Installation of the $70,000 piece, Table of Contents, by Winnipeg artists Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski, had been delayed by landscaping work being done in the park, which lies in the east portion of the Wolseley neighbourhood.
A monument to Manitoba's ancient glacial past is the newest sculpture to be commissioned by the city's public art program. The Winnipeg Arts Council announced Thursday that it has selected prominent local sculptor and professor Gordon Reeve's submission for a site adjacent to the footbridge to Assiniboine Park off Portage Avenue. It's supposed to be about the environment, not about itself. That's why I call it 'site specific.'
There's so much space in the heart of the city, attempts to "fix" one area -- such as the Manitoba Centennial Centre in the '60s, Portage Place in the '80s or The Forks in the 1990s -- have led to inertia or even decay in other parts of downtown. People always ask: 'When is it fixed? When is it fixed?' But the whole downtown process is an ongoing thing," said Jim August, CEO of The Forks-North Portage Partnership, which is financing a $2 million conversion of the former Downtowner hotel into a new Hostelling International facility. THE PROJECT: CentreVenture wants to partner up with private investors to enhance and develop as much green space as possible over the next three years. Possible projects include a water-sculpture park at The Forks, a dog park at the foot of Pioneer Avenue, ...
Famed Manitoba sculptor Peter Sawatzky, the gallery's featured artist for the first year, believes it will do more than that. "It will attract people from across the country," he said. The Sawatzky retrospective alone includes six large outdoor statues, 27 smaller statues housed indoors as well as 31 framed hanging pieces. (Two of Sawatzky's most famous works are the York boat in Selkirk, and the herd of caribou beside the Richardson Building at Portage and Main.) Sawatzky said people may be surprised to find a sculpture garden in a small town like [Altona] that is equal to the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden in Assiniboine Park. (A Leo Mol sculpture is in the Altona gardens, too.)
Friesens is building a $1-million sculpture park and art gallery in Altona. The art gallery will be the finest outside Winnipeg, the company says. Sculpture and art were a natural for Friesens because it prints so many high-end art books, and attracts people from the art publishing world to Altona. The walls inside the Friesens offices already feature a gallery-like array of work by famous Manitoba artists like Ivan Eyre, Robert Kost, Leo Mol, Armand Paquette and Clarence Tillenius, as well as artists from across Canada. Our staff know and expect Friesens to be a community leader. We've been doing this for a long, long time," he said.
Launched last week, it's the first "online premiere" for the city website. [Paula Kelly] is delighted that her public art project is now as accessible to all Winnipeggers as other city-funded artworks, such as Cliff Eyland's installation in the Millennium Library lobby or Gordon Reeve's Agassiz Ice sculpture near the Assiniboine Park footbridge. I think this is a kind of landmark," she says. "It's an expression of the spirit of the city. "We've been shaped by this experience of flooding and pushing back water," the filmmaker says. "That's why it's called Watermarks. This continual push-pull with nature has left a very deep impression on us as a community."
whipped Toronto's teens into ecstatic Leo Mol Sunday Jazz Series, Assiniboine Park's Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, 3 p.m;
announces that 36 projects located in Canada as well as the United States and China have won national and regional recognition in the prestigious 2007 CSLA Awards of Excellence in Landscape Architecture, among them two Winnipeg companies. Scatliff and Miller and Murray Inc., who in collaboration with Van Der Zalm and Associates Inc. of Surrey, B.C. have one a National Honour Award for The Forks sculpture at Skate Park. Hilderman Thomas Frank Cramwon took home a National Merit Award for Lyra: Aeolian Harp at The Forks. The awards recognize and encourage excellence in all aspects of the landscape architecture profession. "This year, the CSLA received 80 project applications from landscape architects across Canada, which is unprecedented in terms of the number of applications as well as th...
What's going on: This isn't officially billed as a festival, but it may as well be. Over the past few years, Partners in the Park has expanded the music and entertainment programming at the city's largest park to include a weekly Sunday afternoon jazz series in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden beginning June 10; a general music showcase Tuesdays beginning June 12; a smooth jazz series Sunday evenings beginning July 8; Ron Paley's big band with a rotating cast of guests beginning July 12; art exhibits in the Pavilion Gallery Museum; the International Friendship Festival July 22; and Ballet in the Park July 25-27. All events listed take place at the Lyric Theatre except where noted. What's going on: One of Canada's longest running country music events and the province's largest and most popul...
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