Superscreen: The Making of an Artist-Run Counterculture and the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop

Name: Superscreen: The Making of an Artist-Run Counterculture and the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop
Start: 2019-10-11T00:00:00
End: 2020-01-18T00:00:00
Location: School of Art Gallery

Oct 11, 2019 to Jan 17, 2020

School of Art Gallery 180 Dafoe Road, 255 ARTlab, University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus,, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2

September 25, 2019

2:37 PM

Kelly Clark, "Door sign for the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop," circa 1968

paint on card. University of Regina Archives and Special Collections (2009-32). Image credit: Trevor Hopkin.

Associated Programming:

Reception & Panel: December 6, 5:30 - 10:00 pm

December 11, 2019: Lunch Hour Tour of the exhibition from 12:35 - 12:55 PM.

January 2020: Programming TBA.

“Superscreen: The Making of an Artist-Run Counterculture and the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop" is curated by Alex King and Timothy Long, and co-produced by the MacKenzie Art Gallery & the School of Art Gallery.

This art exhibition that looks at the activities, social environment and legacy of one of the Prairies’ first centres of artist-run activity, the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop. The exhibition returns to the Canada of the sixties and seventies to contextualize the Screen Shop within a time characterized by personal and political consciousness-raising and dynamic change within the arts.