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.
At the age of 11, Daniel bought a banjo with money saved from his paper route. A year later, he made his professional debut at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. Daniel has toured extensively as the guitarist and mandolinist with Finjan and is also the bassist with Klezmer ensembles Black Sea Station and From Both EndsRead More
Chantel Emond (aka french press) is an indie-pop songwriter currently gathering material for her debut album. This Winnipeg-born artist first began her career studying jazz vocals in Toronto, where she also formed The O’Darling, a band with whom she toured throughout the country. After completing her studies in music, Chantel travelled overseas, singing on stagesRead More
Kevin Nikkel has completed a Bachelor of Education at the University of Manitoba and a Master of Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. His dramatic, animated, and documentary films have played at international film festivals, on television and on the Web. Kevin has contributed to the success of Playing in Traffic,Read More
Jennifer Still is the winner of the 2012 Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award and the 2012 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. Her second collection of poems, Girlwood (Brick Books, 2011), was nominated for the 2012 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Jennifer is a faculty member for the 2013 Banff Centre of theRead More
Michelle Elrick is the author of To Speak and the recipient of the 2011 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. Her award-winning poetry and fiction have been published in journals across Canada and performed at festivals and events both here and abroad. Last summer, she created a series of performance installations called NotesRead More
An active writer, curator, and artist, J.J. Kegan McFadden has exhibited and published his work throughout Canada and beyond since receiving his Master’s degree in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. McFadden is currently on a one-year research leave from hisRead More
Karel Funk is a Winnipeg artist who graduated from Columbia University with a Master in Fine Arts in 2003. He has had three solo shows at 303 Gallery in New York and two solo museum shows and has participated in various group shows. Funk’s work has been purchased by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal,Read More
Shannon Leitch received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawai’i and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Regina. Residing in Brandon, she continues to work in two-dimensional media. Shannon’s work has been featured in Honolulu Magazine and Studio Visit Magazine. Residency project During her time at DeepRead More
Willow Rector has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Winnipeg and a Master of Arts (English) from the University of Manitoba. She was a participant in the MAWA Foundation Mentorship Program in 2011-12. Willow’s current work focuses on mixed-media explorations of the Manitoba landscape. Residency project Willow will be engaged in researchRead More
Dr. Kenneth Nichols came to Brandon College 50 years ago to teach piano, music theory, and the Carl Orff method for children. He has written approximately 70 works covering a variety of genres, including three operas. He taught music in China from 2005 to 2007. Now Professor Emeritus at the University of Brandon, he continuesRead More
