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0 Herstory 3 News Release, 1984! “Manitoba Artists for Women’s Art (formerly the s i Plug-In Women’s Program) ... is a new organization committed to the

A support, encouragement and exposure of women artists. The objectives of the organization are to encourage greater communication among women W artists in the community and to create a new forum for the exchange of A ideas and expression of concerns.”

M Birthdays are a time to reflect and celebrate. MAWA’s birth story began in 1983 with a research committee of Plug In, examining how women artists could be better supported. The people who came together in those early days imagined a place that would champion women artists, create opportunities for women artists, provide a safe space for learning and teaching of women artists, and would speak out against inequality. From that first activist act (a committee meet- ing!), MAWA’s life has been exciting, productive and progressive. It all started with rumblings in the art community in the late Star quilters at MAWA's Crafternoon, Neechi Niche, Feb. 2014 1970s and early 1980s, leading the art denizens of this city to articulate in 2002. MAWA launched the monthly First Friday lectures in 2003 the need for greater gender equity with respect to exhibitions and to provide an opportunity for critical engagement with art issues. funding. In September of 1983, Plug In board members met “to look With increased programming and membership, space issues and at ways of changing the perception that Plug In is an inaccessible fundraising needs became critical for MAWA. Our first art auction ‘boys’ club’ and to provide professional development support to emerg- fundraiser took place in 2004 and returns in 2014 for its 11th year. ing women artists.” Fifty people showed up for the first meeting of the This event, core to the health of MAWA, creates exposure for hundreds Plug In Women’s Program on April 10, 1984. of artists and raises over 10% of MAWA’s operating budget. These feminists wasted no time in making their vision come In 2005, the move to 611 Main Street brought big changes. There true. Just three and a half months later, on August 31, 1984, the first was now 1600 square feet to be used for programming, fundraising annual exhibition of Manitoba Artists for Women’s Art members’ and display. MAWA finally had a street presence. Even better, the new work was mounted. By January 1 of the following year, The Mentor facility included an apartment to provide revenue, to host visiting Program (later named The Advisory Program, The Foundation Advisory artists and to develop an artist in residence program in 2009. Program and finally, as of 2006, the Foundation Mentorship Pro- Ever interested in outreach, MAWA created the Aboriginal Women gram) was inaugurated. This core mentorship program has continued Artists and Mentors (AWAM) Program in 2007 based on a growing uninterrupted ever since. To date, four generations of mentees who interest by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities to use art have graduated from the Foundation Mentorship Program have gone and mentorship as a vehicle for education, and to bring together women on to become mentors themselves. through art, culture and community. In 2009, MAWA’s Rural and MAWA separated from Plug In on September 21, 1990. This Remote Mentorship Program began, helping women artists living in meant a new office, incorporation as a non-profit organization, and rural Manitoba to develop skills and to provide access to information, a new name: Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art. From here, MAWA resources and support. It continues to this day as the Rural Artist worked to reach more women by developing pro gramming aimed at Mentorship Program in collaboration with Manitoba Arts Network. geographically, generationally and culturally diverse communities. In MAWA’s first three decades have been a testament to the power 1993, the Mentor in Residence program began, in 1995, the High School of community and women. Though it is bittersweet that MAWA’s orig- Mentor Program was launched and in 1996, the groundbreaking inal mandate to provide opportunity for women artists remains Mentor Program for Incarcerated Women reached out to women necessary in this as-yet unequal landscape, we’re having a great time imprisoned at the Portage Correctional Institute by offering studio and continuing to disrupt the historical narrative of patriarchy, and rocket- discussion classes. ing women into community, confidence and opportunity in the arts! As a response to the lack of access to fair pay for cultural workers, The quantity and quality of MAWA programming is growing all the The Curatorial Symposium was convened by MAWA in 1998. The time. In the spirit of that first push away from boys’ club mentality, group developed a recommended fee schedule for independent this fall MAWA will echo its original goals with a city- and province- curators called the La Salle River Accord. In an effort to highlight wide partnership with more than eighteen arts organizations to simul- autonomy for women visual artists and explore issues of feminist art taneously program Manitoba women artists. What an achievement! criticism, activism and practice, the Wendy Wersch Memorial Lecture Happy birthday, dear MAWA ... and many more! Committee held its first annual event celebrating artist Wendy Wersch – Alexis Kinloch, Administrative Assistant and Mentee

inside 6 Mini-Mentorship & Artists in Residence 11 Critical Writing 2 First Friday Lectures 7 Over The Top Art Auction 12 Craftstravaganza & Craft Workshop 3 Workshops & Cupcake Party 13 MAWA News 4 Art and Resistance 8 Foundation Mentorship Program 14 What You Missed 5 Walking With Our Sisters 10 Showcases 16 Heads Up Calendar 2 Free! First Fridays F F by The cu by In by ec D c i t c a pr eno at Reares c e (b an non- ol cu F mu ap cont va Un i of Indi in i cr ho w dce hi nat Ins Qu Cat Par the Win bi and fo r i v of nat ma e h t Mo h T ( u i r idar y, idar y, d i g o th r st t rio u ra a r a r p d t con e th Q t a g o e tum ee i i tw o nic i he i or ver u San ro r a day, e Fou itu on on E Jai ca r te g d t col s ext t t d lo a ue In e Yo r E Ja Ja Er in Lea a S day oir a l s es or or e enou n’ zin M e c le ces in r i r ca is l a s te a an es al al n te nou ige i t Ar si t en p i s r im w s dige lab a ndr oloni en nd Mo mi . i n i mie u’l ne ci te per for s u D i ndat t i izat h a re a mp ly. ly dra h e tu r t e Uni hr or Mo , d se y l an nd pl c es a o i ’s o r g Ap S May Ma t ar l m iew v or Indi and e dia tle akes D s S me nd th Su st cume pai pi O a oug Br u k e fin He in nou o e r e h t u y ar or d Is ’ t Is et h tc e U on th erl an id ve ato to f Bro i r e a r has Com on Mot p. u y ar Isa is it and Bro aa lo o fi a il r t ma n i n nt, niv d l ther r rch l en h s ge n h le yrsit . Br ; h e; c a n th lm c a g e er odo ng gue s, the rs. c and p o ies,do g o lo t ar h and ist,t ar nt; c ns n w Me h 2 y it t dif er e e itis h h f ee n b a and e zing ur in n a l er hose w l Me t ar he cal,lo is 4, is . t ar c r pan ous w c r , in her is I f . c autho t ioat ur f s in loig iest als v e n d ies, rent 7 and he nt o an s 201 Leah a in rs and t yit . is I t n, an d at p ical or 20 and yndigenit . he mancr e and , is thi and in Lea Win r n a mast it orship y, iec a ent rg know op Co lu m resar chers Curi at scre 201 ist t ar i w es . A age. a t ionat Br and the ly d mix s 2013). t 14, e i he resar ch oo p-st p Her wk or i oup ist t r es 4, t r he h sec n) aits r t r l l hol ta he He e nip n cu ( taking under e e o enna A e Decte n e D I Le mis)repr th at and rpi A lk and xhiboit n s 4, She ndig enou ne f ond- d d-me e pr o n yor , can dgle s. iiat int ves atr o a h . nal r ds ono ist t r Prg o cu Happi resarch b is t r t,ar oo n Wnome ’s Mot Brena the ec ah ta d g-bas has n ia Gal r . s i n hav e c je atr an g is by e lk e c d aine and it c ata v e r and ial r , ye ar oo n y he T ler al y ont c a pr Geor Hal l am r eac Mot h hers co t tc e D and i thw iw o e b it w w y Mar MFA Un e ng nes o r ia in Er e esionta, – ic t b r ing t mple il y ar eomp r ll d s pro – ex en f int h and P s ies; oween een l h ict G yr le ist t ar hers D h P I foc 1 u a r and erdiap s hD at int eng are – interest di p ways hibite of ndig enous at a 1: oe rge ionat l.er rlate d e a ge n show :0 Threads: : es m feor r c je er sites fro scu l il w C MA PhD she 1 inf us er t ar 0 Pesric t ac MAWA fo dce st age 0 ast, e D Ind s i :0 ageng rg ou p ts prts:c je o dia -me and m r and u orme on ss cu s c e WA d in p dm a ost dent ccilta o-fa es 0 lil y r t e o p of ol arou h c r a e s is pm i a igenou d d lin-base eB r in n m of in In digen ous an t ar u lioy nat l but oi nizat r Master ecolo pm umes hicw h an oc lonizg iter rw , resitanc Atr inc esitance d on atr e st M and Käthe d Cul The in M ce Cda an ecolo at in sover nd at rg ou C ouab t by ist t ar at ist t ar atr or ist lu inc dist ela y ar daan th e I t ar MAWA. C al tur nizing o at s r o t i d e ndigenous de and MAW A a th ei Un nbor re u n MAW nizing and her p the of a nie c nt eig l K conc Kl y’l e s and tura cilta o-fa or MAWA ag u o n e g i d n I and e da r g Indig enous lol w wking or exh r spec ingmothe r Ar throug and ’s and discou t Studies an cu the cu rat enc y talk of intplaer y met tlese r, Unr Ttansr r i l col nial t a ts ioilat n, y. the nt ib d ra scholar Jo in S uate itz ar tacul Indig- Pmse o A tu istt Ar a inter inter- erest i com- t Post- ze e G h iot n, ti o t ithw orial role d and and an d od rs h s ir au the ie s tic u in of ar at a e, a a - - s s l L cma hi Char Te Mar ea r h ra ch l De nc e ne ne 2 e cte 01 emb H Bro r 1 ou . a n n,w Phot ro i l e d an Jai d S yer o: d e mi d e Ad La , e yar ling ra I ir sa an n, F , ac, ull l o t St i hr w-f (o enw ms d,ea ff i i re ic ei o n a der 2 c l , l 0 de B ay 1 uc ks 0 , nia -ong 201 l k ) i t n oing r a R de e m va o u l u nt e , i n per pro fo rg e r m s an s , Hu ce, dson Ki ngst Ba y o n, bl O anke t n tar i s, o, s

p All Things Wool Workshop o with Seema Goel h s Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27, 2014 k

r 10:00 am – 4:00 pm at MAWA. Please bring a lunch o $50 (includes materials)

W Registration and payment deadline: Wed. April 23, 4:00 pm Sponsored by Booke and Partners Chartered Accountants This two-day, hands-on, wool-themed workshop will explore many facets of this age-old material, and will include carding, needle felting and dyeing. Participants will also learn to spin wool on drop spindles, and will have an opportunity to gain some experience on the Ashford and Louet spinning wheels. Seema Goel is a multimedia artist. Her work focuses on human- animal, human-place and human-human relationships, with particular emphasis on our abilities to engage with, change and manipulate these things. Using an eclectic range of materials, she draws from her dual background in the arts and sciences. For the past four years Seema has been living and working in Dublin, Ireland. During that time she initiated the Carbon Footprint Project, a community-based public art piece which used local wool, spinning and knitting as a met aphor to explore climate change, carbon capture and micro-economies. Seema Goel Tweet! Tweet! Twitter Workshop with Kaj Hasselriis. No need to register Thursday, May 22, 7:00 – 9:00 pm at MAWA Free for MAWA and ACI members, $10 non-members Have you ever wanted to direct-message a politician, follow your favourite cause, or tweet details about your next art opening, but don't have a clue what a hashtag is, or how to limit your thoughts to 140 characters or less? Local tweeter Kaj Hasselriis has volunteered to teach this workshop at MAWA, to demystify Twitter and have you trending in no time! Please bring your laptop, smartphone or other device. @KajHasselriis is a Winnipeg tweet-aholic with over 1000 followers. He’s also a producer, storyteller and tweeter on @cbcradio’s@Team DNTO. Follow Kaj’s live-tweets from this spring’s #OverTheTop Art Auction, and re-tweet, re-tweet, re-tweet! (And if you don’t know what that means, don’t worry. Kaj will explain it all in the workshop.) Kaj Hasselriis

Introduction to Encaustic with Cheryl Orr-Hood Saturday, May 24 and Sunday, May 25, 2014 10:30 am – 4:00 pm at MAWA. Please bring a lunch $70 (incl. materials) MAWA members; $95 non-members Registration and payment deadline: Thurs., May 15, 4:00 pm Melted beeswax can be your friend. Cheryl Orr-Hood will lead you in exploring several ways that melted pigmented wax can be integrated in your art making. This hands-on workshop will include techniques such as mark-making, image transfers to the wax surface, sculptural build up and smooth-to-rough continuums on the encaustic surface. This luminous-looking painting technique was known to exist as early as the 1st century AD. MAWA will supply the wax medium, pigments, surfaces/grounds and some basic brushes, as well as electric griddles and heat guns. Please bring your own tools for marking and soft cotton rags for wiping. Cheryl is a painter who explores our complicated relationship to the lungs of the earth: trees. She lives and works rurally, near Car- berry, Manitoba. Cheryl Orr-Hood, Skin to Skin , encaustic with image transfer on wood surface, 2012 3 e

c Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art

n Exhibition continues until April 20, 2014; $12 adults, $8 students e l

o Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Ave. i Gallery hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm; Friday evening until 9:00 pm V

o All programming presented in partnership with the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the U of W Institute of t Women’s and Gender Studies and Ka Ni Kanichihk Inc. e c n a

t Performance by Rebecca Belmore s i

s Saturday, March 1, 2014, 2:00 – 4:00 pm e As part of the exhibition Off R the Beaten Path: Violence, Women d and Art , Rebecca Belmore is creat- n ing a new performance, commis- a

t sioned by the Winnipeg Art Gallery

r and the University of Winnipeg

A Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies. This outdoor live piece will be specific to an undisclosed site, but will be linked through live-streaming to the WAG. To experience it, come to the WAG to watch the real-time video hook up. Admission to the live stream projection will be free, although admission to the WAG galleries is not included.

Artist Talk by Rebecca Belmore Sunday, March 2, 2014, 2:00 pm at the Winnipeg Yoko Inoue, Untitled , digital print of performance, scanned from Polaroid, 2007 Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Blvd. Free! Includes free admission to the Gallery with a MAWA membership card Supported by the Caroline Dukes Fund at the Winnipeg Foundation Please join us at the WAG for a talk by Rebecca about her performance-based work, much of which deals with the legacy and impact of violence against Indigenous women.

A Long Table Conversation: Art, Violence and Change Friday, April 4, 2014, 7:00 – 9:00 pm at the Winnipeg Art Gallery Free! Conceived by performance artist Lois Weaver, the Long Table is an experimental format for public dialogue. Anyone is welcome to come to the table to make statements, leave comments, ask questions or simply to listen. The WAG and the University of Winnipeg Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies invite artists, activists and members of the public to engage with the exhibition Off the Beaten Path and to join in a discussion about art, gender violence and change. The Long Table will create a space for meaningful public dialogue about this important topic and the role that art might play in addressing it. Joining the conversation will be guest artists and community members, Hung Liu, From the Field , (detail) oil on wood panel, 2008. Courtesy of the Artist & who will be announced prior to the event. Magnolia Editions, Oakland, CA 4 e

c Walking with Our Sisters n Coordinated by artist e l March 21 – April 12, 2014 o i Opening Friday, March 21, 7:00 – 10:00 pm V Urban Shaman Gallery, 203-290 McDermot Ave. o t Over six hundred Indigenous women have been reported missing e

c or murdered in the last 20 years in Canada. Many vanished without n a trace with inadequate inquiry into their disappearance or slaying a

t by the media, the general public, politicians and law enforce ment. s

i Walking With Our Sisters is a commemorative art installation of s 1,725 moccasin vamps created and donated by 1,372 caring and con- e cerned individuals from across Canada, the United States and Europe. R Each pair of vamps represents one missing or murdered Indigenous d woman. The moccasin tops are intentionally not sewn into mocca- n sins to represent the unfinished lives of these women. They are sisters, a mothers, aunties, daughters, cousins, grandmothers, wives and t r partners. They are cared for, loved, and have not been forgotten.

A Moccasins are symbolic of the path a person walks in life, and within some traditions moccasins are placed on the body of the person in death to help them on their journey into the next life. Moccasin vamps are the top part of the moccasin that most often carry adornment of some type, such as beads, quills or embroidery. Different nations have developed their own variations on the size, style, shape and choice of imagery on the vamps. Christi Belcout is a Metis artist known for her paintings that depict floral patterns inspired by historical beadwork. MAWA hosted two beading circles for Walking with Our Sisters in the summer of 2013 and is proud to support this exhibition. For more information, see www.urbanshaman.org. Walking With Our Sisters , University of Alberta, Edmonton, Oct. 2013

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p Bidding begins at a Birthday Bash! Over The Top o Friday, March 14, 2014, 5:00 – 8:00 pm, Free! T Art Auction and Cupcake Party e Please join us for punch and homemade birthday cake in the Sunday, March 16, 2014, 2:00 – 5:00 pm, at MAWA h Cupcake Lounge at 607 Main Street (this will be our hot chill-out

T space during the auction!). And at 611 Main Street (MAWA), the $10 advance admission available at MAWA; r bidding will begin on over 120 artworks from some of Manitoba’s $12 at the door e

v finest artists! This b-day party is free and open to all, but if you want Finally! The art event of the year! Come celebrate MAWA’s 30th to bid, advance tickets will be available for $10. Raffle tickets will also O year with artworks and dessert. Munch as many cupcakes as you can be available for sale. If you want to beat the crowds, come on Friday handle, quaff a beverage, buy tickets for MAWA’s fabulous raffle night or Saturday! baskets and bid on work by over 120 artists, including Mélanie Rocan, Diana Thorneycroft, lita fontaine, Wanda Koop, Paul Robles, Diane Bidding continues! Whitehouse, Suzie Smith, Michael Dumontier and many, many more. Saturday, March 15, 2014, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm You might also discover an emerging artist who will be the next art Tours 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm star to come out of Winnipeg. This year will be better than ever, with some exciting changes! The frenzy continues! Bid high and bid early to ensure you get In celebration of MAWA’s 30th birthday, there’ll be balloons, photo that beautiful piece of art that will otherwise haunt your dreams! Or ops and an expanded location (more space to breathe … finally!). just come to admire the work of so many artists, together at last. The Because the event has grown so large and successful, this year it will MAWA Over The Top Art Auction is arguably the biggest group show be held in MAWA, at the Edge Gallery to the north and in the home in the city. of our neighbours Daniska and Jonathan Esterhazy to the south. If Tours will be offered by Gurevich Gallery’s Elise Dawson at 1:00 you have found it too crowded in the past, please come back and try pm and 3:00 pm. Get a dealer’s perspective on art! the event again. Artists will also be able to set minimum bids on their Remember, if you want to bid, tickets are $10. work, at levels of $50, $150 or $500. We want to ensure that artwork is auctioned for an appropriate value. If you’d like to donate artwork, we’d be thrilled! You don’t have to be a MAWA member and we welcome pieces by people of all gender s, in all media. Please email [email protected] and let us know you will be contributing. Then fill out an artist contract (available on our website) and drop it off with your work at 611 Main St. We accept donations Tuesday, February 25 – Friday, Feb. 28 and Tuesday, March 4 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. On Wednesday, March 5 we will be open from 10:00 am – 9:00 pm for drop-offs. Contributing artists receive a ticket to the event, a tax receipt equal to the amount paid for their artwork, and our eternal thanks! All proceeds go towards program- ming at Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art. Or if you are a cupcake baker, please consider making a dozen or two. MAWA and hungry auction attendees will love you for it. Let us know your intentions at [email protected]. All cupcake donors will be entered into a draw to win a prize, to thank you for your yummy creations. Thanks so much! We look forward to seeing you on March 16. Art, cupcakes and a big birthday … how can you resist?!

Lots of fun and loads of art at Over The Top 2013. Photos by Lindsey Bond.

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g Year-long Mentorship Program, Sept. 2014-Sept. 2015 o

r Application deadline: Friday, April 25, 2014, at 4:00 pm P p i h s r o t n e M n o i t a d n u o F

2013/14 Foundation Mentorship Program group, September 2013 The Foundation Mentorship Program is a year-long program contact you by phone, email and post); please also describe in which senior artists share their experience with developing artists. your artistic practice It is designed to help women in the visual arts develop skills and – artist resumé (maximum 3 pages) define their decision-making philosophies, and to provide access to – up to 20 jpg images of your artwork or up to 10 minutes of the information, resources and support they need to realize their video goals. In addition to a one-on-one relationship with a mentor, – an image list that includes the titles of the work, the media, the program provides a peer group for the mentees through group date completed and dimensions meetings. Please format your online application so that the text documents are This program has been MAWA’s core activity since 1985. It is in one pdf, doc or docx file. Please send or drop off your images as offered each year because it is so effective in helping participants in jpgs, un-embedded, no larger than 72 dpi at 1024 x 768 pixels. Please their journey towards being professional artists. Many women who number images to correspond with your image list, beginning with have gone through the program describe it as having been “pivotal” 01, 02, 03, etc. Either provide web links to online videos or mail or and “transformative”. drop off a playable DVD. If you are not already a member, please also Mentors meet individually with their mentees for 4 hours per submit a MAWA membership form and payment. MAWA member- month, and the entire group meets for 3 hours monthly for critiques, ship costs $15 for underwaged persons and $30 for others. Appli- discussion, gallery visits and other activities. cations are due at MAWA by Friday, April 25 at 4:00 pm. Email ap- Applicants are selected based on the quality and potential of the plications to [email protected] and put “FMP” in the subject work submitted, the emerging artist’s willingness to dedicate time to heading. the program, and the mentor’s ability to work with the emerging artist Remember, the number of applicants far exceeds available spaces because of mutuality of practice or conceptual framework. Potential for each program. Selection of mentees is based on several factors mentees of all ages and backgrounds are encouraged to apply. including compatibility with the mentors (a shared choice of media, Successful applicants will be charged a $300 fee for the program. set of artistic concerns or content) and the mentor’s sense of whether There is no fee to apply, although you must be a MAWA member. they can be helpful to you at this point in your process. If you are not Students are not eligible. successful, please consider applying again. And in the meantime, One bursary of $250 is available to a successful applicant (by check out other programs and opportunities at MAWA. application) to help offset the cost of registration. If you have any questions, please contact Lindsey Bond, Interim The 2014/2015 Mentors Program and Administrative Coordinator, at 949-9490 or programs @mawa.ca. MAWA mentors are connected to the art world locally, nation- ally and internationally. They have achieved a high level of respect To apply for the Foundation Mentorship Program: for their artistic production locally, nationally and internationally. They are capable. They want to share information and skills. They Please email, mail or drop off: have experience with sharing their knowledge. They communicate – a letter outlining why you want to participate in this program effectively. They are committed to building community. We are and what you hope to achieve through mentorship (make sure pleased to announce that the following artists will each select two the letter also includes information regarding how we can mentees to work with in the upcoming year. 8 Divya Mehra Divya Mehra is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, New York. Her practice draws from experiences of dis- placement, cultural conventions and hybridization, infusing a biting wit in the execution of her projects. Divya’s work has been included in a number of exhibitions and screenings, most notably at Creative Time, MoMA PS1, MTV, The Queens Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, Art Asia (Miami), Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Plug In ICA, Artspeak, Images Festival, The Beijing 798 Biennale, Bielefelder Kunstverein (Germany) and Latitude 28 (India). Recent publications featuring her work have appeared in print and online through The New York Times, Art in America, Whitewall Magazine, and Vogue India. Divya Mehra was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2013. She is currently represented by Georgia Scherman Projects (gallery) in Toronto. Mélanie Rocan Divya Mehra, The Pleasure in Hating , digital c-print, 22.5" x 30", 2010. Photo by Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline Mélanie Rocan is a Franco-Manitoban artist whose paintings sensitively explore fragile subconscious states. She has an MFA from the University of Concordia in Montreal, with participation in an exchange program at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. She is a three-time semifinalist for the RBC Painting Competition, and has exhibited at the Power Plant in Toronto, the Contemporary Museum in Montreal, the Contemporary Art Gallery of , the Win- nipeg Art Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto and venues in Scotland, France and the United States. In 2012-2013 she had a survey show at the Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough U of T campus, the Kenderdine in and Plug In ICA in Winnipeg. Her work is represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art in Toronto and Galerie KEZA in Paris. The mentorship with Mélanie Rocan is offered through a partnership with Centre culturel franco-manitobain. Reva Stone Mélanie Rocan, Back lane projections , (detail)acrylic and oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches, 2013 Reva Stone’s work is concerned with how biotechnological and robotic practices are impacting upon the very nature of what it means to be human. Her work has included pieces such as Imaginal Expression , an endlessly mutating responsive 3D environment, Carnevale 3.0 , an autonomous robot that reflects on the nature of human conscious- ness, and Portal , a recent work that combines custom software, media, robotics and mobile phone technology to create a work that appears to be sentient. Recently, she has been altering and re-purposing ob- solete devices that refer to the history of technology. Reva has received many awards, including an honorable mention from Life 5.0, Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain. She has exhibited widely in Canada, the US and Europe, has presented at symposia and has been published in journals such as Second Nature: the International Journal of Creative Media . Daina Warren Daina Warren is of the Montana Nation in Hobbema, Reva Stone, Microforge , embedded computer, electronics, sensors, video, joystick, 2013 Alberta. In 2000, she was awarded Canada Council's Assistance to Aboriginal Curators for Residencies in the Visual Arts program to work with grunt gallery in Vancouver. This opportunity led to a per- manent position with the artist-run centre as an associate curator and administrator until 2009. Warren completed the Canada Council's Aboriginal Curatorial Residency at the National Gallery of Canada in , , where she curated the group exhibition Don't Stop Me Now , which was on display until November 2011. She received her Bachelor’s degree in 2003, graduating from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. In the summer of 2012, Warren graduated from the Masters in Art History program, completing the Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of . She is currently Director of Urban Shaman Contemp- orary Aboriginal Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Daina Warren, curatorial project, 2011 9 s

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a RAMP (Rural Arts Mentorship Program) North 2013–2014 Showcase c April 5 – 25, 2014, at MAWA w

o Opening Saturday, April 5, 2014, 2:00 – 4:00 pm h

S Presented in partnership with Manitoba Arts Network Breaking Borders , an exhibition featuring the work of nine Rainville, Elaine Angelski, Debbi Fitzgerald, Leanne Phair and Sandra emerging artists from Northern Manitoba and Northern Saskatch- Dixon have honed their skills and expanded their opportunities in a ewan, will be on display at MAWA in April. Varying in style and unique RAMP North Mentorship program jointly sponsored by medium, the exhibition encompasses acrylic painting, traditional MAWA and the Manitoba Arts Network (MAN). The theme of the photography, clay work, encaustic photography, batik, oil painting show, Breaking Borders , speaks to the ability of Northern artists to and watercolour. Under the mentorship of artist Pauline Braun, this overcome geographic distances, isolation, extreme weather condi- group of artists has met together, worked together and shared tions, cultural biases and provincial boundaries to find ways to together at the NorVA Centre in over a five-month period. expand their art. Don’t miss this unique glimpse into a world where Fran Cooper, Ron Watt, Karen Clark, Margaret Britton, Monique challenge transforms into possibility. Winter Mothering Artist Mothers at MAWA Showcase May 2 – 24, 2014, at MAWA Opening Friday, May 2, 2014, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Winnipeg in winter—with its absence of colour and stark contrasts and pleasures that winter brings: heightened protective and nesting of blinding sunshine, dark afternoons, freezing temperatures and instincts, necessary bundling and layering, warm memories, outdoor cozy interiors—is the inspiration for the next exhibition by the Artist activities and hearty winter meals. Mothers at MAWA. Winter Mothering is about the unique challenges

Artist Mothers at MAWA upcoming meeting: Mother Body Mother Earth Wednesday, March 5, 6:30 – 9:00 pm How do we see ourselves? Using the Venus of Willendorf fetish object slip. All supplies will be provided. Fired figurines will be ready for as the jumping off point, the Artist Mothers will make terra cotta clay pick up at the next meeting. Charlene Brown, mother and ceramic self-portrait figurines, using low-fire clay and paint with coloured artist, will lead this meeting and show us how to build with clay.

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e Craftstravaganza Medicine pouches with Carole Fréchette c

i Mega-Workshop in Indigenous and International

t The medicine pouch was used by various groups of Native

c Craft Practices Americans. It was used to hold medicines, and carry personal items, a

r Saturday, March 8, 2014, noon – 4:00 pm at MAWA such as, good luck charms. Throughout the workshop you will be

P Presented in partnership with Manitoba Craft Council taught the construction of a medicine pouch out of leather and how to bead a small design on the front. Carole Fréchette is French- d Free! All ages and genders welcome!

e speaking Métis, originally from St. Malo, Manitoba. Starting at 12

s Materials and child-minding available. years of age, her mother taught her how to make mukluks, moccasins, a Snacks and Eritrean coffee will be served.

b mitts and medicine pouches. Carole has taught workshops through- - out Winnipeg through the City of Winnipeg Leisure Guide, Abor- t At our much-anticipated 6th Annual IWD crafting event, four f iginal organizations and Winnipeg school divisions since 1998.

a master craftswomen will be on hand between noon and 4:00 pm to

r share their skills. Come and go! Enjoy good food, good company and

C good crafting! The workshops will feature:

Paper beads with Zebiba Ibrahim Zebiba will teach how to make beads using magazine paper and glue. She was born in Eritrea, but spent 3 years in Egypt before coming to Canada in 2010. On her first journey to Uganda to visit her husband, she was introduced to the paper bead technique, dev- eloped to sell recycled paper bead jewelry to tourists and abroad. As a refugee herself, she was inspired by Ugandan women’s ingenuity in developing economic alternatives. In Winnipeg she promotes African culture and sells pan-African women’s crafts. Karen braiding with Lay Sar Lay Sar will teach a unique braiding technique traditional to her community from the Karen state of Burma. The braiding is done with loops of thread tied between the feet and hands, and the braided cords are used to decorate bags and clothes made of hand-woven fabric, but can also serve as shoelaces, etc. Lay Sar came to Winnipeg in 2007 with her six children after having spent many years living in a refugee camp in Thailand. She is a restaurant worker and skilled weaver, par- ticularly on the traditional Karen back strap loom.

The Métis sash with Florence Beaudry The Métis sash is a prominent symbol of Métis culture and traditions. It had multiple uses for the Métis people: it was a part of their apparel, and could be used as a rope, a first aid kit, towel, wash- cloth, emergency bridle or saddle blanket. The French brought the sash to the Métis, but the finger weaving technique was given to them by Eastern Woodland First Nation traditions. Before the Europeans introduced wool, plant fibers were used in this finger weaving technique. Twenty years ago St. Boniface resident Florence Beaudry began participating in historical reenactments and started weaving to make her family’s historical outfits more accurate. Florence has since taught finger weaving at festivals such as La Cabane à Sucre in St Pierre-Jolys and the Festival du Voyageur in Winnipeg.

MAWA thanks the funders who have made the Indigenous and International Craft Program possible: Manitoba Community Services Council, Assiniboine Credit Union, RBC Foundation, Thomas Sill Foundation, Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Women’s Endowment, Point Douglas Councillor Mike Pagtakhan and the Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, Province of Manitoba, Kerri Irvin-Ross.

12 s Managing Editor Hired Members’ Showcase w e September 5 – October 4, 2014, at MAWA

N Submission details TBA

A This fall, MAWA will host a Members’ Showcase, featuring one

W work in any media (including video) by any MAWA member who

A wishes to participate. Our intention is to fill the north wall of our programming space, virtually from floor to ceiling, with the vast M range of work being produced by you, our members. This celebration of creativity will be coordinated by independent curator Jennifer Smith. Stay tuned for details regarding submission guidelines, dim- ensions of works being accepted and duration of videos. In September and October 2014, almost every professional arts centre in Manitoba will be exhibiting work by Manitoba women artists in recognition of MAWA’s contribution to the arts community. The only exceptions, Plug In ICA and Urban Shaman, will be featuring the works of Indigenous women artists whose traditional territories predate provincial boundaries. Even though these exhibits will feature many, many women artists, there are many, many more! And we want everyone to be included! The MAWA Members’ Showcase will be part of the MAWA 30th anniversary exhibitions (for which there will be coordinated openings, shuttle buses and a brochure!), and an opportunity for all of us to “hang” on the MAWA gallery wall together. Nicole Burisch And there will be more information on the exhibitions city- wide and beyond coming soon! MAWA welcomes Nicole Burisch, the Managing Editor of our anniversary book project. Nicole lives in Montréal, so is working remotely with MAWA (the future is now!). She holds a BFA in Ceramics from the Alberta College of Art and Design and an MA in Art History from Concordia University. Much of her work has focused on contemporary craft and craft theory, and she has researched, pub- lished, exhibited and lectured on this topic in Canada and interna- tionally. She also creates collaborative performances as part of the Ladies Invitational Deadbeat Society and The Brick Factory. Nicole was the Director of Calgary’s Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival from 2007-2009 and currently works as the Admin- istrative Coordinator at Montréal’s Centre des art actuels Skol. And now she is shepherding our feminism and art book from conception to fruition! One of her first tasks has been to disseminate the “call for sub- missions” to potential editors, one of whom will be chosen in February. Nicole is also researching potential co-publishers and printing options. We are so excited to have her as part of the MAWA team and grateful to her for helping to make this exciting project happen. Volunteers MAWA’s programming is made possible by the help of volunteering members. Volunteers gain experience in a variety of areas, rub elbows with fellow MAWA members, build their résumé, support the organization and have a lot of fun while they’re at it! Current volunteer opportunities include Over the Top, Crafternoons, Newsletter mailings, Bingos. Contact Lindsey at [email protected] if you are able to help us out with any of these jobs. New Hours With the exception of the Over The Top drop off days of Tues- day, February 25 and Tuesday, March 4, the MAWA office will be closed on Tuesdays until further notice. We have so many programs going on, we need to focus our staff time! If you need to see or speak to someone outside of regular hours (Wed. – Fri., 10:00 am – 4:00 pm), please call and make an appointment. Thanks for your understanding. January’s WAM! Wall: Francesca Carella Arfinengo, Broken, Fixed , mixed media, 2013 13 d e s s i M u o Y t a h W

Barb Hunt delivering the Wendy Wersch Memorial Lecture, We are all of us made by Jaime Black (standing right) in discussion after her performance and First Friday war… , Cinematheque, Nov. 2013 lecture, The Persistence of Memory , Dec. 2013

Participants in Elaine Stocki’s Mini-Mentorship, focusing on creating a photographic Mukluk makers hard at work at Gloria Beckman’s workshop, Dec. 2013 body of work, Nov. 2013

Queti Azurin (standing centre), illustrating pulp paper building techniques at her Alix Lanyon-Taylor after installing her artwork on the WAM! Wall, Dec. 2013 Crafternoon, Dec. 2013 14 MAWA’s Interim Program and Administrative Coordinator Lindsey Bond (left) and Co-ED Shawna Dempsey toast to another great year at MAWA, holiday party Dec. 2013

Jasmine Parisian (left) teaching the Peyote beading stitch at her Crafternoon, Jan. 2014

Visiting filmmakers (left to right) Zoe Hopkins, Tasha Hubbard, Janine Windolph and Helen Haig-Brown at the Native Women and Film Festival, Cinematheque, Jan. 2014

611 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 1E1 (204) 949-9490 [email protected] www.mawa.ca Wednesday-Friday, 10am-4pm and some Saturdays Current Board of Directors Francesca Carella Arfinengo (Student Representative), Jaime Black, Yvette Cenerini, Elise Dawson (Chair), Tania Douglas, Heidi Eigenkind, Robin Eriksson, Angela Forget, Naomi Gerrard, Clara Kusumoto, Victoria Nikkel (Secretary), Kelly Ruth (Treasurer) and Becca Taylor (Vice Chair)

Sappho Zine Collective’s zine launch and waffle party, Jan. 2013 Honorary Board Mentors: Louise Duguay and Elvira Finnigan Staff Dana Kletke (Co-Executive Director) Shawna Dempsey (Co-Executive Director) Lindsey Bond (Interim Program and Administrative Coordinator) Alexis Kinloch (Admin Assistant) Erna Andersen (Outreach Coordinator) Becca Taylor (Indigenous Outreach Coordinator) Sarah Crawley (Foundation Mentorship Program Coordinator) Nicole Burisch (Managing Editor, Book Project) Design Susan Chafe. Copyedit Finn McMahon 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, Thomas Sill Foundation, Assiniboine Credit Union, RBC Foundation, donors and members.

Gloria Beckman teaching Mukluk Making II, Jan. 2014

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a Fri. April 4 First Friday Lecture e noon-1 pm Erin Sutherland: Indigenous Curating H Fri. April 4 Long Table Discussion MAWA’s staff is growing! Most of us, Dec. 2013 7-9 pm as part of Off the Beaten Path at the WAG FEBRUARY Sat. April 5 Showcase Opening Breaking Borders Thurs. Feb. 27 Artist Bootcamp RAMP North (continues until April 25) 7-9 pm Serena Keshavjee: Buying Art and Building a Collection Tuesdays Mini-Mentorhsip April 8 & 22 and Chris Cooper: Sculpture MARCH May 6, 6:30-9:30 pm Sat. March 1 Performance Fri. April 25 Foundation Mentorship Program deadline 2-4 pm Rebecca Belmore, live video feed at the 4 pm Winnipeg Art Gallery Sat. & Sun. Skills Workshop Sun. March 2 Artist Talk April 26 & 27 Seema Goel: All Things Wool 2 pm Rebecca Belmore at the Winnipeg Art Gallery 10am-4 pm Wed. March 5 Artist Mothers at MAWA 6:30-9 pm Mother Body Mother Earth MAY Fri. May 2 First Friday Lecture Wed. March 5 Last day to drop off Over The Top artworks noon- 1 pm Brown, George & Unrau: 10 am-9 pm The Mother in Women’s Art Fri. March 7 First Friday Lecture Fri. May 2 Showcase opening noon-1 pm Jaimie Isaac and Leah Decter: 7-9 pm Winter Mothering Decolonizing Artistic Practices Artist Mothers at MAWA Fri. March 8 Craftstravaganza (continues until May 24) noon-4 pm Four instructors! Craft mayhem! Wed. May 7 Artist in Residence 5-7 pm Katherine Boyer: Meet ’n Greet and Fri. March 14 Over The Top birthday party and bidding begins! mini-talk 5-8 pm Thurs. May 22 Artist Bootcamp Sat. March 15 Over The Top bidding continues! 7-9 pm Kaj Hasselriis: Tweeting 11 am-4 pm Sat. & Sun. Skills Workshop Sun. March 16 Over The Top Art Auction and Cupcake Party! May 24 & 25 Cheryl Orr-Hood: Encaustic 2-5 pm 10:30 am-4 pm

THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR RECENT DONORS. WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT! Anonymous Marlene Campbell Briony Haig Laurie Potovsky-Beachell Francesca Carella Arfinengo Yvette Cenerini Amanda Harding RBC Royal Bank Colette Balcaen Susan Close Arwen Helene Dominique Rey Ayla Banks Sharron Zenith Corne Susan Knowling Kelly Ruth Rod Biebrich Karen Corneilus Colleen Leduc Marilyn Schick tamara rae beibrich Dena Decter Finn McMahon Tammy Sutherland Eleanor Bond Shawna Dempsey Ingrid McMillan Martha Townsend Lilian Bonin Louise Duguay Chantal Mireau Terry Vatrt Laurie Potovsky-Beachell Rochelle Ehinger Sharon Moisiuk Richard Walls Jaime Black Anne Fallis Elliott Cheryl Orr-Hood Tricia Wasney Tim Brandt Robin Eriksson Mireilla Perron Andrea von Wichert Carol Budnick Amy Fung Tracy Peters Tracy Woodward Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art encourages and supports the intellectual and creative development of women in the visual arts by providing an ongoing forum for education and critical dialogue.

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