Executive Director, Jennifer Woodbury
director@agsm.ca
Executive Director of the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba since 2003,
Jennifer Woodbury has successfully drawn significant public and private
funding to the art gallery through exhibition and education programs that
emphasize excellence, accessibility and cultural diversity.
Prior to coming
to Brandon, she worked at The Banff Centre managing the visual art
residencies for over 1000 artists from all over the world. During much of
the 1990's, she was Director/Curator of aceartinc in Winnipeg where there
she established the now nationally acclaimed Critical Distance art writing
series. She has sat on numerous local, provincial and national boards of
arts organizations and has participated in many juries for the Manitoba Arts
Council and the Canada Council. Most recently she was a guest of the U.S.
State Department as she toured the museums and art galleries of three major
American cities
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba and a
Masters in Communications and Technology from the University of Alberta. |
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Curator of Contemporary Art, Natalia Lebedinskaia
curator@agsm.ca
Natalia Lebedinskaia holds an MA in Art History from Concordia University, where she also received her BFA in Art History and Studio Arts. She has held curatorial and art administration internships at The Banff Centre for the Arts and Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff, Alberta. In 2009, she co-founded Studio Béluga, an exhibition and residency program in Montréal that is run as a self-pedagogical community with a board of artists, art historians and curators. Natalia has also worked independently on projects and publications for Art Mûr, FOFA Gallery, Les Ateliers Jean Brillant, and Centre des arts actuels Skol, in Montréal.
Her research interests focus on the ethics of exhibition and display, especially as they relate to negotiations of personal memory in the public sphere. Her curatorial approach aims to build communities, both ephemeral and lasting, through exhibitions and programming. |
