amy Karlinsky
Lush Fresh Handmade
Cosmetics
McNally Robinson
Booksellers
McIntyre Fine Meats
Out of the Blue
Partners in the Park
Pink Star
Plug In ICA
Photo Central
Shoppers Drug Mart
(Polo Park)
Radiance Gifts
Stafford Street Hot Yoga
Sushi Gozen
Seven Oaks Chiropractic
Centre
Sew Dandee
Thrive Nutrition
Sushi Train (Forks)
Tall Grass Prairie (Forks)
Winnipeg Folk Festival
Winnipeg Arts Council
Vault Salon and Spa
The Winnipeg Art Gallery
Tania Gauthier
Tracy Peters
Liz Garlicki
Sweet Truth Gourmet
Candy
Chris Krawchenko
Maximum Realty Ltd.
Black Pearl Coffee
Not Animals
Boats!
Record of the Week Club
Oldfolks Home
The Details
The Liptonians
Three cheers and a round of applause for the many volunteers!! From the volunteers who signed up months ahead to the ones who helped
out the day of: the committees, the raffle prize collectors, the meeters and greeters, team latte, the list goes on and on. Without our volunteers,
Over the Top would not be possible. A special thanks also goes out to the cupcakes bakers – every sweet treat was donated and made with
love. Everyone worked so hard helping before and after the event. Please accept our heartfelt thanks extended to each and every one of you.
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What’s New at MAWA
Foundation Mentorship Program Deadline Extension
Want to spend a year developing your art practice under the experienced mentorship of Lita Fontaine, Sarah Anne Johnson, Sandee Moore
or Bev Pike? Deadline for the FMP has been extended until May 15. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the experiences of others and
take your artmaking career to the next level.
Resource Centre News: New Acquisitions
Lots of new titles! Drop by the Resource Centre and take home a book. Or check out what we have on MAWA’s on-line database:
http://opac.libraryworld.com/cgi-bin/opac.pl
Fingerweaving Untangled
By Carol James, 2008, 64 pages.
This illustrated beginners guide to a traditional Métis craft includes
detailed patterns and common mistakes. Start weaving your
ceinture fléchée now… Festival du Voyageur is coming! This book
has been generously donated by author and fingerweaving master
Carol James.
Imagining Her Erotics
By Carolee Schneemann, 2002, 348 pages.
Carolee Schneemann is one of the pioneers of performance,
installation, and video art. In the 1960s, her work prefigured the
feminist movement's sexual self-assertion for women. Imaging Her
Erotics integrates images from Schneemann's works in all media
with written material drawn from the artist's journals, dream
diaries, essays and lectures, as well as essays by other authors that
place Schneemann’s work in a historical context.
WAM! Wall
Come by the MAWA space to see what’s hangin’ on the WAM! Wall.
May: Liz Garlicki
June: Tracy Peters
July: Koni
August: Susan Gibson
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Linda Fairfeild Tx.(Treatment), (detail), laminated photocopycollage on
banquet-table paper, plastic breast shield, plastic pill containers, steel cable, pleated
appointment sheets, embroidery thread, duct tape. 2009.

What You Missed
International Women’s Day Stitch’n Bitch at MAWA, March 2009
Louise Duguay First Friday Lecture, MAWA 2009
Elvira Finnigan (left) and Louise Duguay (right)
Shawna Dempsey at Bootcamp!
Valerie Lamontagne, Artist Lecture, MAWA 2009
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Members’ News
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Morag Schonken
Volume One Thru Seven.
Mixed Media, 2008.
Photo Credit:
Morag Schonken.
MAWA member Morag Schonken is participating in THE PORTABLE
LIBRARY PROJECT: a mail-art/book-making project involving the
creation of small works exploring ideas surrounding archiving,
journaling, libraries, ephemera, and incorporating an art practice
into everyday life. Participating artists span all disciplines, from
performance art to fibre-based art; from photo-based art to craft to
sculpture and installation. Invited artists were sent/delivered an
empty cigar box, roughly the size of a hardcover book. Over the
course of a week, individuals were expected to create a 'book' a day
reflective of each person's day-to-day activities and artistic process.
Books were ideally made while on the go; boxes were intended to
be carried with the participant, where books were to be added and
collected each day for seven days. In addition to an online archive,
The Portable Library Project will take the form of a series of
exhibitions (dates below), and components will be housed in a local
alternative library for viewing and circulation. Please keep an eye
on the blog for project updates, extensive photo-documentation of
each portable library, and artist information.
http://theportablelibraryproject.blogspot.com/
JUNE 2009, lowercase gallery and reading room at the Regional
Assembly of Text, 3934 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
Opening: Saturday, June 6th. 2pm
JULY 2009, Toronto Zine Library at the TRANZAC Club, 2nd
floor, 292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, ON, Opening: TBA
OCTOBER 2009, Roberts Street Social Centre/Anchor Archive,
5684 Roberts Street, Halifax, NS, Opening: TBA
Hi from Avery Ascher at Clearwater Lake, north of The Pas! On
March 19, I attended a friend's presentation on plein air painting.
His PowerPoint focused on the use of this technique by the
Impressionists and Canada's Group of Seven, and a plein air workshop
he attended in Arizona. He also showed some boxes he'd designed
himself to transport pieces while still wet that keep them from
touching each other. On March 28-29 I attended a rug-hooking
workshop at the WAG led by Nancy Hall. This is rug hooking the
traditional way, working thin strips of wool and other fabrics into
burlap. More info: ascher@xplornet.com
In March Karen Cornelius completed a one month artist in residency
at the Guanlan Print Original Industry Base located northeast of
Guanlan Town in Shenzhen, China. The Guanlan Print Original
Industry Base although its English name is rather cumbersome , is
Karen Corenlius pulling gelatin print in Guanlan studio, Guanlan Studio, March 2009.
a fully equipped printmaking facility dedicated to connecting
printmakers from all over the world. During my residency I met
five printmakers from Europe, two from Mongolia, one from
Malaysia and several from Hong Kong and other parts of China.
Meeting these national and international printmakers, seeing their
work, exchanging printmaking knowledge and expertise as well as
sharing opportunities in the printmaking world was a rich experience.
I would like to acknowledge the Manitoba Arts Council for making
this residency possible by contributing travel funds.
Connie Chappel, Some Girls are Afraid of
Spiders, Mice and Snakes, mixed media
(acrylic and gesso paint, photo image, papiermâché
relief, beads and fabric) on masonite
board, 2009. Size 40 x 50 cm.
New work by MAWA
member Connie Chappel is
available at Galeria Vallarta.
Unique collages incorporating
photographs, papier-mâché,
beads and fabric capture the
playful spirit of Mexico.
Heading south? Check out
Connie’s work at Galeria
Vallarta, Juárez No. 265,
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
MOCCA / Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto ON
Pulp Fiction, Jun 27, 2009 - Aug 23, 2009
Marc Bell, Tasha Brotherton, Mark DeLong, Barry Doupe, Shayne
Ehman, MAWA member and board member Liz Garlicki, James
Kirkpatrick, Amy Lockhart, Jason McLean, Jennie O'Keefe, Seth
Scriver, The Lions, Peter Thompson
Organized by Museum | London. Curated by Corinna Ghaznavi
Norman Art Group 30th Anniversary Tea & Annual Judged Show
at the George Waters Middle School (Adjacent to St. James
Collegiate), 190 FERRY Road. May 9th, 2009 - 12:00 – 5:00 pm,
May 10th, 2009 - 12:00 – 4:00 pm. Tea will be served both days.
Free Admission, Refreshments, Silent Auction, Daily Prizes.
aceartinc. presents Pressure Cooker:
a night of performance and video
by aceartinc. members
you can't keep a lid on!
Friday, May 8, 2009 7:30 pm at aceartinc. free admission, but we
won't turn away new memberships and donations!!!!

McMurchy is director of the Society for Disability Arts and Culture
(S4DAC) and the ten year running Kickstart Festival in Vancouver.
SPARK Arts and Disability Network received acknowledgment of
financial support from Canada Council for the Arts and the
honourable Eric Robinson Minister of Heritage, Culture, Tourism
and Sport who commended their “enterprise and commitment to
advancing arts accessibility in Manitoba”. This support sponsors an
arts and disability workshop at the ACI Creative Manitoba
Conference May 28, 2009 featuring Geoff McMurchy, artist, arts
organization director and festival organizer, who will talk about
what is happening elsewhere in Canada. Also supported are an
Artist Tour and steering committee planning session. For
Conference information contact ACI: (204) 927-2787 or check the
website www.creativemanitoba.ca.
Tracy Peters, Sand Castles, Pinhole Photograph Gelatin Silver Contact Print, 2007.
Tracy Peters is a film-based artist who is fascinated with the experience
of memory and the mnemonic power of photographs. With a hand
made pinhole camera, “devoid of mechanisms, and lacking in charm…
a black box filled with absolute darkness…a repository for lost
time,” she has returned to places from her childhood to photograph
subject matter that appeals to memory. A selection of these pinhole
images, entitled meditations on memory, was intimately displayed at
Martha Street Studio in March/April 2009. Tracy’s photographic
work has shown in numerous exhibitions in Winnipeg galleries
and in a recent juried exhibition in San Francisco.
The seven members of the Grey Matters art collective know for
sure that when the profoundly un-black and white world of
seasoned women meets art, a very diverse spectrum of creative
work materializes. These women have been on the DIY exhibition
bandwagon for half a decade now putting together their own brand
of two and three dimensional mixed media works, as well as painting,
print-making, ceramics and video. Please join them in celebrating
life's glorious shades of grey at their 5th annual art exhibition
opening this coming May 29th at Outworks Gallery.
Karen Schultz, Once Removed, Video, 2009.
Karen Schulz has been awarded the Grand Prize for a moving
image in BlackFlash magazine's annual Optic Nerve competition.
Her 30 second video Once Removed will be showcased on the
BlackFlash website in May.
SPARK Arts and Disability Network co-director Susan P. Gibson,
invited by Canada Council for the Arts, attended a two day Disability
and Deaf Art Focus Group recently in Ottawa. Multi-disciplined
artists with disabilities met with Program Officers and researchers
to share their practices and experiences. Artists responded to the
research paper Disability and Deaf Art by Rose Jacobson and artist
Geoff McMurchy. McMurchy will be presenting a workshop about
his findings at the Creative Manitoba conference May 28, 2009.
Mary Louise Chown, Tom Roche and Kay Stone: storytellers.
Kevin Scott and Micheal Cobus: musicians. Fringe Festival, Winnipeg July 2008
MAWA member Mary Louise Chown will be performing at this
year’s Fringe Festival, in Magic of One’s Production of SKIN DEEP.
Last year’s 4 & 1/2 star storytellers are back with more tales and
music about the erotic surface and fearful depth of our human nature.
It’s skinny and its deep. We will hold you in the palm of our hands
and give you no quarter! “This is the place to come and see master
story-weavers at work.” 2008 Free Press
Aqua Books, 279 Garry St., 7:00 pm July 15-18, & July 22-25
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Members’ News
Chitra Ganesh, Dazzle,
2008. Digital C-Print.
Courtesy of the Artist
and Thomas Erben
Gallery, New York.
Pandora’s Box, June 6 to July 18, 2009
Plug In ICA, 286 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg
Curated by Amanda Cachia
Artists: Laylah Ali, Ghada Amer, Shary Boyle, Amy Cutler, Chitra
Ganesh, Wangechi Mutu, Annie Pootoogook, Leesa Streifler, Kara
Walker and Su-en Wong. Organized and toured by Dunlop Art
Gallery. Opening reception: 8 pm, June 5, 2009
Curator & Artists’ talk: 3 pm, June 6, 2009
Pandora’s Box offers a new twist on the myth of Pandora. Inside
Pandora’s Box viewers will encounter a phantasmagoria of myths,
folktales, stereotypes and ambiguity. A radical transformation is
taking place regarding previously entrenched assumptions about
gender, the body, sexuality and spirituality. These works are
violent, shocking, surprising, decadent and seductive.
On May 14th at 7pm The Winnipeg Art Gallery is hosting a panel
discussion in response to the Marilyn
Monroe exhibition. Sex, Politics and Scandal,
Oh My! is a discussion on the construction
of femininity and celebrity, with Shawna
Dempsey, Angela Failler, Alison Gilmour
and Kate Ready. Admission is $8, $12 to also
see the Marilyn exhibition.
Andy Warhol. Marilyn, published by Sunday B. Morning, 1967/1978. Screenprint.
MAWA Members Win
Manitoba Book Awards
Congratulations to Louise Duguay who won the Mary Scorer
Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher (Les Editions du Blé)
for her book Pauline Boutal: Destin d’artiste. This book, designed by
Susan Chafe, also won the Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year.
Louise also won best use of archives for research by the Association
of Archives of Manitoba and the Margaret McWilliams Award from
the Manitoba Historical Society. Further congratulations to illustrator
Rhian Brynjolson for Goose Girl, recipient of the McNally Robinson
Book for Young People Award (Younger Category). In fact, we
would like to congratulate the many MAWA members who where
nominated for the Manitoba Book Awards! Information about the
awards and nominations can be found at:
http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba/
MAWA Board member Racheal Tycoles is in a group exhibition at
the Art Gallery of Sudbury on mining titled "sUBSTANTIAL
RESOURCES" from April 18th to August 30th, 2009. The other
artists are Edward Burtynsky, Dennis Castellan, Shayne Dark, Kim
Dorland, John Hartman, Joseph Hartman, Joseph Hardman, John
McEwen, Andrew Morrow, Louie Palu, Charles Paxy, Mark
Thompson and Jennifer Walton.
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Clifton Studios Annual Spring Open House and Sale
Saturday May 9th , 11 am to 4 pm
Come join us for our Spring Open House. Chat with artists
working in a variety of media, have snacks and enter the raffle!!!
587 Clifton Street, 774-4869.

looking for
studio space
Looking for studio space to rent.
Preferably 700 - 1000 square feet; water
source close by. Please call Candace at
669-4913
mawa apartment
Are you a MAWA member from outside
Winnipeg, a Winnipeg artist-run centre
with a visiting artist, and/or an artist
coming to Winnipeg? Are you seeking a
comfortable place to stay for one or two
nights or longer?
Phone 204-949-9490 and ask about
renting MAWA's studio apartment,
conveniently located at 611 Main Street,
Winnipeg, close to many local galleries
and other amenities.
611 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 1E1
(204) 949-9490 info@mawa.ca http://www.mawa.ca
The Edge Artist Village and Gallery is an artist-run, non-profit
organization for the arts located in the heart of Winnipeg’s Downtown.
The Edge Artist Collective • affordable live / work spaces
• studio memberships • gallery rentals
Studio Membership Full, Associate & Patron memberships available
Call Serena at 947-2992 for more information.
www.edgevillage.com • info@edgevillage.com
611 Main Street • Winnipeg • MB • R3B 1E1
Current Board of Directors
Rhian Brynjolson, Louise Duguay (Vice-Chair), Liz Garlicki. Amy Karlinsky
(Past Chair), Garland Lam, Kerri-Lynn Reeves (Chair), Roslyn Stanwick,
Racheal Tycoles, Gwen Armstrong , Arwen Helene, Melanie Rocan,
Tracy Peters and Bree Bergen.
Honourary Board Members: Patricia Bovey, Diane Whitehouse
Staff
Dana Kletke (Co-Executive Director)
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (Co-Executive Directors)
Tania Gauthier (Director of Philanthropy)
Tracy Marshall (Program Coordinator)
DESIGN Susan Chafe
MAWA and its projects are generously funded by Manitoba Arts Council,
Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage,
The WH & SE Loewen Foundation, Winnipeg Arts Council,
The Winnipeg Foundation, The Thomas Sill Foundation,
Assiniboine Credit Union, donors and members.
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Heads Up!
MAY
Friday, May 1, noon
Saturday, May 2, noon-4
Friday May 15, 4pm
Friday-Sunday, May 15-17, 7pm
May 15-June 12
JUNE
Friday, June 5
Saturday, June 6, noon-4
Saturday, June 20, 2pm
First Friday
Rosalie Favell: Your Digital Portfolio
Stitch ’n Bitch
Deadline for Submission for
Foundation Mentorship Program
Film Screening and Panels
Who Does She Think She Is? at Cinematheque
Showcase of artworks by participants in this year’s
Mentor in Residence Program with Rosalie Favell
First Friday
Victoria Elaine McIntosh: Symbolism in Anishinabe Art
Stitch ’n Bitch
Artist Lecture Suzie Smith
JULY
Friday, July 3, noon
Saturday, July 4, noon-4
Tuesday, July 21, 7:30pm
First Friday
Milena Placentile: Dancing at the Revolution
Stitch ’n Bitch
Artist Lecture Allyson Mitchell
AUGUST
Saturday, August 1, 5pm-midnight
Powwow Field Trip with Lita Fontaine
MAWA Into The Future
Later this year MAWA will be hosting a town hall meeting and a series of topic-specific think
tanks. We will also be developing a members’ survey, which will be disseminated electronically.
Why? This is our 25th year. Let’s plan for the next 25 years together! MAWA exists for its
membership – we need your input. So stay tuned for the series of outreach activities that we’re
calling MAWA Into The Future. And in the meantime, please be assured that if you have an
idea, concern, complaint or compliment, all of the MAWA staff and board are happy to listen.
THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT!
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Sharon Alward
Gwen Armstrong
JoAnne Balcaen
Shawna Dempsey
Louise Duguay
Cliff Eyland
Linda Fairfield
Liz Garlicki
Marni Kalef
Sean Keating
Dana Kletke
Koni
Marilou McPhedran
Darlene McPherson
Bev Pike
Kimberly Pohl
Melanie Rocan
Roslyn Stanwick
Liv Valmestad
Deborah Challis