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Bead Talk

Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics from the Flatlands

Carmen L. Robertson (Editor), Judy Anderson (Editor), Katherine Boyer (Editor)

Beading fosters traditional methods of teaching and learning and enables intergenerational transmissions of pattern and skill. These conversations, interviews, essays, and full-colour reproductions of artwork from expert and emerging artists, academics, and curators from the prairies invite us all into the beading circle.

The Art of Ectoplasm

Encounters with Winnipeg's Ghost Photographs

Serena Keshavjee (Editor)

The Art of Ectoplasm reflects on the history and legacy of T.G. and Lillian Hamilton's extraordinary collection of paranormal photographs, which have inspired and perplexed academics, historians, and artists since their creation a century ago, and offers a compelling look at a chapter in social history not entirely unlike our own.

Establishing Shots

An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group

Kevin Nikkel (Author)

Both a deep dive into the life of an internationally renowned institution and an exploration of the growth of an experimental film movement, this collection of interviews produces a vibrant picture of the Winnipeg Film Group’s origins, successes, failures, and ongoing impact.

Patricia Bovey (Author)

Throughout her remarkable career as a gallery director, curator, and author, Patricia Bovey has been a tireless champion for the work of Canadian artists. Western Voices in Canadian Art brings this lifelong passion to a crescendo, delivering the most ambitious survey of Western Canadian Art to date.

Nancy Van Styvendale (Editor), J.D. McDougall (Editor), Robert Henry (Editor) + others

The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being demonstrates the healing possibilities of Indigenous works of art, literature, film, and music from a diversity of Indigenous peoples and arts traditions.

Making Believe

Questions About Mennonites and Art

Magdalene Redekop (Author)

Part criticism, part memoir, Making Believe argues that there is no such thing as Mennonite art. At the same time, her close engagement with individual works of art paradoxically leads Redekop to identify a Mennonite sensibility at play in the space where artists from many cultures interact.

Injichaag: My Soul in Story

Anishinaabe Poetics in Art and Words

Rene Meshake (Author), Kim Anderson (With)

This book shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin “word bundles” that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics.

Don Proch

Masking and Mapping

Patricia Bovey (Author)

Manitoba artist Don Proch is recognized as one of the most influential visual artists to come out of western Canada, and his work can be found in Canada’s major art galleries. Richly illustrated with more than 80 plates, this book discusses the themes and influences behind his work and their context within the history of Canadian art.

Sovereign Traces, Volume 1

Not (Just) (An)Other

Gordon Henry Jr. (Editor), Elizabeth LaPensée (Editor)

Sovereign Traces: Not (Just) (An)Other merges works by contemporary writers such as Gordon Henry Jr., Gerald Vizenor, Warren Cariou, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Richard Van Camp, and Gwen Westerman with imaginative illustrations by U.S. and Canadian artists.

No Man's Land

The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton, 1868-1954

Kathryn A. Young (Author), Sarah M. McKinnon (Author)

The life story of artist Mary Riter Hamilton (1868-1954) is one of tragedy and adventure, from homestead beginnings, to genteel drawing rooms in Winnipeg, Victoria and Vancouver, to Berlin and Parisian art schools, to Vimy and Ypres, and finally to illness and poverty. No Man’s Land is the first biographical study of Hamilton.

The North End Revisited

Photographs by John Paskievich

John Paskievich (Author), Stephen Osborne (Introduction), George Melnyk (Text) + others

Cities and the people who live in them are enduring subjects of photography. Winnipeg’s North End is one of North America’s iconic neighbourhoods, a place where the city’s unique character and politics have been forged.

Fault Lines

Life and Landscape in Saskatchewan's Oil Economy

Emily Eaton (Author), Valerie Zink (Photographs)

Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau

Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media

Carmen L. Robertson (Author)

Pauline Boutal

An Artist's Destiny, 1894-1992

Louise Duguay (Author), S.E. Stewart (Translator)

Today a great number of Pauline Boutal’s works can be found in major private and corporate collections across Canada. For her contribution to the French culture and theatre in Canada, Boutal was awarded numerous prestigious prizes, including the Order of Canada.

Imagining Winnipeg

History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote

Esyllt W. Jones (Author)

In an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) rose to become the city’s pre-eminent commercial photographer. In Imagining Winnipeg, historian Esyllt W. Jones takes us beyond the iconic to reveal the complex artist behind the lens.

All Our Changes

Images from the Sixties Generation

Gerry Kopelow (Author), Doug Smith (Introduction)

Photographer Gerry Kopelow came of age in the late sixties. At the age of eighteen, with camera in hand he hit the road on a cross-country photographic journey that took him from Winnipeg to Toronto and Ottawa, and All Our Changes is his stunning collection of 160 black and white photographs taken between 1968 and 1970.

Taking Back Our Spirits

Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing

Jo-Ann Episkenew (Author)

Taking Back Our Spirits traces the link between Canadian public policies, the injuries they have inflicted on Indigenous people, and Indigenous literature’s ability to heal individuals and communities.

The North End

Photographs by John Paskievich

John Paskievich (Author), Stephen Osborne (Introduction)