Category: Faculty of Arts

A new group exhibition, coming to the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (AGSM), was co-curated by Stacey Koosel of the IshKaabatens Waasa Gaa Inaabateg Department of Visual Art at Brandon University and features the work of BU alumna Jessie Januska and other Indigenous artists.

The Government of Canada today recognized Chanie Wenjack as a person of national historic significance, sparked by a student’s public history project at Brandon University.

Wenjack was an Anishinaabe boy from Marten Falls First Nation in northern Ontario who lived for three years at the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora.

The Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) program at Brandon University invites proposals for projects that foster links between community-based organizations and our academic program. This community grant aims to help non-profit organizations prepare projects such as workshops, research projects, short-term programming, or other special projects.

The annual festival of creativity and celebration of art known as “Nuit Blanche” returns to Brandon at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba this Saturday, and Brandon University artists are among the main attractions.

More than half a dozen faculty are presenting, including Deanna Smid, Lisa Wood, Kevin McKenzie, Andrée Dagenais, Megumi Masaki, Leanne Zacharias, and Jimmie Kilpatrick, as well as many students from the university’s visual art, creative writing and music programs.