Programs and Events
Current Exhibition
June 2010
June 25 to September 7
Nancy Thomson: My Travels, My Heritage
Artist Nancy Thomson-McIvor resides in the Niagara region of Ontario. She travels to the Wood Mountain area of Saskatchewan yearly to visit extended family. Both Nancy's great-grandmothers were Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux (the Sitting Bull tribe), whose married names were Mary Ogle and Mary Thomson. Nancy Thomson was born in Assiniboia, SK.
Nancy lived abroad for six years. She has travelled extensively, and loves to paint a myriad of subjects in acrylic and watercolors. She signs her paintings with her birth name Thomson, as she credits her talent to the Creator. Her latest paintings involve her Lakota heritage.
This exhibition is supported by a travel grant from the Ontario Arts Council. www.arts.on.ca
July 2010
July 7 to September 8
Sheila Spence: All About Star – Curated by Wayne Baerwaldt, Director/Curator, Exhibitions, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary
All About Star comprises 14 large-scale photographic portraits shot on location at the Rocky Mountain Rodeo in Strathmore and the 2009 Wood Mountain Stampede following a short-term artist residency at Dallas Loken's Sandbrekken farm near Assiniboia. Spence's portraits of cowboys and cowgirls exhibit special qualities in their ability to simultaneously render time present and time past.
Sheila Spence is an artist, activist and arts administrator living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Spence's photographs investigate notions of portraiture, self-portraiture, community and identity. Over the course of her career, Spence has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council. In 2009, Spence was awarded the Manitoba Arts Council Major Grant. www.sheilaspencephotography.com
September 2010
September 11 to October 24
RURALities
Saskatchewan/Columbian painter German Jaramillo-McKenzie looks for the essence of rural life in his work. His paintings are a tribute to nature and the agricultural way of life, with a deep respect for the people living and working the land.