WAG-Qaumajuq

📣⁠The 2026 CRAFTED Call for Artists is officially open! 📣⁠ And we’ve got exciting developments to share! CRAFTED programming is now taking place in September and November. More info below. This year’s CRAFTED on the Catwalk will build on last year’s partnership with CBC as we celebrate the international success of the hit APTN, CBC and Netflix series North of North! CRAFTED on the Catwalk will take place on September 15 with an exclusive one-day NORTH OF NORTH Market on September 16 highlighting designers and artists whose work appears in the series. Artists travelling from the North to participate in CRAFTED on the Catwalk will be vending at this exclusive event. Artists from North and South are invited to apply to CRAFTED on the Catwalk. The signature CRAFTED: Show + Sale returns November 6-8, where visitors can shop from 100 craft artists throughout all four floors of the Gallery. Since 2015, CRAFTED: Show + Sale has been Winnipeg’s leading contemporary craft sale, ⁠drawing thousands of visitors and approximately $450,000 in sales for artists annually. To support artists, CRAFTED maintains accessible participation fees and artists keep 100% of the profit from their sales.⁠ CRAFTED offers artists an opportunity to connect with shoppers, while building relationships with fellow makers from across the country. CRAFTED is proud to partner once again with @manitobacraft , Nunavut Development Corporation, @nwtartstno , @aumaaggiivik , and the Nunatsiavut Government ❤️.⁠ ⁠ As we prepare for CRAFTED to grow this year, we are taking some steps to streamline our communications. Starting next month all CRAFTED stories and event updates will be shared through our @shopwag account. If you aren’t already following @shopwag , now is the time to start! 👀 Visit wag.ca/crafted to access the application guide and apply now!⁠ ⁠ Deadline to submit is 11:59pm on May 31, 2026. #CRAFTED #CRAFTED2026 #CRAFTEDontheCatwalk #NorthofNorth #FashionShow

Your plants deserve better than a plastic pot. 🌿 Spend your Sunday night getting your hands dirty at #WAGSTUDIO and create a handmade ceramic planter that’s as unique as the plants sitting in it. Learn the basics of slab-building, experiment with underglaze decoration techniques, and leave with a one-of-a-kind piece made entirely by you. No experience needed; just come ready to create, unwind, and try something new. ✨ Better yet? Bring a friend and make a night of it. Use code CLAYMATE at checkout to save $5 on each ticket when purchasing 2 or more tickets. 📍 May 24
🕕 6PM–9PM
🎟 $120
🪴 All materials, tools, firing, and instruction included
👥 Ages 16+ Seats are limited and this one tends to fill quickly.  #WinnipegArt #PotteryWorkshop #ThingsToDoWinnipeg #FindItDowntown

What shapes identity? Place, memory, movement or the spaces we move through? Join Nestor Wynrush @nesswynrush for an evening that invites you to experience the gallery differently. Through a community tour and live performance, Wynrush explores how identity is constructed, challenged, and continuously reimagined through our relationship to place and the body. The evening culminates in a powerful gallery performance incorporating sound, spoken word, a sampler, wheelchair, and deconstructed artificial limbs; transforming the space into a site of reflection, resistance, and storytelling. ✨ A midweek invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and connect through art. 📍 May 13 🎟 FREE ENTRY (5–9PM) 🚪 5PM – Doors open 🗣 7PM – Community tour & performance with Nestor Wynrush 🖼 Galleries open until 9PM 🥂 Cash Bar | 🛍 ShopWAG open | ☕ Katita Café open 🖼 Marcel Dzama. I'm from the future, but my log is from farther in the future, 2000. Wood, plastic, metal, paint. 29.5 cm. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Acquired with funds from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance program/Oeuvre achetée avec l'aide du programme d'aide aux acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du Canada, 2002-51. Photographer: Lief Norman #WAGWednesdayNights #EventsInWinnipeg #FindItDowntown #ExploreMB #OnlyInThePeg

Your mid-week cultural reset is here. This edition of WAG Wednesday Nights invites visitors into an evening of conversation, performance, and reflection with Winnipeg artist and poet Nestor Wynrush. Through a community tour and live performance, the evening explores identity, place, collaboration, and personal histories — all within the unique setting of WAG-Qaumajuq. Free entry. May 13 at 5:00 p.m. @wag_ca #FindItDowntown

Motherhood is an art form all its own. In quiet moments, in care passed from one generation to the next, in play, protection, tenderness, and tradition - there is creativity woven into everyday acts of love, as seen here in this drawing by Omalluq Oshutsiaq – now on view in Giizhig, Qaumajuq’s top gallery. Join us this Mother’s Day at WAG-Qaumajuq for a day of creativity and community during our Canada Life @canadalifeco Free Sunday. Explore the galleries, enjoy guided tours, and create paper flowers with our facilitators in a hands-on, art-making activity inspired by the return of sunshine, warmth, and spring blooms. 🌸 Free admission all day 🎨 Art-making activity: 11am–4:30pm 👩‍👧‍👦 All ages welcome Drop-in Tours of the Abraham Anghik Ruben Exhibition: 1-2pm (English) and 3-4pm (French) Celebrate the artistry of motherhood with us. 🖼️ Omalluq Oshutsiaq. Mother Teaching Daughters How to Sew, 2014. Graphite, coloured pencil, felt-tip pen on paper. 58.8 x 76.5 cm Image: 50.8 x 68.3 cm, 2015-135 #MothersDay #OmalluqOshutsiaq #CanadaLifeFreeSunday

Special delivery to our friends at @museumlondon 📦 Congratulations to @dominiquerey.art as her exhibition MOTHERGROUND opens in London, Ontario this weekend, just in time for Mother’s Day, following its unforgettable debut in Winnipeg in 2024/25. Our team has been hard at work getting all the artworks packed up and shipped! Thank you @canada.council for supporting the tour of this powerful exhibition curated by @anecdotia , one of the first of its kind in a Canadian context to thoroughly meditate on the subject of motherhood. We are grateful to Michael Nesbitt and our supporters in Winnipeg who helped make the organization of the original exhibition possible. Thank you @dominiquerey.art and family for your incredible collaboration. London, prepare to be captivated by this mesmerizing show and artist 💌 #atwag #MothergroundbyDominiqueRey #MuseumLondon

The CRAFTED 2026 Application Guide (along with event dates and some very exciting news) will be released next Friday, May 15! 🎊 Applications will be due Sunday, May 31 at 11:59pm. ⏰🗓️ We are thrilled to be partnering with @manitobacraft , Nunavut Development Corporation, @nwtartstno , @aumaaggiivik , and the Nunatsiavut Government once again to host a runway show and in-person shopping experience throughout the galleries of @wag_ca . 💖✨ As we prepare for CRAFTED to grow this year, we are taking some steps to streamline our communications. Starting next month all CRAFTED stories and event updates will be shared through our @shopwag account. If you aren’t already following @shopwag , now is the time to start! 👀 We can’t wait to share our plans with you! 😘 Pictured here: Jennifer Buckley @aboriginal_fish_scale_art of Hay River, NT at CRAFTED 2025

Stories from the Arctic by Ningiukulu Teevee is now open 🎨 Step into the artistic masterpiece of one of Canada’s leading graphic art talents. Through bold compositions filled with movement, symbolism, and storytelling, Teevee brings Inuit oral traditions vividly to life - exploring creation stories, legendary journeys, animal fables, and the spiritual worlds that have shaped generations. Originally presented at Canada House in London, this expanded exhibition now arrives in Winnipeg, featuring works from Cholakis Dental Group’s Inuit Art in Practice collection - the largest corporate collection of Teevee’s work in the world. Curated by Darlene Coward Wight. Big thanks to Cholakis Dental Group @cholakisdentalgroup for their presenting sponsorship and for sharing their collection in this exhibition. ✨ Now on view. Plan your visit and experience these stories up close. #StoriesFromTheArctic #NingiukuluTeevee #AtWag #Qaumajuq

Where North meets South; this WAG Wednesday Night is a double feature. On tonight’s agenda, we are experiencing the incredible Zuki Selects @_zukimusic . An immersive 3-hour DJ set blending afrorock, roots, reggae, and global rhythms as you explore the galleries and connect with the space in a whole new way. Later tonight, join us for the public opening of Stories from the Arctic by Ningiukulu Teevee as well. Experience Inuit storytelling brought to life through bold, dynamic works curated by Darlene Coward Wight. Exhibition presented by Cholakis Dental Group @cholakisdentalgroup . ✨ A midweek, after-work pop-up with curated art and music, you don’t want to miss it. Comment a “💙” if you are coming. 📍 May 6 🎟 FREE ENTRY (5–9PM) 🚪 5PM – Doors open 🎧 6–9PM – Zuki Selects (Skylight Gallery) 🖼 7PM – Exhibition opening: Stories from the Arctic (Gallery 6) 🕘 Galleries open until 9PM 🥂 Cash Bar | 🛍 ShopWAG open | ☕ Katita Café open 🖼  Ningingiukulu Teevee. # Your Story, 2022. Lithograph on BFK Rives White paper, 48.2 x 38.0 cm. Art in Practice Collection of Cholakis Dental Group. Photo: Lianed Marcoleta     #WAGWednesdayNights #EventsInWinnipeg #FindItDowntown #ExploreMB OnlyInThePeg

Today, on Red Dress Day, we honour and remember Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2Spirit+ people. Sisters in Spirit (2025), created by Iris Lauzon @iriselauzon (Inniniw, York Factory), stands as a powerful act of remembrance, resilience, and love. Made with satin, silk, chiffon, quill, caribou tufting, dyed bone, vinyl, and glass seed beads, the work carries both material and meaning- each detail a reflection of lives that must never be forgotten. Created for Manitoba Moon Voices @manitobamoonvoicesinc , the dress honours those taken too soon and the families and communities who continue to carry their stories. Its name, gifted by Beverley Courchene, speaks to connection, spirit, and collective memory. At WAG-Qaumajuq, we stand in remembrance, in solidarity, and in commitment to supporting efforts to making the community safer for Indigenous women, girls and 2Spirit+ people. 👗 Iris Lauzon. Inniniw (York Factory). Sisters in Spirit, 2025. Satin, silk, chiffon, quill, caribou tufting, dyed bone, vinyl, glass seed beads. Collection of the artist. #RedDressDay #MMIWG2S #SistersInSpirit #IrisLauzon #ManitobaVoices

New month, new stories to step into. This May, discover a powerful new exhibition at WAG-Qaumajuq with Stories from the Arctic by Ningiukulu Teevee, presented by Cholakis Dental Group and curated by Dr. Darlene Coward Wight. Through bold, expressive works, Teevee brings Inuit oral traditions to life - inviting you into a world of creation stories, legendary journeys, and the enduring presence of spirits like Sedna. Be among the first to experience it at our special public opening on May 6 during WAG Wednesday Nights. Move through the galleries, take in the exhibition, and stay for Zuki’s DJ set blending global rhythms in the Skylight Gallery. ✨ A new month. A new exhibition. A new reason to spend your Wednesday night at the gallery. 📍 May 6
🎟 FREE ENTRY (5–9PM)
🚪 5PM – Doors open
🎧 6–9PM – Zuki Selects (Skylight Gallery)
🖼 7PM – Exhibition opening (Gallery 6)
🕘 Galleries open until 9PM Image credit: Ningiukulu Teevee. Printmaker: Ashoona Ashoona. No Turning Back, 2021. Stonecut, stencil, linocut, hand-colouring on Kizuki Kozo White paper. 80.5 x 61.7 cm. Art in Practice Collection of Cholakis Dental Group. Photo by Lianed Marcoleta. #NingiukuluTeevee #WAGWednesdayNights #FindItDowntown #Eventsinwinnipeg #exploremb

WAG Wednesday Nights just got soulful 🎶 Join us for an unforgettable evening with Kelly Bado; a groundbreaking artist redefining borders in music. From sharing stages with Alessia Cara and Angélique Kidjo to earning Global Artist of the Year at the WCMAs, Kelly’s sound bridges cultures, languages, and generations. Her latest album Belles Âmes - produced by Brian West - blends African rhythm, soulful storytelling, and pop influences into something entirely her own. And this is just the beginning. ✨ Come experience it live. 📍 April 29 🎟 FREE ENTRY (5–9PM) 🚪 5PM – Doors open 🎤 7PM – Live performance by Kelly Bado 🖼 Galleries open until 9PM 🥂 Cash Bar | 🛍 ShopWAG open | ☕ Katita Café open #WAGWednesdayNights #EventsInWinnipeg #FindItDowntown #ExploreMB #OnlyInThePeg