Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg

Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg Gallery 1C03 is the campus art gallery of The University of Winnipeg.

We present art exhibitions and other public programming and preserve the University's art collection. We show work that deals with questions concerning history, politics, technology, gender, sexuality, and race, among many other issues, to support the educational mandate of the University. Gallery 1C03 typically highlights work by professional Indigenous, Manitoba and Canadian artists; however, wh

en funds permit we have also exhibited work by international artists. We support our exhibitions with a range of free events including talks, tours, panel discussions, and performances.

🌈 Pride Month Bead Club Reminder‼️The fourth and final session is tomorrow, June 18, from 1-3pm. Join us! 🧵 Bring projec...
06/17/2026

🌈 Pride Month Bead Club Reminder‼️The fourth and final session is tomorrow, June 18, from 1-3pm. Join us!

🧵 Bring projects from home or start one with us, we will be making rainbow bracelets and pins! Swipe to see what folks made on Tuesday!

Pride Month Bead Club
June 4, 9, 16 and 18
1:00 to 3:00 pm at Gallery 1C03

We can’t wait to see you!

ID: Graphic on pale green background bordered by wavy rainbow colours reads "Pride Month Bead Club, Gallery 1C03, 1st floor of Centennial Hall, June 4, 9, 16, & 18, 1PM - 3PM, Bracelet and Pride Flag Pin Beading!! Love Who You Are, info: [email protected]". Includes photo of rainbow beaded bracelet and pin.

It is time for another ! This week we are highlighting Claire Johnston’s () piece, “STOP USING AI!” Claire writes; “[G...
06/16/2026

It is time for another ! This week we are highlighting Claire Johnston’s () piece, “STOP USING AI!”

Claire writes;

“[Generative AI] further disconnects us from what makes us human, what makes us relational beings. Must we accept so-called ‘advancements’ that are the antithesis to natural law and natural time?”

Come see Claire’s “STOP USING AI!” in person and the other amazing artworks in the exhibition Gallery 1C03, Monday to Friday between 1 and 4pm!

Beading Métis Resurgence will remain on display until July 10th, 2026.

Image: Claire Johnston, "STOP USING AI!" (octopus bag), 2022-26, beadwork on blue melton wool, cotton lining, silk bias tape, home tanned deer hide (tanned by the artist), antique Italian and French glass seed beads, antique French steel faceted beads, contemporary Czech seed beads, silk thread, wool embroidery thread, micro-fused braided polyethylene bead thread, 43 x 20.5 cm. Collection of the artist.
📷️ : Sarah Fuller.

ID: Text that reads “[Generative AI] further disconnects us from what makes us human, what makes us relational beings. Must we accept so-called ‘advancements’ that are the antithesis to natural law and natural time?” is overlaid on a picture of Claire Johnston’s artwork “STOP USING AI!”. The artwork is a Métis fire bag, featuring colourful florals and tendrils beaded onto navy blue wool. The bag is edged with pink silk binding. Grey wool tassels hang below the bag’s four tabs. On the center-right tab, the words “f**k ai” are beaded in delicate cursive.

🌈 Pride Month Bead Club Reminder‼️Third session is tomorrow, June 16, from 1-3pm. Join us! 🧵 Bring projects from home or...
06/15/2026

🌈 Pride Month Bead Club Reminder‼️Third session is tomorrow, June 16, from 1-3pm. Join us!

🧵 Bring projects from home or start one with us, we will be making rainbow bracelets and pins! Swipe to see the poster!

Pride Month Bead Club
June 4, 9, 16 and 18
1:00 to 3:00 pm at Gallery 1C03

We can’t wait to see you!

ID: Graphic on pale green background bordered by wavy rainbow colours reads "Pride Month Bead Club, Gallery 1C03, 1st floor of Centennial Hall, June 4, 9, 16, & 18, 1PM - 3PM, Bracelet and Pride Flag Pin Beading!! Love Who You Are, info: [email protected]". Includes photo of rainbow beaded bracelet and pin.

06/15/2026

Congratulations to all recent The University of Winnipeg graduates! 🎓

We are especially proud of recent members of Gallery 1C03’s team, several of whom are pictured here! 🎉

We will miss you dearly but we are excited for the opportunities that lie ahead for you! 💥

ID: a reel with photos of graduates in their convocation robes inside and near gallery 1C03 looking happy.

📖 We are back again to highlight a book in our Library Resource Guide for the Beading Métis Resurgence exhibition. This ...
06/12/2026

📖 We are back again to highlight a book in our Library Resource Guide for the Beading Métis Resurgence exhibition. This week our is the 2022 book “Buffalo Is the New Buffalo” by Chelsea Vowel.

Here’s a synopsis:

“Powerful stories of ‘Metis futurism’ that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. "Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples. The assumption is that many of the pre-Contact ways of living are forever gone, so adaptation is necessary. But Chelsea Vowel asks, ‘Instead of accepting that the buffalo, and our ancestral ways, will never come back, what if we simply ensure that they do?’ Inspired by classic and contemporary speculative fiction, these eight short stories of ‘Metis futurism’ explore Indigenous existence and resistance through the specific lens of being Metis. Expansive and eye-opening, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo rewrites our shared history in provocative and exciting ways.” - Summary provided by publisher 🦬

📚️ “Buffalo Is the New Buffalo” is one of many works in our exhibition Library Resource Guide. It is featured in the “By Two-Spirit and Indigi-q***r Authors” section of the Guide. Pick it up today at , via the link below or in our bio!

🔗 https://libguides.uwinnipeg.ca/c.php?g=748391


ID: Centered on the cover is light blue text reading “Buffalo Is The New Buffalo”. Below is red text reading “Stories, Chelsea Vowel”. The cover features a blue painting that shows two women positioned on opposite edges of a celestial divide, one sitting and one standing. Blue energy flows between them, in the divide. Strawberries and blue floral designs are shown beneath the women. A figure is in a stream at the bottom of the page.

For next few weeks we will be sharing quotes from the artists in Beading Métis Resurgence about their work. Tune in to r...
06/10/2026

For next few weeks we will be sharing quotes from the artists in Beading Métis Resurgence about their work. Tune in to read our !

This week we are highlighting David Heinrichs () and the artist statement for his 2026 piece “Vest”. He writes;

“[Vest] is meant to capture my own feelings of q***r Métis joy. It includes flowers that have symbolic connections to the q***r community with patterns and design elements that bring me happiness and excitement.”

Come see David’s “Vest” in person and the other amazing artworks in the exhibition at Gallery 1C03, Monday to Friday, 1 pm to 4pm!

Beading Métis Resurgence will remain on display until July 10th, 2026.

Image: David Heinrichs, “Vest”, 2026, beadwork on brain tanned caribou hide, denim, antique Italian and French glass seed beads, antique French steel cut beads, modern Czech and Japanese glass seed beads, approximately 115 x 63.5 cm. Collection of the artist.
📷️ : Sarah Fuller.

ID: Text that reads “[Vest] is meant to capture my own feelings of q***r Métis joy. It includes flowers that have symbolic connections to the q***r community with patterns and design elements that bring me happiness and excitement.” is overlaid on a picture of David Heinrichs’ piece “Vest”. It features intricate floral beadwork on the chest, with pansies, lavender, and a five-petal rose. These flowers are beaded on brain-tanned caribou hide. There is a caribou hide fringe just below the beadwork. The main fabric used for “Vest” is tan leopard print denim.

🌈 Reminder! – The second Pride Month Bead Club session is tomorrow, June 9, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at the gallery. Join us...
06/08/2026

🌈 Reminder! – The second Pride Month Bead Club session is tomorrow, June 9, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at the gallery. Join us there!

🧵 Bring projects from home or start one with us, we will be making rainbow bracelets and pins! Swipe to see what folks made last week!

Pride Month Bead Club
June 4, 9, 16 and 18
1:00 to 3:00 pm at Gallery 1C03

We can’t wait to see you!

ID: Graphic on pale green background bordered by wavy rainbow colours reads "Pride Month Bead Club, Gallery 1C03, 1st floor of Centennial Hall, June 4, 9, 16, & 18, 1PM - 3PM, Bracelet and Pride Flag Pin Beading!! Love Who You Are, info: [email protected]". Includes photo of rainbow beaded bracelet and pin.

06/05/2026

🌟 That’s a wrap! 🌟

Thank you to everyone who came out to our Two-Spirit and Indigiq***r Makers Market on June 2nd! An especially big thank you to the Makers, who brought their amazing creations to share! 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

💬If you attended the Two-Spirit and Indigiq***r Makers Market on Tuesday June 2nd, please fill out our feedback form! The link is in our bio and below ⬇️

🔗 https://forms.gle/JWm6W8SXo9iH4EURA

VD: Reel with video clips showing folks shopping at the Market, and a slideshow with pictures from each maker’s table, photos of folks talking and visiting, and another video clip of people shopping.

📖 This week we are kicking off our series again! We will highlight one of the many reads in the “Beading Métis Resurge...
06/04/2026

📖 This week we are kicking off our series again! We will highlight one of the many reads in the “Beading Métis Resurgence” Library Resource Guide. This week our is the 2024 book “Coexistance: Stories” by Billy-Ray Belcourt. This book is highly reccomended by Gallery 1C03 staff member Lily Gautron!

Here’s a synopsis:

“A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from a Giller-longlisted author and one of contemporary literature's most boundless minds. Across the prairies and Canada's west coast, on reservations and university campuses, at literary festivals and existential crossroads, the characters in Coexistence are searching for connection. They're learning to live with and understand one another, to see beauty and terror side by side, and to accept that the past, present, and future can inhabit a single moment. Bearing the compression, crystalline sentences, and emotional potency that have characterized his earlier books, Coexistence is a testament to Belcourt's mastery of and playfulness in any literary form. A vital addition to an already rich catalogue, this is a must-read collection and the work of an author at the height of his powers." -Synopsis by the publisher.

📚️ “Coexistance: Stories” is one of many works in our exhibition Library Resource Guide. It is featured in the “By Two-Spirit and Indigi-q***r Authors” section of the Guide. Request it for pickup through InterLibrary Loans at , via the link below or in our bio!

🔗 https://libguides.uwinnipeg.ca/c.php?g=748391

ID: Cover of “Coexistance: Stories” by Billy-Ray Belcourt. The author’s name is at the top of the cover in bold black text, with the text “Bestselling author of ‘A Minor Chorus’” below. The arms of two bodies locked in an embrace are centered on the cover. They look tense and uncomfortable, like they are struggling slightly. Below the bodies is white text that reads “Coexistance: Stories”. The background is light blue, which transitions to white on the right side of the cover.

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