🌅 MORNING LIGHT - MAY 14, 2026 🌅
☀️🎨 The latest exhibition at the @pluginica is actually two exhibitions in one. Both “Observance” by @aprilhickox and “Lexicon of Loss” by @sheila.spence explore themes of grief through floral photography. Sheila (and her dog Ginger!) spoke with us about the creation process for her works, and the added meaning the collaboration has gained since April’s passing.
☀️🏃 Classic 107 is proud to have @bodymeasure.ca sponsor Morning Light! The business provides Winnipeggers with a fuller picture of their health, and help them work toward their healthiest self, whatever that may look like. Co-owner @melina.elliott joined us to tel us more about the work she and her team do.
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🖼 Sarah Anne Johnson: House on Fire @ Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg 🖼
House on Fire is the title of a long series of works produced by artist Sarah Anne Johnson. Coming from a deeply personal narrative, House on Fire is the artist’s belated response to a family trauma unearthed and fragmented, but one that she has ultimately reassembled.
Johnson’s grandmother, Velma Orlikow, was a victim of psychiatric experiments performed at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal. The installation, which centres on a dollhouse of secrets, also includes altered family photos, archival newspaper clippings, and small bronze figures of distress. Over time, the project grew from the original installation to include performances created for video.
This iteration of House on Fire is currently presented as a reconsideration of the original installation and an introduction to new works by this remarkable artist.
House on Fire is on view June 4 – July 25, 2026.
Opening Reception: June 4, 2026, 7pm
For more information, please visit the link in bio.
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📸 Image: Sarah Anne Johnson, House on Fire.
#PlugInICA #SarahAnneJohnson #ContemporaryArt #InstallationArt #WinnipegArt
🌅 MORNING LIGHT - MAY 11, 2026 🌅
☀️🎭 @drycoldproductions is getting ready for the Manitoba premiere of the Tony Award-winning show “Kimberly Akimbo” this week. Stars @bradybarrientos and @sarah_luby14 joined us in the studio alongside music director Rachel Cameron (@the_singing_pianist ) and director @j_stadnyk to tell us more about the show’s earnestness and how it brings humour to the somewhat dark plot.
☀️📚The @pluginica ’s latest book release is a celebration of an exhibit first shared back in 2021 of the works of @loriblondeau . Lori joined us to talk about her three decade-plus career of performance, installation and photographic art that has broken down stereotypes about Indigenous women and how it all came together in “I’m Not Your Kinda Princess”.
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Spring in Winnipeg 🌷🩶❄️
I took the same photo of @walterkscott artwork at @pluginica that I took 4 years ago during my first visit, when I came to install my show at @maisondesartistes !
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Je reviens à Winnipeg depuis plusieurs années maintenant et c’est devenu un lieu vraiment spécial dans ma vie. J’y retrouve des amitiés, de l’art et une communauté tellement accueillante 💖
Et surtout, beaucoup de snacks avec la best @louannebourdeau 🧁✨
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Dans le désordre :
1-2. Beautiful exhibition by Sheila Spence and April Hickox at Plug In ICA
3-4. Birding à St-Boniface au parc Lagimodière Gaboury
5. L’esplanade Riel en fin de journée après une crème glacée avec @siihoonn 🍦
6. Pickle pickle pickle @snackhauswpg avec Lou-Anne et Jo-Anne
7. Amazing work by @carrieallisonart at @urbanshamangallery
8. Walking downtown
9. Sinking Titanic by Shuvinai Ashoona at @wag_ca
10. ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
11. Neil Farber & Michael Dumontier @m_d_n_f_ at @mawawpg over the top fundraiser
12. Cupcakes aux carottes pour l’anniversaire de @juliette.0717
13. Solid winter energy
14. Studio visit avec l’incroyable @jablcn
15. ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
16. Brunch épique chez @louannebourdeau
17. Expo 25e anniversaire à la @maisondesartistes
18. Pavlova + curd mandarine-lime 🍊 et fruits frais (avec Lou-Anne)
19. @alexis_aureoline au @cafepostal
20. Nouveaux stickers Camille-coded reçus en cadeau de Lou-Anne 🥐😭❤️
Earth Day ‘26! More colours please…thunderstorm tonight?Every day is like a box of chocolates, enjoy the sun everyone, studio art show Friday June 5th…more tba🌸☀️
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#winnipeg #abstract #linepainting #artist #acrylicpainting
Product photoshoot for @pluginica for the new publication, Lori Blondeau: I’m Not Your Kinda Princess. #winnipegphotographer #productphoto #creativephotoshoot
I’m pleased to share the release of ‘Lori Blondeau: I’m Not Your Kinda Princess.’ It was an honour to design this publication. Visit Plug In to get your copy.
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Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is very delighted to announce the release of our new publication, ‘Lori Blondeau:
I’m Not Your Kinda Princess’.
Please join us in our galleries on May 14 from 5 - 7PM to celebrate the launch of this publication.
After years of planning, in the spring of 2021, we mounted a solo exhibition by renowned Winnipeg-based artist Lori Blondeau. Coinciding with the artist’s honour by the Governor’s General Award, the exhibition reflected on a selected range of Blondeau’s thirty-plus-year practice, paired together with a newly commissioned sculptural and auditory installation.
Readers of the book will encounter thoughtful writings on Blondeau’s impactful work, with perspectives from celebrated artist and friend Rebecca Belmore, Michif curator and scholar Cathy Mattes, and mentees of Blondeau, artists Annie Beach and Chukwudubem Ukaigwe. Additionally, the original exhibition essay by Anishinaabe curator Franchesca Hebert-Spence has been included, along with an expansive conversation she conducted with Blondeau as part of an associated program to the exhibition. Documentation of the exhibition at the Plug In galleries and the tour which took place in Montreal and Hamilton, is also featured in the book.
It is our hope that Blondeau’s power as a creative voice and visual storyteller will reach many near and far, and that this modest publication can enable that in its own way.
Book design by Taylor Jolin, an Ojibwe artist & graphic designer based in Bawaating.
The publication is hardcover, 208 pages and available online & in our bookstore
Lori Blondeau is Cree/Saulteaux/Métis from Saskatchewan.
Since the 1990s, Blondeau’s artistic practice in the fields of performance, photography and installation, along with her curatorial work and activities as co-founder and Executive Director of the Indigenous art collective TRIBE, has proved decisive to the ever-increasing centrality of Indigenous art and knowledge production in Canada.
📸: Image courtesy of Daisy Wu
FAB interview with Jayne Trimble at Rogers yesterday. We talked kitsch, DJing, music production, gay bars in the 80s, AI, brass rings, moisturizer, wpg history & so much more…will post when on air, subscribe to tags on post now!⭐️
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#dj #artist #kitsch #winnipeg #lgbtq
