Meet the intercultural poltergeist
What can we possibly expect from a performance art piece described only as “a live art ritual involving body-based practice and spoken word”? The answer…
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Bizarre-o-tainment
As part of their fundraising efforts for the United Way of Winnipeg, the multi-talented people of Graffiti Art Programming (GAP) and Art City are teaming…
Emerging Voices
On Sept. 28, coinciding with Culture Days, Winnipeg’s private and public art galleries—as well as other cultural institutions and installations in public spaces—will open to…
Shepherds, weavers, knitters, spinners, and dyers
This Saturday, knitters, weavers, dyers, spinners, and shepherds, and other fibre craftspeople and artisans will be coming together for the first annual Manitoba Fibre Festival…
Traditional functions redefined
I visited Dong-Kyoon Nam at aceartinc., just days before the opening reception of his first solo exhibition. He was in the gallery by himself, up on…
U of M art students win monetary prizes
Erika Dueck and Hillary Smith, recent graduates of the University of Manitoba’s school of art program, won prizes from BMO Financial Group’s 2013 1st Art!…
To Break & To Build
Concrete bricks constructed out of delicate paper prints, repurposed records from your grandparents’ basement, and lithography prints made by meticulously folded paper – this…
Homemaking
Homemaking by Chantel Mierau, opening at aceartinc. on Friday, Mar. 1, uses traditional textile methods with a contemporary twist. Six videos, one installation, and a…
The Toms & Bitches of Turtle Island
The walls of aceartinc.’s main gallery space are usually a platform for exhibiting artists to hang their already-made art, but currently they are part of…
Whorl of Sleep
For the next month aceartinc. is home to Rosemary Scanlon’s exhibition Whorl of Sleep, a series of Darger-esque watercolour paintings that locate the tension between…