Visual Art
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Playing on paper
Origin Stories: Jon Klassen
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Favourite local visual artist
Favourite local visual artist
1. Chase Martin / Hannah Reimer (tie)
2. Kieran Valde / Matea Radic (tie) -
Favourite local gallery or artist-run centre
Favourite local gallery or artist-run centre
1. Winnipeg Art Gallery
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Favourite local writer / Favourite local photographer
Favourite local writer
1. Callie Lugosi
2. Bartley Kives
3. Cierra Bettens / Riva Billows / Ryan Thorpe (tie)Favourite local photographer
1. Callie Lugosi
2. Ally Gonzalo
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Batto Noel
A comic by Hely Schumann
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The Zodiac as snacks
An illustration by Talia Steele
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Arts Briefs
Children’s Special Allowance // CRAFTED 2020 // Jazz Film Festival // Restaurants struggling with Code Red // Towards a Queer Prairie Aesthetic // Solidarity Winnipeg
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Martha Street, COVID-style
Like many arts organizations, Martha Street Studio has had to adapt to this new pandemic world.
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Outsider artist has first solo exhibition
Bîstyek, an exhibition titled after the artist’s chosen name, opened on Sept. 4 at 300 Ross Ave. in the space that used to house Actual Gallery.
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(P)artners in performance art and feminist leadership
Performance artists Lorri Millan and Shawna Dempsey have been making art together for more than 30 years.
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Arts Briefs
Safe September // Apart, Together // Gimme Some Truth // Playground Chitchat // Little Brown Jug X Beetlejuice // Speaking Crow
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In Place opens at the WAG
The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s newest exhibit, In Place, draws from the gallery’s permanent collection and features artworks from 42 Manitobans, spanning from 1970 to today.
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Arts Briefs
Theory at home // Reel Pride // Winnipeg Film Group Workshop // Free Sunday at the WAG // Storying Violence
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Finding light in the dark
Hugh Conacher, a theatre designer and photographer, has had no work since March, but has continued to make art on his own dime. Like many arts and culture workers, he has lost multiple contracts in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Don’t blink, or you’ll miss it
Although some restrictions for non-essential businesses were lifted in May in Winnipeg, Blinkers Art and Project Space delayed reopening until recently, and is now looking to bounce back.
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Setting tones and stepping stones
Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery’s newest exhibit features original works from one of the most prominent Anishinaabe artists of his time and the creator of the Woodland School of Art, Norval Morrisseau.
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BIPOC gallery launching in Artspace
In October, an artist-run studio and gallery space dedicated to supporting BIPOC artists will open in Artspace.
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Bird Lines
A comic by Eric Hetherington
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Kraken
A comic by Hely Schumann.
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Arts funding is more important now than ever
In 2013, Jessica Botelho-Urbanski wrote in The Uniter’s Urban Issue that Winnipeg could be improved with more arts funding. Unfortunately, arts funding is again on the chopping block in the municipal budget this year, facing a 10 per cent decrease.