Craftsperson Profile: Amanda Onchulenko
Published • March 12, 2021
Amanda Onchulenko tells us about her craft journey, and her practice of making art quilts with bold, beautiful and vibrant colour.
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Uncovering the Collection | Toys & Games
Published • February 24, 2021
Uncovering the Collection is a series of videos that showcase some of the less frequently seen objects in the Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library’s collection of over 10,000 items. This...
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Leo Mol
Published • February 19, 2021
If you live in Winnipeg, you are probably familiar with the work of artist Leo Mol. He is known for his wonderful bronze sculptures depicting playful scenes of wildlife, public...
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Fashion in the MCML Collection
Published • February 19, 2021
The art of clothes-making is one of the most fundamental and oldest crafts, and so it is no wonder that such a large portion of the MCML’s collection is made...
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Beautiful Basketry
Published • February 19, 2021
Basketry is an art that has maintained its roots in tradition and function throughout the thousands of years of its existence. Astrid Brunner notes that “vessels have been fashioned ever...
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Uncovering the Collection | Birds
Published • February 6, 2021
Uncovering the Collection is a series of videos that showcase some of the less frequently seen objects in the Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library’s collection of over 10,000 items. This...
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The New Canadian Folksong and Handicraft Festival, 1928
Published • October 23, 2020
Craft enhances everyday life in many simple and wonderful ways, bringing joy both to the makers and users of craft objects everywhere. It only makes sense that when different cultures...
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In Praise of Crafts
Published • September 15, 2020
The Crafts Guild of Manitoba created many exhibitions, but their most popular exhibition was “In Praise of Craft,” a juried exhibition held in 1978 to celebrate the Guild’s 50th anniversary....
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Crafts Guild of Manitoba: Inuit Art
Published • September 15, 2020
Beginning from its establishment the Canadian Handicrafts Guild was a promoter of Indigenous art. The Manitoba Crafts Guild began selling and exhibiting Inuit carvings, brought south by James Houston, in...
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The Guild House
Published • September 15, 2020
For the first 23 years of its existence the Crafts Guild of Manitoba did not have a permanent home. Members of the Guild often met in community centres, churches, or...
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