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WITH ART is a community-based program that matches artists with community groups to collaborate on art projects. Participants are asked to come with few preconceptions so that a truly collaborative process will emerge. Communities do come with issues they wish to explore, for example; alternative activities for street involved youth, expression of the cultural diversity of a neighbourhood, or a way for single mother immigrants to find their way in a new city and a new culture. A number of remarkable works have resulted and include sculpture, film, photography and music. Completed projects include the following:
Winnipeg First Nation: Heart of a Home: Filmmaker Jim Sanders and the Manitoba Urban Native Housing Association created a film that explores Aboriginal housing in Winnipeg; Live/Life from 95: Filmmakers Ervin Chartrand and Jim Agapito worked with the youth of the Immigrant and Refugee Organization of Manitoba to create a rap song, video and making-of a documentary that reflects the immigrant and refugee experience; Elwick Community Centre: Artist Dimitry Melman-Komar and the Elwick Community created a vibrant mosaic tile mural for the outdoor walls of the community centre; The Birthing Project: Artist Judy Jennings and the Manitoba Maternity Care Action Network collaborated on a glass installation reflecting images of birth; Spence Community Compass: Finding Home: Artist Leah Decter with the Spence Neighbourhood Association collaborated on a permanent installation at Furby Park that explores notions of home through mosaic, indigenous plantings and text. Projects in development include documentary photographer Jon Schledewitz working with residents of Dorchester House on a photography and book project that examines the lives of the residents of the halfway house; photographer Sarah Crawley creating
a photography project with the Eritrean Community of Winnipeg that explores the immigrant experience from the point of view of women and mothers, and visual artist Leah Decter just beginning work with RaY, (Resource Assistance for Youth) a non-profit agency that works with homeless and street-entrenched youth in the West Broadway area of Winnipeg.
The Artist-in-Residence program places artists in City of Winnipeg facilities for extended periods to create work based on their experiences. The goal is to integrate artists and their ideas into City facilities to explore civic resources and history through the creative process. Artists are provided with an artist fee as they research, engage with the public, and develop a project proposal. A commission fee is also provided for the creation of a permanent work of art for the site. Projects have taken place at the Living Prairie Museum where video artist Collin Zipp created a non-narrative interactive video work entitled lost landscape. This was followed by a project at the City of Winnipeg Archives where filmmaker Paula Kelly made Souvenirs, a short documentary that explores Winnipeg’s identity in three distinct ways. Next songwriter and musician Christine Fellows created a multidisciplinary performance at Le Musée de St. Boniface Museum based on the collections and history of this important Manitoba landmark. This summer we will begin a new residency with an artist working with community gardens.
Commissions of larger sculptural works include Agassiz Ice by Winnipeg artist Gordon Reeve. Composed of three monumental stainless steel forms situated on a promontory overlooking the Red River the artwork recalls glacial Lake Agassiz as the sculptures appear to be massive chunks of pristine ice. land/mark, by Jacqueline
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