JUNXIONS, curated by Justin Bear L’Arrivee, features work by Winnipeg Indigenous street artists Marco Muller (Super Empee) and Zac Ironstand. Drawing on Homi K. Bhabha’s Third Space theory, the exhibition challenges perceptions of ‘urban decay’ by critically engaging with abandoned shopping carts and broken bus shelters. JUNXIONS critiques the colonial push to “clean up” neighborhoods, displacing people and erasing vibrant urban narratives – as seen and Winnipeg and throughout Canada in the name of urban development. The works offer an alternative perspective (a junction), enunciating the stories of those who occupy these spaces and celebrates hybrid urban indigenous ways-of-being.

Come by all BYOV people who have FLASH exhibits in Winnipeg to pick up your Catalogues!

We will have them for you there.

Jon Sasaki: Homage

Curated by Sarah Milroy | Organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection⁣
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February 27 to April 26, 2025⁣

Homage is a suite of photographs depicting petri dishes with bloomed microbial cultures derived from swabs of the palettes and brushes used by members of the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, objects held in the archives of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. These works are monumental in scale yet they reveal microscopic detail, affirming a playful reverence towards the Group’s legacy while reframing the genre of landscape painting through the lens of photography. Through these glowing bacterial landscapes Sasaki has generated a new sublime, a counterpoint to the quotidian nature of what lies beneath. The artifacts from which the microscopic organisms were gathered are exhibited in dialogue with the photographs, presenting a poignant entanglement of past and present-day artists in the story of Canadian art. 

This iteration of Homage will feature a new work, commissioned by the School of Art Gallery and derived from holdings in the FitzGerald Study Centre Collection.

• Exhibition Sponsors: Richard and Donna Ivey

• Supported by Contact Photography Festival

• Presented in partnership with FLASH Photographic Festival

Jon Sasaki: I Contain Multitudes

Curated by Blair Fornwald  |  Commissioned by the School of Art Gallery⁣⁣
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February 27 to April 26, 2025⁣⁣

The School of Art Gallery is pleased to present a commissioned body of work by artist Jon Sasaki, created in response to its extensive collection of artworks and artifacts by Group of Seven artist and former School of Art Director, Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald.  

Sasaki’s work interrogates the Canadian landscape painting tradition, the hagiographic value of the artist’s tools, and the creative potential that lies within institutional art collections. Inspired by FitzGerald’s delicate and strangely anthropomorphic renderings of trees, Sasaki has created a series of videos using a tiny endoscopic camera to probe inside the trees around FitzGerald’s former Winnipeg residence, on campus and in local parks, and in driftwood found on the beach near the Fitzgerald family cottage on Bowen Island, British Columbia. The miniature landscapes Sasaki finds and documents are intimate, unsettling, and surprising. I Contain Multitudes explores the many capacities and applications of the gaze--which can be used toward scientific or aesthetic ends, can abstract or clarify, and can romanticize or pathologize.

• Presented in Partnership with FLASH Photographic Festival

Image: Jon Sasaki, I Contain Multitudes, 2024, endoscopic video, colour, sound. Image courtesy of the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.

Photography by Walter Dueck

Opening Reception April 3 7-8pm

This is the big one! Don’t miss our Festival opening bash and see an amazing range of photography from across Canada!

Divergence and Connection

Curated by Leona Herzog

Artists: Ebunoluwa Akinbo, Colin Corneau, Douglas Fast, Diane Felske, April Hickox, Phil Hossack, Yige Liu, Brody McQueen, Tracy Peters, Sheila Spence, Paige Taylor White, Weichen Zhang

Exhibition Jury: Sarah Fuller, Leona Herzog, Leif Norman

Divergence & Connection explores relationships, differences and connections through the work of twelve photography-based artists from different parts of Canada and at various stages of their artistic arcs.

Their work investigates themes of social significance, while celebrating diversity and acceptance. Artists are presenting and exploring a range of concepts from their lived experiences.

Their viewpoints are extraordinarily varied, but the work resonates with us even though we may be separated by distance or have acutely different cultural experiences.

Grief and loss, whether of a loved one, a previous self, or a long-ago home, are explored with tender poignancy and touching beauty.

Work exploring aids serves as a statement on the resilience and strength of the LGBTQ+ community, while documentary style photos taken during Covid, now five years after it began, capture how we coped and reacted daily to the experience.

Photos present issues of colonialism, otherness, culture and ethnicity in a way that addresses historical and present issues.

Environmental degradation and the human condition are irrevocably intertwined in many of the images.

Bodies and nature change, breathe, grow, and decay in the work of these twelve artists; yet the images are exquisitely beautiful, powerful and, somehow, also exceedingly hopeful.

Built Persuasion, A Photographic Installation by Lisa Stinner-Kun

Open for First Friday

Brenda Stuart

Botanical Entanglements

at 226 Main street Gallery

Drawing on my childhood practice of collecting specimens from the natural world, I invite a sense of play and experimentation to this exploration of the botanical. Multi-layered plant photograms are orchestrated employing the cyanotype process, an early photographic method where sunlight acts upon iron salts to create rich blue tones. Some works deemed as "failed" have been re-worked, toned and hand cut drawing upon the leaf shapes present in the layers. This (re) presentation, an entangled re-mix of the plant matter becomes a pseudo depiction of the original. Discards and scraps have been further considered into abstract assemblage. 

https://www.urbanshaman.org/exhibitions/junxions/

Opening: 6:00-9:00 pm

Artist Talk: 7:00pm

Sheila Spence will speak about her body of images, Lexicon for Loss, started in 2023. Profound personal loss coinciding with a major move from the prairies to Vancouver Island gave rise to this exploration. Images are captured on a flat-bed scanner in her garden in Sidney, British Columbia, and reference 17th century floral paintings of the style of the Dutch Masters.  The scanner handles highlight and shadow in a specific way that creates a chiaroscuro effect that is reminiscent of the lighting techniques of still life paintings. Like the still life paintings of the 17th century, Lexicon for Loss images evoke the passage of time and/or the impermanence of life.  

Sheila Spence is a lens based artist, activist and arts administrator living and working on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. 

Saturday, April 5th, 2:00 pm

MHC Gallery, 600 Shaftesbury Blvd

Opening reception and performance by Cheyenne Rain LeGrande and Cikwes

Workshop Description:

Explore the possibilities of printing on fabric with the Cyanotype and Cyanotype toning processes! This alternative photography workshop focuses on the historical Cyanotype photo process using found objects and dye plants to create one-of-a-kind images on fabric.

Cyanotype prints will then be toned with dye plants and local botanical materials found in Manitoba. This workshop is suitable for beginners to photography, as well as those with little to no experience in the Cyanotype processes

Participants will learn how to create Cyanotype prints on fabric and will be encouraged to bring objects and natural elements from the Winnipeg area ecosystem to create photograms. A photogram is a photographic technique that uses objects as ‘negatives’, and that allows the print to be created in situ with available materials.

Participants will leave with:

· Knowledge of the history of the Cyanotype processes in the context of the broader history of photography

· Understanding of material qualities of different natural fabrics, plant dyes, and the water used for development

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Hands-on experience of the Cyanotype processes

Hands-on experience of the Cyanotype toning process
Introduction to methodology for experimentation and note-taking for further exploration

Registration Fee for participants: $128

Bio:

Sarah Fuller is a settler-Canadian artist of Icelandic and British descent who works across the mediums of photography, video and installation. She makes work about place, local narratives and ecosystems. She holds an MFA from the University of Ottawa and a BFA from Emily Carr University.

Recent exhibitions include Remold at the C2 Centre for Craft, Redesigning Paradise at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies with artists Mary Anne Barkhouse, Dianne Bos and

Penelope Stewart, Terra Incogknita at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, and Refugio at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. Sarah’s work is in public and private collections including the Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Walter Phillips Gallery, the Indie Photobook Library and Global Affairs Canada.

She currently teaches as a Sessional Instructor at the University of Manitoba and serves as the Secretary on the Board of the FLASH Photography Festival.

Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman

• Millennium Library

• April 11th, 2025 at 12:00 pm

• Free

• Directed by Erick Bricker

• 2008, USA, 83 minutes, English

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, considered by many the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away in 2009, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California’s modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public.

This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images.

Screened as part of the Architecture+Design Film Festival  (adff.ca) in partnership with the FLASH Photographic Festival.

Workshop: Cameraless Image Making 10 people maximum

The workshop will begin with a short introduction of Daisy Wu’s practice. She will demonstrate how she uses old photographs, film images, fabric, and threads to create a new image. Additionally, participants will learn how to collage, cut and stitch photos together. At the end of the workshop, each participant will take home their work, along with a scanned photo-copy of that same piece.

Bio:

Daisy Wu is a photo-based artist living in Winnipeg. In 2023, she graduated from the University of Manitoba School of Art, where she received an Undergraduate Research Award. The following year Wu participated in an Early Career Banff Residency at the Banff Centre of Arts and Creativity. Her practice involves photography, installation, and video.

Material:

Materials from Library and Artsjunktion :

•  Magazine or books

•  Threads and needles

•  Found photos or films from Artsjunction / thrift store

•  Photocopies from the printer (only from the library)

  Material supplied by instructor:

•  35mm/ 120 format film negatives

•  Found photos and printed photos

Materials to be supplied by participants:

-  Images or photos that you are comfortable to cut

-  Found images

Artsjunktion : is a community-based charitable organization committed to redistributing reusable materials available take-what-you-need, pay-what- you-can. It is located at 594 Main Street, Winnipeg.

Free. To register phone, visit a branch, scan the QR code, or visit winnipeg.ca/library

Anna Mariani: Photographic Notes

• Dave Barber Cinematheque

• April 12th, 2025 at 2:00 pm

• Directed by Alberto Renault

• 2024, Brazil, 70 minutes, Portuguese (with English subtitles)

• Ticketed event

The uniqueness of the architecture of the Brazilian northeastern hinterland is at the heart of the work of photographer Anna Mariani (1935–2022). “Anna Mariani: Photographic Notes” retraces the dirt roads the artist followed between the 70s and the 90s, when she published her most famous works and helped an entire country rediscover the richness of the facades of popular houses as a phenomenon of visual perception and cultural identity.

A discreet woman, Anna Mariani didn’t like the title of photographer, but she created a series of iconic photographs: Pinturas e platibandas (Paintings and Parapet), a body of work that enchanted museums and galleries in various countries, as well as the audience of the 19th São Paulo Biennial. The presence of her work in this important exhibition highlights the artistic nature of her work.

Screened as part of the Architecture+Design Film Festival  (adff.ca) in partnership with the FLASH Photographic Festival.

Dominique Rey is a French-Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Remai Modern, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Scotiabank, and Province of Manitoba.

MOTHERGROUND: Dominique Rey with Madeleine and Auguste Coar offers a profound exploration into the intricate emotional and cultural landscapes of motherhood, inviting viewers to engage with a multi-faceted visual dialogue— from intimate, small-scale photographs to expansive photo collages, human-scale sculptures, and an evocative video installation. Each piece serves as a lens through which we can examine the rich tapestry of experiences that define motherhood, blending personal reflections with universal themes. 

FLASH Photographic Festival presents

The Language of Loss

A panel discussion with lens-based artists:

Sarah Crawley

Susan P. Gibson

Tracy Peters

Moderated by Renée Saurette

Gas Station Theatre

April 17, 2025

7:00 PM

Sarah Crawley

Sarah Crawley will discuss her alternative photographic artworks, made during the time leading up to and following her mother’s passing, that explore vulnerability, grief and loss.

Sarah Crawley works with ideas generated from lived experience using different photographic technologies and materials; she stubbornly clings to analog film and alternative photography techniques while also embracing digital processes in her recent investigations around vulnerability and personal loss.

Susan P. Gibson BFA :

My interest is in the experience and merit of artists and audience who exist outside of the mainstream art lexicon; Grief Work images honour the universality of grief while focused on the consistency of change.

Mid century Canadian born inAlberta raised in Portage la Prairie Manitoba with visual being my first language and culture. 

Recognized early for my drawing ability art has forever been both identity and survival; formal art education and practice enhanced my skills 

Throughout life invitations to celebrations and ceremonies from diverse friends and colleagues informed my understanding of spirit and the interconnectedness of everything and everyone.

This work reflects the influence of spiritual and artistic beliefs explored in Celtic and Indigenous art, which recognize that nothing living is still; everything is related and in an evolving reality.

Tracy Peters

I’ll discuss how I use immersive processes to collaborate with the environment in an attempt to draw attention to ecological crises and habitat loss. 

Drop In Dance Winnipeg will be supplying some fun dancers to move and pose in various location along Wall street.

(Re)Discover the elegance of analogue photography in this one-day workshop led by accomplished photographer, scholar, and writer Sarah Fuller.

Beginning with a presentation on the context and history of pinhole photography, participants will learn how to capture light in a found object and develop it into a work of contemporary art.

Following the workshop, participants will have one month of access to the AGSM darkroom to continue their experiments (April 29 to May 27) at no additional cost*.

April 26, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Cost: $125.00

Featuring Lighting Equipment from Don’s Photo

Intro to Studio Lighting with Ian Mc Causland

workshop (free)

Sat April 26, 2-4pm

Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery

600 Shaftesbury Blvd., Winnipeg

Are you baffled by Flashes and Strobes when trying to light a scene? Broad vs narrow portrait lighting? Come see Ian McCausland, with assistance from Leif Norman,  demonstrating basic, and maybe some advanced, studio lighting with some of the cool equipment that Don’s Photo has to offer.

Solargraphy is a magical photographic process that uses pinhole cameras to create ethereal colour images that track the movement of the sun through the sky over months of exposure.  This two-session workshop will see the participants make their own pinhole cameras (on Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day!) which they will take home and install, leaving them to expose for 6 months!  In the fall we will gather again to learn how to process the images made in the cameras. No previous experience necessary.

To Register:  https://www.printmakers.mb.ca/education/classes-and-workshops/

Instructor Bio:

Sarah Crawley works with ideas generated from lived experience using different photographic technologies and materials; she stubbornly clings to analog film and alternative photography techniques while also embracing digital processes in her recent investigations around vulnerability and personal loss.

I am a Colombian cuir (queer) writer, visual artist, and independent curator based in Germany.

I graduated with a master’s in fine arts in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus Universität- Weimar (Germany) where I was awarded the grant for excellent students “Deutschlandstipendum 2023,” and the Kreativefond funding for art projects with RITA Art Collective. In 2022, I published my first fiction book “Los Perros Esperan Bajo la Sombra” (The Dogs Wait Under the Shadow), a publication granted by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia. In 2015 I obtained the Creation Grant for Foreign Artists in Mexico. In 2014 I did an internship at the Institute of Aesthetic Research, UNAM (Mexico City). Additionally, I studied Social Communication and Journalism at the Pontificia Bolivariana University (Medellin, Colombia). There, I worked as a lecturer and researcher. As an academic, I have investigated imagery, literature, and cinema. These investigations have been published in Colombia and Mexico. As an artist and curator, I have exhibited in Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Cuba, Spain, Costa Rica, and the USA. Currently, I am working on the postproduction of my first feature film El Nadador, a project developed as a part of the exhibition “Lost in Translation” of the Bauhaus Museum in Germany.