What’s on Sale?

Browse a stunning array of:

• Handcrafted ceramics
• Unique prints and stickers
• Merch
• And more surprises!

Four days and two locations – Mark Your Calendars:

March 18 & 19

• Print Sale: University Centre | 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
• Ceramics Sale: ARTlab, 180 Dafoe Road | 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

March 20 & 21

• Print Sale: ARTlab, 180 Dafoe Road | 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
• Ceramics Sale: University Centre | 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Don’t miss out!

Here is her conversation with host Marcy Markusa about what the win means to her and how UM influenced her.

Here is the full interview on CBC Information Radio.

Jackie Traverse, a versatile Indigenous artist, expresses her creativity across a myriad of mediums, ranging from oil and acrylic paintings to mixed media, stop-motion animation, and sculpture. Hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she proudly identifies as Ojibway from the Lake St. Martin First Nation.

Three ensembles from the Desautels Faculty of Music performed in the St John’s College Chapel, and sixteen artists displayed their work in the Daily Bread Cafe for the UM and SJC communities to vote on the People’s Choice Award winners.

The musical ensembles consisted of Four/Four featuring Emma Lewis, Nathan Clark, Peter Olaleye, and Marcus Michienzi, Dafoe Piano Quartet featuring Josiah Wurch, Sasha Turgeon, Déverson Correia, and Henry Kelsey, and The Matriarchy featuring Hannah Orr, Isla Shea, Sandra Goetz, and Nathan Clark. Each performance featured different musical styles, including a singer with ensemble, instrumental, and vocal performances.

Following the performances, the event moved into the Daily Bread Cafe, where our three award recipients and People’s Choice Award winners were determined. Out of the sixteen art pieces displayed and three musical performances, St John’s College was proud to recognize the following recipients: 

1st Place – Valentine Okoye Chukwukamike for “Matrix”

2nd Place – Guiliana DaCunha Moura for “Saudade”

People’s Choice Winner – Emily Ramsay for “It ain’t me bebe”

Dafeo Piano Quartet featuring Josiah Wurch, Sasha Turgeon, Déverson Correia, Henry Kelsey

Congratulations to this year’s recipients!

St John’s College looks forward to hosting the 3rd annual event next year with the Desautels Faculty of Music in 2025.

Starting in 2012, the artistic side of this competition has been a tradition in St John’s college for a number of years now. The competition looks to bring together students and staff from across the University of Manitoba to showcase a range of artistic abilities. Last year, the competition received fifteen entries, and the three finalists included Margot Morrish, Anaies Mehrabian, and the Rachmaninoff Trio.

Students and staff  were asked to submit one art piece less than a meter across before the February 14th deadline to the St John’s College General Office.

Following the event on March 22, the Desautels Faculty of Music will perform in the St John’s College Chapel, where the award winners will be recognized.

Have questions about the competition? Contact Development Officer, Jackie Markstrom.

Visit our website for further details on this event. For more music and art events, visit UM Today News.

Dr. Michael Benarroch, Dr. Kelley Main and Dr. Jay Doering enjoy the 75th anniversary celebration.

Dr. Kelley Main, the 11th dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies hosted the event, highlighting moments of the faculty’s successes.  From the very first convocation order of proceedings on record showing graduates of the master of arts and master of surgery programs in 1892, to the first female PhD graduate in mycology in 1931, to the creation of the Faculty of Graduate studies in January 1949, to multiple new programs implemented in 2023, Dr. Main shared that the Faculty has many things to be proud of and celebrate.

Dr. Michael Benarroch presented the FGS Outstanding Support Staff Award to Edwina Shwedyk, Graduate Program Administrator, Computer Science; and  Dr. Diane-Heibert Murphy presented the FGS Outstanding Administrator Award to Dr. Jitendra Paliwal, Associate Dean, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, and Professor, Biosystems Engineering.  

Highlights of the celebration included recent 3MT 1st place winner Keshav Narayan Alagarsamy, 3MP 1st place winner Oladipupo Olatunde (Dipo) and Distinguished Dissertation Award recipient Dr. Laura Forsythe, sharing their experiences, research and appreciation for the opportunities gained in their time at the faculty. Dr. B. Mario Pinto stated “These are our future business leaders, research leaders, community activists and government policy makers.”  

Award recipients included:

• Dr. Neeloffer Mookherjee, Professor in Immunology received the Outstanding Mentor Award in Health Sciences, presented by Dr. Todd Duhamel, the FGS Associate Dean in Health Sciences.
• Dr. Dominique Rey, Associate Professor in Fine Arts received the Outstanding Mentor in Social Sciences and Humanities, presented by Dr. Dawn Sutherland, the FGS Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Humanities.
• Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht, Professor in Kinesiology and Recreation Management received the Outstanding Mentor in National and Applied Sciences presented by Dr. Ehab El-Salakaway, FGS Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Engineering. 

Dr. Main presented the FGS Dean’s Achievement Prize to:

• Thilini Dissanayake, PhD candidate in Food and Human Nutrition
• Cassie Dong, PhD candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies
• Christopher Yendt, PhD candidate in Education

The UMGSA presented awards to graduate students:

• Alekhya Lavu and Toby Le for the GSA Doctoral Program Award;
• Ali Zoungrana, Sophia Mbabaali and Trixie Maybituin for the GSA Master’s Program Award;
• Andrea Brown, Pauline Calinisan and Karen Livingston for the GSA Part Time Program Award.

The poster presentation displays showcased research being done by current students.

92 Graduate students proudly shared their research work with poster displays. These students were selected by their faculty to showcase their research and acknowledge their dedication and to the pursuit of academic excellence.

This event was very well attended by students, staff, alum and faculty. Dr. Main, reflecting on the milestone anniversary expressed gratitude for the support from all those who have been a part of the faculty’s journey “Our success over the past 75 years is a testament to the dedication and passion of our entire UM community – faculty, students, staff and donors- who have propelled us forward. As we celebrate our history, we also look ahead with excitement, ready to embrace new challenges and opportunities.”  

The recording of the 75th anniversary celebration can be found here. 

A link to the 75 fun facts of FGS  and a timeline of the early beginnings to the present can be found here. 

 A series centring the voices of an intergenerational cohort of artists, activists, and writers having casual conversations over coffee with guests of their choosing, followed by workshops related to the presenters’ practices.

This project is supported in part by the Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba Age-Friendly University Initiative Fund 2021-2022.

Kaffeeklatsch: Moneca Sinclair & Ildiko Nova in conversation 

Friday, October 22, 2021. 12:00 to 1:00 pm CDT 

Facilitated on Zoom and live-streaming on the School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba YouTube channel. ASL interpretation and closed captioning available.

Moneca Sinclaire and guest Ildiko Nova are both self-taught Winnipeg-based recycled media artists whose art practices explore the intersections of identity, material application, community and storytelling. For both artists, their shared histories of marginalization, displacement and genocide as Indigenous and Romani are critical to their work. Similarly, their art practices are sites of self-healing, reclamation, and continuation of culture and stories to never be forgotten. As recycled media artists, their reasonings for re-using vary; Sinclaire considers herself a recycle, environmental or sustainable artist whereas Nova uses recycled materials to reclaim their purpose. Both work with and in the community as art teachers, facilitators, and activists. 

Moneca Sinclaire

Sinclaire is a multi-media Nehinan (Cree) artist who uses everyday objects to recycle or transform them into beautiful art. A self-taught artist who learned to “do” art from watching her paternal grandmother. Combining her love of the environment and art to help reduce the waste in landfills and to create something from what people see as “nothing” into “something” fantastic.

Ildiko Nova

Nova is a Hungarian-born (Romani identified), Canadian freelance multimedia artist, residing in Winnipeg. Her work is about storytelling and juxtaposition, as she enjoys putting elements together that are unusual or unexpected. As a community worker and a city dweller her work often points to societal issues of the underprivileged and the effects of urbanization on wildlife.

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Workshop: Mobile Creations with Moneca Sinclaire

Saturday, October 23, 2021. 1:00 to 2:30 pm CDT

Facilitated on Zoom. Closed captioning available. ASL interpretation available upon request

(please contact: soageducator@umanitoba.ca by October 15 if you require an ASL interpreter)

In this workshop, Moneca Sinclaire will teach participants how to create a mobile using household items and materials found in nature. Discover easy ways you can make use of branches and  sticks from nature and assorted household objects to create a 3-dimensional mobile that can be hung inside or outside. 

Please have ready in advance of the workshop: an interesting branch or stick, and assorted household object, which can include, but are not limited to old cereal boxes, aluminium cans, shipping cartons, cereal boxes, shredded paper, CDs, tin cans, bottles, and more. 

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Questions?

Contact:

Jean Borbridge

Education Coordinator, School of Art Gallery

umanitoba.ca/schools/art/gallery

soageducator@umanitoba.ca

This residency is proudly funded by @sofasa through the SIEF program!

You can explore more of Brandson’s work on the 2021 BFA Honours exhibition website: soaexhibitions.ca/common/leandra.html

Leandra Brandson, School of Art BFA Honours Exhibition, 2021

BMO Financial Group announced the winners of its 19th annual BMO 1st Art! competition, September 27, celebrating outstanding achievements in visual arts among undergraduate students from across Canada. Selected from a record-breaking pool of 336 submissions, Buss was one of 12 regional winners, who will each receive a cash prize of $7,500 with $15,000 awarded to the national winner.

The annual competition invites deans and instructors from 110 undergraduate art programs across Canada to nominate three students from each of their studio specialties to submit a recent work. An esteemed panel of jurors selected this year’s winning works from a pool of a record 336 submissions. Competition guidelines allow for time-based media including video, film, audio, and computer technologies, in addition to mediums of drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, sculpture, glass, ceramics, textiles, mixed media, and installation works.

Following the success of the competition’s first-ever virtual exhibition last year, BMO 1st Art! will once again host its annual gallery exhibition through the University of Toronto’s Virtual Art Museum, artmuseum.utoronto.ca. The exhibition will showcase all 13 winning works from November 16 to December 8, 2021.

School of Art is proud to congratulate Buss on this well-deserved award! 

You can explore more of Buss’s work on the 2021 BFA Honours exhibition website: soaexhibitions.ca/common/tayler.html

Full list of 2021 BMO 1st Art! winners

What: Public Talk “Science and Art: Exploration, Imagination and Innovation – Artist Books Inspired by Science”

When: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at  3:30PM

Where: Watch the Livestream on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rozt5Xzzy0

Q&A: Enter your questions on Slido.com use Event Code: #E089

 

As both a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biological Sciences and Artist in Residence in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Erwin Huebner “intertwines the unseen microscopic world with the art world.” Huebner’s focus has been the intersection of art and science in a wide variety of media. While his scientific research has honed in on cellular biology, as a multimedia and book artist, Huebner has explored the fantastic minuscule structures found in nature. Using such varied materials as microscopes, eggshells and plants, Huebner has designed books and structures inspired by such topics as microscopy, biology and physiology.   

The event will be presented via live stream and will include a Q&A.  

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