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Spotlight on Research: Professor Grace Nickel Awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

July 23, 2025 — 
School of Art professor Grace Nickel, awarded an Insight Grant through the 2024 SSHRC competition.

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Grace Nickel is pictured at the Manitoba Craft Council’s inaugural Night of Excellence awards dinner recently. Nickel is the first recipient of the new Robert and Meridel Archambeau Award of Distinction.

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The Free Press: Celebrating Manitoba makers in a well-crafted style

May 28, 2025 — 
Manitoba Craft Council holds inaugural awards event

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Professor Grace Nickel stands in front of a large mound of locally sourced clay at the Southwood Circle construction site, wearing a hard hat, safety vest, and boots, while holding buckets and a shovel.

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Unearthing Sustainability: Local Clay Project in School of Art’s Low-Fire Ceramics Class

October 31, 2024 — 
October’s Sustainability Month at the University of Manitoba brought new light to the impactful and innovative Local Clay project led by School of Art Professor Grace Nickel and her students in the Low-Fire Ceramics class.

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Pembina Valley Online: Plum Coulee homecoming celebration held for award winning ceramics artist Grace Nickel

August 20, 2024 — 
School of Art Professor Grace Nickel was the focus of a homecoming celebration Saturday, August 17th during Plum Fest, serving as parade marshal and also officially opening her latest exhibit "Full Circle" at the Plum Coulee Elevator Museum.

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School of Art Ceramics well represented at International Ceramic Art Fair

May 25, 2023 — 
We are thrilled to announce that current student Caleigh Stillwater & alumna Jasmine Prior (BFA Hon. 23) were selected for the Next Generation page of the Gardiner Museum's International Ceramic Art Fair (ICAF) 2023 website

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Image of Hamideh Behgar's work.

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It’s time for the 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

May 19, 2023 — 
It’s a small program that attracts international students to the University of Manitoba and has an outsized influence on the art scene in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Canada. The five artists graduating from the School of Art’s Master of Fine Arts program are set to show their work at the 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition later this month.

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2023 BFA Honours Graduating Exhibition returns to ARTlab for extended stay!

April 12, 2023 — 
The innovative and ambitious work of School of Art students is once again on show!

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In the news: SoA Professor wins 2023 Saidye Bronfman Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts

March 28, 2023 — 
Congratulations to SoA Professor Grace Nickel, recipient of the 2023 Saidye Bronfman Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts

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A close up photo of a ceramic abstract sculpture by Nickel.

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Grace Nickel opens solo exhibition “eruptions”

February 8, 2022 — 
School of Art Associate Professor Grace Nickel open solo exhibition at Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg.

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Leandra Brandson, School of Art BFA Honours Exhibition 2021

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SoA alumna Leandra Brandson recipient of Medalta ceramics residency

October 4, 2021 — 
Congratulations to SoA Alumna, Leandra Brandson, 2021 recipient of a Medalta ceramic residency. The historic clay district in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Medalta is at the heart of Canadian ceramics and is an Internationally renowned residency.

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