Click here to view images from the opening taken by Winnipeg photographer Leif Norman.

For the Love of Craft was the Manitoba Craft Council’s Annual Member Exhibition and Sale.  The show featured work by over thirty craft-based artists working in ceramics, glass, fibre, metal and mixed media.

Some of the artists included in the 2012 exhibition included:  Brigitta Urben, PJ Anderson, Cathie Ugrin, Kathleen Black, Helen Lyons, Monica Swiderek, Jen Sonnenberg, Jolanta Sokalska, Evelin Richter, Steve Robinson, June Derksen, Kathryn Mackenzie & Dale Missyabit, Gaetanne Sylvester, Tammy Sutherland, Ingrid Lincoln, Carol James, Judith Panson, Karen Taylor, Joyce Tripp, Natasha Halayda, Willy Carleton, Tesh Kosowan, Lily Rosenberg, Jessica Hodgson, Doreen Lapointe, Mary Lowe, Anne Fallis, Alexandra Tumanov, and Alison Norberg.
Special thanks to curator and writer Amy Karlinsky for facilitating a “Craft Talk” during the exhibition as an evening for the artists to reflect on their work.

Thanks to participating artists Kathleen Black, images from the “Craft Talk” held on February 7th are available HERE.

Image by Lily Rosenberg