Hovercraft

• Takashi Iwasaki
• Jeanette Johns
• Heather Komus
• Chantel Mierau
• Kristin Nelson
• Jennie O’Keefe
• Suzie Smith

January 19 - March 30, 2012
Opening reception and performance by Chantel Mierau
Thursday, January 19, 7:30 pm

Hovercraft is an exhibition of work by Manitoba’s new wave of craft-utilizing artists, co-curated by Jenny Western and Kerri-Lynn Reeves, and produced in collaboration with the Manitoba Crafts Council.

April 12 – June 09/12
Opening reception: April 12th, 7:30pm
With Alec in Mind
Selections from the Manitoba Arts Council Art Bank Collection
Curated by J.J. Kegan McFadden

In this exhibition, artist and curator J. J. Kegan McFadden revisits a traumatic experience in his family history – the murder of his great uncle, Alexander Tabolotney (1922 – 1995) by his grandson, Aaron Molodowic. He incorporates traces of Alec’s life, such as family photographs and ephemera found on his property, with selections from the Manitoba Art Bank Collection that resonate with his personal memories and stories.

By coupling mundane objects from Alec’s everyday life with the Manitoba Art Bank Collection and his own personal remembering, McFadden brings to the fore the poetics of the everyday, things that we all inhabit but often take for granted. The exhibition will be accompanied by an artist book.

Alec and Marion
From the Collection of J.J. Kegan McFadden