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- Exhibition Openings
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- Summer Art Camps
Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 22, 2014- Here’s your chance to make unique works of art with the help of talented camp artists. Get inspired by the art at the WAG and through exciting field trips, and stage your own mini-exhibition at the end of the week to show off your masterpiece!
- WAG Studio Presents: Instructors' Art Show 2014
Thursday, July 31, 2014 to Friday, August 22, 2014
- A showcase for the rich variety of visions and passions of the talented artists who teach at the WAG Studio.
August 19 - August 24
- Drop-in Tours: 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc
Sunday May 25, 2014 at 2pmSunday June 1, 2014 at 2pmSunday June 15, 2014 at 2pmSunday June 22, 2014 at 2pmSunday July 6, 2014 at 2pmSunday July 13, 2014 at 2pmSunday July 20, 2014 at 2pmSunday July 27, 2014 at 2pmSunday August 10, 2014 at 2pmSunday August 17, 2014 at 2pmSunday August 24, 2014 at 2pm- Join one of our tour guides for a look at 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.
- University of Manitoba Jazz Camp Faculty Concert
Wednesday August 20, 2014 at 7:30pm
- Join the Jazz Camp Faculty in concert at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
- Members' Event: Seeing Rights and Liberties & Bringing Shadow into Light
Thursday, August 21, 2014 from 2pm to 7pm
- Members, join us for a look at two new thought-provoking exhibitions.
- Flavours of Art: 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc
Friday, August 22, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm
- WAG’s signature dinner-and-tour program may have a new name, but it still features a 3-course, exhibition-inspired, fixed menu at Storm Bistro followed by an exclusive gallery tour.
Exhibitions
- Seeing Rights and Liberties: Celebrating the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Saturday, August 9, 2014 to Saturday, October 4, 2014
- This fall, Canada will welcome its newest national museum, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. In recognition of the CMHR, and to welcome it to the Winnipeg cultural community, the WAG has mounted this display of works from its collection that speak to human rights.
- Bringing Shadow to Light: Gifts from a Manitoba Collection
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 to Wednesday, October 15, 2014
- This exhibition of approximately 40 paintings, drawings, and prints pays tribute to Robert and Margaret Hucal, Manitoba art collectors who, since 1990, have quietly gifted almost 350 works of mostly Canadian historical painting, sculpture, photography, prints, and drawings to the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
- MAWA: Celebrating 30 Years of Women’s Art
Thursday, July 17, 2014 to Sunday, September 28, 2014
- This year Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. This selection of artwork, drawn from Winnipeg Art Gallery’s permanent collection reflects various members, mentors, mentorees, and program participants over MAWA’s history.
- Skybox
Friday, June 27, 2014 to Monday, October 20, 2014
- This summer, the WAG is pleased to present SKYBOX on its exterior ramp facing Memorial Boulevard.
- Inuit Fantastic Art
Saturday, May 31, 2014 to Sunday, October 12, 2014
- The theme for this exhibition was inspired by a sculpture competition in Puvirnituq in 1967 and a subsequent exhibition in Winnipeg in 1972. The competition was organized to encourage the carvers to create works of originality and imagination, independent of the usual commercial production. Artists have continued to create these imaginative works over the years and the WAG has a significant number of these sculptures by a variety of different artists.
- 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.
Saturday, May 10, 2014 to Monday, September 1, 2014
- 7 documents one of Canada’s most important early artist alliances, whose members were Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Carl Ray, and Joseph Sanchez.
- Lynne Cohen: Between Something and Nothing
Saturday, April 12, 2014 to Monday, August 18, 2014
- This NGC@WAG partnership surveys the pioneering photography of Lynne Cohen. The exhibition traces the evolution of her photography of ‘readymade’ spaces over the past 40 years. In addition to the 21 borrowed works from the NGC, the exhibition will be supplemented with Cohen holdings from the WAG’s collection as well as new work by the artist.
- Highlights of Inuit Sculpture
- Tuesday, May 4, 2010 to Friday, March 15, 2019
- An exhibition featuring some of the outstanding Inuit sculptures in the WAG collection.
- Modernist Traditions: 1900-1950
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 to Wednesday, November 5, 2014
- The invention of photography had a lasting impact on how artists in the latter-half of the 19th century came to view the world as shown by these works from the WAG's collection.
- The Academic Tradition in Europe & Canada, 1700-1900
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 to Sunday, March 25, 2018
- From Rome to Utrecht, European artists in the 17th and early 18th century created the emotionally charged work of the Baroque era. In reaction to the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church strove to entice believers back to the fold with gripping and beautiful vignettes of biblical drama
- European Renaissance and Baroque Art: 1500-1700
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 to Sunday, March 25, 2018
- From the WAG's collection, art produced between the 16th and 18th centuries, originating from the leading artistic centres of Europe.This period is marked by important social and political changes, and art itself underwent a major transformation
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Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
- Sunday 11am-5pm
- Closed Monday
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