This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
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Where Do We Put the Berries? Basketry of Indigenous North America
In-person
Craft Indigenous History & heritageDate and time
This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location
C2 Centre for Craft
329 Cumberland Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
Directions: Please use the buzzer code 22 when you arrive for entry. We are open 12-4 Wednesday - Saturday (closed long weekends).
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
Wheelchair ramp is around the right side of the building. We have a locked building so please call us when you arrive and we can let you in the ramp door.
About
MCML is excited to partner with the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre for Culture Days / Nuit Blanche. We will be hosting a pop-up exhibit on basketry.
The Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre presents an extension of our 2023 original exhibit, Where Do We Put the Berries? Basketry of Indigenous North America. This exhibit aims to continue carving out new spaces to display the variation that comes with Indigenous baskets and their respective artists. We hope this pop-up exhibit helps continue conversations around the visibility of Indigenous basketry within exhibition spaces and the ever-challenging description as functional art.
Please use the buzzer code 22 when you arrive for entry. We are open 12-4 Wednesday - Saturday (closed long weekends).
Links
- Website information C2centreforcraft.ca
- Accessibility Information c2centreforcraft.ca
Organizer
Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library
Dedicated to preserving the heritage, teaching the student, inspiring the artist, and promoting a way of life that values the handmade, the Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library has its origins in the early years of the Crafts Guild of Manitoba. The Guild was formed in 1928 as a branch of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild, and in 1933 that group established both a Permanent Collection and Library.
Over the years, volunteers worked to develop the collection, create exhibits, establish and deliver programming, and to care for the collection according to museum standards.
The Guild also established, in the early 1930s, a library of craft publications and patterns for use in workshops and by craftspeople.
The Library grew steadily over the years, and in 1948 was named the Gladys Chown Memorial Library in memory of a President of the Guild who died while in office. In the early 1990s volunteers worked to institute established library procedures and to develop the library into a more comprehensive resource.
In 1997 the Crafts Guild of Manitoba closed its doors, but the two collections were kept together and are managed by the Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library, an independent organization.
This event is part of a hub:
First Fridays
First Fridays Winnipeg Winnipeg, MBFirst Fridays and Culture Days Manitoba come together to promote local art and artists on the first Friday of every month.