It’s fun, exuberant, colourful. It features work by hundreds of children. It’s Through the Eyes of a Child, the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s annual exhibition featuring work by children and teens who have taken fall and winter art classes at the WAG. The exhibition runs from March 27 to May

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Winnipeg glass artist Ione Thorkelsson has received the prestigious Governor General’s Arts Award in Media and Visual Arts, Saidye Bronfman Award. The only Manitoban honoured in the 2010 Awards, Thorkelsson is the second Manitoban to win the Bronfman Award, considered Canada’s most prestigious award for excellence in fine crafts.

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Secrets and symbolism of Canada’s most famous art group come to light in a lecture by bestselling author Ross King. Art Talks: Canadian Art International Speakers Series brings Ross King to the Winnipeg Art Gallery on Thursday, March 25 at 7pm.

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The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s March 14 Family Sunday is going looney with Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Tweety and Sylvester, and other favourite cartoon characters. It’s all part of the exhibition The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons, on at the WAG until May 30.

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Are you interested in art? Have you thought of starting a collection, but are not sure how or where to begin? Sign up for Collecting 101 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and learn from the experts. Join Shaun Mayberry, from Mayberry Fine Art, and Darlene Coward Wight, Curator of Inuit Art at the WAG, as they shed some light on collecting art in Winnipeg in this special two-part series.

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Canadian artist Tony Scherman, whose exhibition Tony Scherman: A Major Acquisition, is currently on view at the WAG, will speak at the Gallery on Thursday, March 4 at 7pm. The talk is included with the cost of Gallery admission.

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Bugs Bunny. Porky Pig. Tweety and Sylvester. They’ll all be at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from March 5 to May 30 as part of the exhibition The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons.

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A Kingdom Reborn: Treasures from Ukrainian Galicia, a stunning film that brings to life the remarkable cultural heritage of the Ukrainian city of Lviv, will be screened in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Muriel Richardson Auditorium from 2 to 4pm, Sunday, February 7. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students (available at the door).

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Delicate Beauty: The Ruby Ashdown Porcelain Collection, an exhibition of 18th- and 19th-century British porcelain, opens at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on January 16. The 120 works in the exhibition are part of a 280-piece collection recently donated to the WAG by Winnipeg collector Mrs. Ruby Ashdown.

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Encaustic painting is the art of painting with hot wax and Canadian artist Tony Scherman is one of the most provocative practitioners of this challenging art. An exhibition of his work, >em>Tony Scherman: A Major Acquisition, opens at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on January 9, continuing until March 14.

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The final concert of the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Jazz under the Rooftop winter series brings together two great legends of jazz. Ron Paley and Ian McDougall join together for a stellar evening in the WAG’s Muriel Richardson Auditorium at 8pm on Saturday, January 16.

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Spend a cold January day in Cuba at the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Family Sunday on January 10. Admission is free all day from 11am to 5pm, and activities take place from 1:30 to 4pm.

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The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s newly formed Student Art Board will stage its first event at 7:00pm, on Thursday, December 17, exploring and interpreting stories inspired by works on view in the EUROfix exhibition.

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The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s next Art After Dark on Friday, November 20, takes you to Cuba through the exhibition Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection.

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For the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Video Pool evening on November 19, performance artist hannah_g presents “Lateral Collateral,” a look at selected videos from Video Pool’s vast collection. The evening, which begins at 7pm, is included with the cost of WAG admission; WAG and Video Pool members free

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The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Jazz under the Rooftop winter continues on Saturday, November 14 with Glenn Buhr and Martha Brooks. Songs of Love, Loss & Laughter begins at 8pm.

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Jason Yaremko, professor of Cultural History of the Americas at the University of Winnipeg, will present a talk on Everything within the Revolution: Culture, Creativity, and the State in Cuba, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on Thursday, November 12 at 7pm. It is included with Gallery

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In conjunction with the exhibition Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, on at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from October 22 until January 10, Cuban artist Dalvis Tuya Valido will be a visiting artist at the WAG from November 16 to 23.

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 In conjunction with the exhibition Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, the Winnipeg Art Gallery is presenting a festival of contemporary Cuban fil

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It’s goblins, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night at the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s October 25 Family Sunday. There is free admission to the Gallery all day from 11am to 5pm, with Family Sunday activities taking place from 1:30 to 4pm.

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The Winnipeg Art Gallery is the first Canadian venue for an outstanding exhibition of contemporary Cuban art. Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection will have a public opening at 7pm on Thursday, October 22. It continues until January 10.

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The highlight of The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s fundraising gala, the Gallery Ball on Saturday, October 17, is the Canadian premiere of Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, a new exhibition which opens to the public on Thursday, October 22.

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At the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Annual General Meeting held on September 23, Board President Naomi Z. Levine announced that the Gallery had a successful year posting a surplus of $4,347.

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Artist Andy Warhol once said that everyone would, sooner or later, have their own 15 minutes of fame and that’s what the Winnipeg Art Gallery is offering to city artists through their new program 15 Minutes. This free, ongoing series of artist salon evenings takes place the first Thursday of every month, beginning October 1. Admission to 15 Minutes is free.

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EUROfix, opening at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on September 19, celebrates five centuries of European art with over 150 works—paintings, sculptures, drawings, and decorative art—all drawn from the WAG’s permanent collection.

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The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Jazz under the Rooftop winter season kicks off on Saturday, October 3 as vocalist, pianist, and percussionist Amber Epp performs “Songs of Live, Loss, and Laughter”.

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At the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s next Art After Dark on Friday, October 2, you can meet Ernest Hemingway and Albert Schweitzer, Brigitte Bardot and Indira Ghandi, Pablo Picasso and Pierre Trudeau. They’re all part of the exhibition Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes which will be one of the featured exhibitions during the evening.

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Winston Churchill. Pierre Trudeau. Audrey Hepburn. Mohammed Ali. Albert Einstein. There will be a lot of famous faces hanging out at the Winnipeg Art Gallery when the exhibition Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes opens on September 26. It continues until January 3.

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The Winnipeg Art Gallery announces the appointment of Alanna Keefe as its new Director of Development, effective today. Ms Keefe will have responsibility for the planning and implementation of private and public sector fundraising, membership development, and the structuring of major capital and endowment campaigns.

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The Winnipeg Art Gallery announces the appointment of Debra Fehr as the new Manager of Communications and Marketing effective today.

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Even the sculptures will be dancing on Thursday, July 30 as Papa Mambo heat up the night at The Winnipeg Art Gallery's Jazz on the Rooftop, held in the WAG's newly restored sculpture garden.

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A new exhibition at The Winnipeg Art Gallery brings together historical portraiture, landscape, and abstract paintings by 50 of Canada's most distinguished artists, including Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, and Jean-Paul Riopelle.

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The final weekend of each month at The Winnipeg Art Gallery is now Young Weekends at the WAG, with art appreciation programs designed particularly for children.

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Winnipeg's Video Pool Media Arts Centre is home to an unbelievably rich and important resource of Canadian video and media art.

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