Call For Submisssions
49th Annual Winter Festival Art Show & 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
Opening Gala & Awards Night
February 7, 7PM
Curator Walk-Through
February 8, 10AM
The Winter Festival Art Show & Sale (WFAS) is our region's foremost community art exhibition, 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. Purchase your membership now!
For more information email us at reception@mannartgallery.ca
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.
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.
In partnership with the P.A. Arts Board, Monique Martin will provide an artist talk on Saturday January 25th, 7:00-8:30 PM.
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
For accomplishments in the medium of acrylic.
Award for Accomplishments in the Medium of Oil Paint
Sponsored by: Art Placement
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
for accomplishments in the discipline of photography.
Needlework Award
Sponsored by: The Creative Stitchers Guild
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.
Lorraine Mathiason Memorial Pottery Award
Sponsored by: Prince Albert Council for the Arts
Open to any artist. Can be awarded to the same artist on more than one occasion.
Excellent Use of Hue
Sponsored by: Hue's Art Supply
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.
Expressing Canadian Identity Through Landscape Painting
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.
Sponsored by: Men Who Paint
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