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Community Gallery

July 29 – September 18, 2010

The Portrait Project
untitled, Colin Corneau

The Portrait Project
Colin Corneau and John Scott

Organized by the Brandon Folk Music and Art Society
Visual Arts Committee

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 26, @ 7:30PM

Once again, the Brandon Folk Music and Art Society (BFMAS) are taking a photographic look at our beloved downtown Brandon.  Last year, in their Core Values exhibition the BFMAS asked participants to snap photos of what they loved about the downtown.  The work that resulted captured the seminal architectural buildings of Brandon.  This year, the BFMAS has created The Portrait Project in order to capture the people that make this area so unique

As the title suggests, The Portrait Project will consist of portraits of downtown residents taken by photographers and lead artists of the project Colin Corneau and/or John Scott.  The objective of this project is to create a visual archive that illustrates the human diversity of our downtown Brandon neighborhoods.   If you live in the downtown area and are interested in participating in this project as a sitter, you can contact the Brandon Folk Music and Art Society at brandonfolkfestival@gmail.com.  


For more information call the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba at 204-727-1036.



Past Shows

June 10 - July 17, 2010 Dakota Ojibway Youth Expressions Works by Youth from the Communities of: Sioux Valley, Canupawakpa, Birdtail Sioux, Long Plain and Swan Lake

April 15 – May 22, 2010 - 30th Annual Arts West Travelling Gallery Wayne Brown, Renate Christensen, Shannon Desjardins, Ruth Eisler, Linda Fisher, Joyce Friesen, Marlyne Hargreaves, Stephanie Harvey, Susan Knowling, Marilyn Mitchell, Elaine Rawlings, Maureen Schwanke, Ken Shappert, Alice Sparrow, Margaret Stewart, and Ruth Wareham

February 18 – April 03, 2010 - Every Dog Has Its Day Chris Cooper

December 17, 2010 – February 06, 2010 - Domestiary Suzanne du Plooy, Anne Fallis, Fay Jelly, Cheryl Orr-Hood, Carol Turabian, and Ruth Willems


November 19 – December 12, 2010
- Girls Just Want to… Featuring work from the Manitoba Arts Council Art Bank Collection Bruce Barr, Amy Buehler, William Eakin, Larry Glawson, Laura Letinsky, Sheila Spence, and Peter Tittenberger

September 10 – November 14, 2009 - Reading the Landscape Curated by Elaine Rounds

October 01 - November 07, 2009 - Stive - Fill Full of Timothy Brown

August 13 - September 19, 2009 - Core Values Exhibition organized by Brandon Folk, Music, and Art Society

July 2009 - Dakota Ojibway Expressions Works by Students from: Birdtail Sioux, Canupawakpa, Long Plain, and Sioux Valley

March - May 9, 2009 - Keeping Us in Stitches 10th anniversary Brandon Embroiderers

December 17 - February 14, 2009 - Latent Images: Panoramic Photographs of China Colin Corneau

October 21 - December 13, 2008 - Sense of Play with Flowers Rachel Choi

August 21 - October 14, 2008 - Touching the Earth Helen Madeleine

July 10 - August 9, 2008 - Looking at Earned Beauty Ruth Stewart

May 29 - July, 2008 - Dakota Ojibway Expressions: A Collection of Works by Aboriginal Youth

April 24 - May 24, 2008 - From the Manitoba Arts Council Art Bank Collection: David McMillan

March 6 - April 26, 2008 - Kaleidoscope The Brandon Palette Club

January 10 – February 3, 2008 - Chasing Light and Colour Weiming Zhao

October 11 – November 24, 2007 - The Spirit of Energy organized by artist Erica Lowe

August 16 – September 29, 2007 - Clarus CorpusTeyana Neufeld and Rick Unger

June 28 – August 4, 2007 - Patterns and Images of Local Trees Brian Kayes

April 19 –May 26, 2007 - Thinking Outside the Box Brandon School Division ArtSmarts

February 22 – April 7, 2007 - Homesick Amber Andersen

January 4 - February 11, 2007 - Photography by Rob Lovatt and Doug Derksen

October 12 - December 30, 2006 - It's Not The Word, It's How You Write It: Graffiti Art of Manitoba Manitoba graffiti artists compiled by TJ Van Stone

August 17-September 30, 2006 - A Celebration of her Life and Work Pearl Nikkel

June 29 to August 5, 2006 - Lemonade The Brandon Palette Club

April 13 - May 26, 2006 - Feeling in Ink and Colour Xiren Qian

March 2 - April 8, 2006 - RetroPerspective Maggie Ross

Jan. 6 - Feb. 18, 2006 - Retrospective Steve Lowe

October 8 - November 12, 2005 - unframed, untrained and unknown Christopher Wood

August 25 - October 1, 2005 - Pieces, Parts + Processes Jennifer Smith

June 20 - July 30, 2005 - The Seatle Series Colin Corneau

May 18 - 28, 2005 - Through the Eyes of Art ArtSmarts Project Brandon School Division

May 2 - 14, 2005 - Revival of Spring (Palette Club)

April 12 - 29, 2005 - Artswest Juried Travelling Exhibition

February 18 – April 2, 2005 - Darcy J. Watt

January 6 – February 13, 2005 - Stephen Wiens

Call for Submissions…

The AGSM welcomes proposals and submissions for the Community Gallery. The Community Gallery is for artists living in the Southwest Region. It is a great forum for exhibiting work and it provides a good opportunity for professional development for artists. Please send images of your work and a small bio to the AGSM:

Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba
710 Rosser Avenue, Unit 2
Brandon, Manitoba
R7A 0K9
CANADA