programmed from January 24 - February 2, 2025

This year ROSEMARY Gallery is the Invited Artist of the arts + architectural competition on ice: Warming Huts! Started in 2009, Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition on Ice has been melding world-class design and art with Winnipeg’s famous winters. Our project, ROSEMARY SKOOL, will serve multiple programs including: free store, gallery, venue, and space for public workshops and artistic engagements.

 Inspired by the matriarchs who give ROSEMARY its namesake, ROSEMARY SKOOL looks to kindle moments of engagement that support our cultural values of fierce love, humility, and courage. Thinking about the homes of these matriarchs, ROSEMARY SKOOL strives towards the cultivation of spaces for gathering that are welcoming, generous, and accessible to all our relations to build knowledge together.

ROSEMARY SKOOL operates without cost to the public or to artists, providing an opportunity which ensures fair pay to arts workers. Its operations are Indigenous-led, through ROSEMARY Gallery. It works in critical discussion with, existing institutional models of equity and diversity initiatives to press for meaningful engagement with underrepresented communities in the arts.

Credits:
Conceived of and programmed by: Jaimie Isaac and Suzanne Morrissette
Technically and financially supported by: Sputnik Architecture + The Forks
With special thanks to: Chris Pancoe, Dave Pancoe, Peter Hargraeves, Lexis Nizio, Benita,Tom Kroeker, and Bobby
Programs supported by: The Forks, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and proceeds from the ROSEMARY SKOOL art brick fundraiser