EXHIBITION

January 30 – September 15, 2023

RECEPTION & SALE

International Women’s Day March 8, 2023

LOCATION

Dr. Paul H.T. Thorkalson Gallery

Icelandic Reading Room, 3rd floor

Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba

This exhibition features enlarged prints of a double deck of playing cards celebrating early women architects who studied and worked in Manitoba (from the first woman B.Arch graduate in 1932 to those forging careers in the 1970s), together with related archival documents and drawings from the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, and the original ‘Breath of Life’ painting by Jackie Traverse.

Supported by the Faculty of Architecture Student Innovation and Enrichment Fund, this exhibition and ongoing research also celebrates the present and future of diversity in design, with examples of work and advocacy by current students.

PRIOR EXHIBITIONS:

Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, September 2 – November 1, 2022

Winnipeg Design Festival, April 28, 2022

Created by Dr. Lisa Landrum, with support from: architecture students Alina Bilonozhko (archival folders and overall research phase 2), Eva Rodriguez and Florence Parent-Beaudin (2023 exhibition), Alixa Lacerna and Raik Laird (preliminary research and card design 2021-2022).

In research collaboration with Marieke Gruwel, the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, Heather Bidzinski, Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, and Katrin Nielsdottir.

Supported by a University of Manitoba Creative Works Grant and Undergraduate Research Award; the Faculty of Architecture’s Partners Program, Endowment Fund, and Student Innovation and Enrichment Fund (SIEF), the Manitoba Association of Architects (MAA), and BEA-Prairies.