From January through to April check out the current 2023 Visual Art Touring Exhibitions! Featuring artists Pepe Hildago, Alison Davis, Karen Schulz, Brian Longfield, and Victoria Prince from the 2023 Touring Exhibition program. These exhibits are currently touring rural Manitoba. To book an exhibition or purchase art from the site please connect with Nicole at visualarts@mbartsnet.ca […]
Maada’ookii: s/he distributes something, distributes gifts, shares something with others. Presented in partnership with Manitoba Arts Network and the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba One of the values within Indigenous ways of knowing is sharing and reciprocity, which resulted in the name for this exhibition. These recent artworks by Kristy Janvier, Annie Courchene, Frances Cooper […]
This webinar will focus on preparing your application to Manitoba Arts Council (MAC) for their Support-Operating Grant, with a special focus on Category D of the application. It will be geared towards arts administrators, including volunteer art administrators of rural arts organizations. Shawna Dempsey is an established artist and Co-Executive Director of Mentoring Artists for […]
This exhibition encourages seeing animals as beings with thoughts and feelings but it is interesting to note that the personalities and emotions we ascribe to animals are not likely to be their actual feelings but are based on our human perceptions.
Mind and Heart is a series of black ink drawings and alcohol ink paintings exploring the connection between neuroscience and the human heart. Victoria’s work is inspired by the drawings and cell-stained illuminations of neuroscientists Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Camillo Golgi. Golgi created a staining technique making brain cells (neurons) visible under the microscope. Deeply […]
Nets are patterns that catch and hold. The patterns of our lives also ensnare us. Often, those patterns are beneficial routines, but there are many patterns that hold us back. This series of work is a consideration of patterns generally as well as the work it takes to construct and deconstruct those patterns.
One golden autumn day, I looked skyward to the honking of southbound Canada Geese. Reminded of practicing scales on the piano with each bird a note, I envisioned a musical staff superimposed, or “tagged”, over the iconic flying V formation. Suddenly, musical notes and sounds seemed to be hiding everywhere.
Illana will share how they have kept the Old School House relevant and dynamic with public programming, not charging an admission fee and diversifying income. This webinar hopes to inspire member organizations to think “outside the box” while still delivering quality relevant programming to its community.