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The Prairie Outdoor Exhibition is a sprawling outdoor gallery in Birds Hill Park held during the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
Here are the artists who exhibited in 2009, near or around the west field of the festival site.
James Culleton
45 Labyrinth (map: 3)
A labyrinth, unlike a maze, is made up of one continuous path with no obstacles. Designed as a tool for healing, meditation and contemplation, the labyrinth can offer its participant answers to unanswered questions. This year’s labyrinth is in the shape of an insert for a 45 record.
James Culleton (BFA Honors): One of his major interests is in the field of land art, creating grass labyrinths in and across rural Manitoba.
Shine Glassworks (Brook Drabot & Ryan Lacovetsky)
Borrowed Scenery (map: 4)
Borrowed Scenery was inspired by Shakkei, a 17th century Japanese landscaping concept. These open air, often free standing windows were meant to frame already existing natural scenery and join the view from afar with where we sit or stand.
Brook and Ryan combine their separate skills in cast, laminated, blown and solid worked glass, to create innovative glass art.
Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers
Random Acts of Dance (map: 7)
Random Acts of Dance, spontaneous and ephemeral artistic combustion from Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, is a series of solos and duets. Some performances will feature an original musical score from Winnipeg’s very own Christine Fellows.
Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, now in its 44th year, is one of Canada’s most respected modern dance companies, led by Artistic Director Brent Lott.
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Performances: 1:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Alison & David Foster
The Secret Folk Festival (map: 10)
In 1909 the Transcona Conservatory of Music and Knitting hosted a one-day music festival. Though promoted as a day of stoic fingerpicking and edifying tunes, which failed due to poor scheduling and meagre crowds. One hundred years later the only document of the festival, a short newsreel, was discovered in the Winkler archives and is presented here in its original ‘Kinogratiscope’ format.
Alison and David Foster are educators living in Winnipeg. They like to make music and art together.
Glen Knapp
Portal Plain (map: 6)
Portal Plain pays homage to the natural surroundings and the spirit of the site, through the innate and conceptualized details of the organic structure (a felled and now resurrected tree), as the focal point of the portal.
Glenn practices the art of creation “in any media that permits me to illustrate my vision, experience and philosophies about life and the world around me.”
Nicole Magne & Andrew Bart
Colorful Critters (map: 9)
Artist Statement: The Colorful Critters are back at the Winnipeg Folk Festival! Be sure to stop by and poke your noggin in for a smile!
Nicole Magne (BFA, U of M) is a videographer and Halloween aficionado and Andrew Bart (BFA, U of M) is a graphic designer and illustrator.
Robert Mertens
Going Green
“I insert craft-based, process-oriented materials into a space to reveal the subtle nuances of a skill set or address ecological subjects with an abstracted domestic modus operandi. By connecting abstract concepts to the common acts of knitting, crocheting, weaving, stitching, mending, and embroidering.”
Robert Mertens, a recent graduate for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, focuses his art practice on live components of craftwork techniques.
Teyana Neufeld
Paint By Fabric: A Bug’s World (map: 2)
Take a moment to contemplate life up close with this mini gallery of fabric art pieces. Each of the four detailed scenes vibrantly depicts a different bug surrounded by its familiar environment.
Teyana Neufeld is a real humdinger and folk singer. Her passion lies in the clash of pattern, colour and texture.
Jennie O’Keefe & Chris Pancoe
Bicyclette Optique (map: 14)
Bicyclette Optique takes the 19th century toy, the zoetrope, to a new dimension. Pedalling the bicycle activates this old-fashioned optical toy from setting off a series of cogs that rotate the zoetrope. Once in motion, a miniature movie can be seen (through the slits of the zoetrope). This piece merges and promotes healthy-living, science and art.
Mixed media artists Jennie O and Chris Pancoe work collaboratively and exhibit internationally.
Chantal Parenty
Musoo Jamba (Bold Woman)
map: 12
A confident woman, dancing underneath the light of the sun. Reaching up towards the sky, she wears a dress made from copper leaves that are weathered and bent. The shape of the leaves represents the changing seasons of time.
Chantal Parenty recently graduated from Kootenay School of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited across Canada.
Cyrus Smith
PreFab (located throughout the site)
Prefab is a collection of small, original paintings. Often painted with mistints on rejected pieces of wood, “prefabs” are anarchistic alternatives to run-off-the-mill graffiti art.
Cyrus Smith is a Winnipeg raised artist that has become well-fashioned in the fine tradition of dumpster diving.
Rick Unger & Corrina Loewen
Aeolian Gyre (map: 8)
Catch a glimpse of the prairie breeze at play – twirl through a field of wind-spun flowers. Aeolian Gyre us a dizzying array of brightly coloured flowers that bloom only during the second weekend of July.
Corrina Loewen loves to create! Her recent projects have included rug-making, sewing and paper animation. Rick Unger considers himself a somewhat handy guy. He likes tinkering with things, getting them to work in new and unusual ways.
Secondhandpants (Curtis & Marlon Wiebe)
The Secondhandpants Science-folktion Jukebox Sideshow (map: 15)
The Secondhandpants have returned once again (they are tireless)! The self-proclaimed “science-folktion duo” have once again taken it upon themselves to spread their down-home vision of the future to the masses. Just pop in a coin, button of other small object into the slot then make your selection, honk the appropriate horn and prepare to be astounded!
The Secondhandpants are a revolutionary musical duo. Made up of the ever mysterious Wyll Maynard who hails from the far reaches of outer space and Francis Leonard, a good-natured Saskatchewan bred country boy; the Secondhandpants are the sole creators and performers of a unique musical style known as Science-folktion.
3:00-5:00 p.m. Friday-Sunday
David Wityk
Berlin Fabrik Electrical Panel, Akadimy Medizine Centrum & Michigan Central Station (map: 13)
These montage based photo works are compiled from footage gathered while visiting post industrial centres in Europe and North America. They seek to immerse the viewer visually in these sites and promote an understanding of these otherwise forgotten places and impression of their past significance.
Wityk is a Winnipeg based artist who creates photomontage-based images that address post-industrialism and urban geography.
