Photo byElla Greyeyes The Manitoba Arts Council is pleased to announce that Alan Greyeyes is the 2020 recipient of the Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction. This $30,000 prize is awarded every two years to a professional artist or arts/cultural professional in recognition of the highest level of artistic excellence and contribution to the development ofRead More
Sculptor Goota Ashoona has been awarded a 2019 Indigenous – Create grant. Originally from Cape Dorset, Goota is a 3rd generation Inuit artist based out of Elie, Manitoba with an established national and international career. Goota will use this grant to return to Cape Dorset, one of Canada’s most acclaimed Inuit art communities, to engageRead More
The Winnipeg International Writers Festival (WIWF) has been awarded a 2019 Share-Present Grant. This grant will support readings by Manitoba authors at THIN AIR, a week-long celebration of books and ideas, as well as two off-season initiatives, Speaking Crow Poetry Open Mic and special First Fridays programming in the Exchange. THIN AIR 2019 will runRead More
Ellen Peterson is an artist in residence at the Deep Bay Cabin for the 2019 Riding Mountain Artists Residency. Join Ellen on Saturday, September 28th, for a reading of her work and discussion of her unique creative process. Ellen is an actor, playwright, and dramaturge. She is a member of Prairie Theatre Exchange’s Playwright UnitRead More
Diana Thorneycroft is an artist in residence at the Deep Bay Cabin for the 2019 Riding Mountain Artists Residency. Diana is a Winnipeg artist whose work has exhibited in the US, Europe, Moscow, Tokyo, Australia and across Canada. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Manitoba Arts Council’s Award of Distinction. She isRead More
Sarah Crawley is an artist in residence at the Deep Bay Cabin for the 2019 Riding Mountain Artists Residency. Sarah is a photo-based artist who uses various photographic technologies and materials to investigate the impact that memory, place and loss have on identity. Her work has been exhibited across Canada. During her residency in RidingRead More
Kae Sasaki is an artist in residence at the Deep Bay Cabin for the 2019 Riding Mountain Artists Residency. Kae is a visual artist who works primarily as a painter. As a recent immigrant from Japan to Canada (2000) her work explores the complexity of modern identity, and displacement that can be felt when straddlingRead More
Elvira Finnigan is an artist in residence at the Deep Bay Cabin for the 2019 Riding Mountain Artists Residency. Elvira’s multi-media practice includes installation, performance, video, and photography. Currently her art focuses on experimental works using dense salt brine and crystallization. She has exhibited in the USA, Japan, and across Canada. Over the course ofRead More
Vanessa Eidse is an artist in residence at the Deep Bay Cabin for the 2019 Riding Mountain Artists Residency. Vanessa is a visual and media artist who received her MFA from York University in Toronto. She grew up in rural Manitoba and spent one week every summer with her family in Riding Mountain National Park.Read More
Amber O’Reilly is an artist in residence at the Deep Bay Cabin for the 2019 Riding Mountain Artists Residency. Amber, originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, is an emerging Francophone and multilingual poet, spoken word, and theatre artist, now based in Winnipeg. Her poetry focuses on family, romantic, and geographic relationships. During her residency in RidingRead More
