Sheila Butler, Blown Away, acrylic on canvas, 87” x 57”, 2009
- Thursday, August 29–Saturday, October 26, 2024
- School of Art Gallery - University of Manitoba, 180 Dafoe Rd W, Winnipeg, MB
Exhibition curated by Pamela Edmonds and Patrick Mahon
Presented by the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery with the support of MAWA
Sheila Butler, Leap and Fall, acrylic on canvas, 87” x 57”, 2009
Opening Reception
Thursday, Sept 19, 7:30 - 9 pm
Exhibition Hours
Aug 29 to Oct 26, 2024, Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm
Panel Discussion
Pamela Edmonds, Patrick Mahon, Suzie Smith and Diane Whitehouse
Thursday, Sept 19, 6 - 7:30 pm, ARTlab 136, U of M School of Art Gallery
Join us for this retrospective and panel discussion focussing on the work of Sheila Butler, one of MAWA’s foremothers. Butler is a celebrated painter, printmaker, community leader and artist-activist whose career has spanned over 50 years.
Sheila Butler was born near Pittsburgh and was educated at Carnegie-Mellon University before emigrating to Canada in 1962. In the 1960s, she worked with her former husband, Jack Butler, and numerous Inuit artists in Baker Lake, Nunavut to found the Sanavik Arctic Cooperative. Butler lived and worked in Winnipeg for many years where, along with colleague Diane Whitehouse, she co-founded MAWA. Butler taught studio art courses at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art and art history courses at the University of Winnipeg. In 1989, she took up a teaching position at Western University in London, Ontario, where she was influential in the development of the Department of Visual Arts and its graduate programs. In 2022, Butler returned to Winnipeg, where she now resides. Her work has been widely exhibited in Canada and abroad, and can be found in public collections, including those of the National Gallery of Canada and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, as well private and corporate collections.
Free, all welcome!