MAWA: Call to Developing Artists, Deadline April 29

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.


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Call to Artists

Call to Artists - Details below 

Art Ex: MultiDay Visual Arts Experience Exploits Valley Region, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: Call to Artists, Deadline January 31, 2010

Call for Artists – Art Ex: MultiDay Visual Arts Experience Exploits Valley Region, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
About Art Ex: Art Ex is an annual multi‐day celebration of visual art which takes place in the Exploits Valley region of central Newfoundland, July 7‐10, 2011. Art Ex provides a unique venue for exhibitions, introductory and advanced workshops, panel discussions, artist talks, interactive art interventions, public artworks and collaborative community based art events. The activities occur concurrently in a number of municipalities within the region. The objective is to offer innovative and diverse experiences for all age groups and skill levels in a number of culturally and geographically diverse locations along the Exploits River watershed. Art Ex takes a thematic approach to each year’s event.  This year’s theme is:

“River as Source”. Artists are encouraged to consider the following when planning proposals for Art Ex:
The river as “source” or “wellspring”
Revitalization, renewal
Human interaction with the natural environment/each other
Concepts of memory/time/history in
The river as continuum: a continuous sequence which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, although the extremes are quite distinct
Fragility/transience vs. Strength/permanence
Specific historical events pertaining to the river/region

About the Region:
Geographically, the region is defined by a river. Ostensibly dividing the island portion of the province in half, the Exploits River flows from its headwaters near the southwest corner of the island, 246 kilometers northeast to the sea, draining an area of 1,100 square kilometers. The Exploits is one of the largest rivers in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is truly a natural wonder, and is tied closely to the history of this place. It has provided refuge, transportation, power, and sustenance; it has been the lifeblood of the region from prehistory to present‐day. The River connects 19 communities from its headwaters at Red Indian Lake to the Bay of Exploits, which opens onto the North Atlantic. The geographic diversity of these locations should be explored and utilized when considering a proposal.

Submission Guidelines:

Art Ex will be accepting submissions for the following activities for 2011:
1. Exhibitions ‐ Art Ex has one main gallery space of approximately 1300 square feet, with 1100 linear feet of wall space (for technical details and floor plan contact Robert Lodge 292‐4520). Artists are also actively encouraged to submit exhibition and activity proposals that take advantage of other natural and built environments throughout the region. Specify any special requirements or technical considerations in your detailed proposal. Other projects which can be accommodated include interactive art interventions, public artworks, collaborative community based art events, environmentally sensitive installations, performance art, sculpture, interactive projects or site specific work incorporating any number of disciplines.
2.Dinner & Art talk series (a venue for all manner of art talks and critical discourse)
3. Introductory and advanced art workshops (for arts professionals and/or the public)
4.Professional development opportunities for visual artists
5. Art on the Water ‐ Centered on the riverfront in Grand Falls‐Windsor, Art on the Water represents the highlight of the Art Ex activities, and invites artists to explore the cultural, historic, social and environmental legacy of the Exploits River. The event will facilitate the creation of, and provide a venue for, a series of temporary, floating public artworks that will attract visitors to the riverbanks and invite them to interact with the environment throug h the creations of the participating artists.
The concept behind Art on the Water is: by bringing art to the river’s edge viewers and artists will be asked to contextualize the human (creative) experience within the natural environment. Through these exchanges with their surroundings, artists, residents and visitors will come to a better understanding of complex historical relationships between the unique geography of the Exploits Valley region and its inhabitants, while gaining insight into the way all people interact with the physical environment.
These projects could include (but are not limited to) environmentally sensitive installation, performance art, sculpture, interactive projects, or site‐specific work incorporating any number of these disciplines. While anchored floating platforms and designated areas of the shore will provide the exhibition space for the artworks, artists are encouraged to consider the entire river and region as a whole when planning proposals for Art on the Water.

Submission Procedure:

Submissions for Art Ex 2011 must be postmarked no later than Jan. 31, 2011. Submissions are reviewed and evaluated by the Art Ex steering committee. If submitting more than one application, please forward separately. Art Ex does not accept email submissions.
Proposals will be selected based on consideration of the following criteria: artistic merit of theproposed project, thematic appropriateness, feasibility of the proposed project, and the ability of Art Ex to accommodate the project. CARFAC  fees will be paid.

Submissions must include the following:

Detailed Proposal: clearly outline the work you are proposing; provide details about any special requirements (including any equipment needed).
Artist Statement
Curriculum Vitae
Images/Support Material: 15‐20 JPEG images with name and title; image list detailing medium and size. Video artists may submit a video no longer than 5 minutes.
Self addressed, stamped envelope with sufficient postage for return of support materials

Please mail submissions to:

Art Ex 2011 Submissions
Exploits Valley Economic Development Corp.
5B Bayley Street
Grand Falls – Windsor, NL
Canada, A2A 2T5

  The website is currently under construction, for further information please call 709.489.8700 or email artex@exploitsvalley.nf.ca