Media Releases
Fantasy Creatures Coming to the WAG
2012-05-31
Visitors to the Winnipeg Art Gallery this summer will enter an enchanted forest inhabited by fantastical creatures created by leading international artists. Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination will have a free public opening at 7pm, Thursday, June 14. It will continue...
When the Winnipeg Art Gallery closed its doors on American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell just over 30,000 visitors had viewed the show, making it one of the WAG’s most successful exhibitions ever. So popular in fact that the WAG extended it for an extra week and also opened the...
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Meaghan Waller, winner of the2009 Canada’s Next Top Model contest, will open the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s The Collection: A Fashion Show on Wednesday, May 23.
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Barbershop quartet Tempo will be on hand to entertain visitors at the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s final weekend of the exhibition American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell. They will give performances at 11am, 2pm, and 4pm on Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, May 27.
Read more about Barbershop Quartet to Entertain WAG Norman Rockwell Visitors
Meaghan Waller, winner of the 2009 Canada’s Next Top Model contest, will open the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s The Collection: A Fashion Show on Wednesday, May 23.
Read more about Canada’s Next Top Model to Open WAG Fashion Show
WAG Talk on Inuit Prints
2012-05-17
Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration, currently on view at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, is a groundbreaking inquiry into Japanese influences in the early years of the Cape Dorset print studio. On May 30, Dr. Norman Vorano, the Curator of Contemporary Inuit Art at the Canadian Museum of...
The Winnipeg Art Gallery has announced that due to the enormous success of American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell, the exhibition will be extended by one week until Sunday, May 27. The Gallery is also open until 9pm on Thursday and Friday nights for the duration of the show,...
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WAG Exhibition Turns into Fashion Runway
2012-05-09
On Wednesday, May 23 at 7pm, the Winnipeg Art Gallery is transforming its exhibition spaces into a fashion runway with The Collection: A Fashion Show. Against a backdrop of the WAG’s Collection on View exhibition, models will show off the latest looks from Winnipeg’s finest...