Program: Commission 

Monument is the inaugural sculpture for the newly developed Jardin de sculptures at La Maison des artistes visuels in Saint-Boniface. Artist Michel de Broin uses a classical form and material to create a contemporary reflection on identity and representation.

Program: Artist-in-Residence

Reliquary/Reliquaire is a song cycle and multi-disciplinary performance work created by Christine Fellows.  The work is a poignant meditation on Saint-Boniface history including the lives of the Grey Nuns, the Cathedral fire, and stories told through artifacts. Reliquary/Reliquaire was performed live with a four-piece ensemble, overhead projections and film in the Chapel at the Saint-Boniface Museum in September 2009.

Program: WITH ART

The artists and the youth of IRCOM worked together on a rap video that explores newcomer life in Winnipeg, written and performed by the youth. The filmmakers also made a documentary about the process, capturing both the challenges and the rewards experienced by the youth prior to and since arriving in Winnipeg. The documentary is a profound reflection on the realities of immigrant life and the transformative power of music and art; the rap video is a high energy expression of individual hopes and dreams.

Program: Collaboration

Designs by Winnipeg artists Michael Carroll, Laurie Green and Judith Panson have turned the highly functional poster boards of the Exchange District into unique works of art.  The images range from a witty “on” light switch to a crowd applauding a stage event to a silhouette reflecting the architectural gems for which the Exchange District is so well known. A collaboration between the Winnipeg Arts Council and the Exchange District BIZ.

Program: Commission

"land/mark reflects on the human imprint, on the marks we leave on the land -- physical, conceptual, mythological. While the particular references are to early life in this area, at its core is an elemental, almost mythical, connection to the land. land/mark is a meditation on both power and fragility." Jacqueline Metz & Nancy Chew

 Program: WITH ART

Jim Sanders worked with the Manitoba Urban Native Housing Association to create a film that puts a face to Aboriginal housing statistics in Winnipeg. The filmmaker interviews a variety of people affected by the housing crisis in the city to present a portrait of the existing problems as well as a call to work together for solutions. The documentary style footage is combined with striking black and white photographs and Aboriginal music.

Program: Artist-in-Residence

“Souvenirs is a trio of short films constructed as dialogues between the archival record of the City of Winnipeg, and the selected memories of citizens who have lived, worked, suffered and celebrated here. Together these films sift through the accumulated layers of history, experience and identity of a place which we, collectively, call home.” Paula Kelly

Program: Commission

Agassiz Ice is composed of three monumental stainless steel forms situated on a promontory overlooking the Red River. Recalling glacial Lake Agassiz that once covered an immense area that included the city of Winnipeg, the sculptures appear to be massive chunks of pristine ice. The tallest is 4 metres high, 5 metres long and weighs 1.2 metric tons. Gordon Reeve writes: “imagine a thousand-metre high glacier at the beginning of time. Giant shards of ice fall from its melting face and slide deep into freezing Lake Agassiz, ninety percent of their mass hidden beneath the surface. Imagine also that three of those icebergs float here before you on a sea, not of water but of grass.”

Program: WITH ART

Leah Decter collaborated with the Spence Neighbourhood Association on this artwork that reflects upon ideas of home, place and belonging. The diverse community is represented in all aspects of the work through mosaics, text, geographic place names and indigenous plantings. The artist worked extensively with residents on the conception, development and installation of the artwork that was permanently incorporated into a revitalized Furby Park.