Call for Submissions
Year-long Mentorship Program, Sept. 2011- Sept. 2012
Deadline: Friday, April 29, 2011
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.
For Application Guidelines, please refer our website, mawa.ca, or contact Lisa Wood, Program and Administrative Coordinator, at 949-9490 or programs@mawa.ca.
The Mentors:
Amber-Dawn Bear Robe, Blackfoot from Siksika Nation, Alberta, is currently completing her second MA in Art History from the University of Arizona with a focus on contemporary Native North American arts and photography. Amber-Dawn recently moved to Winnipeg to work as the new Director/Curator of Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art. She completed a MA in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Alberta College of Art and Design and has interned at museums such as The Tucson Museum of Art, The University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology and The Glenbow Museum. She is an active art writer.
Mélanie Rocan works in paint. She graduated from the University of Manitoba in 2003 and completed her Masters of Fine Arts at Concordia University, Montreal, in 2008. Since 2003, her work has been included in many exhibitions across Canada, including the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; the Winnipeg Art Gallery and Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Arts, Winnipeg; as well as an RBC painting competition exhibition that traveled to galleries across Canada including the Power Plant, Toronto; the Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal; and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Her work has been reviewed in Bordercrossings Magazine, FASHION Magazine and the Globe and Mail. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants from the Canada Council, Manitoba and Winnipeg Arts Councils.
Diana Thorneycroft has exhibited various bodies of photo-based, installation and drawing works across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an Assistance to Visual Arts Long-term Grant from the Canada Council. Her exhibition of photographed, miniature tableaux, Group of Seven Awkward Moments, is currently touring Canada and will be shown at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris in May 2011. By combining well-known Canadian landscape paintings with scenes of accidents, disasters and instances of poor judgment, this recent series satirizes the mythology and icons of Canadian culture.
Diane Whitehouse studied fine arts (painting) at Birmingham College of Art and Bergen Kunsthandverkskole, Bergen, Norway. After immigrating to Canada in the sixties she taught at the University of Alberta and the University of Manitoba School of Art. Diane has exhibited nationally and internationally, and was the subject of a solo, retrospective exhibition held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1999. She has served on many boards, including the Canada Council and Plug In ICA, and was one of the founders of MAWA.
For more information, visit http://www.mawa.ca
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