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M Just a few of the fabulous volunteers who made MAWA’S April Clothing Swap possible Often MAWA members are asked the question, “What is Art, became an organization of its own, independent from Plug In, MAWA?” After we explain that it is a centre dedicated to sharing and MAWA launched its first publication. knowledge between women visual artists and fostering discussion Many excellent staffers made this growth possible, starting about the visual arts, the next thing people say is invariably, “Cool. from MAWA’s first director, Andrea Philp. Subsequent directors How long has it been around?” included Kathy Driscoll; Lisa Mark; Nicola Woods; the team of Grace Amazingly, in 2011-2012 MAWA celebrates her 27th year. Nickel and Patti Johnson; the team of Grace Nickel, Susan Chafe and During that time so much has happened! What began in 1983 as Reva Stone; and Marian Butler. MAWA took another giant leap Plug In’s “Women’s Committee”, a group of board members forward under the directorship of Vera Lemecha, who moved us to dedicated to addressing gender inequality in the visual art world, is our beloved 611 Main Street space in 2005. Countless board now an independent organization with a programming and residency members and mentors have also made invaluable contributions, as space, a staff of four part-timers, and a budget of over a quarter have the legions of volunteers who do the grunt work every year: million dollars. All of this is thanks to a few women and men who stuffing envelopes, staffing bingos, painting and patching the space, had a vision, and knew that change could happen through very and “womaning” events. In other words, it has taken more than a practical and pragmatic means: through mentorship. village… it has taken a city: Winnipeg! Those first committee members, Diane Whitehouse, Peter Last year, we honoured curator and writer Marian Yeo for her Krowina, Paula Newman, Harry Symons and Plug In Director Jon contributions to women’s art in Manitoba. This year, we are celebrating Tupper, also realized they could not do it alone. In 1984 a public MAWA pioneers Diane Whitehouse and Sheila Butler at a wine and meeting resulted in working committees. In a matter of months a cheese party on Wednesday, June 1 from 5-7 pm. And every day we name was chosen, “Manitoba Artists for Women’s Art”. MAWA burst are grateful to all of you, past and present, who have made and make onto the local arts scene like a hurricane! Within the first five MAWA thrive. With a paid membership of over 240 individuals, and months there was an exhibition of members’ work and the launch of attendance at programs and events of over 1500 eager art-lovers last a visiting artists/curators program. On January 1, 1985, the first year, MAWA continues to grow, serving the changing needs of mentorship program began. Co-founder Diane Whitehouse remembers women visual artists. Who knows what the future will bring? this whirlwind, and credits that, “MAWA emerged because the time Whatever it may be, let’s keep creating it together. was right politically and because the right mix of people came together locally. The feminist movement provided a larger critical context and political momentum.” inside 8 Over The Top Thanks Sheila Butler was one of the first mentors, along with 2 First Fridays 10 Critical Writing Aganetha Dyck, Marsha Wineman and Joanne Johnson. Sheila also 3 11 served on MAWA’s first board of directors in 1986, although Crafternoon Workshop & Mothers technically MAWA was still a part of Plug In. Sheila says, “We created 4 Artist Talk, Resource Group MAWA because it was a way to do something proactive about Centre & WAM! Wall 12 Donor Spotlight discrimination.” 5 Screening 13 What You Missed Change and expansion continued at a steady, rapid pace. In 1986 a series of local artist lectures was begun and the first 6 MAWA News 16 Heads Up Calendar symposium held. In 1990 MAWA, now Mentoring Artists for Women’s s MAWA CELEBRATES GAY PRIDE MONTH! y a

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F Friday, June 3, 2011, noon-1 pm at MAWA Presented in partnership with ace art inc. Pop culture is something that surrounds us all, sometimes as invisible as wallpaper, and yet the images that we absorb “without thinking” can tell us much about our individual and collective fears, desires, motivations and concerns. Lauren will explore the power of role models found in popular culture and their possible “readings”. She will also talk about queer visual culture, the power of visibility and the importance of creating imagery that represents the queer experience. Lauren Hortie is an artist and educator based in . Her bodies of work include Sheroes , Gay & Night and the Lesbian Colouring Book ‘zine series. Lauren takes inspiration for her work from queer culture and especially its nightlife. She moonlights as a DJ and organizer of popular Toronto parties, Steers & Queers and Trash. Lauren Hortie’s work will be exhibited at ace art inc., 2nd floor, 290 McDermot Ave., from June 3 -July 25. The show, “Gay and Night”, will also be the site of an opening party featuring a performance by Toronto’s burlesque/strip hop legend ManChyna on Friday, June 3 at 9 pm, and an artist talk on Saturday, June 4 at 2 pm. In conjunction with the exhibit, ace will host “Party with a Purpose” on Saturday, June 4 at 9 pm. The event will be held at the Lo Pub, 330 Kennedy St. This is a fundraiser for the Rainbow Resource Centre’s Peer Project for Youth and will feature the musical spinnings of DJ Sigourney Beaver.

NO FIRST FRIDAY IN JULY OR AUGUST Lauren Hortie, My First Lesbian Colouring Book (cover), 2007

The Autobiography of a Feminist Artist: A Resisting Subject with Roewan Crowe Friday, September 2, 2011, noon-1 pm at MAWA (rescheduled from April)

Drawing from the practices of feminist artists who have consciously engaged with artistic and cultural performances of the self, and from feminist theories of autobiography, performance and affect, Roewan Crowe will explore the ideas of autobiography and the feminist artist as a resisting subject. In her queer artistic practice, transdisciplinary artist Roewan Crowe irreverently crafts together video, text, theory, photography, performance and activism. Her latest work, digShift , a multichannel installation, delves into shifting layers of meaning at an abandoned gas station to imagine some sort of reclamation – personal, historical, and environmental – for this compelling and toxic landscape. Currently she is completing an experimental novel entitled, Quivering Landscape . She is an Associate Professor and Co- Director at the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the . 2 Roewan Crowe, digShift , video installation, 2007 n Quilting Workshop with Joy Eidse o o Sunday, June 5, 2011, 1-4 pm n r e t 300 Memorial Blvd. f a Presented in Partnership with the Winnipeg Art Gallery. r Free! Everyone welcome! C

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F Learn how to quilt at a MAWA quilting bee! This workshop in basic quilting techniques, including appliqué, couching and raw edge appliqué, will be held next to the Quilt of Belonging , now on display at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Joy Eidse, Global Village , 31.5” x 27”, machine appliquéd and quilted with commercial Each participant will make a framed fabric fabrics, hand dyed fabrics and photo transfers, 2009 picture and in the process will learn to do a “turn edge”. Go home with a framed girl. Once Joy discovered art quilts, she was thrilled about the fibre piece and some great new skills! limitless range of techniques one can use to create a quilt. This workshop will be led by Joy Eidse, Quilting is an accessible and interactive art form. No previous Joy Eidse. Photo by Derek Edise who has been sewing since she was a little skills are necessary. Join us for a social, stitching afternoon.

Quilt of Belonging The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Blvd. May 20 – August 20, 2011

The Quilt of Belonging is composed of 263 unique and the quilt. It took Bryan and her team six years to research and locate individualized panels, forming a completed tapestry measuring 10 artists to create the panels, each representative of their unique feet tall by 120 feet long, which represents Canada’s many culture and nationality. The result is a magnificent pan-cultural ethnocultural communities. It was conceived, organized and artwork, currently on display in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s foyer. completed under the direction of -based fibre artist Esther If you come to the quilting workshop on Sunday, June 5, Bryan. She calls The Quilt of Belonging “a collaborative work of art admission to the quilt is free. At all other times, seeing the quilt that recognizes Canada’s diversity, celebrates our common requires the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s regular admission of $9 for humanity, and promotes harmony and compassion among people.” adults and $7 for students and seniors. All immigrant nationalities and our country’s many First Peoples (including Métis, many First Nations, and ) are represented in

Happy Howells Mireault and Linda Gomez Robertson, Panama

Kente cloth gift of Tom Forson and Gerald Arhin, Ghana

Mary and Leonard Lethbridge, Lakota

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l Liz Garlicki: “Beginning, Again and Again” a

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F (ranging from found objects to cement paving stones) and her passion for diverse media (including performance, paint and public intervention). Liz Garlicki has exhibited at Gallery 101 and Artengine (Ottawa), The New Gallery (Calgary), Museum London (Ontario), and various venues in Winnipeg, including the Winnipeg Art Gallery. In 2008 she was commissioned by the Art Building Community Symposium (through MAWA and the University of Winnipeg Women and Gender Studies Department) to do a permanent sidewalk piece in the Winnipeg North End district. A graduate of the ’s B.F.A. Honours program, Liz is currently working on her next large site specific work to be

shown in Winnipeg in 2012. Tools of the burlesque artist As part of her artistic practice, Liz Garlicki made a move to burlesque performance in 2008. She has performed at IDKE X in performance artist and gender theorist Kate Bornstein, and works 2008 with the Winnipeg performance group Fantasia Affair, she has closely with the Central Canadian Centre for Performance. Future plans performed at Midnight Madness’s “the Best of Burlesque” in 2010 and include a month-long residency based on her burlesque/vaudeville she has been featured in numerous other live shows throughout work at Context Gallery, Derry, Ireland, which will also be combined Winnipeg. She has also shared the stage with author, playwright, with the Foyle Pride Festival Festivities. e

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n Interested in researching local or national women artists? Or e perhaps brushing up on some feminist art theory? MAWA’s Resource C Centre awaits you! Check out our holdings online at: e http://opac.libraryworld.com/cgibin/opac.pl?command=signin&lib c

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R and the search engine will tell you where to find the books you might want, arranged numerically. If you want to come by and access the Resource Centre at MAWA, it is best to call Lisa and make an appointment. That way we can set you up with a computer.

Featured publication! If you want to check out some of Liz Garlicki’s work, take a look at supernovas , published by the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2006. Liz is not only one of the featured artists, but also supernovas , The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2006 the cover girl of the catalogue. l l Put your work on the bump! a

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M the 45”-wide “bump” of the north wall. All media are welcome. If there is something you would like to show, email Shawna at: A [email protected]. W UPCOMING WAM! WALLS: June: Dawna Smith 4 October onwards: call to book your WAM! Wall today! Sophie Lavoie, Underwater Landscape (detail), watercolour, 32” x 24”, WAM! Wall, May 2011 g I know how you feel: The video work of Aleesa Cohene n i

n The Sobey-nominated artist will be in attendance! e Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 8 pm at MAWA e r Presented in partnership with PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts and Video Pool c S ! e e r F

Aleesa Cohene, Something Better, video, 2008

Aleesa Cohene is a Toronto based video artist who uses found- as “basic materials through which we have an obligation to express footage as material and editing as a tool. Through this technique, ourselves and define our individuality.” Cohene provides us with a lens under which the viewer can see and Aleesa Cohene has been producing videos since 2001. Her examine many of the stereotypes present in traditional narrative work has shown in festivals and galleries across Canada as well as in cinema. In essence, she is revealing the mirror which the media uses Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Scandinavia, Thailand, to reflect our “beliefs” back to us. Turkey and the United States, and she has won prizes at Utrecht’s Currently, Cohene is protected under Fair Dealings in Canada. Impakt Festival and Toronto’s Images Festival. She has participated However, given recent attempts to reform Canada’s copyright laws, in artist residencies in Canada, the Netherlands and Denmark. She Cohene could be recast as a digital outlaw. Artistically and ethically recently completed a fellowship at the Kunsthochschule für Medien speaking, Cohene does not see these images as private property, but (KHM) in Cologne, Germany.

The screening will include: has become both a private and public crutch. Edited from clips from horror and science fiction films, thrillers, self-help guides and moti- Abscess (2001, 10 minutes) vational instruction videos, Ready to Cope is an impassioned record of Abscess is an experimental video about post-surgical complications. collective anxiety. A compilation of found medical footage, personal narratives and images Suppose To (2006, 7 minutes) of the underground (under water and inside the cellular body). Suppose To examines how work in a capitalist system divides people Absolutely (2001, 10 minutes) from themselves. Re-editing sampled footage and dialogue from Absolutely is an experimental documentary about history, politics, and science fiction films, psychological thrillers and corporate training the body. It juxtaposes social change, dogma and state sanctioned videos, Suppose To builds a hybrid narrative of characters who are mind control with carnal systems. Weaving various sources of re- exhausted by work, acting out, escaping conflict and misdirecting contextualized found footage, Absolutely interviews four characters blame. Ultimately, they return to a “deep wordless knowledge” that about democracy, revolution and their internal manifestations. shapes our shared reality. All Right (2003, 7 minutes) The Same Problem (2008, 4 minutes) Immigration and national security policies in Canada have become An ambiguous call and response is enacted between a roaring, stormy increasingly stringent in recent years, despite an on-growing claim ocean and a solitary figure whose wailing lament is fashioned from that Canada desires new citizens. Using diverse found footage sources oohs and aahs sampled from pop music. including immigration officer training videos, emotive gestures from Something Better (2008, 8 minutes) horror films and sound clips from Canadian news broadcasts, Cohene Viewers are introduced to several film actors who soon merge into takes the viewer on a provocative journey through an emotional and three shifting personae: father, mother and child. Through measured political labyrinth. picture editing, sound sampling and music remixing, the three characters Ready to Cope (2006, 7 minutes) interact in a microcosm where they hear each other but don’t listen, In resistance to Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act, Ready to Cope comments look but don’t see and have relationships that are simultaneously on the ways in which society’s chronic obsession for safety and security distant and intimate. 5 6 MAWA News upd to al thi you ma in re Refr u o f ma cle e e o p la g i er to rl e Wa o lo Wbs e he T Wdn e Cl e F and i D and mea a r re l, de v e s ng th da j s s s wa y nt k oi th si i d n n r a br se e! at es ns snieg te re , ew e a not an t b te of n er to h e nt. . 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Lead archivist Bev Pike, student interns Caroline Ferris and Laura Haines, and U of W instructor Fiona Green (left to right) celebrate the conclusion of the media archive project at MAWA, March 2011 Archive Project Painting Party Under the direction of Bev Pike, our University of Winnipeg MAWA is looking scruffy! Please join us for a painting party student interns Caroline Ferris and Laura Haines almost completed on Thursday, June 30 from 1-4 pm. Call Lisa at 949-9490 to volunteer. the MAWA media archiving project. MAWA Administrative Whitewash, snacks and eternal gratitude provided. Just bring your Assistant Alexis Kinloch will tie up a few loose ends this summer, painting duds. See you here! and then this collection of slides, photos, and videos (which have all been transferred to DVD) will join the MAWA print records at the Manitoba Provincial Archives. Artists in Residence We celebrated the end of this phase of the project with a tea MAWA received an overwhelming 43 applications in response party, complete with gloves and scones! Huge thanks to team leader to its first residency call for submissions. So instead of choosing one Bev Pike for her unflappable leadership on this massive endeavor, artist, we selected three! This summer MAWA will welcome Sarah and to all the volunteers and staff who have so ably got the job done. Laing from Scotland, Pamela Norrish from Calgary and Rose Negrych from Dauphin. We are pleased to be able to provide each of these artists with time and space to reflect, research, network and Rural Mentorship create. Stay tuned for information about upcoming artist talks by Deadline extended to June 17! If you are an artist or an Sarah and Pamela in July and August. aspiring artist in the Eastern Region of Manitoba who is working in photography, sculpture, painting, video, sound, printmaking or Congratulations! Former MAWA mentor Sarah Anne Johnson other artforms, then this program is for you! The Eastern Manitoba has been shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award, representing Prairies Rural Art Mentorship is a five-month project in which two and the North. Way to go, Sarah! professional Winnipeg artists will mentor and share their experiences with four rural artists. Presented by Manitoba Arts Network and co-sponsored by MAWA, this program will begin in July 2011. For more information please contact Visual Arts Program Coordinator Tim Schouten at 204-943-0036, toll free at 1-866-919- 2787 or by email at [email protected]. Cupcake Baker Draw This year, 55 bakers produced 101 dozen cupcakes for Over the Top . That’s 1212 individual sugar-bombs! The 298 people who attended the art event of the year managed to consume most of the frosted delights, and the 10 dozen that were left were taken to Siloam Mission. MAWA thanked its pastry chefs by holding a draw for two bottles of bubbly. The lucky winner? 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You a in oab ve nd many or to ee nb nd Film h hisT time now uer t heT and It this our av the the the tha h do ng 30 eb of ts is a e e I p Vocalizing for Visual Artists with Aliza Amihude m Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 7-9:30 pm at MAWA a c Free for MAWA members; $10 for non-members t

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Aliza Amihude in performance

This workshop is designed for performance artists, audio everything is precious. As a performer, she pushes the envelope with artists, and anyone who may be interested in integrating voice in a original songs, theatrics, political satire, dance and comedy. Her CD, multi-disciplinary practice. Aliza Amihude will teach a variety of Big Banana, is available to listen to at www.sonicbids.com/smallgirl healthy vocal techniques, which she will integrate with personal and available to purchase on line at:http://cdbaby.com/cd/smallgirl. intention. It will be fun, painless and liberating! Express your Aliza also performs with the Klezmer Gypsy Boys. Their work is creative instrument! Speak up! Make some noise! available to listen to at: www.sonicbids.com/alizaandthekgb. Please wear comfortable clothing. The best way to celebrate Canada Day? Check out her YouTube Aliza Amihude is internationally known for her controversial video of a new, green anthem at: yet contagious art. As a sculptor, she mixes precious metals and gems http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUGQAOVvqoc with materials like twigs and hair to express her belief that

p Artist Mothers Group u The first Wednesday of each month o r Free! Open to all artist mothers! G s The Artist Mothers Group at MAWA would like to extend an This summer, artist mothers go outside! Meetings will be held r e invitation to all artist mothers to come and meet other women who among the flowers. Come join the conversation and record the garden h embrace both mothering and artistic production. Meetings are in bloom. t

o relaxed and informal. The group experiments with art materials, Assiniboine Park English Garden critiques each other’s work, and shares snacks, concerns, strategies 6 to 7:30 pm, Wednesdays, June 1, July 6 and August 3 M and support for those who juggle the tricky life of artmaking and In case of rain, the group will meet at Timothy’s World Coffee mothering. For those who can’t make the meetings, please consider 2090 Corydon Ave, a block from the park entrance. participating on our Facebook page, Artist Mothers at MAWA. Bring your sketch books, canvas, pencils, paints, cameras or inks. 11 1 2 Donor Spotlight W Wa com t ar you The Bu ofte you and bu exp e b rl e a ca nd at il t er s ng n, d s d mu To i u cho a i on om t ie ona se Ko a Ev “I We s nda p w nce o i ni sh s s . op o s om y r e i t e di e We we he te l, ns y t i i : a mp dn’ p d mes o re a pain en s e ve at is nd t on ne e y hou an t r o tan or h large one a 50 f hav K es r a v onou we d is t r ve s ing t er c so h g y om unit this in e oo p e lo w of n t c wo t t s. eas a o e r o exhib fo we ’d t t e Cdaan We dao y , is s rder nder d o d ing r p p a onat w MA t you by it are o hy le ions int a o r t if e b o WA? t e Wand f here ng for I iew v er ’s l il st emale t ar we g and cose ho h c ovw er ain prem wo wo ” t are helmse v cing!ount ing liv are Wand r u o co men ’s ks r u r inst W i he asking nfidenc e ere so year t and is ha a T “ o t d lme s r e b m e m o in s few don ist t ar ist,t ar our s r e p es. told tc ve ly philos he a or K male ist t ar ate MAW A ibcuiot n,r ont female by it w m oo p c us: he n w in on on ajor to here.” the founde r t dominatd e h ophic al heir and d n a wk or to o aiserfundr generou MA io t ec role I cilta fa es as w ask, wk,or much ent e h t w al. WA of mo ith w n l e “Why not ” A thrhoug s d I i t s i t r a l yt cie so t r and or e resul , more ls th rve O only yCit too es for do to t! c g sup a Wa “ t de ( a a r g Wand h pa I nd t e f e ne uc 9 r mi nda g op 4 you e es r a re 9 ous i i t “ Go -9 t r s Koo p, ci 3 K ng a s s ng 4 could pi ep e o nsw and o MAW 9 w t me d yours e 0 i i U nt d a t a e h it nt a d ea 1 nd r h vice 1 d:e o h kee A, i g i s. d le ) ng lf.e f e ve ma r o our t ! (Rd e n r h ise,da v ” you E icda v ke e mae b y d ye ucate ison,v ) Order , e a would 2 0 siogug est n. o e 0 n t 9 oo , come t yo o t als go he of ur like ing emerg w self hich wl or Cda,an t o t and o at a W n,lear d is F a e n our irst ar hw y are upco ming ist,t ar ound but F ivg e pr always we idar y aming r g o e b you. couldn’t S hat w c ha ause turc le e oen p MAWA na w And would it or lp he to . ( means vne er And page Lisa wor ksh new asking it she a 2). pro- e?”b stop lcal she o If is p , d e s s i M u o Y t a h W

Visiting artist Barb Hunt (standing at right) at her artist talk, Feb. 2011

Cathy Busby (centre), an installation artist known for her Sorry Project, with Two of the happy 116 participants at MAWA’s 3rd Annual International Women’s Day Winnipegger Art Miki, who was pivotal in securing an apology from the federal Craftstravaganza, March 2011 government for Japanese interned during World War II. Visiting artist talk, March 2011

Critical Reading Group leader Sigrid Dahle (centre) and author Jeanne Randolph The MAWA co-sponsored bus to Hovercraft: Navigating the shoreline of art and craft at (second from left) with some of the critical reading group participants focusing on Portage District Arts Centre, March 2011 Jeanne’s text, Ethics of Luxury , April 2011 13 d e s s i M u o Y t a h W e r o M

Embroidery instructor Lweh Say (second from right) with eager stitchers at the Crafternoon April 2011

Shawna Dempsey teaching a break-neck history of performance art, First Friday, April 2011 Beading instructor Sifo Boramso (left) teaching Connie Bart-Hamel (right) at the Craftstravaganza, March 2011

Even a full-blown blizzard couldn’t keep the eager from lining up before MAWA’s 3rd Embroidery instructor Zarghoona Ahmedzai (left) teaching Ivy Meddoza (right) at the 14 Clothing Swap, April 2011 Craftstravaganza, March 2011 611 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 1E1 (204) 949-9490 [email protected] www.mawa.ca Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4pm and some Saturdays

Current Board of Directors Sharon Alward, Gwen Armstrong (Chair), Chantal Dupas, Rosemary Dzus, Arwen Helene (Treasurer), Alice Linski (Student Rep), Kelsey Middleton, Cheryl Orr-Hood (Vice Chair), Tracy Peters, Kelly Ruth, Karen Schlichting (Secretary), Jenny Western (on leave), Eryhn Wicks and Anna Wiebe. Honorary Board Mentors: and Reva Stone Staff Dana Kletke (Co-Executive Director) Shawna Dempsey (Co-Executive Director) Lisa Wood ( Program and Administrative Coordinator ) Alexis Kinloch (Admin Assistant)

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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, Assiniboine Credit Union, donors and members.

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p Admin As U sistant Alexis Kinlo Wed. June 1, 5-7 pm Party and Website Launch! s ch

d Celebration of Diane Whitehouse and

a Sheila Butler e Wed. June 1, 6-7:30 pm Mothers Group H Co-Executive drawing at Assiniboine Park English Garden Director Fri. June 3, noon-1 pm First Friday Shawna Dempsey Lauren Hortie: queer art activism Sun. June 5, 1-4 pm Crafternoon Quilting with Joy Eidse at the WAG Wed. June 22, 7-9:30 pm Workshop Vocal Technique for Artists with Aliza Amihude Wed. June 29, 8-9:30 pm Screening I know how you feel: The video work of Aleesa Cohene Thurs. June 30, 1-4 pm MAWA Painting Party!

JULY Co-Executive D irector Wed. July 6, 6-7:30 pm Mothers Group Dana Kletke drawing at Assiniboine Park English Garden Thurs. July 14, Local Artist Talk 5:30-6:30 pm Liz Garlicki

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Wed. Aug. 3, 6-7:30 pm Mothers Group drawing at Assiniboine Park English Garden

SEPTEMBER Program Coordinator Fri. Sept. 2, noon-1pm First Friday Lisa Wood Roewan Crowe: feminist artists and autobiography

Note: except for programming, MAWA will not be maintaining regular office hours between July 1 and Aug. 23, inclusive.

Thank you to all of our recent donors. We really appreciate your support!

Susan Algie and James Wagner Rochelle Ehinger Amy Karlinsky Milena Placentile Colette Balcaen Elvira and Harry Finnigan Dale Mackenzie Dominique Rey Pauline Braun Cam Forbes Darlene MacPherson Susan J. Scott Joanne Bristol and Amelia Gamvrelis Rosemary Miguez, Terry Vatrt and Bob Watts Anthony Kiendl Tania Gauthier Respectfully Yours Cleaning Mary Agnes Welch and Ivan Coyote Briony Haig Company Jonathon Schmidt Shawna Dempsey Pat Hardy Peak of the Market anonymous

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