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Foundation Mentorship Program
Foundation Mentorship Program
Year-long Mentorship Program, September 2010 - September 2011
Deadline: April 30, 2010
The Foundation Mentorship Program is a year-long program in which senior artists share their experience with developing artists. It is designed to help women in the visual arts develop skills and define their decision-making philosophies, and to provide access to the information, resources and support they need to realize their goals. In addition to a one-on-one relationship with a mentor, the program provides a peer group for the mentees through group meetings.
Mentors meet with their mentees individually for 5 hours per month, and the entire group meets for 3 hours monthly for critiques, discussion, gallery visits and other activities.
Applicants are selected based on:
- the quality and potential of the work submitted,
- the emerging artist’s willingness to dedicate time to the program,
- the mentor’s ability to work with the emerging artist, because of mutuality of practice or conceptual framework.
Successful applicants will be charged a $300 fee for the program. There is no fee to apply, although you must be a MAWA member. Students are not eligible.
Download
the MAWA Mentorship Application Checklist
Question? Contact Tracy Marshall Program Coordinator at 949-9490 or programs@mawa.ca
The Mentors:
Pauline Braun is a printmaker and a mixed media artist whose work is influenced by her environment and life experience. Abstraction has offered Pauline an endless challenge, allowing her to be improvisational and inventive. She is always interested in pushing the boundaries of traditional methods. Pauline’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Estevan Art Gallery & Museum, Estevan, Saskatchewan; the Portage and District Arts Centre, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba; the Leaf Rapids National Exhibition Centre, Leaf Rapids, Manitoba; and the Heritage North Museum in Thompson, Manitoba. Selected group shows include Winnipeg exhibitions, “Quadrangle” and “Bound”, both at the Martha Street Studio; and “Journeys”, at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery. Her work was also seen in “North South Emergence”, a touring exhibition for the Manitoba Arts Network.
Pauline Braun, Variation III - Reboun, collagraph, 2009
Sarah Crawley’s art practice explores aspects of memory, identity and communication. She is interested in how memory impacts identity and the non-verbal ways that identity is communicated. By using multiple photographic processes, she creates images that are based in reality but not bound by it, and that make the photographic technologies she employs visible in the work. Crawley’s works have been presented across Canada in solo and group exhibitions and she has begun to exhibit internationally. Crawley enjoys sharing her passion for photography and is an active member of the visual art community in Winnipeg where she has worked as an arts administrator, teacher and technician, has volunteered on several boards and is currently involved in a community art project through Winnipeg Arts Council’s withArt program.
Sarah Crawley, Untitled, 2008
Elvira Finnigan is a multi-media artist who currently works with salt brine and light. Her work is experimental in nature. It embraces science, alchemy, and allegory. Saltwatch Experiments take the form of objects, installations, web-based exhibitions, time-lapse video animations and digital prints. She has also produced a body of short single channel videos that explore the stages of life and the passage of time. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the US, and Japan. Elvira had a first career as an art educator in public schools, teacher training institutes and museums, in Canada, Botswana, Africa, Dominica and the USA. She firmly believes in the power of art to transform the life of individuals and society and the role of artists in facilitating the process. She is also involved on boards and committees of several Winnipeg arts organizations.
Elvira Finnigan, Saltwatch Sequence: Food, digital print, 42”x14”, 2009
Jenny Western is a curator, writer and educator. She holds an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Winnipeg and a Masters in Art History and Curatorial Practice from York University in Toronto. While completing her graduate studies, she accepted a position at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in Brandon where she was Curator of Contemporary/Aboriginal Art from 2005-07. Jenny has curated exhibitions for Urban Shaman, aceartinc. and the Label Gallery in Winnipeg, and has worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Most recently she has served as a Sessional Instructor in Art History and Art Collections Coordinator for the University of Manitoba and Adjunct Curator for the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. Of mixed European, Stockbridge-Munsee, Brothertown,and Oneida ancestry, Jenny is honoured to be the 2009/10 Aboriginal Curator-in-Residence at Plug In ICA and Urban Shaman.
Native/American Apparel, with KC Adams and Lita Fontaine curated by Jenny Western.
Photo: Jennifer Bisch
