This shared space is available Nov. 1^st, 2013.  Square footage is negotiable. Approximately $1/foot/month.

For more information, call Bev at 204-284-0616.

Deadlines: Friday, June 28, 2013 at 4 pm
for residencies in May, June, November and December, 2014

MAWA is offering our urban, loft-style apartment to women visual artists for self-directed residencies of 1-4 weeks in duration. Applicants can use this space, free of charge, for research, reflection, networking and/or production.

The MAWA residency program is intended to increase dialogue between our geographical community—Winnipeg—and the art world beyond, to create networking opportunities for women artists and to provide an oasis in which women artists can do whatever they need to do in order to move their practices forward.
The MAWA apartment is fully furnished and includes a kitchen, a bathroom with shower, a queen bed, a double futon/couch and a designated parking space. All linens and cooking utensils are provided. The apartment is located on the second floor of 611 Main Street in downtown Winnipeg. Please note, it is a walk-up and is not wheelchair accessible. The MAWA apartment is a clean space that is not conducive for painting and many forms of sculpture.

National and International Residencies

National and International Residencies are 2-4 weeks in duration. If you need specific facilities, we will work with you and other Winnipeg art centres to help you gain access to the space resources you need. These could include a rough studio, printmaking, video and darkroom facilities, or introductions to like-minded artists and curators.

We can also provide you with up to three studio visits by members of the Winnipeg art community, who will provide you with feedback about your work and networking opportunities.

Early in your stay at MAWA, we ask that you present your work to our members in a form of your choice (screening, talk, performance, showcase of work-in-progress, etc.). This presentation should be approximately 20 minutes in length and will be followed by a reception with members of our art community and the general public. You will be paid CAD$150 for this presentation.

Women artists at all stages of their careers are encouraged to apply. Equal consideration will be given to emerging and established artists.

Residencies for Rural Manitoba Artists

Residencies for rural women artists are 1-2 weeks in duration. Imagine an urban retreat! MAWA provides free use of our apartment. Production facilities, if needed, are up to the applicant to arrange.

Women artists at all stages of their careers are encouraged to apply. Equal consideration will be given to emerging and established artists.

Applications for all residencies must be received by email or post by Friday, June 28 at 4 pm. For information on application requirements, Click here

Application Deadline: July 26, 2013

The ADNM/ MAWA Mentorship Program is a year-long program in which senior artists share their experience with developing artists. It is designed to help women in the visual arts develop skills, define their decision-making philosophies, and to provide access to the information, resources and support they need to realize their goals. In addition to a one-on-one relationship with a mentor, the program provides a peer group for the mentees through group meetings. In partnership with Arts & Disability Network Manitoba, the mentorship will have spots for two female artists with disabilities to participate. The focus on this new partnership is to provide training, networking and support for women artist living with disabilities who have fewer accessible, professional and affordable training opportunities.

Our mentor this year, Kristin Nelson, received her BFA in Visual Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2003 and is currently pursuing her MFA at Concordia University in Material Practices and Fibres. She is inspired by questions of community, gender, politics and place and looks to challenge stereotypes of community through her artistic practice, valorizing those often made invisible.

For application information Click here

MAWA is fully accessible. ASL interpretation will be provided if required.
This program is funded by the Manitoba Arts Council

Artist Talk Wednesday, July 17, 7 pm at MAWA

“I’m nostalgic for a country that doesn’t yet exist on a map.” This quote by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano marks a point of departure for Sharlene Bamboat’s work, which explores diaspora, nationalism, and territorial and figurative borders. Drawing on queer critique and working in film, video and performance, she challenges, subverts, questions and plays with the categories of race, ethnicity, gender, desire and the nation. Sharlene often works in collaboration with artists and academics. Her most frequent co-conspirator is mixed-media artist Alexis Mitchell, and together they form Bambitchell. She is on the programming committee of the Pleasure Dome Film & Video Collective, as well as Artistic Director for SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) in Toronto. www.sharlenebamboat.com

During her residency at MAWA, Sharlene will be working on a film, Xerxes in Space (working title), which is a performative documentary that is rooted in Virginia Woolfʼs Orlando, French philosopher Gaston Bachelardʼs The Poetics of Space, and Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory. The film follows the memories and movements of the (semi) fictional character of a gender-bending, queer, diasporic subject named Xerxes.

Although MAWA will be hosting our artists in residence and will be open for their artist talks, we won’t be keeping regular office hours this summer. This means between July 1 and September 1, we suggest that you phone before dropping by (204-949-9490) or, better yet, make an appointment. Flexible hours will allow us to take vacations and work on projects like the messy basement. That said, the MAWA staff is still here for you! If you have any questions, concerns or ideas, please call us. And have a great summer!

Thursday, September 12 – Friday, November 1, 2013
Opening: Thursday, September 12, 5-8 pm
Centre cultural franco-manitobain, 340 Provencher Boulevard
Gallery hours: 9 am – 8 pm daily
Co-presented with the Centre culturel franco-manitobain

From September 7-12, artist Barbara Claus will be working in situ to create an immersive environment of mixed media. Drawings, video and text will comprise an installation that will create a space of reflection, thought, sensation, reaction and remembrance—a space where links are created.

For over twenty years, Barbara Claus has created site-specific installations. She began her artistic practice in Brussels, Belgium, and now lives in Quebec. She has exhibited in over forty solo and group shows in Canada, South America and Europe, and has participated in numerous national and international artist residencies. She writes, “I am ephemeral, I am slow and I am old.”

Friday, September 6, 2013, noon-1 pm at MAWA
Presented in partnership with Centre culturel franco-manitobain

Barbara Claus will illustrate how art can create spaces of silence, reflect upon the role of the sacred and insert slowness into a world that is increasingly fast-paced. Her talk will examine memory, death, ritual, transience and permanence in the work of various artists. Rituals and mourning periods interrupt the tendency toward speed that has intruded into every aspect of life. “Important things are never done quickly” (Henry Bauchau).

For over twenty years, Barbara Claus has created site-specific installations. She began her artistic practice in Brussels, Belgium, and now lives in Quebec. She has exhibited in over forty solo and group shows in Canada, South America and Europe, and has participated in numerous national and international artist residencies. She writes, “I am ephemeral, I am slow and I am old.”

Friday, June 7, 2013, 1 pm at MAWA
Snacks will be served!

Please join us after Annie Lalande’s First Friday talk for a special presentation in honour of Helen Granger Young and a short slide presentation about her work. Helen, who is in her nineties, will be present and happy to answer questions.

Helen Granger Young is a practicing artist whose career has spanned over 70 years. She was born in Mimico, Ontario and has resided in Winnipeg for most of her life. Her talent was recognized at a very young age and was encouraged when she won a scholarship to the Ontario College of Art. During her time at the college, she was privileged to have studied under Franklin Carmichael, member of The Group of Seven, as well as Charles Fraser Comfort. These early experiences cemented the direction of her life as an artist, ultimately leading to the creation of hundreds of works including bronze monuments and sculptures, porcelain sculptures, and portraits and landscapes in oil and pastel. Her porcelain sculptures can be found in Buckingham Palace, the Kremlin, the White House, Rideau Hall and the Vatican. Helen Granger Young’s bronze monuments are in public sites throughout Canada and include the Bison Reliefs on the Queen Elizabeth Way (Main Street bridge) and the Famous Five Monument on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature.

Artist Talk Wednesday, September 18, 7 pm at MAWA

Vanessa Roy’s practice consists of the photography of reclaimed textiles. Whether presented as an empty vessel or a more abstract form, the material creates a strong presence without a real presence, constructing an altered reality that evokes the hidden or the uncanny. In doing so, she explores the themes of absence and, the strange and the mysterious, while creating fabricated and fragmented narratives. She is from Scotland, holds an MA in Photography from the University of Brighton and has exhibited extensively in the UK. www.vroyphotography.com

Vanessa will be completing a project based on Victorian studio photography of “the invisible mother” (infants photographed in the arms of their mothers draped in black, so as to render them invisible). She will be working at Manitoba Printmakers Association (Martha Street) and Platform Centre for Digital + Photographic Arts.

For more information about this year’s Artists in Residence: Click here

Artist Talk Wednesday, August 14, 7 pm at MAWA

Cecilia Stenbom was born in Stockholm, Sweden, completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland and a Masters of Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art. She has worked with film, video, installation, photography, drawing and painting to explore notions of identity in a consumer-driven and information-saturated culture. Usually, she mines found material as a means to examine how an overflow of ideas, imagery and information creep into our personal lives. Cecilia’s work has been exhibited in the UK, Europe and the U.S. Recent projects includes Nobody gets out of here alive, a solo exhibition at Kaapelin Galleria, Helsinki, The Artist Cut, commissioned by Northern Film & Media in association with Channel 4, and North by North East, a film commissioned by the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. www.ceciliastenbom.se

This summer, Cecilia will develop a screenplay for an upcoming film project about survival in the public space and contemporary anxiety.

For more information about this year’s Artists in Residence Click here