Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue R3B 2E9 Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg is hiring a Curatorial Assistant Intern for a 3 month, full-time, remote position. Duties include researching, developing and presenting online educational program based on selected works in the University’s art collection, past and/or future gallery programming, particularly as it pertains to broadening awareness of work by underrepresented artists (ie. BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, women, non-binary, disabled folks). This position for returni...ng University students is made possible through funding from Canadian Heritage - Patrimoine Canada through the program Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations. To determine if you qualify, to view the complete job description, and to apply, visit: https://buff.ly/38dUfYi. Application deadline is May 5. [image id: lime green background with star shapes in corners. Text in black reads "we are hiring! Curatorial Assistant Intern."]

Artist Jessica Canard introduces themselves and offers some calming drawing exercises in the final virtual workshop of our Creating as Care series on IGTV. A perfect way to take a bit of time to de-stress!

For our final virtual workshop in the Creating as Care series, Jessica Canard will guide viewers through some calming drawing exercises that can be good activities to do if you’re feeling stressed. The video will launch Wednesday, March 31 on 1C03’s IGTV. From Jessica: I create in so many ways and for so many reasons hence why I'm a Multimedia Visual Artist. I paint, draw, sew, bead, silk screen, and work in so many other mediums that if I kept describing them we'd get bor...Continue reading

Are you stressed as the winter term is coming to a close? Why not take a few moments of self-care to join artist Hannah Doucet as she takes you through the relaxing process of embroidering on photographs? Part of our "Creating as Care" workshop series on our instagram [at]1c03! The University of Winnipeg University of Winnipeg Students' Association (UWSA)

For our third virtual workshop in the Creating as Care series, Hannah Doucet will guide viewers through embroidering on photographs. Launching next Wednesday, March 24 on 1C03’s IGTV, Hannah will share examples and teach you a few different embroidery stitches, all while encouraging you to relax into individual creative exploration. If you’d like to prep your materials in advance, here’s what you’ll need:... - printed photograph ( polaroid, 4 x 5 old print, thrifted photograph, larger print made specifically for this) - pencil - paper - scissors - embroidery thread - needles - painters tape (not necessary, but helpful) Hannah Doucet is an artist, educator and arts organizer from Treaty One Territory, currently based in Tkaronto. [image ID: blue-toned headshot photograph of Hannah with a yellow sunflower embroidered over her face.]

TODAY! Join artist Annie Beach as she demonstrates how to make Suncatchers from natural materials found outdoors in our neighbourhood! This is the second of our "Creating as Care" virtual workshops which you can find on our Instagram feed which is [at]1c03. The University of Winnipeg University of Winnipeg Students' Association (UWSA)

Announcing the second virtual workshop in the Creating as Care series! Suncatchers with Annie Beach will be launched on 1C03’s IGTV next Wednesday March 17. Annie writes: For myself, this past year, creating through care has taken the form of self-care by spending more time outdoors and going for walks, spending more time with myself to learn, grow, and reflect. My art practice has largely revolved around public art collaborations and painting murals with the help of commu...nity participation, often with a focus in natural plants and medicines from this territory, as a means to reconnect with my Cree/Saulteaux identity. And having to stay home, the Suncatcher project is a perfect way for anyone to create a public art piece, to hang either outside a window or on a tree branch or fence, to give colour, medicine, life, and to give back to your community. If you’re planning to participate in the workshop, you may want to gather your materials in advance: -natural plant materials found from outside -pie plate, trays, different sizes (check your recycling bin to reduce/reuse!) -container of water -string, yarn, or sinew -food colouring (optional) @annie_beach is a visual artist, born and based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty One Territory. Beach is Cree/Saulteaux/Ukrainian, with relations from Peguis First Nation and Brokenhead First Nation. She is a recent graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Honours) from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art, where she has sat on the School of Fine Art Student Association as Co-President for a number of years. Beach has curated, designed, and executed over a dozen mural projects throughout the city and works as art instructor with a variety of youth, community arts and cultural-based organizations. Beach is also one of three recipients of the 2019 Hnatyshyn Foundation Emerging Artist prize. Image ID: First image is headshot of Annie who faces camera but looks slight to the side and is smiling. Annie has dark curly hair pulled back, wears striking red lipstick and yellow eyeshadow and has a black top on. Behind Annie is colourful fabric printed with flowers (kookum scarf). Second image is Annie's suncatcher hanging in front of an urban landscape with the roof of buildings visible behind it. The suncatcher is made of ice that has been dyed orange and has various natural plant items of different shapes and textures embedded within it.

Gallery 1C03 will be on holiday break from December 24, 2020 until January 4, 2021. We would like to take a moment to thank you for your engagement and support over this past year. We also extend our best wishes to you this holiday season. Whether you celebrate this month or not, we hope you may find moments of rest and connection with those you love.... In the meantime, we have many online resources available for you to continue engaging with art at your leisure. Visit our website, watch one of our talks, read one of our e-publications. We look forward to connecting with you again in 2021!

Join Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg in partnership with Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art and with support of Video Pool Media Arts Centre this Wednesday at 6:00 pm CT for a live durational reading of the long poem Zong! by writer and scholar M. NourbeSe Philip. Taking place as part of the Sovereign Intimacies exhibition and as part of the Zong! Global 2020 events. Zong! Global 2020 commemorates the massacre of some 150 enslaved Africans, which began on Novemb...er 29, 1781 and continued for the following 10 days. Zong! Global 2020 is a sequential reading of Philips' Zong! that takes place from late November until December 9. It includes pre-recorded readings/collective performances of the text, interspersed by 3 live simultaneous collective readings. Link to more information & December 9 livestream reading: https://bit.ly/39R5XLq

We remember. Read through the attached article and click the links at the end. One of these links leads to an essay about a series of public artworks created in 1990 by feminist activist Lin Gibson to memorialize these 14 women and publicly stand up against misogyny. A component of one of these artworks -- Murdered by Misogyny: Forever -- has been publicly displayed at The University of Winnipeg since then.... Learn more and take action #16DaysOfActivism

Next week - a durational reading of Zong! by writer and scholar M. NourbeSe Philip - will take place via livestream on Wednesday, December 9 at 6:00 pm CT! Taking place as part of the Sovereign Intimacies exhibition which is presented by Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art with support from Video Pool Media Arts Centre. The event is also presented as part of the Zong! Global 2020 events. Details and livestream link in event below.

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg in partnership with Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is excited to announce the opening of the group exhibition, Sovereign Intimacies, featuring the work of Hassaan Ashraf, Annie Beach, Ayumi Goto, iris yirei hu, melannie Monoceros, Peter Morin, Mariana Munoz Gomez, Wanda Nanibush, M. NourbeSe Philip, Meghann O’Brien, Marie-Anne Redhead, Cheyenne Thomas and David Thomas, and co-curated by Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith. The e...xhibition will be on view from September 26 until December 20, 2020 at Plug In ICA. Plug In ICA will be open by appointment from Wednesday to Saturday between 1 and 5 pm. Please contact [email protected] or call (204) 942-1043 to reserve a time to view the exhibition. To ensure the safety of everyone in Plug In's galleries all visitors are asked to wear a mask and sanitize their hands upon entry. We gratefully acknowledge program partners Video Pool Media Arts Centre and VUCAVU as well as financial support for this project from The Manitoba Arts Council/ Le conseil des arts du Manitoba. For more details please visit https://buff.ly/3i1WXTO or https://buff.ly/3iWgkPD! Image: still from Wrapped in the Cloud, copyright Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O'Brien), 2018. Produced in collaboration with Conrad Sly, Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean, and Kate Hennessy. Video, 4 mins. Description: A digital model of a woven Tlingit Raven’s Tail robe is shown. Thin white intersecting/web-like lines form the outlines of the blanket design and fringes on a black background. The form may evoke constellations in a night sky. See more

Join Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art TONIGHT for "Making Intimacy Sovereign and Sovereignty Intimate," a talk by Anishinaabe-kwe artist & curator Wanda Nanibush at 6pm CT. Livestream link: https://bit.ly/3okPMKd

Didn't get to watch "Stitch-Kin: an evening of poetry with poet, filmmaker and textile artist melannie monoceros"? You can now on You Tube! Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch As part of the exhibition "Sovereign Intimacies," which is presented by Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art with support from Video Pool Media Arts Centre, melannie monoceros shared and read from their suite of recent and older poems exploring ancestors..., threadlove and lore, queer kinship, and grief. Following the poetry reading, melannie engaged in conversation with exhibition curators Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith and answered questions from the audience. And while you're on You Tube, you should also check out mel's artist talk "Whispers in the Weft," which was presented by Manitoba Craft Council MAWA Mentoring Artists for Women's Art and Manitoba Fibre Festival! Link: https://buff.ly/36uhVbM Image ID: Screenshot from "Stitch-Kin" that shows a headshot of melannie monoceros leaning to one side and smiling. mel is seated in front of lacy white curtains, has wavy, shoulder-length purple hair, and wears a black shirt, white ear buds and black-rimmed aviator-style glasses.

Why not make November 26 an evening with mel? Join their "Stitch-Kin" poetry reading on zoom, which will run 6:00 - 7:00 pm CT, take a break to grab some snacks, and then tune in to their artist talk "Whispers in the Weft" with Manitoba Craft Council and MAWA Mentoring Artists for Women's Art which starts at 7:30 pm! mel's practice is a multi-disciplinary and these two events will offer folks the opportunity to better understand different but intertwined aspects of their work!

Please join us on Zoom next Thursday, November 26 at 6:00 pm for "Stitch-Kin; an evening of poetry with melannie monoceros!" This is the fourth online gathering as part of "Sovereign Intimacies," presented by Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, with support from Video Pool Media Arts Centre. Details and Zoom registration link below.

You can still watch Un/Spoken on VUCAVU until tomorrow! Over the past few days, we’ve been introducing you to the artists featured in the online video screening program. Last but not least is Karin Lee whose Small Pleasures is an interesting companion to Sky Hopinka’s Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary which also features speakers of Chinuk wawa. Small Pleasures is a unique film featuring three women (First Nations, Chinese and European) who use the pre-c...olonial trade language of Chinook Jargon to convey to each other complex ideas about feminist resistance in late 19th century Canada. The film is based on the life experiences of the filmmaker's great-grandmother Tsang Ho Shee, inspiring thought about inter-cultural dialogue over a century ago. Karin Lee is a media artist whose films, installations and writing spans over two decades, with fiction and non-fiction films reflecting the contemporary issues of our day as well as the themes of the Asian diaspora, women, gender, identity and sexuality. Her solo show at the Sum Gallery in Vancouver’s Art in Pride Society, was the inaugural exhibition in Vancouver. As a filmmaker, Karin co-produced Cedar and Bamboo, a documentary about children of Chinese and First Nations parents, wrote, directed and produced the web series Plan B, a dark comedic drama about an abortion clinic, and is currently in post-production for Girl with Big Feet (Ts'ekoo Cha Ke), a period drama. A fourth generation Canadian, Karin was born, raised and is based in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Watch Small Pleasures and the rest of the Un/Spoken program for free on VUCAVU (link in bio) until tomorrow, November 18. Un/Spoken is presented by Gallery 1C03 The University of Winnipeg, Video Pool Media Arts and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art as part of the exhibition Sovereign Intimacies. Photo: Karin Lee, Small Pleasures, 2016, video still. Courtesy of Moving Images and the artist. Image ID: Sepia-toned video still shows the face of an East Asian child about 5 to 8 years old looking slightly above the camera to the viewer’s left. The child’s expression is observant and slightly sad or concerned.

Join us TONIGHT at 7 pm CT for "Weaver girl limns two rainbows," an Artist Talk by iris yirei hu in conversation with Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith! Register for the live webinar: https://buff.ly/2IqvOhi ... Presented by Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg & @pluginica, with the support of @videopool, as part of the exhibit, Sovereign Intimacies." Discussion will ensue about the ways in which collaborations & fostering space for transformative encounters within interpersonal, cross-cultural relationships manifest in the exhibit, & how we can look to the genuine and nurturing relationships in our daily lives for guidance in changing the way museums & art spaces operate. Image ID: Installation view of "Sovereign Intimacies" exhibit featuring sculptural installation "Weaver girl limns two rainbows" by iris yirei hu. An upright mixed media painting shows an aerial perspective of a figure with blue limbs and white dress seated with a loom and weaving a rainbow coloured tapestry. The painting is attached to a vertical loom-like structure made of wood, dowels and twine. On the ground extending in front of the structure is a rectangular mound of chunks of locally-sourced, grey clay. There is a spool of white thread positioned on top of the mound of clay. See more

After watching the "Un/spoken" video program VUCAVU, witness the enriching discussion between "Un/spoken" curators Marie-Anne Redhead & Mariana Mariana Muñoz Gomez with artists Marissa Sean Cruz & Léuli Eshrghi. Presented in partnership between The University of Winnipeg Gallery 1C03, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art and Video Pool Media Arts Centre. Link: https://bit.ly/3lAkJs