Conversation with Artists Barb Hunt and Lucas Morneau
Moderated by Dr. Roewan Crowe
Thursday, November 13, 2025
1:00 to 2:15 pm
Room 2M70 (Second floor of Manitoba Hall), The University of Winnipeg
If you plan to attend and require ASL interpretation, please contact us prior to November 6, 2025.
Artists Lucas Morneau and Barb Hunt both employ "craftivism" in their creative practices. The two first became acquainted as teacher and student at Memorial University (Grenfell Campus) in Newfoundland more than a decade ago. For this event, Morneau and Hunt will present brief artist talks followed by an engaging conversation to share stories about where their work has come from, where it is now, and what the future holds. They will consider what it means to be learning together through the arts in community.
This conversation is organized in conjunction with Lucas Morneau's exhibition Queer Newfoundland Hockey League, presented at Gallery 1C03 from November 13, 2025 until January 28, 2026.
This event is presented in partnership with the University of Winnipeg Department of Women's and Gender Studies and the greenhouse feminist artlab.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR AND ARTISTS
Multidisciplinary artist and Professor Roewan Crowe is energized by acts of disruption, radical transformation and the tactical deployment of self-reflexivity. Born under the big skies of Saskatchewan and raised in scofflaw Alberta, Crowe left the prairies to deepen her engagements with art and feminism, and to do graduate studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. A return to the prairies inspired art and writing centered on queer feminist reclamation practices to ask questions about the land, whiteness and queer settler identities. Their longstanding community practice is concerned with creating space for and building engaged feminist/queer/artistic communities. Their scholarly work seeks to open meaningful encounters with art through feminist engagement with a particular focus on artistic practitioner knowledges, collaboration, collectivity, and artistic processes. Dr. Crowe's most recent endeavour is the greenhouse: a feminist artlab for making and thinking. This space is a feminist art experiment, a space that focuses on artistic process and transparency. The greenhouse artlab opens possibilities for: the creation of new artistic works and research; collaboration on art projects with other artists, scholars, and community members; hosting artist residencies and working with students/community members on artistic/creative projects.
Lucas Morneau (they/he) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from Ktaqmtuk (Newfoundland). Employing drag as a central tool in their practice, Morneau blends textiles, photography, video, and sculpture to queer Newfoundland/Canadian cultural traditions, exploring gender performativity and challenging the dominance of heteronormative and patriarchal systems within Canada and Newfoundland. Morneau has shown their work throughout Canada, in the US, and the United Kingdom. Notable exhibitions include Queer Newfoundland Hockey League and The Queer Mummer which have been shown at several public galleries and artist-run centres. Morneau has participated in residencies across Canada, including Critical Mass’ 2021 Artist in Residence program in Port Hope, Ontario, the 41e Symposium international d‘art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec in 2023, and La Napoule Canadian Artist Residency in Mandelieu-La-Napoule, France in 2024. They have won multiple awards and honours, including the 2016 BMO 1st Art Award for Newfoundland and Labrador, the 2018 Cox & Palmer Pivotal Point Grant, the 2018 and 2021 Scotiabank New Generations Photography Award Shortlist, and the 2024 Sobey Art Award Longlist. They have also received multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, ArtsNL, and ArtsNB. Morneau holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland—Grenfell Campus (2016) and a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Saskatchewan (2018). They currently live in the Siknikt distric of Mi’kma’ki — Sackville, New Brunswick, where they work as the Production Manager for artist run-centre Struts Gallery.
Barb Hunt has a Diploma in Art from the University of Manitoba, and an MFA with a specialization in Fibres from Concordia University. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, England, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, and the United States. Her work has also been shown across Canada, most recently at the Canadian War Museum. She has been awarded Canada Council grants and artist residencies at the Banff Centre, the Canada Council Paris studio, and the Roches Point Lighthouse in Ireland. Her work can be found in collections at Columbia, Yale, and Stanford universities, as well as the Royal Ontario Museum and Canadian public art galleries. Her art has been discussed in books published in Canada, England, and the United States. Hunt has also given papers at international and Canadian academic conferences. She taught visual art at Western University, Queen’s University, and Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she holds the position of Professor Emerita. She currently resides in her adopted home town of Winnipeg, where she is a board member for Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art.
GETTING HERE AND ACCESSIBILITY
Maps of The University of Winnipeg campus, including accessibility and parking maps, can be found at https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/maps/. Room 2M70 is located on the second floor of Manitoba Hall, marked with an "M" on the campus map. Accessible, street level visitor entrances with auto door openers and ramps are via Portage Avenue, Ellice Avenue and Spence Street. The nearest elevator access is beside the Ellice Avenue entrance doors. There are gendered, accessible washrooms twenty feet from 2M70 and there is a gender-neutral washroom inside room 2M70.