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Jennifer Gibson, curator of Gallery 1C03 says Lux et Veritas Floreant \/ Let Light and Truth Flourish, says the exhibition is another way to engage one\u2019s senses differently.<\/p>\n
There is also a film component. A 7 p.m. screening tonight at Dave Barber Cinematheque features 10 films by alumni artists, including Steve Bates, Ian Bawa, Mahlet Cuff, Christina Hajjar, Mike Maryniuk, Kevin Settee, Leslie Supnet and Ted Turner. Isaac and Iyunade also have films in the program.<\/p>\n
Although U of W doesn\u2019t have a studio-based visual arts program, it has produced its share of acclaimed visual artists. As such, the exhibition reflects a breadth of artists working across a variety of mediums, each expressing those ideas of light and truth in their own ways.<\/p>\n
KC Adams is a later-in-life alum of the downtown university. The relational maker, educator, activist and mentor completed her undergrad at Concordia University in Montreal, graduating in 1998, then returned to school in 2022 to earn her master\u2019s degree in cultural studies, curatorial stream, from the U of W. <\/p>\n
\u201cI took two years because I\u2019m a full-time artist and a mom, and it was the greatest decision of my life,\u201d says Adams, who had one of her first solo exhibitions at Gallery 1C03.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like it enriched my career even more, so it\u2019s exciting to be a part of this. I\u2019m like the opposite of a lot of people here; they went to school here first and then started their career. I kind of did it the opposite way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Ruth Bonneville \/ Free Press <\/p>\n University of Winnipeg alumni artist KC Adams with her pottery<\/p>\n Adams, a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation living in Winnipeg, has long explored technology in relation to her Indigenous culture in her decades-long art practice. The two pieces included in the exhibition look at ancient technologies.<\/p>\n The first, 2025\u2019s Water Carrier, is an ornate vessel made from locally harvested clay that celebrates form, function and intergenerational knowledge.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile somebody would just look at and go, well, that\u2019s just a pot, like it\u2019s a clay vessel \u2014 but this is actually tons of research that has gone on in creating this,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is from research from archaeologists, going out on the land, sampling different clays, and trying to recreate clay vessels that were based on pottery sherds that I\u2019ve found and looked at in museums and galleries.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have anyone living who remembers how to make them, so it\u2019s about bringing that knowledge and that technology back.\u201d<\/p>\n The second, 2020\u2019s Birch Bark Technology: Gage\u2019gajiwaan, was inspired by that most versatile workhorse of materials.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Supplied<\/p>\n U of M alumni artist Dee Barsy<\/p>\n \u201cBirch bark is such an incredible technology. It\u2019s waterproof and it\u2019s been made into so many tools and so many things, like canoes, which is a technology we still use today,\u201d Adams says.<\/p>\n \u201cThe birch bark represents that understanding of the importance of water as well, and this is an actual drawing of communities that are all connected by water.\u201d<\/p>\n The work is a relief map-meets-circuit board, with rapids, lakes and rivers beaded onto a birch-bark background. A dot-dot-dot pattern represents rapids, the circles are lakes and the longer unbroken strands are rivers connecting it all.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd so, every single spot here, what you\u2019re seeing are communities. These are the waterways. These are what connects us. And I love how that water connects us all. It\u2019s just thinking about technology in a different way, what connects us and how we communicate with one another,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Having an accessible, approachable art gallery on campus is also a vital site of connection and communication.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Sarah Fuller photo<\/p>\n Scott Benesiinaabandan\u2019s cloth, quill, ghost lands.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so incredibly important,\u201d Adams says. \u201cA lot of kids that are coming to school, they\u2019re fresh out of high school, they\u2019ve probably never seen an art gallery before. Given their studies, they don\u2019t have the opportunity to go to art galleries, or they don\u2019t have the comfort or the confidence to go because there\u2019s this strange idea that people will point fingers at you and say, \u2018Why are you here?\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cHaving a gallery in a university is so important, and I feel like Jennifer chooses works that enrich the classes that they\u2019re taking.\u201d<\/p>\n Anyone can explore the exhibitions on view whenever the gallery is open, but students from a wide variety of classes also come to 1C03 as part of their studies. Art offers a different \u2014 and often more visceral \u2014 entry point into the topics and themes they might be discussing.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I often say when the classes come in here, I talk about how you come here to university, you\u2019re in a classroom setting for the most part, and you\u2019re listening to your professor lecture, and maybe you\u2019re giving presentations and having discussions in the class,\u201d Gibson says. \u201cBut this is another means of learning, to really engage your senses differently.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \u201cWhen you come in here, you\u2019re learning visually, that knowledge that the artists have to bring,\u201d Adams adds. \u201cToo often we don\u2019t think of that as a learning medium.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Sarah Fuller photo<\/p>\n Melanie Zurba\u2019s Nothing Exists Alone<\/p>\n Gibson also sees Gallery 1C03 as a slow space in which to engage with art and ideas.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re inundated with visual culture now. We\u2019re on our phones all the time. Let\u2019s take some actual time to stop and pause and actually look at the work in front of us, the physical work in front of us, as opposed to work on a screen,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Lux et Veritas Floreant is on view until Nov. 13.<\/p>\n jen.zoratti@winnipegfreepress.com<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Supplied<\/p>\n Paul Robles\u2019s September Moon Harvest<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Supplied<\/p>\n Shivanya Ra\u2019s \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Supplied<\/p>\n Jadah-Iyunade\u2019s Telephone Gossip.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t Jen Zoratti Jen Zoratti is a columnist and feature writer working in the Arts & Life department, as well as the author of the weekly newsletter NEXT<\/a>. A National Newspaper Award finalist for arts and entertainment writing, Jen is a graduate of the Creative Communications program at RRC Polytech and was a music writer before joining the Free Press in 2013. Read more about Jen<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Jen produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2013 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
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