The Winnipeg Folk Festival is pleased to use its Folk Exchange venue walls as an art exhibit space. Art @ The Folk Exchange can be viewed by entering through the Music Store at 211 Bannatyne during Music Store opening hours: 11-6, Tues-Sat. Visual artists may inquire with exhibition proposals to info@winnipegfolkfestival.ca.
Art @ the Folk Exchange
At the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Avenue (behind the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store).
Current Exhibition
Art of Music 3
Art of Music 3 is an exhibition of artwork, made by six artists who have showcased their work in the Winnipeg Folk Festival Prairie Outdoor Exhibition and two festival photographers who also make art. Opening reception on Thursday, February 4, 7:00–10:00 p.m. Admission is free.
Past Exhibitions
Art of Music 2
November 28, 2009 to February 2, 2010
Art of Music 2 is an exhibition of artwork, made by musicians. Opening reception on Saturday, November 28, 3:00–6:00 p.m. Admission is free.
Art of Music
September 10 to October 30, 2009
Art of Music is an exhibition of drawings, paintings, and photographs inspired by music. Opening reception on Thursday, September 10, 7:00–10:00 p.m. Admission is free.
Lyrical Lines: Drawings by James Culleton
September 18-October 24, 2008. Opening September 18th 7-9pm. Lyrical Lines is a collection of drawings inspired by music.
This exhibition includes drawings of The D-Rangers, Righteous Ike, The Perpetrators, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Los Lobos, Benwah, Corb Lund, Stonypoint, The Home Cooked Meals, The Undesirables, Madrigaia, Chic Gamine, Nathan, Andrew Neville & the Poor Choices, Scott Nolan, Al Simmons, Gregor, The Western States, The Jake Brakes, Percy Tuesday, Antibalas, Big Dave Maclean, The Cockroaches, Katie Moore, Lew Dite, The Sadies, The Weber Brothers, Bobby Starr, The Smoky Tiger, Lonesome Pine Special, The JakeBrakes, Matt Monsoon and the Riffriders, and many more…
Artist’s Statement
I draw my environment as a way of recording my existence. I collect these drawings of my environment and they become my personal nostalgia. Collecting represents the most rudimentary way to exercise control over the outer world: by laying things out, grouping them, handling them.” I relentlessly draw my surroundings, enjoying the knowledge of this self pleasure, this self-knowing.One of the techniques I use is called blind contour drawing, which involves drawing without looking at the paper. Following the contours of what is seen, but not looking at what is represented, allows the hand to “feel” the environment.
Biography
Born in St.Boniface, James Culleton studied painting and drawing at the University of Manitoba, where he received his BFA Honors in 1997. He has participated in exhibitions at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, The University of Manitoba, The West End Cultural Centre, The Label Gallery, the Graffitti Gallery, ace art inc, articule and the Portage and District Arts Centre and has had solo exhibitions at St.Boniface College, The Pavilion Gallery, and the Kozen Gallery in Montreal, QC.His art has been in publications in Toronto, Montreal, and Winnipeg. His work belongs to private collections in Winnipeg, Calgary, Regina, Toronto, Montreal, and Hamilton, New Zealand. He recently was a professional guest artist at ArtCity, and has taught drawing to children and adults at the Living Prairie Museum.In 2006, he received a grant from the conseil des arts et lettres du Quebec to rediscover his French roots through blind contour drawing. Using a GPS to document his movements, he traveled throughout the province of Quebec using blind contour drawing to research his personal history, and created a weblog as an online diary of drawings.
Pistil & Stamen, Water & Weathered: Photographs by Shanti Subadar
December 21- January 31, 2008
A Birds Hill View: Photography from the Winnipeg Folk Festival
Photo by Tim Beaudry
Photo by Denis Buchan
Photo by Bill Clarke
November 1 - December 15 , 2007The Folk Exchange 211 Bannatyne Avenue Opening November 1, 7 pm to 9 pmViewing November 2 to December 15 During Festival Music Store hours 11 am to 6 pm, Tuesday to SaturdayOn Facebook? You can RSVP to this event at this Facebook event page.Since the Winnipeg Folk Festival’s beginnings, photographers from the community have generously volunteered their time and talent to document the performances and the festivities. The Festival now holds a collection of many thousands of prints, negatives, slides and digital photographs. Don’t let us let them languish in a cupboard! Come out and see A Birds Hill View: Photography from the Winnipeg Folk Festival, the first of what we hope will be many Winnipeg Folk Festival photography exhibitions.The exhibit will include work by six current members of the Festival’s volunteer Photography Crew: Tim Beaudry, Denis Buchan, Bill Clarke, Bert Luit, Robert Tinker and Lisa Waldner. The photographers come from diverse photography backgrounds and will be showing works in a range of styles. The show will also include some archival festival photographs by the late, great photographer David Landy, who documented the festival over many years.
About the Photographers
| Photo by Tim Beaudry |
TIM BEAUDRY has been going to the festival since the beginning … almost! He might have missed the first year or two, and then some in between. He has always taken his camera and gear along, but only started as volunteer in 2000. |
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| DENIS BUCHAN grew up in Vancouver. It would be 15 years from his UBC graduation before he bought his first serious film camera, but he was hooked from virtually the first image. He moved to Winnipeg in the spring of 2006 from the wilds of north-western Ontario, where landscapes were his main subject, and where he produced an award-winning image published in B&W magazine. In Winnipeg, Denis has concentrated on photographing the vibrant local indie music scene. The opportunity to photograph this year’s Folk Festival was a perfect fit. | Photo by Denis Buchan |
| Photo by Bill Clarke |
BILL CLARKE (a.k.a. Ravi Shukla) is a visual artist and musician who lives and works in Winnipeg. Since he graduated from The University of Manitoba in 2000 with a BFA in Photography, his work has been featured in several local, national and international exhibitions. 2007 was his first year as an official photographer of the Winnipeg Folk Festival. |
| BERT LUIT was born in The Netherlands and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His interest in photography began while working as a scanning electron microscopist during the mid 1970s. Beyond the scientific, his photographic interests range from portraiture to landscape and documentary. He is an avid freelancer and has volunteered for the Winnipeg Folk Festival for the past three years. |  Photo by Bert Luit |
 Photo by Robert Tinker |
ROBERT TINKER’S relationship with photography began while he was an MSc student at the U of M. He started freelancing in 1979, and photography became his full-time career and passion. He has worked with a broad range of editorial and arts clients, supplemented with a mix of corporate and institutional work. After selling a story on the festival to Harrowsmith and showing the spread to then-festival boss Rosalie Goldstein, he joined the festival’s volunteer Photo Crew - which he’s been on for the past 26 or 27 years (we’ve lost count). He looks forward to the renewal, reconnection and challenge of each year’s festival. |
| LISA WALDNER pursued her dream of becoming a professional photographer after studying at the Winnipeg School for Professional Photography (now called Prairie View). She turned her passion into a business in 2002 when she started Photofrenzy, now called Tigers Eye Photography. Lisa’s photographs are sold in art shows, at festivals and online. Aside from her scenic and still photography her subjects are mainly musicians, actors and models. Lisa also teaches for Learning Through the Arts (LTTA). She has been a member of the Photo Crew since 2006 and has been instrumental in spearheading this photography show. Visit tigerseyephotography.ca. |  Photo by Lisa Waldner. |
 Photo by David Landy |
DAVID LANDY is sadly missed from the festival’s Photo Crew since he passed away in 2005. Shooting since the festival’s beginning, he was the most prolific photographer in the festival’s history, and no inaugural festival photo show would be complete without a few of his classic and extraordinary shots, straight from the festival archives. |
The Winnipeg Folk Festival presents
Katharine Bruce: It’s All About Soul
The Folk Exchange 211 Bannatyne Avenue Opening September 27, 5:30-9:00 pm Refreshments and entertainment Viewing Tuesday-Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM Until October 27 Enter through the Festival Music Store 
While in the creative process I don’t know what exactly will arrive. I have to accept it willingly! With its colours, rhythms, lines and textures, it shows me a story, sometimes about a land I love, a city I know, the horses that gallop in my heart. The works in this show come from this journey, this adventure. Some paintings emerged as landscape, others are pure colour. The colour of my soul that day, that week.
The Winnipeg Folk Festival is pleased to present the work of Katharine Bruce, September 27 to October 27 in The Folk Exchange. Katharine Bruce is a quintessential artist, having a unique ability to see the spirit within that which she paints, expressed in colours, texture, line and patterns that become evident as part of the soul of her subject. When this is understood, her painting takes on a structure in the mind of the observer that creates meaning and emotion within. To view one is to build a memory, and to watch her work at a public studio is a real experience. Last year she worked in both Grace Hospice and Riverview Health Centre where viewers could enjoy watching her creative process.
Katharine is known for her breathtaking cityscapes and landscapes of New York City, where she was born and lived again as an adult, and of historic Winnipeg and the prairies, where she spent her formative years. She currently has a studio at 138 Portage East where people may view her work by appointment, call 786-3052 or email: kbruce@kbruce.com. Visit her website at www.kbruce.com. 
The Folk Exchange is the Winnipeg Folk Festival’s intimate venue in the heart of the Winnipeg’s Exchange District. It hosts concerts, CD signings, craft sales, community events and, now for the first time, visual arts shows. Art in the Folk Exchange can be viewed, when shows are on, through the Festival Music Store at 211 Bannatyne Avenue, during store opening hours: 11-6, Tuesday-Saturday. Art sales will be handled through the Festival Music Store, and a percentage of all sales will go to support the Winnipeg Folk Festival. For other events at The Folk Exchange, see our Upcoming Events and Upcoming Concerts pages. For more information about this show or about the Folk Exchange, call the Festival at 231-0096. 
Look at Me Closely
do you see the trees?
in winter
their majestic branches
bare,
forming cathedrals
in the sky,
clear.
Breathing,
take deep breaths,
let your legs, your feet
root you
into
the ground
deeply,
look up
clearly.
