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SUMMARY:Artisthood
DESCRIPTION:As a child I always felt I was able to express myself with art. Words were never my friend. Reading was never as enjoyable as it was to others\, math and most sciences were tolerated\, French and physics class were suffering. The only time I felt like I was intelligent\, confident and truly myself was when I was creating something. Over the years I have done a little bit of everything. I took up beading in high school and even sold my jewelry in some craft fairs. I studied and practiced photography during my undergrad and ventured into wedding photography. Theatre design allowed me to explore a large cross section of skills\, technical drafting\, model making\, costume rendering\, sculpting with form and even light. During the pandemic I sold paint poured coasters with a good friend. But all of these practices eventually turned into a chore. I enjoyed the process of creating and expression\, and still do. They truly brought me joy. But the product of my work was for others. The jewelry was made for others to wear. The photos were taken to celebrate others special days\, the set and costume designs were for others to act on and to wear\, the coasters were sold as a means during the pandemic. And that was enough\, for a while at least. \nWhen I became a mother\, that changed. Motherhood is hard. Motherhood during a global pandemic is even harder. I returned to work after 9 months of maternity leave with my first son. Four months later my father died. One month after that the world shut down and I was cut off from my creative outlet\, my job. Needless to say\, my mental health suffered. I didn’t realize how much I needed a creative outlet. It was during that time that I first picked up a pallet knife. I had always been intimidated by it\, thinking it was beyond my skill set. But as I spread the paint across a canvas for the first time\, it felt right. It felt like me. It is easy to lose yourself in motherhood and I definitely did for a while. Taking care of small humans consumes your identity and your time. In the rare instances when you do find time for yourself\, you are exhausted. When I take the time to paint\, I am taking back a piece of myself\, remembering who I am as an individual\, feeling at home\, enjoying something I am good at. It is meditative\, it brings me joy\, it brings me peace\, it brings me confidence. It is just for me. \nThere is nothing complicated about these paintings. There is no deeper meaning. I don’t have time for anything more than that. Ultimately what it comes down to is “I like to paint and flowers are pretty”.
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jordan Miller":MAILTO:jordan@cre8ery.com
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SUMMARY:Outside of the Box
DESCRIPTION:Go down memory lane with JoAnne’s paintings\, influenced by her Icelandic heritage and life on a dairy farm in the fifties. She is very connected to nature which determines her choice of subject matter. \nJulia’s championing of women artists through the ages comes from her feeling of their sparse representation in the art world. That’s why they are created in the form of portraits. She came to know their stories while she painted them in her studio that is surrounded by her companion trees.
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SUMMARY:Extra Ordinary
DESCRIPTION:Extra Ordinary is a story about a plain bike that accidentally changed everything\, i.e. opened up a whole new world for Juanita\, cruising through old Winnipeg neighbourhoods on a new-old bike\, feeling like a kid at 55\, seeing her familiar surroundings with new eyes. This show is about doing new things that are old\, enjoying ordinary adventures\, and it is about practicing how to get out of the house to breathe the air and look at the sky every day\, appreciating a regular job and ordinary days where ordinary things happen. \nExtra Ordinary is also about figuring out how to become visible while struggling with apocalyptic levels of anxiety because staying invisible feels so much safer. What surrounds you on these walls is her daily anchoring exercise\, one manifestation of learning how to fight addiction and achieve balance\, i.e to become ordinary. This is a quest for ordinary\, to have as much ordinary as possible\, to become extra ordinary. This is about practicing gratitude and juggling more of everything with less energy while the clock ticks faster into forever. This art is about THIS moment\, right NOW\, and it is about sailing on a bike (a.k.a. lifeboat) close to other people\, making connections to make the journey easier\, shedding unnecessary baggage to prepare for the home stretch. \nThe “home stretch” in this case is in Winnipeg\, which is located within Treaty No. 1 Territory\, the traditional lands of the Anishinabe (Ojibway)\, Ininew (Cree)\, Anisininew (Oji-Cree)\, Dene\, and Dakota\, and it is the birthplace and National Homeland of the Red River Métis Nation. Awareness of other peoples’ historic and ongoing relationships to this land is part of cultivating a broader and more nuanced experience of place\, learning how to see what we haven’t seen before from someone else’s perspective. \nA plain bike is the central theme of constant movement through the spaces we call home. Other key themes are cats\, trees\, water\, Winnipeg\, birds\, fishing spiders\, and our beloved solar system. Smoke\, fire\, flood\, and meteors are always present because they represent chaos\, along with the Covid virus which is literally everywhere\, including space. Sound is key\, too\, the hum of Winnipeg\, the sounds of the clunky old bike and a neighbourhood filled with birds and people going about their days. \nThis was a labour of love\, and it was a labour of dogged perseverance through trial and error\, figuring out how to take photos while biking\, then how to print them. The 20×20 inch wood panels required a lot of prep work and Juanita drew the background star-field\, which she then printed and transferred to each panel\, moving Captain James Kirk (the cat) around a central axis. After each star-field was applied\, there were many layers of paint and layers of clear pouring medium that followed\, embedded with objects that “move” from one panel to the next. Juanita wanted to create a 3D effect that works if the viewer moves past quickly or stops for a closer look. Above all\, she hopes her work will be fun for you to see\, a break from the heavy things we’ve all got to carry.
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