📸55 venues throughout the province will be exhibiting photography as part of this year’s FLASH Photographic Festival, and we’re so excited to be a part of it!

This April, Walter Dueck joins us in our Upper Gallery for his display “For the Love of Birds”!

Exhibition Dates: April 3 – May 10
Opening Reception: April 3rd, 7 – 8:30 pm

“Photographing birds is about taking time and timing; it’s about being quick and being patient, it’s about seizing the moment and anticipating.” -Walter Dueck

For more information on FLASH and other participating venues, check out www.flashfest.net

Power of Perseverance
by Olga Krahn
Mar. 27 – Apr. 11, 2025
Reception: Apr. 4 @7pm
-Music by George Harold Epp

Inspiration for Power of Perseverance in Manitoba has come about through Olgas Krahn’ s childhood memories. Blue Ribbon coffee, and baking soda provided small collectable cards of birds, flowers, trees, and animals. Each card had a write-up of either still flourishing or even at that time was considered endangered.
Golden wheat fields, round bales, and immense prairie skies are also favourite subjects. Krahn has developed a style invoking the viewer, for a deeper longing to make our world a better place to live. She is also skilled at capturing the light of the prairie landscape and transposing to the canvas the intense colors of summer and autumn, as well as the more subtle shadings of our western winters.

Learn more about Olga Krahn MSA online:
• Instagram @olga.krahn

Upper Gallery Member’s Month
Mar. 6 – 29, 2025

Our Upper Gallery is open for WA+C Members to display their works throughout the month of March. Come on up and checkout a number of paintings, as well as a couple of unique clothing displays, made by local artists!

Artists: Did you miss out on this opportunity? Do not worry; you can access the Upper Gallery again in October, November, and December. We’ll also be having our annual Member’s show in October (stay tuned for more information on that)!

Spectrum is a unique marriage of art and science, a stuffing audio-visual spectacle, giving the audience a true and personal insight into the creative mind of the synesthete. – Dr. Julia Simner, Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Sussex.

Bring your phone and earbuds for this multi-faceted and interactive exhibit!

Spectrum: The Colour of Music will give you a glimpse of a synesthete’s experience. Synesthesia is a rare phenomenon experienced by approx. 4% of the world’s population; a blending of the senses, in this case, music and colour. Listening to music automatically triggers colours. To learn more, visit: www.shirleyelias.com/spectrum

Winkler Arts & Culture Gallery
Thursday, February 6th
7:00 pm – Opening reception
Friday, February 7th
7:00pm – Southern Health-Santé Sud reception

Anna Schwartz, synesthete
Shirley Elias, visual artist

Want to learn more? Check out Shirley and Anna’s interview on Classic 107!
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January 30 – March 1, 2025
Opening Reception: January 30 | 7:00 PM

Winkler Arts and Culture is thrilled to welcome Ngozi Okoye (or Zi for short), artist, and one of our newest board members, to the Upper Gallery with her debut exhibition in our space. After two years of serving as a classroom, the Upper Gallery reopens with Zi’s striking mixed-media works—an exploration of texture, movement, and bold, vibrant color.

Zi’s pieces are dynamic and tactile; each canvas is a layered experience, where color and structure come together beautifully.

Join us for the Opening Reception on January 30 at 7:00 PM, where you’ll have the chance to meet the artist and experience her work firsthand.

This exhibition runs until March 1, 2025.

The Fibre Art Divas formed as a group in 2014, with the idea of sharing their mutual interest in the fibre arts, encouraging and supporting each other, sharing ideas and gaining inspiration. Our group is made up of seventeen Manitoba Fibre Artists from Manitou, Niverville, St. Claude, Springfield, West St. Paul, Headingly and Winnipeg.

If the holidays kept you too busy to visit, here’s your chance: the Moment exhibit by the Fibre Art Divas has been extended until February 1st! Thanks to their generosity and a change in our schedule, you now have extra time to experience this stunning display of fabric artistry.