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Arlea Ashcroft is a French Anishinaabe/Saulteaux multi-disciplinary artist from Treaty 1 Territory, with ancestral connections to Minegoziibe Anishinabe (Pine Creek First Nation). Her creations often explore themes of mixed-blood identity, cultural heritage, mental health, and gender dynamics. Her art serves as a platform for storytelling and activism, particularly advocating for Indigenous communities and addressing social issues.
Ashcroft's style is recognized for its punk rock aesthetic and raw, confrontational elements, often challenging Western artistic norms by portraying subjects with sharp, vibrant, and sometimes dissonant visuals. She integrates personal experiences, community narratives, and historical contexts to create works that are both visually striking and emotionally evocative.
Her work has received local, national, and international attention, not only for its artistic quality but also for its role in fostering dialogue around identity and resilience. Ashcroft's impact highlights the transformative power of art as a medium for truth-telling, continuing to channel her raw, rebellious energy into her visual, multimedia, music, and literary works. She is happiest chasing sunsets and camping fireside under the stars.

Chris Foster creates semi-representational landscape and flower paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolour that use expressive colour and light … sprinkled with a touch of whimsy.
Chris has always been an admirer of the brushstrokes and techniques of Chinese/Japanese art and will often incorporate some line work influenced by those cultures. A more recent discovery has been creating collage and mixed media pieces....again embracing line work and shapes.
Growing up on the Canadian prairies -Chris now spends 5 months every year in the beauty of the forests and lakes of the Canadian Shield. This has provided her with landscapes that offer a kaleidoscope of colour and amazing light which provide never ending inspiration. This home turf coupled by some amazing cultural world trips have become her painting catalogue.

I am a muralist and an arts educator/facilitator residing in the Eastman region of Manitoba. I am passionate about making art that inspires and engages the public, and that visually enhances public spaces. I administers group mural projects within communities that speak of my strong commitment to making art accessible as a tool for self-expression and healing. My work through the Artists in the Schools program brings me from school to school throughout Manitoba, working with students throughout the research, design and creation of murals to beautify their schools. Mosaic is another art-form I enjoy and have been incorporating into my artwork and community Projects. I have facilitated several community and school mosaic projects that are both beautiful and functional. Using largely discarded materials, these mixed media mosaics bring communities together in the collaborative creation of tactile art for their schools and communities.

My name is Adira Carter, I live in Northern Thompson Manitoba, been here all my life. I like to capture the beauty of everyday life, especially the small details that we can often miss, I love doing this through Photography. I have entered many art shows and as I got older have progressed in that aspect, winning some here and there.
I also paint and draw in different styles, I love creating characters, I have painted murals with a friend as I enjoy working with other artists and collaborating, I love new projects that get my creativity going and a good iced coffee to go with it. I'm always up for a challenge when it comes to art.

born and raised in Saskatchewan and moved to Manitoba in 2013. She is an avid artist and enjoys art in any form. From sewing, knitting, crocheting, and beadwork, there is very little in the form of arts she does not do. Northern Manitoba has expanded her love for the arts with all its beauty, and although she misses the prairies, she wouldn’t trade the northern lights for the world. She is the Northern Champion for Flin Flon and the area and is happy to have the opportunity to share art throughout the north.

Urban Shaman is an Aboriginal artist-run centre dedicated to meeting the needs of artists by providing a vehicle for artistic expression in all disciplines and at all levels by taking a leadership role in the cultivation of Indigenous art.
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Urban Shaman presents contemporary Indigenous Aboriginal art with integrity while remaining rooted in our diverse Aboriginal cultures.

All of Manitoba, Manitoba - Winnipeg

The Manitoba Craft Council is for people who love contemporary craft: professional artists and artisans, collectors and connoisseurs, DIYers and armchair enthusiasts. It’s for people who value the originality and quality of the handmade, who find meaning in making. It’s for the dreamers and schemers who seek to reinterpret the material and cultural traditions of the past through a contemporary lens. It’s for people who have to forge, carve, weave, fold, sculpt, knit. And for their friends and supporters. It’s for you. See, smell, touch, explore the myriad expressions of contemporary craft in Manitoba and be part of a community that is shaped, motivated, and defined by its love of craft.

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All of Manitoba, Manitoba - Winnipeg

The Herdsman House in Neubergthal Artist Residence and Guest House is in a national historic Mennonite Street village in Neubergthal, Manitoba, Canada. It is privately owned and operated by Margruite and Paul Krahn and has been hosting artists of various disciplines since 2015. Margruite is a visual artist, curator, and host of the Herdman House. Paul maintains the buildings and acts as soundman and technician.
With the guidance of Restoration Workshop/Parks Canada, and funding support from the provincial heritage governing body, Paul and Margruite restored and renovated the only remaining village herdsman cottage (c. 1880s) in Canada, as well as a 1927 barn into their home, studio, and 140 seat venue.
The Herdsman House facilitates space for visual artists/photographers, writers/playwrights, performing arts, musicians, educators, curators, culture and heritage.

Manitoba - South Central