TOMORROW: DIY Will Never Die!

Don't miss Dr. Sandra Alfoldy's lecture tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. in E-G Hall! Here's the link for more info on DIY Will Never Die!

School visits to see art at UofW

Gallery 1C03 had a great visit yesterday from a cool group of grade 8 art students from Shaughnessy Park School! They got a last-chance look at Chris Reid's exhibition I like to believe I am telling the truth  before it gets packed up on Friday. Plus they toured the Anthropology Museum on campus and our New Iconographies show in the University Archives.

If you're a teacher and want to explore the art around UofW campus this spring, let us know and we can hook you up! Simply contact Gallery 1C03 Director/Curator Jennifer Gibson at j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca.

DIY Craft Lecture by Dr. Sandra Alfoldy

Gallery 1C03, in cooperation with the Manitoba Craft Council, is pleased to host a special lecture by Dr. Sandra Alfoldy:

Thursday, May 10, 7-9 pm
DIY Will Never Die!
Lecture and reception.  Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, 3rd floor of Centennial Hall at the University of Winnipeg.

The DIY Movement has received much attention as a new driving force behind craft economics. This lecture will contrast historical craft pioneers with contemporary crafters to argue that in order to understand future craft economies as they are connected to the power of do-it-yourself crafting, it is essential to examine past craft economies.  What ideologies keep repeating, and what are the elements that keep DIY alive and financially vital across generations?

Speaker biography
Dr. Sandra Alfoldy is Professor of Craft History at NSCAD University, and Associate Curator of Fine Craft at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. She is the author of The Allied Arts: Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada (2012) and Crafting Identity: The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada (2005), editor of Neocraft: Modernity and the Crafts (2007) and co-editor of Craft, Space and Interior Design, 1855-2005(2008). She was the Chief Curator of the national Canadian exhibition at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale (2009) and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. She is currently at work on a new book on craft and popular culture.

For further information on this and related events, please visit the Manitoba Craft Council website.

Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students' Association to screen Exit Through the Gift Shop with Panel Discussion to Follow

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students' Association (UWSA) will present the film Exit Through the Gift Shop in Room 2M70 on Thursday, October 6 at 7:00 p.m.

Directed by internationally-renowned street artist Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop (UK, 2010) is presented in conjunction with Freestyle V, a week long festival organized by the UWSA where inner city youth, community members and students are invited to learn and create in a highly structured (and artistically driven) programming environment at The University of Winnipeg.
From the film's website:

"This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results."

"One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairy-tale... with bolt cutters."

Please stay for discussion after the film with panelists Cliff Eyland, local artist, curator and art writer; Stefano Grande, Executive Director of the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ; Pat Lazo, Artistic Director of Graffiti Art Programming; and local artist Brent. Facilitated by UWSA Outreach and Special Projects Coordinator Ted Turner.

For more information about Exit Through the Gift Shop, visit: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/exit-through-gift-shop
For more information about the Cinema Politica network, please visit http://www.cinemapolitica.org/

All screenings will be open to all audiences - everyone is welcome. Admission is free, but donations to offset the costs of screening the film are welcome. Room 2M70 is located on the second floor of Manitoba Hall at The University of Winnipeg.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible to participate in this network. We are gateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

Image: Scene from Exit Through the Gift Shop by Banksy.

Photos taken during Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist

On Thursday, March 5, 2009, Gallery 1C03 was pleased to launch "Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist" and we were very fortunate to have one of the co-curators in attendance, Dr. Heather Devine.

The evening got off to a great start with a visit from an APTN journalist and camera operator, and a reporter from CBC Radio (Français). Dr. Devine participated in interviews, and then we took a few words to welcome her and thank our various sponsors, in addition to the Nickle Arts Museums at the University of Calgary for organizing the exhibition.

We had a great turnout, and many people commented immediately that they were pleased to see this exhibition happening at the University of Winnipeg.

Indeed, it was a pleasure to host and we look forward to engaging even more people through related programming in the future!

Below are some photos taken at the opening reception, followed by a photo of Dr. Devine at her lecture.


Dr. Heather Devine offered a curators talk on Friday, March 5 at 12:30 p.m. titled, "Everett Soop's Cartoons: Their Political and Social Context". Thank you to Dr. Devine, and everyone who joined us, for participating in a comprehensive discussion about Soop's life, work, and motivations.

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg proudly presents Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist Activist

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg
proudly presents
Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist

WINNIPEG MB, February 23, 2009 – Gallery 1C03 to host touring exhibition curated by Heather Devine and Geraldine Chimirri-Russell, organized by the Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary, showcasing selected political cartoons created by Soop in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

Everett Soop (1943 – 2004), from the Blood (Kainai) Reserve in Alberta, was one of Canada’s first Aboriginal journalists and editorial cartoonists. A preeminent wit and social critic, Soop’s skilled and creative pen was well poised to deliver cutting political commentary. Soop remains highly respected and admired for his insightful remarks on a range of issues that spared no sentiments; all interest groups were satirized in fair share for the positions and roles they played in the structuring and realization of life in Canada.


After attending St. Paul’s Indian Residential School to the fifth grade, Soop completed his schooling in Cardston, Alberta. He was a gifted artist and writer, and attended various schools including the Alberta College of Art, Brigham Young University in Utah, the University of Lethbridge, and later Mount Royal College. In 1968, he joined the Kainai News as an editorial journalist and columnist.

At the age of 16, Soop was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. As his illness progressed, he became confined in a wheelchair. Rather than give in to the disease, he became involved in advocacy work by educating health professionals and citizens at large about issues concerning the physically disabled.

Everett Soop was an early leader in the Aboriginal political movement that surfaced in the 1960s, and his is the only Aboriginal artist whose work is represented in the Museum of Caricatures of the National Archives of Canada. This exhibition serves to celebrate life and work through a retrospective presentation of his political cartoons.

Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist is available for viewing from March 5 - April 4, 2009.

Members of the media are invited to arrange interviews with co-curator, Dr. Heather Devine, on March 5 and 6, 2009.

RELATED EVENTS

• Exhibition launch – Thursday, March 5, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. (1st Floor, Centennial Hall)
• Lecture by Dr. Heather Devine, “Everett Soop’s Cartoons: Their Political and Social Context” – Friday, March 6 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 2C15 (2nd Floor, Centennial Hall)
• Panel discussion: “Humor in Indigenous Cultures” featuring Carol Shields Writer in Residence, Maria Campbell; comedian Ryan McMahon; and Indigenous Literatures scholar, Niigonwedom J. Sinclair – Thursday, March 19 at 6:30 p.m. in Convocation Hall (more info coming soon!)

Admission is always free and all are welcome!

Gallery hours from March 5 – April 4, 2009: Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Saturday: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Gallery 1C03 thanks the Department of Canadian Heritage for its generous financial support through the Exhibition Circulation Fund.

Image: Everett Soop, photographed by his brother, Louis, at Standoff, Alberta, in the 1970s. Courtesy of Louis Soop.


Milena Placentile, Art Curator, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9
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