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
Suzie Smith is an interdisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg. She graduated with a Bachelor of fine Arts from Concordia University in 2004 and a Masters of Fine Arts from The Glasgow School of Art in 2011. She has shown nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. She is represented by Lisa Kehler ArtRead 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
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
Diana Thorneycroft is the 2016 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction recipient. The recognition comes with $30,000 for the artist, and is the Manitoba Arts Council’s award for the highest level of excellence and long-term achievements of an artist in Manitoba.Read More
Diana Thorneycroft is the 2016 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction recipient. The recognition comes with $30,000 for the artist, and is the Manitoba Arts Council’s award for the highest level of excellence and long-term achievements of an artist in Manitoba. “Congratulations to Diana for this well-deserved recognition,” said Aimée Craft, Chair of the Manitoba Arts Council.Read More
Kevin Ei-ichi deForest is the artist-in-residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York from April 15th to June 30th, 2016. Read More
Craig Love is the artist-in-residence at Usine UTOPIK from March 15th to April 30th, 2016. Craig is an artist who focuses his energies on painting, drawing, writing and book publishing.Read More
Megan D. Krause is the artist-in-residence at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre February 1 to 14, 2016. She has received various awards, including the Nellie McClung Arts Legacy Award, for her surreal landscapes and is represented by Gurevich Fine Art in Winnipeg. Megan will start a new series of landscape paintings to explore both romantic and gruelling depictions of the north, while experiencing it firsthand. Read More
During her stay at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Laura will produce written and visual content for an artist’s book which will examine her experiences in the region over the past five years. Read More
