MAWA Mentoring Artists for Women's Art
611 Main Street R3B 1E1 Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Tonight at 7pm Art Talk

Check out this interview with Christina Hajjar in Galleries West

The Maternal Body In Contemporary Art First Friday Lecture by S. Reyes This lecture offers a glimpse into the portrayal of mothering in contemporary art contexts, and will include examples by international artists who conceptualize mothering and caregiving through creative practices. The timing of this talk marks the opening of the Artist Mothers at MAWA exhibition Earth’s Mother.

Application deadline extended to May 14, 2021 at noon!

Carolina Araneda sent today's postcard for MAWA's Mail Art Project. Thank you for this bit of sunshine and springtime Carolina What is the Mail Art project? MAWA members send us a postcard (one they've made or an existing one) with a message on the back sharing their thoughts and feelings about this time. We share them on social media and then mail them on to a randomly selected MAWA member. You can participate too, just mail your postcard to MAWA, 611 Main St. Winnipeg, R3...B 1E1 [id] Image 1: Photograph of pink flowers shot against a blue sky from a low angle. Image 2: The back of a postcrard. "Post Card" is printed in large black letter in the center top, a black square outline is in the right top corner with "Place stamp here" written inside. A handwritten message in pink ink reads " Dear MAWA member, Photograph has always provided me with solace from the world. Lying on teh ground looking up at the flowers and the bees, the world faded into blue, pink and sunshine... life in the middle of Covid awful. Hopefully this photograph provides you with a bit of solace too. Carolina"

https://canadianart.ca//on-syrus-marcus-wares-monuments-to

Fantastic and paid opportunity! "CreateSpace BIPOC Public Art Residency is a national public art residency program designed in consultation with advisors from coast to coast, to provide up to ten emerging Black, Indigenous and racialized artists with the skills, relationships and practical experience needed to take their public art practice to the next level. Apply today!"

Mail art by Jackie Turnbull! This sweet little bird was sent off to a randomly selected MAWA member What is the Mail Art project? MAWA members send us a postcard (one they've made or an existing one) with a message on the back sharing their thoughts and feelings about this time. We share them on social media and then mail them on to a randomly selected MAWA member. You can participate too, just mail your postcard to MAWA, 611 Main St. Winnipeg, R3B 1E1 [id] Image 1: A penci...l crayon drawing of a sparrow standing on a wooden post with text that reads "A little birdie told me..." Image 2: The reverse side of the drawing with handwritten text in black that reads " To wish you the best for 2021 MAWA sister. Let's hope that it is a pandemic free year. Art and (on-line) yoga have kept me sane and busy in 2020. Thank goodnes for MAWA and their programs. Regards Jackie Turnbull." #mailart #postcardart #manitobaartist #winnipegartist

Opportunity for MAWA members of any gender for a paid virtual residency curated by Abir Boukhari (Damascus/Stockholm)! Application deadline: Thursday, Jan 28 Residency begins: Feb 22 Follow the link for details... Presented in partnership with PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, AllArtNow (Sweden) and Jiser (Spain) MAWA is excited to partner with curator Abir Boukhari on an experimental international online residency of digital/media art. Six artists from Canada, Sweden, Spain and North Africa with join Boukhari in weekly online meetings, taking as their starting point the following quote from Albert Camus’s The Plague: Until now I always felt a stranger in this town, and that I'd no concern with you people. But now that I've seen what I have seen, I know that I belong here whether I want it or not. This business is everybody's business. In these times of global pandemic, how are we connected and what are the implications of these connections? https://mawa.ca//virtual-residency-curated-by-abir-boukhari

Take a video tour of the three dimensional work in the November lot of MAWA's Over the Top Online Art Auction! Visit charityauction.bid/mawa to make your bids! Auction closes in just a few days on Sunday, November 29 at 9pm CT.

Don't miss out on the first Theory at Home of 2021! The Ugly Truth discussion will be led by Susan Aydan Abbott and will discuss the reading Finding Cathartic Beauty in Trauma and Abjection Christy R. Kirk. It'll be a good one! Email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link to the meeting.

Manitoba is full of incredible artists, we are so lucky! These are just a few of the great artworks on offer in the final lot of MAWA's Over the Top Art Auction! Bid at charityauction.bid/mawa until November 29 to bring one of them home!

10 days left to bid in the final lot of MAWA's Over the Top Online Art Auction! Don't miss out on the opportunity to take home original artworks by some of Winnipeg's best artists. Bidding takes place at charityauction.bid/mawa