This residency provides professional artists with time to focus on their work in the beautiful natural setting of Riding Mountain National Park. The residency is housed in the historic Deep Bay log cabin, built in 1934, on the shoreline of Clear Lake.
Artists are given the opportunity to get away from their hectic lives to concentrate on their artistic practice. The residency also provides opportunities to interact and share work with residents and visitors in the Riding Mountain area.
This residency is made possible through a partnership between the Manitoba Arts Council and Riding Mountain National Park.
The Riding Mountain Artists’ Residency provides professional artists with an opportunity to be inspired and create their works in the park’s setting. In return these professional artists invite visitors to interact with them and uniquely discover the park through their eyes and works. We will all die. Yet our society no longer knows how to deal with death, grief andRead More
The Riding Mountain Artists’ Residency provides professional artists with an opportunity to be inspired and create their works in the park’s setting. In return these professional artists invite visitors to interact with them and uniquely discover the park through their eyes and works.Read More
Jeanne Randolph is the author of five books on contemporary Canadian arts and two books on contemporary mass culture. Her many publications for journals and contributions to books reflect a fascination with art’s context: technology, ethics, advertising, spectator sports and mass entertainment. Deep Bay Residency Project Residency dates: September 26 to October 9 OnlyRead More
Born to a minister and a biologist, Jesse Krause was moved to creative curiosity from a young age. As a composer, Krause’s work is diverse, ranging from eccentric rock opera to sacred choral music. He is currently writing and building for Geräuschbiest, an innovative ensemble dedicated to the exploration of music through new instruments. DeepRead More
Lindsey Bond’s photographic work explores socio-geographic issues in Canada. She creates pervasive imagery that exposes our need to reconnect with the ground we live on. Recently, Lindsey was a guest artist on Train of Thought, a community arts journey across Canada, focusing on collaborations and alliances between First Nation and settler artists and communities. LindseyRead More
Donna Besel grew up in Whiteshell Provincial Park and self-identifies as a boreal writer. She loves writing of all kinds, and leads workshops for all ages. Her first book, Lessons from a Nude Man, a collection of short stories, was published by Hagios Press in 2015 and earned a fourth place spot on McNally Robinson’sRead More
Charlene is an actor, writer and producer of theatre based in Winnipeg. Her recent work with her company Echo Theatre has been experimenting with how audiences and performers interact with, and experience, live art. Recent works include plays produced in The Dalnavert Museum and the Ralph Connor House in Winnipeg, using stationary and promenade-style staging.Read More
Michelle Wilson received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa in 2005, and graduated with highest honours from the School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa in 2008. Recently, she successfully defended her thesis, ANIMA: Visual Art as a Vehicle for Exploring Other Modes of Relatedness and graduated from the Masters of Fine ArtsRead More
Angeline Schellenberg’s first collection, Tell Them It Was Mozart (Brick Books), is coming in September 2016. Her chapbook, Roads of Stone, was published by Alfred Gustav Press in 2015. Her poetry appears in various journals including Prairie Fire, CV2, TNQ, Rhubarb, Room, Grain, and Geez. Her poem, “Black with a Vengeance”, was shortlisted for Arc’sRead More
Di Brandt is an internationally-renowned, award-winning poet, and editor/author of more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, creative essays and literary criticism. Her bestselling first collection of poetry, questions i asked my mother, was re-issued in 2015 in a 30th anniversary edition, with a tribute essay by Tanis MacDonald. Her latest poetry title isRead More
