Image: Little Audrey by Janet Werner
Exhibition shows that grotesque and beautiful can be the same.
Just in time to be bombarded by messages of getting into shape for “bikini season,” the exhibition Perfect Imperfections takes a critical lens and focuses in on the foibles and flaws which make the body vulnerable, fragile and ultimately human. Representing […]
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Pictures of Perfect Imperfections
April 23rd, 2013 · No Comments · News, News Release, School of Art
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School of Art celebrates new era with 2013 Graduation Exhibition
April 15th, 2013 · No Comments · News, School of Art, Students
On April 20, 100 years after the School of Art’s founding, the 2013 Graduating Exhibition will be held for the first time in ARTlab, the new home of the School. In an exciting new format that takes full advantage of the ARTlab’s architecture, nearly 60 artists, spring graduates of the three-year Bachelor of Fine Arts […]
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Visionary Conversations: The Arts
March 19th, 2013 · No Comments · Architecture, Film, Fine Art, Media, Music, News Release, Outreach, Research, School of Art, arts, philosophy
The next session of the award-winning Visionary Conversations series presented by the University of Manitoba will be held on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Visionary Conversations is an engaging, interactive speaker series that brings together world-class minds to present and discuss issues with the audience that are critical to the future of our community, our country […]
Tags:arts·dance·Film·Music·painting·sculpture·theatre·visionary conversations
Bev Pike: Hymenal Views
March 6th, 2013 · No Comments · School of Art, arts
In celebration of International Women’s Day the School of Art Gallery is honoured to host the solo exhibition of the work of Bev Pike. Hymenal Views features six 20-foot-long paintings that depict mountainous bundles of clothing enveloping the gallery creating a visual topography of overlapping social histories and constructions of gender.
Highly illustrative and detailed, […]
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WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
January 28th, 2013 · No Comments · Fine Art, News, News Release, School of Art
Bonnie Marin: What are you afraid of? is the third exhibition in the series of projects that the School of Art Gallery is mounting featuring the work of prominent artists who are, or have been, associated with the School of Art.
This exhibition features a brand new body of work by Bonnie Marin consisting of collaged […]
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Transformative art emerges from Indian Residential School experience
September 5th, 2012 · No Comments · Aboriginal, Alumni, Fine Art, History, Indigenous, News Release, Outreach, Peace and Justice, School of Art
The School of Art Gallery is celebrating its move into ARTlab with a series of exhibitions that will feature the work of prominent artists who have been associated with the School of Art both past and present. The inaugural exhibition of this series is Robert Houle: enuhmo andúhyaun (the road home).
This exhibition features three painting installations […]
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Women’s Congress to focus on Indigenous Issues
November 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Aboriginal, Environment and Geography, Fine Art, Health, Indigenous, Media, News Release, Outreach, Peace and Justice, Research, School of Art, Social Work, Students, conference, human ecology, political studies
On Monday, November 28, 2011, Dr. Shirley Thompson of the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba will hold a workshop titled Women’s World Congress - 2011 Mobilization: Gender and Environmental Action Agenda in Winnipeg.
The workshop will examine the current status women’s issues related to environment and natural resources use within indigenous and other […]
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