The Wasagaming Community Arts Centre presents four exhibitions each year, sampling both from local and Manitoban artists. The Arts Centre also hosts a variety of children‘s and adult workshops. The Children’s programs run on weekday mornings during July and August. Adult workshops are scheduled from July until September.
Wasagaming Community Arts is a non-profit, community-based, member organization that brings art and cultural activities in their many forms to this unique community. In 1970, a group of artists created a learning space for anyone who wanted the experience of art-making in the beautiful Riding Mountain setting.
Following incorporation in 1979, the organization known as Wasagaming Summer Arts expanded in the programs it offered to include visual arts exhibitions as well as a broadening range of workshops such as drawing, painting, fibre arts, and pottery. It moved into a vacant bowling alley on Wasagaming Drive. Since then, the name has changed to reflect year round operation and a comprehensive program in all of the arts. The original goal remains unchanged: to provide interesting and varied art experiences for the residents of Wasagaming and the many visitors to the Park who come from all over the world.
We provide opportunities to acquire new skills, to experience new challenges, and uncover latent talents through a wide variety of workshops, exhibitions, and other arts-related activities. The two galleries at the Arts Centre feature principally the work of Manitoba artists and artisans from May through September each year.
Exhibitions range from pottery and sculpture to the fiber arts, painting and mixed media. From time to time, the work of artists from outside of Manitoba find a home in one of the galleries. By exhibiting such diverse media, we ensure that viewers have a chance to experience many levels of art-making. Our comprehensive workshop program ranges from creative writing to pottery and from sketching and drawing to painting using various methods and media. There are workshops for all ages groups. We are particularly enthusiastic about our popular children’s classes, which are offered on weekdays throughout the months of July and August.
Membership is open to everyone: you do not have to be an artist or even a budding artist! All you need is an interest in participating in our programs and activities. Members play a vital role in support of a wide variety of cultural activities in our community and province.
You can stop in at the Arts Centre on Wasagaming Drive to pick up a brochure for more information on what you can do to help and to discover the benefits of membership. You can also telephone us at (204) 848-2993 for further information on any of our programs or to offer suggestions or assistance. We welcome your calls and visits.
Check out our 2009 Brochure [PDF format - 4 pages] (click here)
HOURS:
Daily
SEASON:
from May - Thanksgiving