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Today we pause to remember and reflect. #RemembranceDay #CanadaRemembers #LestWeForget

Next Thursday! Join School of Art Gallery for an online panel discussion, featuring One Queer City participating artists. Panelists will reflect on the One Queer City installation, their own work, and the importance of Queer visibility. Moderated by curator, Blair Fornwald. One Queer City: Artists in Conversation... November 19, 2020 7:00 8:30 pm CST Online via Zoom and streamed live via Youtube http://umanitoba.ca/art/one-queer-city-2020 ASL interpretation included. One Queer City is Presented by School of Art Gallery, in partnership with PLATFORM. Pictured: Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, One Gay City (detail), 1997, transit shelter ad campaign Photo: courtesy of the artists.

The School of Art community mourns the passing of SOA alumna, colleague, and friend Sigrid Dahle. Dahle, one of the most innovative curators, art writers and critics of her generation, certainly one of the most brilliant to have emerged from the Winnipeg art scene in a tragic trick of fate died on Halloween 2020 of complications related to the novel coronavirus. Like many cultural workers in relatively small art communities such as Winnipeg’s, Sigrid played many roles in... a number of professional capacities and associations. Her close association with the School of Art, the School of Art Gallery, and the University of Manitoba over a 36-year period replicated this multiplicity of roles. She was variously, a student, contract worker, and employee. We grieve with Sigrid’s husband Larry, her daughter Emma and her many friends and colleagues. She will be remembered as a creative feminist intellectual of the first order. Her sudden and cruel departure leaves a profound void in our community. Read SOA’s full tribute by Dr. Oliver Botar and Donna Jones - https://news.umanitoba.ca/school-of-art-mourns-passing-of-/

POSTPONED: Unfortunately due to Manitoba’s critical code red phase in Manitoba, Jean’s performance is currently postponed. Live on Instagram - Saturday, November 21: Performance by Jean Borbridge: Cladding an Animation... 5:00 5:15 pm CST Wellington Crescent and Academy Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba Stream live here on Instagram Jean Borbridge’s contribution to One Queer City is a richly layered self-portrait entitled Cladding: the application of one material over another to provide a skin or layer. By photographing herself in heavily-collaged environments, cropping details from these photographs, and then re-photographing them back in the same heavily-collaged environment, the artist highlights the failures of photography to accurately represent the subject, the complex performance of gender, and queer femme invisibility. Adding yet another layer to an almost comically dense work, the artist re-animates this work in a site-specific performance combining sound and live collage action. Curated by Blair Fornwald, Director/Curator. Pictured: Jean Borbridge, Cladding: the application of one material over another to provide a skin or layer., 2020, digital photograph. Photo: courtesy of the artist. See more

Making a spooky new friend in the painting studio. Happy Halloween from SOA. #SOA #SOApainting