| | Hand Lettering/Sign Painting Workshop 2.5 hour intro workshop Wednesday, March 25 6:30 - 9:00 pm In this hand lettering workshop, you will learn and practice casual lettering styles, learn how to hold and use a lettering brush, and using lettering to paint words. We'll be painting signs on card stock. Cost: $60.00 Materials included |
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Sign Making & Hand Lettering Workshop Full Day Workshop Saturday, April 11 10:00 am - 6:00 pm A full-day, hands‑on workshop where we’ll learn the entire sign‑making process from scratch. We’ll start with the basics of brush handling and lettering, then move into preparing and designing a sign. Throughout the day, you’ll see each step demonstrated and have the chance to try it yourself, finishing with a painted sign to take home. Cost: $150.00 Materials included |
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| | Joseph Pilapil owns The Travelling Sign Painters. A hand lettering sign company based in Winnipeg Manitoba. Joseph Specializes in hand painted signs, murals, and design for business or private homes. Joseph has been painting as the The Travelling Sign painters for close to 10 years. You can spot Joseph's work at places like the Forks, on the Commons chalkboard, during the holiday season in the exchange, and a lot of local businesses. Joseph learned from Rick Wagner from Sign Meister and is happy to teach classes to folks wanting to learn the craft. |
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| | REGISTER NOW | | Instructor Spotlight | Do you know artist and art instructor Chris Simonite? You should! In the spring of 2025, Chris started teaching Beginner Watercolour on Tuesday evenings at Forum Art Centre. Last summer he taught a 4-day intensive course, “Portraits in Water-Soluble Oils”, and this upcoming spring he'll also be teaching Intermediate Watercolour on Tuesday mornings. In addition, Chris teaches classes in water-soluble oils at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Though he enjoys teaching watercolour painting, as the faster pace allows him to engage more with students through demos during class. |
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| Chris Simonite is a multi-talented artist who graduated with a BA in History before pursuing his passion for music, followed by a BFA double major in Drawing and Video from the University of Manitoba School of Art, and an MFA from the University of Ottawa. As a Winnipeg based artist, Chris now specializes in painting, particularly with water-soluble oils in a Cubist inspired style he calls Cubo-Weirdism. |
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| | | | As a curious and thoughtful creative, Chris has always wanted to do and make funny things. He doesn’t see himself as an ‘academic artist’, he understands that art can be fun and entertaining and still engage with big ideas. Don’t miss Chris this April 10-12 at the Winnipeg Fine Art Fair! Winnipeg’s biggest art show and sale hosted at the Red River Exhibition Park. | |
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| | Independent curator Mariana Muñoz Gomez seeks portfolios from artists who have roots in the region known as Latin America, are queer, and are based in or are from the Prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba). Art practices may include and are not limited to the following artistic mediums: performance art, sound art, installation, video, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, jewelry, ceramics, and painting. Working towards curating an exhibition in Fall 2026 at Latitude 53, Mariana is researching the following topics: - Identity formation among queer Latinxs* in the Prairies
- Identity expression among queer Latinxs* in the Prairies
- The impact of living in the Prairies on the identities of queer Latinxs*
*Mariana is approaching this project with the desire to get away from relying on terms including “Latin American,” “Latinx,” and their derivatives with the recognition that “Latin America” is a descriptor imposed on a vast, culturally diverse region. This umbrella term homogenizes and flattens identities throughout the region of Latin America, contributing to anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism and systems. This call for portfolios is open to people born in the region known as Latin America as well as people from this diaspora who were born abroad. Mariana will collect portfolios until the end of March. To share your portfolio with Mariana, email marianamunoz.art@gmail.com with any of the following: Your portfolio: - Your website, and/or
- Your art instagram, and/or
- A PDF containing images of selected artwork, and/or
- Any other way you’d like to share your portfolio
Additional information: - Your biography
- You may choose to include statements about your art practice as a whole or about selected artworks
- You may choose to include your CV
- You may choose to include 2-3 reviews, interviews, etc about your practice or your artwork
About Mariana: Mariana is a Mexican artist, writer, and curator based in Winnipeg. They are a queer person of colour. Their curatorial experience includes co-curating window winnipeg, an alternative exhibition space, from 2018-2023 and a curatorial residency at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq (2021-22). Learn more about Mariana through their website: marianamunoz.ca |
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