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FALL ARTS GUIDE | SEPTEMBER 2014
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Winnipeg's visual arts community will
be honouring the 30th anniversary
of Mentoring Artists for Women's Art
(MAWA) this upcoming fall, and there are
exhibitions you will not want to miss.
MAWA, at its core, exists to promote
women's art and has done so since 1984,
offering practical programs to promote the
cultural values of women's artistry.
Venues such as Platform and The Edge will
honour MAWA's milestone with shows such
as Candid and Her Art, Her Voice.
The Urban Shaman gallery will be running
Memory Keepers: Methodologies of Memory,
Mapping and Gender until Oct. 11.
The exhibition features art that illustrates
the artistic practices of Indigenous women
from across North America.
"What is really great about it, all through
the city, we are celebrating women artists
this month and for the next couple of
months," said Liz Garlicki at Urban
Shaman.
From Feb. 20 to Mar. 28, artist Terrance
Houle and guest performers will present
National Indian Leg Wrestling League of
North American (NILWLNA). It's a first for
Winnipeg and Canada, and is an exhibition
through photographic images.
According to Urban Shaman, the NILWLNA
"boldly questions how the Aboriginal body
may be utilized to create and dismantle
stereotypes of First Nations people within
the portrait genre, professional sports, and
farcical situations."
"There will be a full stage, a ring, and there
will be wrestling matches," Garlicki said.
Plug In will welcome Ojibwe-French-
Scandinavian artist Andrea Carlson as one
of its featured exhibitor this fall.
Carlson, who is based in Minneapolis,
participated in a summer residency at
Plug In back in 2010 and is now back in
Winnipeg with a solo exhibition, Eat-All.
"Andrea is really interested in storytelling
and narrative as a means of conveying
power and authority," said Jenny Western,
curator for Carlson.
Eat-All will include selections from Carlson's
ongoing series VORE.
"Using oil, acrylic, ink, color pencil, and
graphite on paper to create landscapes full
of detail, objects, and cultural references,
VORE addresses cannibalism, employing
the term as a metaphor for issues of
cultural appropriation, consumption, and
assimilation," Western said.
Carlson will also showcase a new work, Ink
Babel, a 10 x 15 foot piece made up of 60
overlapping panels.
"Meticulously hand-drawn ink on paper,
Ink Babel attempts to recreate cinematic
effects of zoom and focus as viewers scan
over this large work which takes the Biblical
story of the Tower of Babel as its starting
point."
For more information, visit the following:
aceart.org actualgallery.ca
artcityinc.com cre8ery.com
graffitigallery.ca plugin.org
maisondesartistes.mb.ca
platformgallery.org
printmakers.mb.ca rawgallery.ca
urbanshaman.org
Or see the Winnipeg Arts Council's Cultural
Map of Winnipeg: http://bit.ly/1uuSwU8
By SCOTT BILLECK
Special to Canstar
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SiteSight, by Tanya Lukin Linklater, part of Memory Keepers at Urban Shaman.
Photo courtesy Tanya Lukin Linklater
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