Call for Submissions
Visual Artists: Applications are open for the
2026 Touring Exhibition Program.
Apply by Jan 15, 2024
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About The Program
Visual Arts: Touring Exhibition Program
Manitoba Arts Network’s Visual Arts Touring Exhibition Program makes visual art exhibitions available to arts and cultural organizations throughout the province of Manitoba. The purpose of the program is to provide high quality, cost-effective exhibitions to communities enhancing the awareness and appreciation of regional and national artists.
Exhibitions are selected from both emerging and professional artists, and present a range of media and themes, featuring contemporary work and traditional approaches to artmaking through solo, two-person, and group exhibitions. MAN pays artists a basic exhibition fee each month a touring exhibition is booked. If funding/grants for exhibitions are successfully secured, then artist fees are paid at approved CARFAC rates.
MAN covers costs associated with professional crating of exhibitions, shipping and insurance of works while on tour. Selected exhibitions typically tour for a one-year period either in the current or following year.
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Assessment Criteria & Process
The following outlines the assessment criteria the jury follows when selecting the exhibitions.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Manitoba Arts Network is committed to ensuring equity, inclusivity, and representation in our sector. We especially encourage applications from artists who identify as Indigenous Métis, Inuit, Black, or People of Colour, artists with disabilities, as well as artists from the 2SLGBTQ+ community, to apply, and will be placing emphasis on representation from these communities in our selection process.
Meet the Artists
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Karen Schulz (Manitoba)
Karen Schulz is a visual artist and art event coordinator who is inspired by her birthplace, the farming community of Grandview, Manitoba, and the Winnipeg urban life where she lives and works.
From her studio, maintained for several years in the Exchange District, her practice overlaps traditional and contemporary media with an emphasis recently on experimental drawings.
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Pepe Hidalgo
Pepe Hidalgo’s style is figurative and abstract narrative. His figurative is not related to realism, it is created from his imagination. Hidalgo’s paintings achieve strength through the glazes or velatures he applies. He will apply two or three to the painting, they help create a sense of space.
There is a distinct element present in his paintings, a string or cord that acts as the umbilical cord that unites him to the universe, and allows him to time travel back and forth as it supports his weight and pulls him back into reality. It also takes on the role of identity maker and it can almost be considered to replace his signature.
Hidalgo predominantly paints with acrylic and sketches. His artistic process started as a child during frequent visits to the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Goya’s paintings are what confirmed his desire to be an artist. Later he was influenced by Velazquez, Zurbaran, El Bosco, and the impressionists.
Art has allowed him to “free himself” and express himself without prejudice, to lose the objective by which to paint, and to dare to do what he feels without expectations. Many people ask him where he gets his ideas for his paintings. When you know him you realize he mixes his knowledge of astrology, history, life, and experiences. It is all manifested and expressed in his paintings.
Artist: Alison Davis
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Alison Davis (Manitoba)
Alison Davis is an artist and animator based in Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg. She has created a number of short films with a focus on traditional animation that have screened at festivals and venues around the world.
Her drawing practice explores the subtlety of fine lines and delicate interactions. Davis holds a BFA in Film Animation from Concordia University in Montreal and has been the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council.
Artist: Kristy Janvier
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Kristy Janvier
Kristy Janvier is born and raised in Flin Flon and is of Dene (English River First Nation) and mixed European decent. At the age of 18 she began working overseas as a professional actress/dancer. After 15 years of working in the entertainment industry with Disney, Kristy returned to Canada relying on her presence/meditation practice to guide her work.
Performances are influenced by improvisation yet structured from personal story incorporating images, installation, sound recording, and/or video.
In addition to her performance work, Kristy has been sewing beadwork since 2018. Sales from her beadwork, Secret_Life_of_Beads, goes towards funding her family’s bush cabin started in 1934 for future generations.
Artist: Jessie Jannuska
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Jessie Jannuska
Jessie Jannuska is a Winnipeg-based interdisciplinary visual artist with mixed Dakota, Ojibway, and settler ancestry. Her family is from Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with honors from Brandon University’s IshKaabatens Waasa Gaa Inaabateg Department of Visual Art in 2018.
She primarily works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pencil crayon, pencil, pen, mixed media, beading, murals, and performance art. She has had eight solo exhibitions and has participated in over thirty group exhibitions. Her work can be found in the Provincial Art Collection of Manitoba.
Jannuska teaches freelance art workshops in beading, dreamcatchers, painting, and drawing across Manitoba online and in person. Jannuska’s most prominent awards/grants are from the Manitoba Arts Council with the Arts Leader Grant in 2021, Indigenous 360-Learn Grant in 2019, the Arts Smarts II grant in 2018, and the Student Bursary Award in 2016
What our members have to say
We welcomed Katrina Craig’s Process of Closure exhibit. Over 1500 visitors came to the gallery to experience the exhibition. Visitors responded that the Process of Closure artwork was “beautiful and “thought-provoking”. Gallery staff appreciated how the artwork was delivered to our gallery, along with a detailed binder with specific curatorial details to assist us in installing the exhibit professionally and efficiently.”
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
What Artists have to say
Katrina Craig
Past Touring Artist
Since touring my exhibit with MAN “I’ve scheduled additional workshops in Headingly and Altona. I made connections in Flin Flon with artists who work in schools and have connected me to their school system. My teaching skills developed tremendously through the workshops I was able to do in rural Manitoba.
I got a grant to create the exhibition and once on our,
I got a log of press for my show.
Overall, it has been a positive experience.”
Gabriela Aguero
Past Touring Artist
“I received a Winnipeg Arts Council grant A.
I think it is directly related to this opportunity and others I have
had in the last year.”