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HIST-3821-250 Topics in Twentieth-Century Canadian Art I (Issues)

Instructor: Andrew Kear, Curator of Historical Canadian Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon; Monday, Wednesday and Friday; May 2nd-30th, 2012

Location: University of Winnipeg, Helen Betty Osborne Building, RM 1E05

This is an advanced lecture/seminar course examining various areas in twentieth-century Canadian art in a global context. We will address issues such as the taxonomy of style - realism, abstract expressionism, minimalism; problems of value - dealers, galleries, craft, design and electronic imaging; and the politics of art - feminism, regionalism, First Nations, ethnicity, ordinary people, and government funding. This course will cover issues that affect the country as a whole, within the global context. Classes will be divided into lectures and presentations; the lectures will be both chronological and thematic. Discovery art hops, to various artistic venues around Winnipeg, will be conducted on Fridays. Course assignments will include multiple short tests and brief critical summaries of class readings, analysis of a work of art, and an exhibition review.

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32nd CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVAL ART HISTORIANS - UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA  AND UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG MARCH 9–10, 2012

CONFERENCE
The Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians is part of an on-going series of annual conferences which have been held during the past three decades at universities in Canada. It includes papers given by an international group of university faculty and students and other researchers in the disciplines of medieval and medieval revival art and architectural history. There is no conference fee, and everyone is welcome to attend.
 
The conference sessions will be held:
 
9 March: University of Manitoba,
ART Lab building, room 136
10 March: University of Winnipeg,
Duckworth Centre, room 301
 
The conference programme is available on the CCMAH Website:

http://www.yorku.ca/ccmah/index.html
 
 
 
RELATED EVENT - PUBLIC LECTURES
The conference has been co-ordinated this year with the Visiting Lecturer Committee Lecture of the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg, and the annual Clayton-Gouthro Lecture of the School of Art at the University of Manitoba. These lectures will be held on 8 March, 2012:
 
University of Winnipeg, Manitoba Hall, Room 133
1:00-2:00p.m.
"La polychromie d'architecture et la lumière gothique’’, by Prof. Arnaud Timbert, Université Charles-de-Gaulle-Lille 3, Lille, France
 
2:00-3:00p.m.
"The Cathedral and its Sanctuarisation“, by Dr. Stéphanie Diane Daussy, Université Charles-de-Gaulle-Lille 3, Lille, France
 
University of Manitoba, Room TBA 
7:00 p.m.
"Putting Women and Jews in 'Their Place' under Medieval German Law: Representations in the Picture Books of the Saxon Mirror", by Prof. Madeline Caviness, Tufts University, University of Manitoba
 
 
For further information, please contact Claire Labrecque, University of Winnipeg, c.labrecque@uwinnipeg.ca or James Bugslag – j.bugslag@cc.umanitoba.ca 

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New Master's Degree To Nurture Art Curators

January 18, 2011 - The University of Winnipeg is adding a new specialization in Curatorial Practices to the Master of Arts program in Cultural Studies, a first for Manitoba, accepting applicants for September 2011.Visual arts is a critically important part of the cultural and economic life of Manitoba and Canada. The new specialization will prepare graduates to work in visual arts institutions as curators, art historians, critical writers, and gallery educators. Graduates may also go on to work in the field of communications, and in museum institutions, or go on to pursue further graduate studies in Art History. This program will provide trained curatorial professionals to meet the demand from institutions in Manitoba and across Canada. Read the full story here .

Chronochroma

Rodney LaTournelle's Chronochroma 6 installation in the 3rd floor Centennial-Duckworth hallway brings saturated contemporary colour to this formerly sparse environment. Working together with the interplay of space and colour from a motive perspective, this installation references the original design conceptions of Centennial Hall (1972).

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photo credit: William Eakin

Buhler Centre

The Buhler Centre, the newest addition to the University of Winnipeg campus, is now open. Featuring innovative local design from contemporary designers and architects, the space is home to the Plug-in Gallery of Contemporary Art on the main floor as well as seminar style classroom space on the upper levels.

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photo credit: William Eakin