Maurice Mierau has been awarded the Manitoba Arts Council’s 2017 Major Arts Grant. This grant will assist the Winnipeg-based writer to work on the manuscript of his second memoir. Maurice Mierau is the author of Detachment: An Adoption Memoir, which won the 2016 Kobzar Literary Award and the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction. He has publishedRead More
Maurice Mierau has been awarded the Manitoba Arts Council’s 2017 Major Arts Grant. This grant will assist the Winnipeg-based writer to work on the manuscript of his second memoir. His last book, Detachment: An Adoption Memoir, was published by Freehand in 2014, and won the 2016 Kobzar Literary Award as well as the Alexander KennedyRead More
Michael Dudeck is an artist and cultural engineer who decodes dominant cultural mythologies and re-codes them into contemporary fictions. His work is divided into four streams: The Religion Virus [an invented queer religion and prehistory], Punc Arkæology [a pedagogical software system], Crytical Mythopoesis [crypto-fictional meta-mythologies] and The Museum of Artificial Histories [an imaginary institution housingRead More
Florian Vorreiter grew up in Kreuzberg, Berlin. At age fifteen he was mentored in airbrushing technique by visual artist Gernot Bubenik, which left a deep impression on Florian’s visual arts style and technique for years to come. Florian caught his first glimpse of the wonders of lutherie when he saw his father restore a banjo in Malta, and laterRead More
Known for making art that hovers on the edge of public acceptance, visual artist Diana Thorneycroft has pursued topics that often challenged her viewing audience. She arrived on the national art scene in the early 1990s with her highly charged black and white self-portraits photographs that explored issues around sexual identity and the body inRead More
Writer Méira Cook’s first novel, The House on Sugarbush Road (Enfield & Wizenty), won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award in 2013. Her latest novel, Nightwatching (HarperCollins), has recently been nominated for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. She has published five poetry collections, most recently Monologue Dogs (Brick), which has been nominated for the Lansdowne PrizeRead More
Vincent Ho is a Canadian composer. Vincent’s grant will support 12 to 14 months of research into the traditional repertoire of Chinese music and the traditional instruments of the Chinese orchestra with the goal of composing a large scale 20 minute work informed by this research.Read More
Danielle Sturk is a multi-disciplinary dance artist, choreographer, and independent filmmaker creating in documentary and experimental forms. Danielle’s grant will support research and experimentation combining dance, film and animation.Read More
Lauren Carter is a writer of fiction, poetry, non-fiction articles and essays that have been published in a wide variety of literary journals, magazines, and websites. Lauren’s grant will support work on the creation of her second novel titled This Has Nothing to Do with You.Read More
George Amabile is a Winnipeg based author who has published ten books and has had work in over a hundred national and international publications. George’s grant will support work on the creation of a new collection of poems titled Seeing Things.Read More
