Call For Submisssions
49th Annual Winter Festival Art Show And Sale
February 7 - March 22, 2025
Art Drop Off Deadline
January 18, 21 - 25, 2025, 10am - 5pm
Art Pick-Up
March 25 - 28, 2025, 10am - 5pm
The Winter Festival Art Show & Sale (WFAS) is the foremost community art exhibition in our region, featuring sometimes over 120 artists from across the province each year. Any member of the Mann Art Gallery is eligible to submit, exhibit, and sell one artwork, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
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Artist Entry and Contact Form
Guest Curator
Monique Martin is an eco-conscious, internationally recognized, multi-disciplinary artist from Saskatoon, Canada with a 25-year exhibition history. She has exhibited her artwork in hundreds of significant solo, invited and juried exhibitions in numerous countries. Most of these were solo exhibitions in public galleries. Renowned international curators have selected her artwork for various exhibitions worldwide. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections around the world. Some of the major collections include: The Royal Alberta Museum, University of Washington Library, University of California-Los Angeles Library, Bytown Museum-Ottawa, among others.
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Her work often uses significant symbols or comments on contemporary social issues. Monique creates bodies of work rather individual pieces and focuses on specific concepts. She undertakes extensive research prior to creating her work, often incorporating historically significant symbols and images to express her ideas. Her works push the boundaries of standard printmaking; enormous scale printmaking, installation based printmaking and working with three dimensions in printmaking.
Awards
45th Annual Winter Festival
Best In Show
Sponsored by: On The Avenue
Second Place Prize
Sponsored by: Prince Albert Council For The Arts
Second Place. All categories. Open to any artist. Can be awarded to the same artist on more than one occasion.
Third Place Prize
Sponsored by: Prince Albert Art Board
Third Place. All categories. Open to any artist. Can be awarded to the same artist on more than one occasion.
Award for Accomplishments in the Medium of Acrylic
Sponsored by: Art Placement
Award for Accomplishments in the Medium of Oil Paint
Sponsored by: Art Placement
For accomplishments in the medium of acrylic.
For accomplishments in the medium of oil.
Award for Accomplishments in the Medium of Watercolour
Sponsored by: Art Placement
For accomplishments in the medium of watercolour.
Award for Accomplishments in the Discipline of Drawing
For accomplishments in the discipline of drawing.
Sponsored by: Art Placement
Fibre Award
Sponsored by: Prince Albert Spinner's and Weavers Guild
Open to any artist. Can be awarded to the same artist on more than one occasion. Items must be hand woven, spun or felted.
Award for Landscape
Sponsored by: KYLA Art Group
Landscape work in any medium.
Northern Image Photographers Club Award
This award recognizes a photographer, who has taken an original photograph and/or digitally altered it to produce a photographic printed image, which may have been generated with the aid of a computer rather than by light alone.
Geoff Payton Memorial Photography Award
Sponsored by: Northern Image Photographers
This award is presented in honour of Geoff Payton, the founder and leader of the Northern Image Photography Club and a mentor to many. This award recognizes his approach to photography, which was to capture the light at that moment, creating a photograph with no, or very little enhancements.
Needlework Award
Sponsored by: The Creative Stitchers Guild
Lorraine Mathiason Memorial Pottery Award
Sponsored by: Prince Albert Council for the Arts
Excellent Use of Hue
Sponsored by: Hue's Art Supply
Expressing Canadian Identity Through Landscape Painting
Sponsored by: Men Who Paint
Open to the same artist. Can be awarded to the same artist on more than one occasion. Notwithstanding the artistic merit of an item, needlework is a traditional art and the manipulation of stitches by hand constitutes the bases of our art. Items should be of original design or an example of traditional work. The work should have a majority of hand stitching with a needle, including knitting needles, crochet hooks, or tatting shuttle. No machine knitting or use of mechanical devices, machine sewing is considered a separate textile art form, as is weaving.
Open to any artist. Can be awarded to the same artist on more than one occasion.
All categories. Open to any artist who has excelled with their use of hue in their artwork. Can be awarded to the same artist on more than one occasion.
Open to artists who are forwarding a Canadian Artistic Identity through landscape painting. Works created en plein air (open air) will be favoured. Can be awarded to the same artist on more than one occasion.
Frank Sudol Memorial Award
Sponsored by: PA Woodturners Guild
Open to any artist. Wood must be incorporated in he piece. The artwork must show initiative in creativity and excellence in craftsmanship.
Dana Wareing Popescul memorial Award For Mixed Media
Sponsored by: Mann Art Gallery
Mixed media. Open to any artist. Can be awarded to the same artist on more than one occasion.
Peggy & Sandy Kerr Memorial Award
Sponsored by: Mann Art Gallery
Any medium. Open to any artist. Can be awarded to any artist on more than one occasion.
John & Marjorie Hicks Memorial Award
Sponsored by: Mann Art Gallery
Any medium. Open to any artist. Can be awarded to any artist on more than one occasion.
Guy Rutter Memorial Award - People's Choice Award
Sponsored by: Mann Art Gallery
A ballot box is left in the gallery for the duration of the show. Votes are tallied at the end and the award winners is publicized.
Award For Creative Exploration in Any Medium
For creative exploration in any medium.
Sponsored by: Lemon Yellow Art Studio