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Exploring intuition as a condition of consciousness

March 3, 2023 — 
The Performance of Shadows, curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis is on now at the School of Art Gallery, and considers the expansiveness of three artists’ understanding of existence through various approaches to concepts of phenomenology, spirituality and political engagement.

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Spring 2023 at the School of Art Gallery

February 6, 2023 — 
The Performance of Shadows, February 16 to April 29, 2023, explores intuition as a condition of consciousness. This exhibition considers the expansiveness of three artists’ understanding of existence through various approaches to concepts of phenomenology, spirituality and political engagement.

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Structural anarchy

December 12, 2022 — 
Open Structure exhibition explores the subtle rhythms and systems that structure our lives and considers how sound, music, and touch can offer new perspectives on systems, such as identity and the rules that govern our lives, providing space to pause, gather, and dream.

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In the news: SoA alumna awarded 2022 C New Critics Award

December 7, 2022 — 
We are pleased to congratulate School of Art Design alum Shaneela Boodoo who was selected C New Critics 2022 Award recipient announced by C Magazine on December 2, 2022!

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Compilation photo of three curators: Grace Deveney, Lillian O'Brien Davis and Shalaka Jadhav.

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Building on their curatorial practice

September 22, 2022 — 
In June 2021, the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba launched its Visiting Curator Program. The Visiting Curator Program was designed to play a vital role in defining contemporary art and its attendant discourses in Western Canada and beyond.

A thin wire hangs across a limestone quarry lake. Image courtesy artist Lisa Stinner-Kun. Title: Garson (hanging wire), 2017, archival ink jet print.

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School of Art Gallery presents Moving Matter: Between Rock and Stone

August 22, 2022 — 
Moving Matter: Between rock and stone is an exhibition about Tyndall limestone, a building material quarried from a 450-million-year-old body of rock.

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School of Art presents 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

May 17, 2022 — 
The School of Art and School of Art Gallery are pleased to present the thesis exhibitions and oral examinations by five Master of Fine Art students.

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Mourning the loss of acclaimed artist and Professor Emeritus, Robert Archambeau

April 29, 2022 — 
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of University of Manitoba Professor Emeritus Robert Archambeau on April 25, 2022. An internationally acclaimed artist, Professor Archambeau taught ceramics at the University of Manitoba for twenty-three years, from 1968 until retirement in 1991.

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School of Art Gallery presents Beads and Stone II: A participatory art project with Vanessa Hyggen 

March 20, 2022 — 
Join Saskatchewan-based artist Vanessa Hyggen to create beadwork for a new public artwork responding to the University of Manitoba campus environment.

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School of Art mourns passing of Dr. Robert Nelson, former instructor and artist

December 19, 2021 — 

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