Fait Maison est une plateforme dédiée à la performance, structurée de manière à favoriser la collaboration et les échanges entre artistes dans la création d’évènements. Travailler avec La Maison des artistes visuels francophones en partenariat avec Urban Shaman et des artistes de Winnipeg renforce cet engagement envers les processus collaboratifs.
À l’occasion de notre passage à Winnipeg — ville située à la confluence des rivières Rouge et Assiniboine, carrefour de cultures et de contrastes — nous reconnaissons ce lieu comme propice aux rencontres : un espace colonial et de résistance, façonné par la cohabitation et l’entrelacement des présences autochtones, francophones, métisses et des vagues successives d’immigrants dans une majorité anglophone.
La rencontre s’est ouverte sur un événement public, un thé performatif durant lequel les invité·e·s ont partagé le thé et participé aux interventions artistiques de KC Adams, Jaime Black-Morsette, Freya Björg Olafson, Reza Rezaï, Fredrick Lyle Spence et Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott avec la participation de Judi Adams, Fereshteh Daneshfar, Kona Menzies et Hellena Rezaï.
L’exposition approfondit cette expérience et vous invite à explorer les traces et les vestiges de ces performances. Elle présente également un échantillon des d'explorations autour du thé, illustrant les relations complexes que diverses cultures et sous-cultures entretiennent avec cette pratique, alliant histoire, culture, esthétique et récits personnels.
En découvrant l’exposition, nous vous invitons à réfléchir à votre propre rôle au sein de cette constellation de liens. Chaque œuvre, chaque geste, chaque trace propose un moment de pause, d’attention et de dialogue. Quelles histoires resurgissent suite à vos interactions avec ces œuvres ? Quels futurs peuvent s’y dessiner ? Et surtout, comment cette rencontre pourrait-elle transformer votre regard sur ce lieu, sur les autres et sur vous-même ?
Dans les médias :
Des artistes se servent du thé pour raconter des histoires et partager l’espoir - Radio-Canada
La rencontre at La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg - Akimbo
Crédits : Adventures Within Media Inc.
Fait Maison
Initié par Thomas Grondin dans sa maison de Gatineau en août 2005, Fait Maison était une fête, un laboratoire, un lieu de performance. D'abord, quelques fois par année, un public était invité à une soirée festive durant laquelle la maison devenait le lieu de performances qui investissaient la maison de la cour à la cuisine, de la cave aux chambres en passant par la salle de bain. Au fil du temps, Fait Maison a accueilli des artistes émergents et établis, régionaux, nationaux et internationaux; tout en multipliant les collaborations et les lieux d'accueils alternatifs que ce soit des maisons privées, ou des lieux professionnels, incluant une exposition à la galerie 101 (Ottawa), L’Imagier (Aylmer), AXENÉO7 (Gatineau) et Art- image (Gatineau). C'est la première fois que Fait Maison se déroule à l'ouest d'Ottawa.
Fait Maison a accueilli 38 évènements et plus de 100 performeurs pour plus de 200 performances incluant des artistes tels que Istvan Kantor, Sylvie Tourangeau, Ulysses Castellanos, Victoria Stanton, Clive Robertson, Julie-Andrée T, Alexis Bellavance, Michelle Lacombe et les Gutaï Sadaharu Horio Takesada Matsutani en plus du noyau d'artistes d'Hull-Ottawa qui participaient à l'organisation des évènements, incluant Theo Pelmus, Cara Tierney, Hélène Lefebvre, Stefan St-Laurent, Roy Lu, Mélanie Myers Véronique Guitard, Hugo Gaudet-Dion, Maxime B. Huneault, Andréa Martel Crites et Anna Khimasia.
Thomas Grondin
Thomas Grondin est un artiste, commissaire, administrateur et un professeur vivant entre Val-David et Gatineau. Il enseigne l’histoire de l’art au Cégep de l’Outaouais. Il détient un baccalauréat en Arts Visuels de l’UQO et une maitrise en histoire de l’art de l’UQÀM. Dans sa démarche Thomas se préoccupe des processus collaboratifs, de communautés et du domestique dans un effort pour participer à une vision plus inclusive et complexe de l’art.
Anna Khimasia
Anna Khimasia est une commissaire indépendante et une professeure vivant actuellement à New York. Travaillant souvent en collaboration, les projets de commissariat d’Anna se concentrent sur les voix et les corps sous-représentés, interrogeant les politiques liés à l’espace, à la race et au genre. Elle a obtenu son doctorat de l’Institute of Comparative Studies in Littérature, Art, and Culture à la Carleton University. Elle est la cofondatrice d'International Arrivals, qui soutient les artistes originaires de pays en conflit. Le podcast International Arrivals est disponible sur la plupart des grandes plateformes de podcast. Elle enseigne l'art contemporain, la performance et la contestation à l'UCLA et à Rutgers.
Theo Pelmus
L'un des membres originaux de Fait Maison, Theo Pelmus est un artiste de performance et un participant actif au sein de la communauté artistique de Winnipeg, Ottawa et Toronto. Il a exposé à l'échelle nationale et internationale, notamment à Bogota, New York, Copenhague et à la Biennale de Bucarest. Theo est titulaire d'un baccalauréat et d'une maîtrise en beaux-arts de l'Université des beaux-arts de Bucarest et d'une deuxième maîtrise en beaux-arts de l'Université d’Ottawa.
KC Adams
KC Adams (Anishinaabe/Ininnew/Britannique) est une membre inscrite de la nation crie de Fisher River, résidant à Winnipeg, au Manitoba. Elle détient un baccalauréat en beaux-arts de l’Université Concordia ainsi qu’une maîtrise en études culturelles, volet commissariat, de l’Université de Winnipeg. Elle est une facilitatrice relationnelle, une créatrice dont le travail est enraciné dans les systèmes de savoirs autochtones. Elle est également éducatrice, militante, membre active de sa communauté et mentore.
KC a participé à plusieurs expositions individuelles et collectives, ainsi qu’à des résidences artistiques, et a été présentée dans trois biennales, notamment la PHOTOQUAI : Biennale des images du monde à Paris, en France. Vingt œuvres de sa série Cyborg Hybrid font partie de la collection permanente du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada à Ottawa, et quatre arbres de Birch Bark Ltd sont inclus dans la collection du consulat canadien en Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, en Australie.
Adams a reçu plusieurs distinctions, dont le prix Making A Mark du Conseil des arts de Winnipeg, la médaille du Sénat du Canada 150, le prix Ohpinamake en art autochtone et la reconnaissance de Quill & Quire pour les livres de l’année 2019.
Jaime Black-Morsette
Jaime Black-Morsette est une artiste et militante Métisse de la rivière Rouge, dont la famille possède des certificats de terres signés dans la communauté de St Andrews, au Manitoba. Jaime vit et travaille sur son territoire d’origine, près du confluent des rivières Rouge et Assiniboine. Fondatrice du projet REDress en 2009, Black-Morsette utilise sa pratique artistique depuis plus d’une décennie comme un moyen de rassembler la communauté, de susciter l’action et de provoquer le changement face à l’épidémie de violence envers les femmes et les filles autochtones à travers l’Île de la Tortue. Sa pratique artistique interdisciplinaire comprend le cinéma immersif, la vidéo, l’art d’installation, la photographie et la performance. Son travail explore les thèmes de la mémoire, de l’identité, du territoire et de la résistance.
Freya Björg Olafson
Freya Björg Olafson est artiste intermédias travaillant la vidéo, l'audio, l'animation, la capture de mouvement, la réalité augmentée (XR), la peinture et la performance. Sa pratique porte sur l'identité et le corps, influencée par la technologie et Internet. Le travail d'Olafson a été présenté à l'international au Bauhaus-Archiv (Berlin), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Caroline du Nord), Ludwig Museum (Budapest) et au Centre national des Arts (Ottawa). En 2020, l'artiste était finaliste du Prix Sobey pour les arts. Olafson détient une maîtrise en nouveaux médias du Transart Institute for Creative Research/Donau University Krems et est actuellement professeur·e adjoint·e en arts numériques à The School of Art de l’Université du Manitoba.
Fredrick Lyle Spence
Fredrick Lyle Spence (Thunder Bear) est né et a grandi dans la Première Nation de Peguis. Il a toujours aimé exprimer sa créativité sous diverses formes tout au long de sa vie. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme d’études secondaires à l’âge de 16 ans, Fred a déménagé à Winnipeg, où il a travaillé dans la construction pendant cinq ans avant de découvrir un intérêt particulier pour l’électricité. Il est ensuite devenu électricien compagnon et a obtenu avec succès un diplôme en technologie du génie électrique. Pour diverses raisons, au début de sa vie adulte, Fred a développé un problème de dépendance. C’est l’art qui lui a permis de reprendre le contrôle de sa vie avec succès.
Reza Rezaï
Reza Rezaï est un artiste, écrivain et éducateur basé à Winnipeg. Il travaille actuellement sur son premier livre de photographies intitulé انار (anar) ainsi que sur une série de peintures grand format au titre provisoire a poor man’s wanda koop.
Hellena Rezaï
Hellena Rezaï est une chanteuse-compositrice indépendante lo-fi basée à Winnipeg qui performe sous le pseudonyme helle.
Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott
Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott (elle) est une artiste multidisciplinaire et travailleuse culturelle originaire de Québec (QC). Bachelière en beaux-arts (Print Media) de l'Université Concordia en 2018, elle détient une Maîtrise en arts visuels et médiatiques de l'Université NSCAD en 2020. Elle s'intéresse au travail invisible et non rémunéré qui existe en périphérie de toute pratique artistique et aborde ces tâches bureaucratiques comme du travail, comme façon de légitimer l’art. Ses performances invitent à réfléchir à la valeur du travail de l'artiste, aux perceptions de la productivité et à l'endroit où la vie et l'art se rencontrent.
Elle a présenté son travail dans des centres d'artistes autogérés et des galeries à travers le Canada, notamment notamment à La Maison des artistes visuels francophones (Winnipeg, MB), au Atlantic Arts Symposium (Saint-John, NB) et plus récemment à Latitude 53 (Edmonton, AB). Elle a également participé à des résidences de recherche et création à l’Atelier d’estampe Imago (Moncton, NB), chez Céline Bureau et à L’imprimerie, centre d’artistes (Montréal, QC). Elle travaille aussi de manière collaborative sur des projets de performance participatifs. Le Conseil des arts du Canada, Arts Nova Scotia, LOJIQ et Culture Montérégie ont soutenu financièrement sa pratique.
Fait Maison is a platform dedicated to performance, fostering collaboration and exchange between artists for performative events. Working with La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, in partnership with Urban Shaman, and artists in Winnipeg underlines this commitment to collaborative processes.
Fait Maison understands Winnipeg — a city at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, a crossroads of cultures and contrasts — to be a place of encounter: not only a colonial space, but also one of resistance, shaped by the coexistence and interweaving of Francophone, Indigenous, Métis, and successive waves of immigrants in an predominantly anglophone place.
La rencontre began as a public event — a performative tea — during which guests were invited to have tea and take part in artistic interventions by KC Adams, Jaime Black-Morsette, Freya Björg Olafson, Reza Rezaï, Fredrick Lyle Spence, and Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott, with the participation of Judi Adams, Fereshteh Daneshfar, Kona Menzies, and Hellena Rezaï.
The exhibition deepens this experience, inviting you to explore the traces and remnants of these performances. It presents a selection of explorations related to tea, illustrating the complex relationships that various cultures and subcultures have with this practice, combining history, culture, aesthetics, and personal stories.
As you move through the exhibition, we invite you to reflect on your own role within this constellation of connections. Each work, each gesture, each trace offers a moment of pause, of attention, and of dialogue. What stories resurface through your interactions with these works? What futures might begin to take shape? And above all, how might this encounter transform your perspective — on this place, on others, and on yourself?
Fait Maison
Initiated by Thomas Grondin in his home in Gatineau, Quebec in August 2005, Fait Maison was a party, a laboratory and a performance space. On selected evenings a few times a year an audience was invited to a party in which performances happened at different moments and spaces in and around Grondin’s home from the garden, to the kitchen, to the basement and even the bathroom. Over the years Fait Maison incorporated a range of performance artists, both emerging and established, as well as local, national and international and has had events at various alternative locations including private houses, an exhibition at G101(Ottawa), L’Imagier (Aylmer). AXENÉO7 (Gatineau) and Art-image (Gatineau). This is the first time Fait Maison has come west of Ottawa.
Fait Maison has hosted over 38 events, with over 100 performers and over 200 performances including artists such as Istvan Kantor, Sylvie Tourangeau, Ulysses Castellanos, Victoria Stanton, Clive Robertson, Julie-Andrée T, Alexis Bellavance, Michelle Lacombe and Gutaï Sadaharu Horio Takesada Matsutani amidst a core group who were based in Ottawa and Gatineau, including Theo Pelmus, Cara Tierney, Hélène Lefebvre, Stefan St-Laurent, Roy Lu, Mélanie Myers, Véronique Guitard, Hugo Gaudet-Dion, Maxime B. Huneault, Andréa Martel Crites and Anna Khimasia.
Thomas Grondin
Thomas Grondin is an artist, curator and educator based between Val-David and Gatineau. He teaches art history at Cégep de l'Outaouais and holds a bachelor's degree in visual arts from UQO and a master's degree in Art History from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). Thomas’ work focus on collaborative process, community and domesticity in an effort to be part of a more inclusive and complex vision of art
Anna Khimasia
Anna Khimasia is an independent curator and educator currently based in New York City. Often working collaboratively, Anna’s curatorial projects focus on under-represented bodies and voices, interrogating the politics of space, race and gender. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University. She is the co-founder of International Arrivals, supporting artists hailing from countries in conflict. The International Arrivals podcast can be found on most major podcast platforms. She teaches courses on contemporary art, performance, and protest at both UCLA and Rutgers.
Theo Pelmus
One of the original members of Fait Maison, Theo Pelmus is a performance artist and active participant in the arts communities of Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Toronto. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Bogota, New York, Copenhagen, and the Bucharest Biennale. Theo holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Fine Arts in Bucharest and a second Master of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa.
KC Adams
KC Adams (Anishinaabe/Ininnew/British) is a registered Fisher River Cree Nation member living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a B.F.A. from Concordia University and an M.A. in Cultural Studies, Curatorial Stream from the University of Winnipeg. She is a relational maker, a creator whose work connects to Indigenous knowledge systems and is also an educator, activist, community member and mentor. KC has had several solo and group exhibitions and residencies and has been in three biennales, including the PHOTOQUAI: Biennale des images du monde in Paris, France. Twenty pieces from the Cyborg Hybrid series are in the permanent collection of the National Art Gallery in Ottawa, and four trees from Birch Bark Ltd are in the Canadian Consulate of Australia, NSW collection. Adams was awarded the Winnipeg Arts Council’s Making A Mark Award, Canada's Senate 150 medal, the Ohpinamake Award in Indigenous Art and the Quill & Quire’s 2019 Books of the Year.
Jaime Black-Morsette (eng)
Jaime Black-Morsette is a Red River Métis artist and activist, with family scrip signed in the community of St Andrews, Manitoba. Jaime lives and works on her home territory near the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Founder of The REDress project in 2009, Black-Morsette has been using their art practice as a way to gather community and create action and change around the epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls across Turtle Island for over a decade. Black-Morsette's interdisciplinary art practice includes immersive film and video, installation art, photography and performance art practices. Her work explores themes of memory, identity, place and resistance.
Freya Björg Olafson
Freya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist who works with video, audio, animation, motion capture, XR, painting, and performance. Olafson’s work has been exhibited and performed internationally at the Bauhaus Archiv (Berlin), SECCA - SouthEastern Center for Contemporary Art (North Carolina), LUDWIG museum (Budapest), and The National Arts Center (Ottawa). Olafson has benefitted from residencies, most notably through EMPAC - Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (New York), Oboro (Montreal), and Counterpulse (San Francisco). In spring 2020 Olafson was one of the longlist ‘Sobey Art Award’ recipients through a nomination by Video Pool Media Arts Center and in July 2021 Olafson's work "MÆ- Motion Aftereffect" was selected for the 'Lumen Prize for Art & Technology' longlist. Olafson holds an MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute / Donau Universität. From 2017 - 2021, Olafson was Assistant Professor in Screendance within the Department of Dance at York University in Toronto. Since July 2021, Olafson has been an Assistant Professor in Digital Media at the University of Manitoba School of Art.
Fredrick Lyle Spence
Fredrick Lyle Spence (Thunder Bear) was born and raised in Peguis First Nation. He has enjoyed being creative in various forms for most of his life. Upon graduation from high school at 16 years old, Fred moved to Winnipeg where he worked construction for 5 years before discovering a specific interest in electrical work. He went on to become a journeyman electrician and successfully completed electrical engineering technology diploma. For a variety of reasons, during his early years of adulthood Fred developed a substance abuse issue. It was art that allowed him to successfully take his life back.
Reza Rezaï
Reza Rezaï is a Winnipeg based artist, writer and educator. He is currently working on his first photobook titled انار (anar) as well as an ongoing series of large scale paintings under the working title a poor man’s wanda koop.
Hellena Rezaï
Hellena Rezaï is an independent lo-fi singer-songwriter currently based in Winnipeg who performs under the moniker helle.
Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott
Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott (she/her) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and arts worker from Quebec (QC). She graduated with a BFA (Print Media) from Concordia University in 2018 and an MFA from NSCAD University in 2020. She’s interested in the invisible and unpaid labour that exists on the edge of any artistic practice, and approaches these bureaucratic tasks as work, as a way to legitimize art making. Her performances reflect on the value of the artist’s work, perceptions of productivity and where life and art meet.
She has presented works in artist-run centers and galleries across Canada, such as at La Maison des artistes visuels francophones (Winnipeg, MB), the Arts Atlantic Symposium (Saint-John, NB), and more recently at Latitude 53 (Edmonton, AB). She also took part in research and creation residencies at l’Atelier d’estampe Imago (Moncton, NB), Celine Bureau and L’imprimerie, centre d’artistes (Montreal, QC). In addition to her own practice, she works collaboratively on participative and performance projects. The Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, LOJIQ and Culture Montérégie have financially supported her work.
La Maison des artistes visuels francophones
La Maison acknowledges that we are located on Treaty 1 territory and that the lands on which we gather are part of the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Ininewuk, Anisininewuk, Dakota Oyate and Denesuline peoples and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.
We acknowledge the historical oppression of the lands, cultures and first peoples of what is now Manitoba and, more broadly, Canada, by French-speaking colonizers. La Maison believes that the arts contribute to the healing and decolonization process that we pursue together in a spirit of reconciliation and cooperation.
We also acknowledge that our water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation located on Treaty 3 territory, which until recently, did not have access to clean drinking water.
La Maison des artistes visuels francophones (La Maison) strives to make the visual arts radiate throughout Manitoba as well as Canada and the world, while providing a welcoming space for francophone artists and members of the community.
The Contemporary Arts Gallery
Each year, the Maison des Artistes offers between 5 and 6 professional exhibitions in its main gallery. By placing these exhibitions in a linguistic minority context, La Maison seeks to awaken and educate the public on how culture shapes our vision of the world around us.
The Studio
Adapted into a multifunctional gallery in 2016, the Studio welcomes all your ideas, from the most innovative artistic exploration to community projects! Its short-term exhibitions help local artists promote their work, network and advance their careers.
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The Maison des Artistes is located in Treaty 1 territory, the traditional territory of the Anishinabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene peoples, and the cradle of the Métis nation. It recognizes that these peoples are the true custodians of the lands and waters of this territory.
La Maison des artistes visuels francophones is a not-for –profit organization committed to the pursuit of meaningful dialogue about art and creativity for the francophone community. We provide public programs and art exhibitions that resonate with our many audiences. At La Maison, we warmly invite and welcome people from all backgrounds and ages; artists from all visual arts disciplines to engage in a multi-cultural dialogue about distinct minority communities, identity and sense of place. We provide professional support for artists every step of the way in innovative ways in which to experience art for the community at large.
La Maison des artistes visuels francophones is a contemporary reflection of the collective stories from the Red River Valley. This important crossroads was a trading route for Indigenous peoples and the European settlers who began arriving in the early 1800s. Through time this created a tapestry which is unique to Manitoba that includes the diverse French Quarter of Saint- Boniface and a multitude of bilingual rural towns located throughout Manitoba.
Reflecting this history, La Maison was founded on February 7, 2000 in Winnipeg and already had about fifteen members. The president at the time, Mario Buscio, indicated that "[La Maison's mandate] will be to promote and distribute the works of French-speaking artists [and] to encourage exchanges between artists. "Breaking through isolation has been an important component of La Maison from its inception: even the choice of its name, La Maison des Artistes, signals the desire to create a space for meeting and gathering. La Maison now has over a hundred members and presents a rich and varied artistic and educational program each year.
La Maison is aimed at a large and diverse audience, from all walks of life and from all economic means, flourishing in the face of the French language's appeal and culture, brimming with solidarity and inclusion for minority communities. In this sense, the original name of the artist center was changed in 2004 to "La Maison des artistes visuels francophones inc." To better reflect the artistic vision of La Maison, which is an integral part of linguistic history of Canada. This vision is based on the many languages used before and after colonialism and which were suppressed until the creation of the Official Languages Act of 1969 and, more recently, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of 2008 which drew l attention to the loss of indigenous languages.
Defining its actions by belonging to a minority, La Maison takes the representation of diversity to heart. The programming of exhibitions and activities is a way to highlight the richness of this and to engage the public in the integration and acceptance of difference, but more particularly in relation to linguistic minorities. The values that guide the actions of the organization -- inclusiveness, fulfillment, solidarity, creativity, and integrity-- testify to this desire.
Our Mission
La Maison des artistes visuels francophones is first and foremost an association serving francophone visual artists in Manitoba who want to work to ensure the viability of an artistic career. It sees to their development and is dedicated to the defense of their individual and collective interests. The activities of La Maison must meet the needs of representation, training, promotion and dissemination of the visual arts. The organization is committed to offering training for members in good standing and raising public awareness in general.
Our Vision
La Maison strengthens the vitality and diversity of the Francophonie by being recognized as a major player in culture and the visual arts.
Our Values
The actions of La Maison are thought out and carried out around the following values:
Our Partners
Each year, La Maison collaborates with between 20 and 25 various organizations inside and outside its walls and strives to continue supporting its existing partnerships while building new relationships with organizations in and outside the cultural milieu. These partnerships aim to support and diversify La Maison's activities, but also to develop new audiences. The organization actively relies on interdisciplinary dialogue to allow more people to discover the visual arts.
Here are a few partners from with whom La Maison has worked with in recent years:
Accueil Francophone http://accueilfrancophonemb.com
Alliance française du Manitoba https://www.francophonie-en-mouvement.com
Art AccessAbility Network Manitoba (AANM) https://aanm.ca
ArtCity https://artcityinc.com
Artspace https://art-space.ca
Association des groupes en arts visuels francophones (AGAVF) https://www.agavf.ca
Centre culturel franco-manitobain (CCFM) https://ccfm.mb.ca
Centre Bang https://centrebang.ca
Centre Turbine http://centreturbine.org/d7/
Conseil jeunes provincial (CJP) https://conseil-jeunesse.mb.ca
Éditions du Blé http://ble.refc.ca
Entreprises Riel http://www.entreprisesriel.com/en/
Fédération culturelle canadienne-française https://www.fccf.ca
Festival international des écrivains de Winnipeg https://conseildesarts.mb.ca/2019/09/le-festival-international-des-ecrivains-de-winnipeg-subvention-partage-presentation/
Festival du voyageur https://heho.ca/fr/
Fierté Winnipeg https://pridewinnipeg.com
Jeunesse au travail Canada Jeunesse Canada au travail - Canada.ca
Katimavik https://katimavik.org/en/
Le 100 nons https://100nons.com
Manitoba Art Network https://manitobaartsnetwork.ca
La Maison acknowledges that we are located on Treaty 1 territory and that the lands on which we gather are part of the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Ininewuk, Anisininewuk, Dakota Oyate and Denesuline peoples and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.
We acknowledge the historical oppression of the lands, cultures and first peoples of what is now Manitoba and, more broadly, Canada, by French-speaking colonizers. La Maison believes that the arts contribute to the healing and decolonization process that we pursue together in a spirit of reconciliation and cooperation.
We also acknowledge that our water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation located on Treaty 3 territory, which until recently, did not have access to clean drinking water.
La Maison is a proud member of MARCC, L'AGAVF, CARFAC Manitoba and Manitobans for the Arts.
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Phone:
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday from 11am to 5:30pm
Thursday from 11am to 8pm
Saturday from 11am to 4pm
Each year, La Maison des Artistes offers between 5 and 6 professional exhibitions in its main gallery. This program seeks to present current works in various disciplines and is reflected each year around a theme. By placing these exhibitions in a linguistic minority context, La Maison seeks to awaken and sensitize the public on the way in which culture models our vision of the world around us.
La Maison constantly reassesses the vision proposed by its programming with the awareness that each cultural creator brings with him the weight of social responsibility and the possibility of societal change. In a period of global challenges where identity and diversity are divisive issues, La Maison plays an important role in the cultural fabric by acting as a linguistic bridge between several minority communities.
La Maison provides an opportunity to celebrate difference and enrich the cultural realm through dialogue , and art in Manitoba and beyond. La Maison is an accessible space for creative dreamers that showcases culture and events in French, where all those who wish can participate and belong to a community full of possibilities.
Call for Applications
Chosen by a call for applications or by invitation, the professional exhibitions of the contemporary gallery are scheduled until spring 2028. These exhibitions, lasting approximately 2 months, are presented in the main gallery, but can also spill over if necessary into the Studio, a space adapted into a multifunctional gallery in 2016. La Maison relies on a critical dialogue in the orientation of its programming and the projects it presents address contemporary issues in different mediums of the visual arts spectrum.
The selection of the 2028-29 program will be made in summer 2026 through a call for proposals revolving around a specific theme. The projects that will be part of it will be selected by a committee formed by members of the La Maison team and Francophone artists or cultural workers following a call for projects.
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A space adapted into a multifunctional gallery in 2016, the Studio welcomes all your ideas, from the most innovative artistic exploration to community projects! Its short-term exhibitions help local artists promote their work, network and advance their careers. With this space, La Maison can also meet the needs of organizations in its community for professional exhibition spaces. The Studio also contains a small room with about fifteen seats, the Mini-Studio, where projections of video works can be presented.
The Studio's programming is usually decided between 4 and 6 months in advance to offer artists a flexible professional space for experimental projects, with critical deadlines or which represent an exciting opportunity. The organization wishes to maintain this flexibility in the use of this space to respond quickly to more innovative, one-off or specific projects. In this way, La Maison listens to artists who wish to develop or test new ideas, who have specific needs (for example, benefit from professional space and lighting to photograph their work) or who wish to receive feedback on their work by taking it out of the studio to exhibit it to the public and the artistic community.
Call for applications
With flexible programming planned a few months in advance, La Maison is always interested in receiving new projects for the Studio! Whether you are an artist or a community group, you can submit a project by emailing our programming team with a short statement of intent and some images if you have them.
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In partnership with the City of Winnipeg and various levels of government, La Maison created the Sculpture Garden in 2008, an outdoor green space adjacent to La Maison’s galleries. The gardens contribute to culture, community, economic development, heritage and the arts in the community. Today, the Garden features 5 permanent sculptures commissioned from renowned French Canadian artists as well as ephemeral projects in collaboration with Cool Gardens. The Sculpture Garden also features a light box located directly towards Provencher Boulevard, a major traffic artery in the St. Boniface neighbourhood. This structure, set up a few years ago as part of the Flash Photographic Festival, is designed to showcase photographic works with each work being presented for approximately one year. The Sculpture Garden welcomes thousands of visitors every year with public events organised by La Maison or its partners. As with the art gallery, access is always free for the public.
At the same time as the creation of the Garden, the charitable organization "Les Amis des arts visuels du Manitoba" was registered with the mandate to promote the visual arts and be the custodians of the Sculpture Garden. Its main activities are the maintenance of the 5 permanent public art sculptures, yearly upkeep of the garden and raising the funds for new sculptures.
Membre artiste
The membre artiste category is open to anyone with a visual arts production, curator, art critic or cultural worker can become a member. Visual arts encompass more traditional practices like painting, sculpture, printmaking, fine crafts including fine art photography (analog and digital), illustration, performance, art video, but also new artistic practices such as digital (still and mobile images) and media arts. Multidisciplinary practices which relate to one or more fields of the visual arts are also included as part of the visual arts.
Membership status allows the membre artiste to participate in the annual Membership Show and sell their pieces there if required. They can also take advantage of special offers such as participating in networking activities, workshops and training at no charge or at reduced prices or invitations to VIP events (networking, special evenings, previews). He can also have his profile page on our website. Membre artiste have the right to participate in all the activities of the organization, to receive notices of convocation to members' meetings, to attend these meetings and to vote there.
To maintain their status, the membre artiste must pay their annual membership fee.
Membre de soutient
Anyone, business or organization that cares about the arts and culture, wants to offer support to artists and keep abreast of what is happening in the cultural community can become a membre de soutien.
The membre de soutien benefits from discounts on La Maison’s products and invitations to VIP events (networking, special evenings, previews) in addition to receiving our newsletter which allows them to be aware of the latest activities on the scene. artistic and our programming. Membre de soutien have the right to participate in all activities of the organization, to receive notices of meetings of members and to attend such meetings. However, they are not allowed to vote there.
To maintain their status, the membre de soutien must pay their annual membership fee.
Membre honoraire
Since its general assembly in October 2019, La Maison des artistes has a new category of members: honorary members. This distinction can be granted to any person who has rendered service to the latter through his work or through his donations or who has shown his support for the goals pursued by the organization or who has offered the Francophone community of Manitoba extraordinary service.
The nomination of an honorary member will be made following consultation of the members who may submit applications accompanied by a complete file respecting the standards established by a selection committee mandated to evaluate the files and recommend a member to the Board. All intentions for the nomination of an honorary member will be sent to all members in good standing with the notice of the general meeting.
To submit an application, you must be a member in good standing (artist member or supporting member) and submit at least one month before the annual general assembly a file including the following elements: a letter explaining why the nominated person should become an honorary member de La Maison, an agreement with the latter for the nomination as well as an up-to-date curriculum vitae.