ARTists 4 showcase opens today!

After 20 years of seeing each other at a number of different art shows, four women have become friends and banded together to show their work as one group.

Ida Mackenzie, Jo Smoley, Winona Kling and Judy Sutton first met at the Art Rocks art show in East St. Paul. Since then, they have seen each other at other shows and through art groups getting to know each other, complimenting one another on their art and forming a solid friendship.

Most of them started getting involved with art when they were children or teenagers, each having practiced in many mediums.

Sounding a note of concern: WSO executive director Angela Birdsell on potential arts funding shortfall

This week, news broke of a potential fiscal precipice faced by arts organizations across the Canadian Prairies.  

Twenty signatories, including four of this province’s foremost arts institutions (Manitoba Opera, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra), sent a joint letter to Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez requesting additional federal funding.