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MAWA is a mere 15-minute walk from downtown. Talk about neighbourhood: more people on the street, a diversity of services location, location, location! Yet the Disraeli Highway cuts us off and some historic preservation. So far, most of these initiatives have from the Exchange with speed, noise and pollution, and perhaps been inclusive of existing businesses and residents. So far, few have nowhere in the city is the legacy of colonization – poverty and been displaced. substance abuse – more evident. This winter the City of Winnipeg is revising Plan Winnipeg by As Richard Florida describes in The Rise of The Creative Class, creating a secondary plan for South Point Douglas, which they define the reclamation of neglected neighbourhoods often begins with a as extending from MAWA north to the tracks and east to the Louise first wave of pioneers who move in, make improvements, and create Bridge. Our mayor has been quoted as describing the neighbourhood safety and community. Who are these brave urbanistas? According as a “jewel”. And it is! As long as our city and business leaders see to Florida, largely artists. Certainly that is true on North Main: diversity as its greatest asset, and don’t approach the area with a MAWA, the Edge, Manitoba Printmakers…. But there are also older literal or figurative demolition ball, creating a blank slate upon businesses and many individuals who make North Main home. which they can project their mega project dreams. Construction on the Manitoba Regional Health Facility is Last summer politicians greeted businessman David Asper proceeding at a blistering pace. MAWA’s favourite restaurant, The with enthusiasm when he suggested that the city expropriate the Tallest Poppy, opened last year. And yet another architecture firm residents of South Point Douglas and give him the land so he could has opened on the strip. All of these developments bode well for the build us a new football stadium. Fortunately, an unlikely and spon- taneous coalition of sports fans, urban planners, residents and artists stopped the plan cold. But that foray into what our civic administration might mean by “urban renewal” should make us nervous. inside Last month the city-planning department met with South Point Douglas “stakeholders” (residents, business owners and artists). 2 Foundation Mentorship Program Representatives from MAWA along with over 80 others, showed up to talk about how we want a community-wide geo-thermal heating 4 Artist Lecture | Valérie Lamontagne plan, more low income housing, and, since more people in the Critical Reading Group neighbourhood walk than drive, fewer roads, more footpaths. How 5 Mentor-in-Residence | Rosalie Favell about an orchard, someone suggested? Sounds like a city of the 6 Workshops future. A neighbourhood that doesn’t obliterate its past. A neighbourhood that welcomes those of lower incomes, rather than 7 International Women’s Day seeing them as an obstruction to progress. Over the Top Auction and Cupcake Party If only the city will listen. It remains one of our challenges, as 8 Donor Spotlight newcomers to North Main, not to pave the way for rampant gentrification 9 First Fridays but to be good neighbours: to advocate for fair treatment of those with whom we share the street; to form rich and unexpected 10 What’s New at MAWA alliances that support diversity; to build this community together in 12 Member’s News a way in which is welcoming to all. 14 Heads Up! Calendar 1 Team Executive Directors Shawna Dempsey, Lorri Millan and Dana Kletke Foundation Mentorship Program

Call for Submissions, Deadline: April 30, 2009

Year-long Program Sept. 2009 – Sept. 2010

Mentors: foundation mentorship program foundation mentorship Lita Fontaine Sarah Anne Johnson Sandee Moore Bev Pike

LITA FONTAINE, A Holy Man, mixed media collage, 2008

The Foundation Mentorship Program is a year-long program Mentors meet with their mentees individually once a month, in which senior artists share their experience with developing artists. and the entire group meets monthly for critiques, discussion, gallery This non-hierarchical program is designed to help women who are visits and other activities. visual artists develop skills and define their decision-making To Apply: Mentors select the participants based their ability to philosophies, and to provide access to the information, resources work with the applicant, and mutuality of practice or conceptual and support they need to realize their goals. In addition to a framework. Students are not eligible. The fee is $200.00 relationship with mentors, the program aims to provide a peer For Application Guidelines please refer our website mawa.ca group for the mentees, from which they receive valuable critical or contact Tracy Marshall Program Co-ordinator at 949-9490 or feedback and support. Self-reliance and resourcefulness are encouraged. [email protected]

BEV PIKE, Hymenal View of the Reflective,gouache on paper, 2007. SARAH ANNE JOHNSON received her BFA from the and went on to complete her MFA at The Yale School of Art in 2004. Sarahs photographic and sculptural work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now at The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia (2007); The Montreal Biennial (2006); and Imprints at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. She teaches sculpture at the University of Manitoba, and is Artist in Residence there.

SANDEE MOORE creates in a variety of media, including performance, video, installation and interactive electronic sculpture. Her work has been screened and exhibited across Canada at venues such as the Edmonton Art Gallery, The , Images Film and Video Festival, the Blackwood Gallery, the Dalhousie Art Gallery and

SANDEE MOORE, I’m Bohunky Dory with It (My Nose),video animation, 2007. the Mendel Art Gallery. Through her artworks, she proposes to animate social relationships through personal exchange. She is currently employed as the Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre. The Mentors www.sandeemoore.com

LITA FONTAINE (Anishinaabe / Dakota) holds a Master of Fine Arts BEV PIKE is a painter of large-scale gouaches about environments foundation mentorship program foundation mentorship Degree from the University of Regina and a Diploma in Fine Arts made from contorted bundles. She has exhibited works from her from the School of Art, University of Manitoba. Lita’s media include current series, Hysteria Chronicles,across Canada. This series is a photography, mixed media and installation. She is an educator and long-term study of baroque two-dimensional drama. She also writes is currently employed as the Artist in Residence with the Seven Oaks satire, artist books, and has made videos, all about how women use School Division. Selected exhibitions include: The Sacred Feminine, metaphor to find pleasure and safety. Her artist books, Autobiography Urban Shaman Gallery, March 2006, and Lita Fontaine: Without of an Eccentric Line and Swallowing Safety Pins are in numerous Reservation,The Winnipeg Art Gallery, January 2002. international collections.

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On Saturday, March 7th MAWA’s regular Stitch ’n Bitch meeting will stations if you came for the whole time celebrate International Women’s Day. There will be four work between noon and 4! Come down to stations set-up in MAWA with four different women showcasing MAWA on Saturday, March 7th between their talents. You can participate in a mini-mentorship with one of noon and 4 and celebrate women with us. Co-sponsored by the these women and learn their skill. Hey, you could even try all four Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, .

Stitch ’n Bitch at MAWA! December 2008

Over the Top! Art Auction and Cupcake Party

It’s back! The art event of the year! • Is MAWA only allowing women to participate? Come celebrate MAWA’s 25th Birthday NO! MAWA is friendly to all people! We WELCOME ALL to with cupcakes and artworks! Eat cake, participate. We also hope that you will also join in the festivities. We quaff a beverage, bid on work by regret we cannot accept children’s work, but kids are more then approximately 100 of the country’s welcome to munch on the cupcakes on the day of the auction hottest artists, or buy tickets on (mmm sweet sugary goodness!!!). MAWA’s fabulous raffle baskets. Admission is $10. • Where and when can I drop off my artwork? And if you’d like to donate work, MAWA is located at 611 Main St.

it’s over the top time! the top over it’s we’d be thrilled! Here’s a few frequently time! the top over it’s We accept submissions from Monday March 2 to Tuesday March asked questions: 10th. Regular business hours: Monday to Friday 10 am - 5 pm • I’m not a member of MAWA. Can I still donate? Last day: Tuesday March 10 extended hours 10 am - 8 pm Yes, MAWA gratefully welcomes donations. Thanks so much! We look forward to seeing you all on March 15! • What kind of work do you accept? Artists are asked to donate one or more pieces of art. All proceeds go towards Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art. We gratefully accept MAWA’s 5th Annual Fundraiser work in a range of media including drawing, painting, photography, March 15th, 2009: 2 – 5 PM collage, textile-based soft sculpture and more. We are happy with 611 Main Street whatever tickles your fancy! 7 8 donor spoltlight this reason gives that Shirley to MAWA. c At alostbird civilization. Brown thenameShirley when isspoken itisasasteadfast MAWA, therelics of forothers, herQueen's, of S HIRLEY BROWN apo fwmnatsslvn nrrlcmuiis And itisfor communities. inrural living woman artists hampion of To

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What’s the WAM! Wall? WAM could mean “women at MAWA” or “women and mentorship” or “we applaud members” or simply “Look out! Art coming at you!” The WAM! Wall is the architectural bump in MAWA’s long wall, close to the front windows, that we’re using as a members’ gallery. Display your work for a month at MAWA! Please submit your name, contact information, the title of the work, date, medium and dimensions to: Shawna and Lorri, [email protected]. The WAM! Wall accepts members artwork that is 2-D, ready to hang, and fits comfortably on a wall 45” wide. Programming of the WAM! Wall is on a first-come-first-serve basis. We’ll assign you a month based on the order in which you apply by e-mail. All works must be delivered by the 25th of the previous month. No artist fee will be paid. In December the WAM! Wall featured watercolours by one of our founding foremothers, Diane Whitehouse. In January, the space featured the stainglass work of Angel Calnek. Coming soon…

February: Caroline Barrientos March: Daphne Enns April: Linda Fairfield May: Liz Garlicki

What You Missed ANGEL CALNEK, The Sacred Tree, stained glass, 2004

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Are you a MAWA member from outside Winnipeg, or a Winnipeg artist-run centre with a visiting artist, and/or are 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 [email protected] http://www.mawa.ca

Current Board of Directors Rhian Brynjolson, Louise Duguay (Vice-Chair), Liz Garlicki. Amy Karlinsky The Edge Artist Village and Gallery (Past Chair), Garland Lam, Kerri-Lynn Reeves (Chair), Roslyn Stanwick, is an artist-run, non-profit organization for the arts located in the heart of Winnipeg’s Downtown. Rachael Tycoles, Gwen Armstrong , Arwen Helene, Melanie Rocan Honourary Board Members: Patricia Bovey, Diane Whitehouse The Edge Artist Collective • live / work spaces • studio memberships • gallery rentals Studio Membership Full, Associate & Patron memberships available Staff Call Serena at 947-2992 for more information. Dana Kletke (Co-Executive Director) Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (Co-Executive Directors) www.edgevillage.com • [email protected] Tania Gauthier (Director of Philanthropy) 611 Main Street • Winnipeg • MB • R3B 1E1 Tracy Marshall (Program Coordinator)

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MAWA and its projects are generously funded by Manitoba Arts 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. FEBRUARY

February 6, noon First Friday Louise Duguay, A Manuscrpt in the Making February 7, noon – 4pm Stitch ’n Bitch February 11, 6:30-9pm Artist Bootcamp heads up! with Shawna Dempsey Cv’s, bios, artist statements February 18, 6:30-9pm More Bootcamp Grantwriting made fun! February 25, 6:30-9pm Bootcamp continued: Studio visits & Artist talks how-to! February 28, 2:00 Artist lecture Valérie Lamontagne

MARCH

March 5, 4 pm Deadline for Submission to Mentor-In-Residence Program March 6, noon First Friday MAWA invades the WAG! Mary Reid curatorial tour of She Works Hard March 7, noon – 4pm Special International Women’s Week Stitch ’n Bitch with four craftswomen sharing their skills March 8 International Women’s Day March 10, 8 pm Deadline to submit work for Over the Top Art Auction March 10, 4 pm Deadline for sign-up for Art Talk March 10, 4pm Deadline for sign-up for Critical Reading Group March 15, 2 – 5 pm Over the Top Art Auction and Cupcake Party and celebration of 25 years March 22, April 19, and May 3, 2 – 5 pm Critical Reading Group,Sigrid Dahle March 24, March 31 and April 7, 7 – 9:30 pm: Art Talk, mini-mentorship art crit nights led by Diana Thorneycroft

APRIL

April 3, noon First Friday Ken Zealand Death and Taxes April 6 – May 17 Mentor-in-Residence Rosalie Favell April 18, 2pm Artist Lecture Rosalie Favell April 30, 4 pm Deadline for submissions to Foundation Mentorship Program

THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT!

Colette Balcaen Louise Duguay Wanda Koop Reva Stone tamara rae biebrich Aganetha Dyck Ann Loewen Sue Sutherland Eleanor Bond Helene Dyck Dale MacKenzie Tammy Sutherland Christine Bone Linda Fairfield Melanie Martin & David Dyck Oliver Botar Robert Fordyce & Joan Suzuki Maureen McPhail Patricia Bovey Liz Garlicki Cheryl Orr-Hood Also a huge thank you to Pauline Braun Carolyn Gray Mireille Perron MAWA angels Shirley Brown Pat Hardy & Tim Schouten Dominique Rey Gwen Armstrong Marlene Campbell Arwen Helene John Samson & Leah Decter for all of the 14 7 Dena Decter Amy Karlinsky Marlene Stern office and apartment items!