- Application Deadline
Friday, April 29, 2016 at 4:05pm - September 2016 – September 2017
Call for Submissions
Year-long Mentorship Program, Sept. 2016 – Sept. 2017
Click here for an FMP Information Package
The Foundation Mentorship Program (FMP) has been the core of MAWA’s activity since 1985. It is offered each year because it is so effective in helping participants in their journey toward being professional artists. Many women who have gone through the FMP describe it as having been “pivotal,” “transformative” and “life changing.” It is designed to help women in the visual arts develop skills and define their decision-making philosophies, and to provide access to the information, resources and support they need to realize their goals.
How does it work? The FMP is a year-long program in which established artists share their experience with developing artists. Mentors meet individually with their mentees for 4 hours per month, and the entire FMP group meets for 3 hours per month for critiques, discussion, gallery visits and other activities.
Applicants are selected based on the quality and potential of the work submitted, the emerging artist’s willingness to dedicate time to the program and the mentor’s ability to work with the emerging artist because of mutuality of practice or conceptual framework. Potential mentees of all adult ages and backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Successful applicants will be charged a $300 fee for the program. There is no fee to apply, although you must be a MAWA member. Students are not eligible.
To apply for the Foundation Mentorship Program:
Please email a single pdf document containing:
- a letter outlining why you want to participate in this program and what you hope to achieve through mentorship (make sure the letter also includes information regarding how we can contact you by phone, email and post); please also describe your artistic practice
- an artist résumé (maximum three pages)
- up to 20 jpg images of your artwork, embedded in the same pdf document, or links to up to 10 minutes of video captioned with titles of the work, the media, date completed and dimensions
If you are not already a member, please also submit a MAWA membership form and payment. MAWA membership costs $15 for underwaged persons and $30 for others. Applications are due at MAWA by Friday, April 29 at 4pm. Email applications to [email protected] and put “FMP” in the subject heading.
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Ione Thorkelsson is an internationally acclaimed glass artist whose career parallels the history of the Studio Glass Movement in Canada. Working in what might be the only Canadian glass studio in continuous operation for over 40 years, she has developed a unique and innovative body of work, beginning with offhand blowing and later discovering the expressive possibilities of cast glass. In 2010 she received the Governor General’s Award for craft (The Sadie Bronfman Award). Her current work explores the ambiguities and cultural disquietude surrounding current trends in bioengineering and genetic manipulation. She lives and works in Roseisle, Manitoba. thorkelsson.com.
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Freya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist who works with video, audio, painting and performance. Her praxis engages with identity and the body, as informed by technology and the Internet. Her work has been presented internationally at museums, galleries, universities, performance festivals and conferences. Throughout her career Olafsson has benefited from residencies, most notably through the Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center in Troy, New York (EMPAC). In 2014, Olafsson was nominated for the National Media Arts Prize from the Independent Media Arts Alliance by Video Pool Media Arts Centre. She holds an MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute / Donau Universität (Krems, Austria) and can be visited online at freyaolafson.com.
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Dr. Julie Nagam is the Chair in the History of Indigenous Art of North America at the University of Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Nagam’s creative practices include working in mixed media, such as drawing, photography, painting, sound, projections and new and digital media. Her work investigates Indigenous stories of place to visually demonstrate alternative cartographies and challenge myths of settlement situated in colonial narratives. She has been exhibited extensively, in venues from Winnipeg to Sāo Paulo, and has participated in many residencies, including an upcoming one in Wellington, New Zealand. Her work can be found on the Kanata Indigenous Performance, New and Digital Media Art Project, a research project that she leads. transactivememorykeepers.org/about/.
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Sarah Ciurysek uses photography, video, audio, text and installation to examine our relationship with the ground. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United Kingdom and South Africa. In 2015, she completed a residency in England through the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World as part of the United Nations International Year of Soils. The resulting work is currently touring diverse venues across southwest England, from Hauser & Wirth Somerset to the Eden Project. Ciurysek is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art at the University of Manitoba.
