ahgedenaun brings together many of the drawings and installations artist Robert Houle created about his childhood experiences at Sandy Bay Residential School, located in his home community of Sandy Bay First Nation, on the western shore of Lake Manitoba. It is produced in conjunction with two solo exhibitions of Houle’s work: enuhmo andúyaun (the road home) at School of Art Gallery (2012) and Pahgedenaun at CUAG (2018).

Pahgedenaun is a Saulteaux word expressing the self-defining and self-determining act of “letting it go from your mind,” embodied in Houle’s profoundly powerful and unsettling artworks, which embody acts of memory, truth-telling, survivance, and healing

The artist has generously donated this edition of handmade books to the School of Art. All proceeds from the sale of the book will be used to support School of Art students who are interested in print media or microscopy.

Intimate Encounters is an edition of 29 concertina books with wooden slip covers each containing a color title page and a selection of black and white scanning electron microscope images of material from the Kingdom Plantae. Each image was photographed as an art object. Some images are abstract in nature while others evoke a sense of mystery by their pattern, texture and response evoked in the viewer.

Erwin Huebner is Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences and Artist in Residence, School of Art at the University of Manitoba. He has established an international reputation for his inspired approaches to creating handmade books, ranging from the miniature and microscopic, to the grandly over-scale, from traditional bindings to those adapting found objects to hold them together.

no brighter in the middle documents designer Sébastien Aubin’s six-month term as Indigenous Graphic Designer in Residence at the University of Manitoba School of Art. Through his work with University students and faculty, high school students, Winnipeg’s art community and his own community of Opaskwayak Cree Nation, Aubin’s residency initiated important conversations about Indigenization, decolonization, and reconciliation within the field of graphic design.

This publication documents Aubin’s connective and collaborative engagements throughout his residency, as well as his culminating solo exhibition at the School of Art Gallery.

A Bauhausler in Canada: Andor Weininger in the 1950s, is a scholarly monograph by Oliver A.I. Botar that explores the artistic career of the largely unrecognized Hungarian-born artist Andor Weininger, a major Bauhaus figure who lived in Etobicoke, Ontario from 1951-1958. The author devotes 11 chapters of text and images to shaping Weininger’s story, a chronology of his life, and a catalogue of the artist’s works in the collections of the School of Art Gallery (then Gallery One One One), the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

A Bauhausler in Canada: Andor Weininger in the 1950s was produced in conjunction with two exhibitions curated by the author: From Bauhaus to Our House in Etobicoke: Andor Weininger in the 50s at Gallery One One One (2004) and A Bauhausler in Canada: Andor Weininger in the 1950s (2009) at Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. This handsome, hard-cover volume was designed by award-winning designer Zab Hobart.

MUD, Hands, fire emerged from author Dr. Mary Ann Steggles’ exploration of the evolution of ceramics in Canada over the past 50 or more years. Born of her own studio practice and her interest in wood-fired pottery, she offers a historical backdrop for appreciation of the studio pottery movement in Canada, focussing primarily on the West with a quick stop in Ontario.

The book was produced in conjunction with the exhibition, MUD, Hands, fire. Wheel Thrown: The Legacy of Canadian Studio Pottery, curated by Mary Ann Steggles and presented at the School of Art Gallery, October 1 to December 18, 2015.

In addition to the texts, Steggles includes brief profiles of 36 potters, with colour images of works shown in the exhibition. 

This publication documents Reva Stone’s solo exhibition, erasure, presented at the School of Art Gallery from February 4 to April 26, 2019. It includes an attentive textual analysis of the work by artist, writer, educator and scientist Seema Goel.