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December 19, 2023 —
It was one more phenomenal calendar year for the University of Art at the College of Manitoba. Listed here are a number of stories of the artists that broke new ground and crammed us with pride in 2023.
Professors Grace Nickel and Lori Blondeau receive Governor General’s Awards
Congratulations to College of Art professors Grace Nickel and Lori Blondeau.
Nickel is the recipient of the 2023 Saidye Bronfman Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.
A extremely highly regarded sculptural ceramic artist, arts mentor, lecturer, instructor, and curator, Nickel has been an crucial fixture in the Manitoba arts and UM University of Art group for extra than 40 yrs. Learn additional about Grace Nickel and the Saidye Bronfman Award.
Fellow College of Art professor Blondeau was also the recipient of the 2021 Governor General’s Awards in Visible and Media Arts. Locate out much more about Lori Blondeau’s art.
Because of to troubles of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ceremony for current Governor General’s Awards in Visible and Media Arts winners was held on Dec. 8, 2023, the place both of those professors have been introduced their awards at a special ceremony held at Rideau Hall with the Governor Basic of Canada, Her Excellency the Appropriate Honourable Mary Simon.
The awards symbolize the most prestigious distinctions for inventive benefit and exceptional contribution to Canada’s visible and media arts.
We are so proud to see these inspiring professors and artists acquiring this a lot-deserved recognition.
Graduate named UM’s 100th Rhodes Scholar
Congratulations to School of Art graduate Joel Nichols.
This fall, Nichols was chosen as a recipient of the 2024 Rhodes Scholarship, turning out to be UM’s 100th Rhodes Scholar, and the first prosperous finalist from the University of Artwork.
Joel Nichols.
Thought of a person of the most prestigious scholarships in the planet, the Rhodes Scholarship provides funding for two decades of comprehensive-time post-graduate experiments at the College of Oxford in England.
Nichols is an interdisciplinary artist incorporating ceramics, drawing, painting, and printmaking into their work. Elevated in Winnipeg, Nichols tackles subjects pertaining to id, queer theory, bodily autonomy, and the soul as a result of art.
Edward Jurkowski, Director of the School of Artwork suggests: “We are very happy of Joel’s accomplishment. Alongside with his expertise as a creative artist, Joel is a organic and gifted leader who did a outstanding work as co-president of the University of Art’s Scholar Affiliation and with the a variety of advocacy get the job done that he oversaw. He is nicely-deserving of the honour as the very first College of Art college student to receive this prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.”
Viewing Curator Application carries on to assist creating curators find their voice
Because launching in 2021, the Going to Curator Software has offered learners, school and local community users significant chances to interact with up-and-coming arts curators who are actively checking out new territories in their discipline.
Generously supported by Dr. Michael F.B. Nesbitt, the software has been supplying mentorship for younger curators as they generate 3 global-calibre exhibitions which they are hoping will assistance define present-day artwork and its attendant discourses on the Prairies.
The latest exhibition, To Broadcast is to Scatter, curated by Browsing Curator System mentee Shalaka Jadhav, characteristics artwork functions by seth cardinal dodginghorse, Cadence Planthara, Diana Sofia Lozano, and Natalia Villanueva Linares, with jobs by June Canedo de Souza and Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind.
The exhibition is an exploration of the cycles of rot and regeneration, illuminating memory-marking inside of the human insistence on organizing time. As element of exhibition programming, artist seth cardinal dodging horse will accomplish their new do the job Dirt Dance #3 reside on Thursday, January 25 at 7:00 p.m.
To Broadcast is to Scatter is the third and closing exhibition presented as element of the College of Artwork Gallery’s Going to Curator Program. This initiative supports curatorial analysis, exhibitions, activities, and publications by emerging and set up visitor curators alike.
To Broadcast is to Scatter runs until eventually Feb. 10, 2024.
