49th Annual Winter Festival

February 7 - March 22

The Winter Festival Art Show & Sale (WFAS) is the foremost community art exhibition in our region, featuring 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.

Monique Martin

This year, Monique Martin, served as the Guest Curator. With 141 artworks on display, the event promises a diverse and vibrant showcase of artistic talent. 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.

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.

Best in Show

Mayor's Prize sponsored by On the Avenue Artisan's Gallery and the Mayor

Marcy Friesen (Carrot River), Come Eat, mixed media including beadwork and fur

Second Place Prize

Sponsored by Prince Albert Council for the Arts

Janaya McCallum (PA), Bow Down, acrylic on canvas

Third Place Prize

Sponsored by the Prince Albert Arts Board

Hilary Johnstone (La Ronge), Morning Swim, Welcoming Sky, fabric, needlepoint batting, thread

Art Placement Award for Accomplishments in the Medium of Acrylic | Sponsored by: Art Placement

Shelley McGillivary (Regina), Cat's Cradle, acrylic and mixed media on birch panel

Art Placement Award for Accomplishments in the Medium of Oil Paint | Sponsored by: Art Placement

Brennan Cantin (PA), Borghese Gardens, oil on canvas

Art Placement Award for Accomplishments in the Medium of Watercolour

Jerome Mrazek (PA), Lane View North, watercolour , graphite, oil pastel on canvas

Art Placement Award for Accomplishments in the Discipline of Drawing | Sponsored by: Art Placement

Ruby Lalonde (Leask), Cow/Calf Pair, vine charcoal

Prince Albert Spinners and Weavers Guild Fibre Award

Shelia Devine (PA), Reflections #2, woven silk

Northern Image Photographers Club Award

Ryan Arnott (Regina), Four Tulips in a Glass Vase, photograph printed with archival pigment ink, acrylic and coloured pencil on Strathmore rag paper

Northern Image Photographers Club Geoff Payton Memorial Photography Award

Ken Tickner (Saskatoon), Green Thumb, photograph

The Creative Stitchers Guild Needlework Award

Annette Lanoie (PA), Fly Little One, mixed media including beadwork and fur

Lorraine Mathiason Memorial Pottery Award sponsored by the Prince Albert Council for the Arts

Tie: Tabata Bagatim (Saskatoon), Botanical Guardian, stoneware, underglaze with sgraffito carving

Adrian Golban (Saskatoon), Self Portraiture, Series 2, Saggar fired stoneware and found objects

Hue’s Art Supply Store Award for Excellent Use of Hue

Jason Doucette (Saskatoon), Morning Trumpets - Trumpeter Swans, oil on canvas

Award for Expressing Canadian Identity through Landscape Painting | Sponsored by: Men who Paint

Lorelle Meyer (PA), Serenity at 7, acrylic on canvas

KYLA Art Group Award for Landscape

Uihyang Kim (Melfort), One Summer Day, oil on canvas

Frank Sudol Memorial Award sponsored by the PA Woodturners Guild

Don Schoenfeld (Saskatoon), Sounding the Alarm, acrylic and carved basswood

Dana Wareing Popescul Memorial Award for Mixed Media

Elissa Brown (Langham), Listening to the Spirits, beadwork on brain-tanned hide

Peggy & Sandy Kerr Memorial Award

Wayne Longjohn, Be Proud of Who You Are (But Be Careful Where You Do It), acrylic on canvas

John & Marjorie Hicks Memorial Award

Lana Wilson (PA), For Kevin; Self-Portrait of the Artist as "a fat and grinning 40-year old woman with long brown hair receiving an award for her artwork," Artificial Intelligence generated artwork using https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generator

Lemon Yellow Art Studio Award for Creative Exploration in Any Medium

Carmen Bellehumeur (PA), A Journey of a Thousand Threads, mixed media, fibres

Guy Rutter Memorial Award – People's Choice Award

Lorelle Meyer - Serenity at 7