Jennine Krauchi and Ekene Emeka-Maduka win the Making a Difference Award and the RBC On the Rise award and respectively at the Winnipeg Arts Council's 2024 Mayor's Luncheon for the Arts. Pictured left to right: Jennine Krauchi, Allison Yearwood (Plug In ICA ED), Ekene Emeka-Maduka, Jennifer Gibson (MAWA awards committee member) and Shawna Dempsey (MAWA Co-ED)
MAWA will close for the holidays at 4pm Friday, December 20 and reopen at 10am on Thursday, January 2. Whatever and however you celebrate or don't, MAWA wishes you a peaceful season as the days begin to lengthen again.
For the past two summers, MAWA Art Education Specialists Yvette Cenerini and Dawn Knight have been hard at work on the creation of art education tools featuring artworks by contemporary women and non-binary Manitoba artists.
MAWA bids a farewell to Aika Dorcas Kwayu and welcomes Patricia Mhoja Kwayu as our new student intern.
MAWA's year-end appeal for donations.
Job Opportunity: MAWA Indigenous Program Associate. Contract position, approximately 6 hours per week, $24/hour. Deadline November 1, 2024.
Press stories about the exhibition Reverberations: 40 Years of MAWA’s Foundation Mentorship Program
Grace Eiko Thomson, Chair of the MAWA Board in the early 1990s, has passed in her ninth decade.
This year, MAWA is celebrating four decades of feminism, 40 years of art education, and 14,600 days of community and peer support. How will we mark this historic moment? With art!
All donations made during July will be allocated to our Legacy Fund with the goal of funding the Foundation Mentorship Program in Perpetuity
We are thrilled to announce the mentees for MAWA's 2024 / 2025 Foundation Mentorship Program: Rae Swan, Michelle Pichette, Gabrielle Willms, Janelle Janz, Lia Karras, Leah Gertzen, Mishelle Aminov Kosonovsky and Lori Zébière.
