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Call for Submissions foundation mentorship program 08/ 09 September 1,2008 to August 31,2009

The Foundation Mentorship Program is a year- Mentors also consider their ability to work with long program in which senior artists share their each applicant based on mutuality of practice or experience with developing artists. This non- concept. Students are not eligible. Your application hierarchical program is designed to help women should include the following: who are visual artists develop skills and define • Up to 20 images on CD or other documentation their decision-making philosophies, and to of your work (audio, video, slides, etc.) along provide access to the information, resources with a numbered Support Materials List and support they need to realize their goals. In

Foundation Mentorship Program including title, media, size, date completed addition to a relationship with mentors, the • Resume or CV program aims to provide a peer group for the • A paragraph on why you are applying to the mentees, from which they receive valuable program and what you hope to achieve during critical feedback and support. Self-reliance and the year resourcefulness are encouraged. • Your email address, phone number, and mailing address Mentors meet with their mentees individually • Self-addressed, stamped envelope if you will once a month, and the entire group meets not be able to pick up your materials monthly for critiques, discussion, gallery visits Drop off or mail your submission to: and other activities. Vera Lemecha, Executive Director Mentoring Artists for Women's Art To Apply: Mentors select the participants based 611 Main Street on their potential to grow within the program. Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1E1

inside For further information contact Sacha Kopelow 7 Symposium at 989-2318 or [email protected]. 1 Foundation Art Building Community Mentorship Program 8 Members’ News DEADLINE: 4 PM, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2008 4 Mentor-in-Residence MINERVA CUEVAS 10 Over the Top! Fee: The cost of the program is $200 for one Cupcake Party year. A deposit of $50 is required upon 5 Artist Lecture acceptance into the program, the remainder to ERIKA MACPHERSON 11 Opportunities Calls for Submissions be paid by post-dated cheque. Applicants must 6 First Fridays Heads Up! be MAWA members. Membership forms are PATRICIA BOVEY available on the MAWA website at CLAUDINE MAJZELS 12 AWAM www.mawa.ca. 2 Foundation Mentorshop Program and lation, her handsonandthatincludes:sculpture,instal- gression). Sheworksinanymediumshecanget between nature(theliving)andtechnology(pro- the investigationofdynamicrelationship consumerist culture.Hermainfocushasbeen by socio-economicissuesfacedNorthAmerica’s of FineArtsprogram,KCAdams’workisinspired A graduateofConcordiaUniversity’s Bachelor Intercession Cyborg LivingSpaceII,TheLanguageof and theAnnexGalleryinWinnipeg. Confederation CentreoftheArtsinCharlottetown the participated inresidenciesattheBanffCentre, casing herworkandflashartprojects.Shehas her ownwebsiteatwww.kcadams.net show- Carleton UniversityinOttawa.Shemaintains Canada CouncilfortheArts. Arts Council,theManitobaCounciland several Gallery ofCanada,.Shehasreceived in thepermanentcollectionofNational gr been featuredinnumerous and theNationalGalleryin O Hybrid recently Adams hashadseveralsoloexhibitions,most printmaking, kineticartandflashanimation.KC kc adams the mentors Cyborg Hybrids drawing, painting, series (WinnipegandBanff)canbefound grants andawardsfromtheWinnipeg Cyborg Hybrids at theOBOROGalleryin for theexhibition photography, ceramics, at ModernFuelGallery, ttawa. Shehasalso oup exhibitions, Her Anthem Montreal, Cyborg at Cyborg Hybrid Accessories, Cyborg HybridLeanne“POCAHONTAS” Digital Photograph, 2007,15" x20" Ottawa Series,200714”x20” Foundation Mentorshop Program Dreams Canada and the UnitedStates. in represented the Winnipeg ArtsCouncilandis from theManitobaArtsCouncil and awards at theWAG. Shehasreceived Australia) and UNLEARN Marin mostrecentlyexhibitedworkin underside oftheseissues.Bonnie often attemptstouncoverthedark family, andvulnerability. Herwork sexuality, religion,homophobia, serious themessuchasmortality, important strategyforaddressing Marin’s liberal use ofhumourisan influenced bypopartandsurrealism. and collage.Herworkisprimarily sculpture, painting,bookworks, national recognitionforworksin received local,nationalandinter- University ofManitoba.Shehas a BachelorofFineArtsfromthe Bonnie Marinisavisualartistwith the WinnipegArtG bonnie marin tuigCnd,Grayand (touring Canada,Germany , atPlugInICA, The Subconscious City collections across allery, In Your Bug City at The Nanny, V oluptuous, collage onpaper, 2007,12”x mixed media,2007,36”x24”x12” mary reid Foundation Mentorshop Program

Max Streicher, Mammatus, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2006. photo credit: Ernest Mayer

Mary Reid is currently the Curator of Contemp- In addition to exhibition coordination, Reid orary Art and Photography at The Winnipeg Art has project-managed and contributed essays to Gallery. Her primary curatorial interests lie in several cata-logues and brochures which support Canadian modern and contemporary art as well her various projects. as public sculpture, with a particular interest in In her spare time she volunteers as the the investigation of the creative process itself. President of Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers’ Reid generally tends to be more captivated in Board of Directors. In the fall of 2007, she joined exploring where the artistic drive comes from the University of Winnipeg’s History Department and the impetus of ideas. She feels it is her role to teach a course on art history and exhibition as curator to act as an intermediary between the practice. Reid received her master’s degree in artist and the viewer, not to interpret the work Art History from York University, Toronto, in 1999. represented, but to inform the gallery visitor of thoughts, ideas, processes, and questions that were considered while the work was being created, thereby providing the opportunity for viewers to experience a meaningful engagement and dialogue with what is presented before them. Over that last three years she has curated a number of exhibitions featuring the work of Max Streicher, John McEwen, Aidan Urquhart and Don Gill. At present, she is developing survey exhibitions of the work of Winnipeg artists Caroline Dukes and Sheila Spence, which will be featured in the coming year at the WAG. Reid is also in the research phase for a large scale retrospective exhibition highlighting Wanda Koop’s impressive career. This exhibition will be mounted in 2009 at the WAG and in 2011 at the National Gallery of Canada, with a national tour Tamara Benoit, Stay on the Hard Water, Somethin’s Fishy, 3 to follow. MacLaren Art Centre 4 Foundation Mentorshop Program Lisa andCurtresting#1, and Painting 1 attheUniversityofManitoba. currently teaches FundamentalsofDrawing and DigitalArtsfrom2005 –2007,and of PLATFORM CentreforPhotographic Canada andtheUS.Wood wastheDirector shown insoloandgroup exhibitionsin to individualartists.Her workhasbeen Council andWinnipegArtsgrants scholarships, includingManitobaArts been therecipientofmanyawardsand studying withAuroraLandin.Wood has in theMAWA mentorshipprogram, in 2005.Betweendegrees,sheparticipated obtaining herMasterofFineArtsdegree on tostudypaintingatYale University, University ofManitobain2002,andwent Bachelor ofFineArtsdegreefromthe painting anddrawing.Shereceivedher primarily focusesonrepresentational Lisa Wood isaWinnipegartistwho lisa wood , OilonMylar, 2006,10.5”X13”. Photo:LisaWood) Lisa andCurtresting#2 , OilonMylar, 2006,10.5”X13”.Photo:LisaWood) 5

Mentor in Residence 2008 APRIL 18TOMAY 30,2008 minerva cuevas devices suchas magiclanternsandmicroscopes. studies re-adaptingearly scientificandoptical on theoilindustryinMexico andSocialEcology assumed theroleofbothapolitical andartisticactor. perform-ances; withthese actionsCuevashas chains. Cuevas stickers whichreduce lotteryticketsandbarcode cards, subway passes, products andservicessuchas Corporation) she founded the Internettourbanspaceandm work issocialinterventioninspacesrangingfrom The startingpointofMexicanartistMinerva At themomentsheisdeveloping aseriesofworks Cueva's work has beenshownextensively insolo , anenterprisethatprovidesfree also createsposters,billboards,and Mejor Vida Corp. the priceoffoodatsupermarket international studentID Del Montte2003InternationalMediaCampaign useums. In1998 (Better Life Cuevas’ V Biennale ofSydney (2004);IstanbulBiennial (2003); V and groupexhibitionsincluding: Dream Machines, Casino 2001 Populism, (2006); SharjahBiennial7UAE(2005); de Lyon, France(2007);BienaldeSao Paulo,Brazil On Society Phenomena by Civilization, Berlin (2004); Paris (2001); (2005); Kunstverein, Frankfurt;StedelijkMuseum,Amsterdam an Abbemuseum,Eindhoven,Holland(2008); ivemos, Schwarzfahrer AreMyHeroes, Contemporary ArtCentre,Vilnius. Frankfurter Musee d'ArtModernede , MCKunst,LosAngeles(2007);Biennale , KunsthalleBasel,Switzerland(2007); S.M.A.K. inGent(2001); Hardcore MVC-Biotec . MuralpaintingPalaisdeTokyo. Paris,France. The BanffCentre,Canada(2005); Hayward Gallery, London (2001). Palais deTokyo inParis(2003); Secession, V Minerva Cuevas la Villela deParis, Da Adversidae Not Impressed DAAD Galerie, ienna (2001); , 7 Mentor in Residence 2008 Te new skills,knowledge Participants graduatefromthisintensiveprogramwith Mentor andoncea their with week a to thenextlevel.Menteesmeetonce exhibitions, exhibiti for (such asapplying visit theMentee'sstudio,discussprofessional development oftheMentee’s artpractice. advice, supportandinformationthatcontributetothe curator forasix-weekperiod.Mentorsprovide work closelywithanestablishedCanadianartistor opportunity forfourmid-careerorseniorartiststo The MentorinResidenceprogramprovidesan by 4pm, M to onesuccessful applicant.Participants mustbe Mentor inResidenceBursary, Applicants areautomatica $100 feeispayableuponacceptance rra Primitiva AWA Applications mustbereceived intheMAWA office

members. Saturday, March1 2006 MuralPainting,SaoPauloBiennial and worktomovetheMentee’s art and inspiration. week withtheentiregroup. lly considered forthe lly . Noemail which maybeawarded ons andgrants),visit into theprogram. applications. practices Mentors practice return ofyourmaterials Self-addressed, stampedenvelopefor 5. em address and 4. work onwhileintheprogram Descriptionofwhatyouwould liketo 3. ResuméorCV 2. date completed. Materials Listincluding:title,media,size, slides, etc.),alongwithanumberedSupport documentation of 1. submit thefollowing to apply Cover letterwithyourphone number, Up to20imagesonCD,orother ail address your work(audio,video, erika macpherson FEBRUARY 16, 2 PM, 611 MAIN STREET

Part of my long-term investigation into innovative relatedness between places of significance and

Artist Lecture moments in time is the piece I’m currently “living with”, Mysaga. Originally Mysaga looked like this: my mother was going to walk the path taken by her great- grandmother when she was 16 years old across the uninhabited highlands of Iceland. I would create a cinematic document in which the protagonist tries to piece together her ancestors’ untold histories. My mother, while translating the correspondence between the emigrants and their home-bound families in Iceland, had formed an image about the long-term trauma of taking leave of one’s home. She believed that Icelanders living in the New World, descendants of immigrants, share a common sadness, a certain melancholic longing. Icelanders call it heimthrá, in thrall to home, a longing that enslaves the soul. Before she could reveal all she had gleaned from the translations she had made, my mother died. On her deathbed she revealed to me a tragic parallel tale, which I audio-taped; a second walk, one taken by my great-grandmother (the daughter of the previous story’s trekker) from to the Interlake of Manitoba under the very same circumstances. During the course of research for Mysaga, while I toil to broaden the limiting definition of my heritage, I am being drawn more deeply toward an acceptance of the narrative of lineage: Of the speed at which a stone breathes.

Video stills from 22:30, Episode 1, Countdown work in progress

Erika MacPherson uses video and electronic media to investigate the intricate relationship of choice and chance. She locates her practice in nature, the landscape of our bodies, the physical realm of materiality, the material realm of spirit, and the potential found in dreams, lucidity, trance, trans- formation, and death. Her visually poetic non-fiction narratives explore the phenomenal circumstance of being human. As a community activist, Erika’s artistic vision is to interpret the narrative inherent in the most profound determinants on survival - the environment as well as inter-relationships and concepts of co- creation. She explores notions of time as well as perceptions of our humanity in relationship to the natural and cultural world and the potential conse- quences stemming from the acceleration and compression of our lives. Erika’s pieces have screened internationally at Video still from You Are Here/We Are There, Video, 2007, 2 min. festivals from the San Francisco Gay Lesbian to Transmediale in Berlin, Vancouver International to The her home in Manitoba, she also works with the stories Edinburgh Fringe. Erika has received numerous or others: as a writer, videographer, editor and awards from the Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba workshop facilitator. MacPherson's website can be 8 Arts Council, and for the Arts. From found at www.erikamacpherson.com. patricia bovey the pitfalls of estate planning – issues for artists and collectors to consider 12 Noon, Friday February 1st, 611 Main Street irst Friday

F Many complex issues are has taught at the University of Winnipeg and the often overlooked when University of Victoria and published widely in the planning one's estate, es- field of Western Canadian visual arts. Patricia pecially in today's changing She is a member of several arts boards including Bovey, world for art and artists. the National Gallery of Canada and the University of 2007, Photo: Do you have an art exec- Manitoba. Her consulting clients include the Office of Rory utor? Have you considered the Auditor General of Canada; the Northern Plains Dalziel ongoing copyright rights? Aboriginal Centre, City of Brandon, Sioux Valley How do you want your Nation and the Manitoba Métis Federation, South- studio work to be dealt West Region; Collège Universitaire de St. Boniface; with? Have you invest- Creative Retirement; First Voice Multimedia; and St. igated estate tax issues; or Boniface Hospital. planned the disposition of other artists' work in your She has served on the Board of the Canada collection? Where do we turn for answers and advice? Council; the Federal Task Force on National and What can we learn from various real situations to Regional Museums; is a past Chair of the Board of avoid some of the classic problems? These and other Governors of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design issues, including the rights of your beneficiaries will and the Canadian Art Museum Directors Organization. be considered. A Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in the Patricia Bovey, Winnipeg-based art historian, UK, her awards include the Canada 125 Medal, the writer and consultant in the arts, teaches 20th Century Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, Woman of Distinction Canadian Art and Cultural Resource Management. for the Arts, the CMA Award of Distinguished Service Director of The Winnipeg Art Gallery (1999-2004) and and the RCA Medal. the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1980-1999), she

claudine majzels In honour of International how women changed art Women’s Day a light lunch 12 Noon, Friday, March 7, 611 Main Street will be served.

Research and teaching in the field of Art History has McGill University and her Ph.D at the University of been radically changed by the women’s movement, Pennsylvania. As a Canada Council Research fellow by the women artists and the art historians who continue she studied at the Warburg Institute of the University to challenge the art world and academia. MAWA's of London (UK) and was Leverhulme Fellow at presence in Winnipeg has provided Majzels with a Cambridge University. She has taught at the successful model of collectivity and proof that trans- universities of St. Andrews, Edinburgh and Leicester formation is possible. Women artists supporting women’s and returned to Canada where she is an Associate art is feminism in action as well as a historical force Professor at the University of Winnipeg. She specializes in the making of both art and theory; the concept of in feminist theories of art and women artists, as well women mentoring women offers a path for creating as the perception of movement and dance history. community that transcends the ivory tower. She has taught dance as well as performed and choreographed in Canada and Europe. She has two Claudine Majzels received her BA in Art History at grown children and two cats.

mawa wishes to thank the following friends who have donated to us since november 2007 aliza amihude, patricia bovey, anonymous, louise duguay, elvira finnigan, carolyn gray, amy karlinsky, vera lemecha, reva stone, brigitte urben, tammy sutherland, 9 carolynn smallwood, sacha kopelow, liz garlicki and garland lam mark your calendars! art building community symposium may 9, 10, 11, 2008 ymposium S

Minerva Cuevas, The Economy of the Imaginary: Pirates and Heroes, 5-channel video installation (2006)

Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art invites you Cheyenne Henry, Kristin Nelson, Suzi Smith, Kathryn to attend MAWA’s spring symposium – Art Building MacKenzie, Kerri Lynn Reeves, Nicole Shimonek and Community, May 9, 10, 11 in Winnipeg. Join us for a Becky Thiessen. These artists will create work weekend of socially engaged art and dialogue. This addressing a range of community, interventionist, interdisciplinary, multimedia weekend symposium cultural animation and new public genre art practices. will consist of critical and participatory discussions, The critically acclaimed, dynamic performance duo, workshops, video screenings, exhibitions and Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, will be performances taking up the theme of “art building performing at the symposium on Saturday night. community.” The symposium will provide a dynamic Toronto artist, writer and activist Robin Pacific will be and creative space for artists, activists, curators and addressing the complications and challenges of cultural workers to gather with colleagues from across community art practices in her plenary talk on Canada and internationally, to share new work, and Sunday. Her work includes community art, cultural to reflect on, interrogate, and discuss the ways in animation and mapping, painting, multimedia, which art can be, and is being mobilized to build public art and installation. Joining us from Mexico different kinds of communities. What is the range of City is internationally acclaimed artist Minerva Cuevas. socially engaged art practices in community? What In search of an interface to activate social change, kinds of “communities” does art build? How does art Minerva Cuevas’s work is based on interventions and address some of the most pressing issues of our political action linked to creative and artistic fields. time such as poverty, the impacts of colonization, Minerva Cuevas will be joining us at the symposium gender and racial inequalities, and the need to as well as creating new work while she is in develop compassionate and caring communities of Winnipeg. Join us at MAWA to launch her new work belonging? How can art be used to engage the public on Saturday. in community issues and civic responsibilities? This project is curated by Roewan Crowe, Academic Sessions throughout the weekend will explore topics Director of The University of Winnipeg’s Institute For such as: negotiating power dynamics in a community Women’s and Gender Studies. The symposium is based practice, art and the law, interventionist work being generously sponsored by the Canadian within art institutions, curating community, issues of International Development Agency (CIDA) through a process in community engaged work and exploring partnership with the University of Winnipeg’s Institute the “materials” of a social practice, such as relational for Women’s and Gender Studies of the Global skills and social analysis. College. The Winnipeg Foundation and the Winnipeg Arts Join us in Winnipeg this spring! Watch our website Council have joined this project by funding new work and your inbox in February 2008 for details. 10 by nine Winnipeg artists: Pat Aylesworth, Liz Garlicki, www.mawa.ca Sarah Crawley, Untitled, 2007, Member’s News Series of 11 colour photographs 27.94” x 35.56” each

Subconscious City examines the often hidden under- Forsberg, Noam Gonick, Richard Holden, Simon pinnings of Winnipeg – its myths, its vacant lots, its Hughes, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, Bonnie Marin, forgotten communities, its hidden gems – revealing David McMillan, jake moore, Kristin Nelson, Grace a complicated picture of where we live and work. An Nickel, Freya Olafson, Linda Pearce, Matthew Rankin, outstanding roster of 27 local artists, reflecting Robert Sim, Scott Stephens, Jennifer Stillwell, Diana different media, different stages in their careers, and Thorneycroft, Rachael Tycoles, Jordan van Sewell, different points of view, will be featured in this artful and David Wityk. expression of civic pride. Join us at The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Blvd., on Feb. 14 at 7:30 for the free public opening Subconscious City includes recent works by K.C. of Subconscious City, featuring live music by John K. Adams, Keith Berens, Eleanor Bond, Sarah Crawley, Samson and Christine Fellows, and a performance by Leah Decter, Richard Dyck, William Eakin, Walter artist Freya Olafson. Love your city!

Like many great projects, In Your Dreams began with The exhibition includes ten Manitoban artists: a dream to bring artists and their work from different Michael Boss, Shirley Brown, Karen Cornelius, parts of the world together. Thirty artists, ten from Agatha Doerksen, Barb Flemington, Fay Jelly, Craig each country, were asked to explore their personal Love, Bonnie Marin, Elaine Round, and Diana dream world by creating a work which would travel Thorneycroft. A success when previously exhibited around the world in a small box. The dreams became in Germany, In Your Dreams will tour in Australia the artistic link between three countries and three April 2008 to August 2009. distinctive cultures.

Susan Coolen, from the series Nature Books / Book Marks, 48" w x 36" h, 2007. The Language of Nature / La Langue de la Nature The Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa February 22 – May 4, 2008

An installation of photographic work by Susan Coolen that explores the visual shapes, forms and groupings of nature specimens. Working with her own collections of found specimens, Coolen pursues her interests in pattern, organization, graphic forms in nature and mark-making, highlighting the impulse to "read" form, and to make visual language.This work is suggestive rather than explicit, giving pause for thought on connections between simple objects and our human urge to make meaning of, and with, 8 what is around us in nature. Work by Susan Turner is included in A Sense of Place, an international cross-border juried print exhibition organized by Windsor Printmaker's Forum. Jurors were Iain Baxter, artist; James Patten, Curator, Art Gallery of Windsor; and Nancy Sojka, Curator of Graphic Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts. The exhibition will travel in Ontario in spring 2008. Member’s News

Susan Turner, Bartlet Avenue, 2005/2007, 14 x 16”. Photo: Susan Turner. Sin-Ying Ho, Music, Porcelain, hand- painted cobalt pigment, computer decal transfer, terrasigilata 8 x 8 x 16”, 2004

MAWA member Mireille Perron in collaboration with Mireille Perron combine a wealth of experience as Amy Gogarty and Ruth Chambers is pleased to educators, writers and visual artists. Chambers is announced the publication of their anthology: Utopic Associate Professor of Visual Arts/ Ceramics and Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice, by Associate Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Ronsdale Press. Regina. Perron teaches visual arts history, theory and studio at ACAD in Calgary. Gogarty recently relocated Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice to Vancouver after teaching at ACAD for sixteen brings together ten essays and twenty artist projects years. Each editor contributes a project to the to explore ceramics as a socially responsible anthology. practice. By framing particular ceramics practices as "utopic impulses," this anthology envisions new and For more Information see Ronsdale Press stimulating con-ceptions of how studio ceramics http://www.ronsdalepress.com/catalogue/utopic.htm contribute to the social and political fabric of their l time. The editors Ruth Chambers, Amy Gogarty and

Performance by Jennie Dolberg, Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, BC, 2006 Karen Cornelius will be opening SUGAR, a video installation in March 2008 at the Albury Regional Art Gallery in Albury City, Australia.

SUGAR is an installation about disturbed adolescent girls. It is intended to expose the tumultuous period for a girl coming of age in a sexualized and media saturated culture which puts incredible pressure on girls to measure up to a virtually unattainable standard of appearance; to be sophisticated, to use chemicals (drugs) and to be sexually active. In a society such as ours which treats women as objects and allows high rates of violence, sexual harassment and sexual assault, girls can become alienated from their developing bodies and form a distorted sense of self in their struggle to gain some power and protection while 12 negotiating adolescence. 13 Calls for Submissions Opportunities artists andtheir initiativeswithinestablished art engages abroader spectrumofunderrepresented expands ona history offeministartpractices and new callforsubmissions.The centre’s mandate LA CENTRALEGaleriePowerhouse PhotoSensitive a two-yearjourneyacrossCanada. Nathan PhillipsSquare,Toronto, beginning Exhibition launchesMay15,2008at The CancerProject,Photosensitive www.photosensitive.com For detailsonhowtoparticipate, pleasevisit February 28,2008 Be partofit.Submitaphotograph.Deadline: many vitalcauses. inspiring Canadianswithhertirelessdevotiontoso Callwood, whofacedthediseaseherselfwhile THE CANCERPROJECTtoourdearfriendJune their storiesofhope,lossandsurvival.We dedicate friends, neighbours,co-workersandcolleagues- through thefacesofpeopleclosesttous-family, goal istoengageCanadiansinthefightagainstcancer ing tollonsomanyofusacrossthecountry. The wide photoprojectbringsintoviewcancer'sdisturb- cameras andjoinTHECANCERPROJECT. Thisnation- Diverse CuratorsforResidenciesintheVisual Arts Assistance toAboriginalCurators/Culturally February 1Deadline: T March 1Deadline: www.canadacouncil.ca For moreinfoonCCAprograms: canada councilforthearts ravel GrantstoProfessionalArtists Up! Heads invites Canadianstopickuptheir Mentor inResidenceProgram Deadline toapplyfor march 1 2:00 pm Artist Lecture: february 16 for April/MayNewsletter Deadline tosubmitMembers’News february 15 for ArtistsandCollectorstoConsider The PitfallsofEstatePlanning--Issues february 1 First Friday: announces a Patricia Bovey Erika MacPherson Noon Deadline: February15 Creation/Production GrantsintheVisual Arts www.artscouncil.mb.ca For moreinfoonMACprograms: manitoba artscouncil be undertaken. least onemonthpriortothestartofactivity No setdeadline–applicationsareacceptedat Professional DevelopmentGrantProgram www.winnipegarts.ca For moreinformationonWAC programs: winnipeg artscouncil 514-871-0268 /[email protected] 2008. Formoreinformation:www.lacentrale.org transdisciplinary practices.Deadline:March15, gender theory, aswellinterculturaland for contemporaryartinformedbyfeministand institutions. Thegalleryaimstoprovideaplatform www.blackwatercafe.com screening event. Formoreinformation: contemporary artvideoforamonthlyFirst Friday Gallery Lambton more information:www.videopool.org affirmative. Deadline:Friday, March21, 2008.For is unconscious.Itasideeffect. Itisintentionaland change, oritfightstostaythesame.Itmobilizes. play, andsubversion.Itisanargument.seeks which isglobal.Itaboutforces,agency, strategy, artists. Itconcernsthatwhichislocalaswell of theknownuniverse.Itconcernscitizens. It canbepolitical,oritrelatetophysicalproperties and ameasure.Itisanindividualorcollectiveresponse. Resistance isamovement,position,anattitude, Theme: Resistance 2008 /2009CallforSubmissions Vi deo Pool Media Arts Centre deo PoolMediaArts First Friday: march 16 Over TheTop MAWA ArtAuction Deadline tosubmitworkfor march 13 How Women ChangedArt march 7 2:00-3:00 pm and CupcakeParty Over TheTop MAWA ArtAuction is seekingsubmissionsof Claudine Majzels Noon mawa welcomes cathy mattes to the awam program!

AWAM Tawnshi Kiyawow: my name is Cathy Mattes. I have issues and art. Examples are: Rockstars & Wannabes been working for approximately nine years as a freelance (2007, Urban Shaman Gallery & Video Pool Inc., curator and writer, focusing on working with Winnipeg); Transcendence – KC Adams (2006, Art contemporary artists of Aboriginal ancestry. I am Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon); and pleased to join the MAWA team as Cultural Liaison The Best Man – Riel Benn (2004, Art Gallery of South- and Outreach Coordinator, to help research and western Manitoba). Mattes has contributed writings develop programming for women artists of Aboriginal to MAWA (Mentoring Artists For Women’s Art), ancestry. Some goals include working with an intern Canadian Dimension, National Museum of the to mentor in the area of program coordination, American Indian, Gallery 101, and Border Crossings. community consultation, gatherings, and mentorship Mattes was the Aboriginal Curator-in-Residence at development. I look forward to working for, and with, the Winnipeg Art Gallery between 1999-2000, and you. If you have any questions, concerns, and ideas, the curator at the Art Gallery of Southwestern please don’t hesitate to contact me. Marci! Manitoba between 2003 and 2005. She now continues to focus on contemporary Aboriginal art as a freelance curator and writer. She teaches sessionally at Cathy Mattes is a curator and writer with an MA in Brandon University, and was a MAWA Foundation Art History from Concordia University (1998). In her Mentor in 2006-2007. She lives and works out of curatorial practice, Mattes focuses on Aboriginal Sprucewoods, Manitoba.

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Current Board of Directors Patricia Bovey, Shirley Brown, Rhian Brynjolson, Rosanna Deerchild, Louise Duguay, Elvira Finnigan, Liz Garlicki, Amy Karlinsky, Garland Lam, Annette Lowe, Claudine Majzels, Holly Procktor, Kerri-Lynne Reeves, Catherine Toews, Honorary Board Members: Diane Whitehouse, Patricia Bovey

STAFF Vera Lemecha, Executive Director: [email protected] 942-8994 Carolynn Smallwood, Office Administrator: [email protected] 949-9490 Sacha Kopelow, Program Assistant. [email protected] 989-2318 Cathy Mattes, Cultural Liaison and Outreach Coordinator: [email protected] 949-9490 Emma Singh, Director of Fund Development [email protected] 949-9490

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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, Assinisboine Credit Union, donors and members.

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