What’s next?

While preparing for the move to our new home at 460 Portage Avenue, we are pleased to offer the following programs and events:

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presentsFAX an exhibition thatinvites a multi-generational group of artists, as well as architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers, to conceive of the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing.

Ice Fishing in Gimli is an exhibition based on an eight-volume image/text montage bookwork by Winnipeg artist/writer Rob Kovitz. As a special program offered only to Plug In members, lending copies of the entire eight volume work are available on loan during the exhibition. This exhibition will run from December 12, 2009 to February 21, 2010.

Donna Lynas, visiting curator, and Director of Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge, UK will present a public talk entitled Artistic Development in the Context of Research and will cover three areas: The Residency, The Retreat and The Individual.

Plug In ICA is pleased to announce the participating artists for Summer School 2009, a pilot project that is a hybrid artist residency/art research/art school program for professional practicing artists.

The public is welcome to join Summer School artists at public program events throughout the month of August.

Video Podcasts of Plug In ICA’s Art Tomorrow public forum are now available online. Follow the links below.

Every second year, the Manitoba Foundation for the Arts honours Manitoba individuals and organizations that go above and beyond their daily professions to use art in ways that enhance the communities they live in and the overall quality of life in Manitoba.

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to officially announce the launch of the Turn On Campaign to raise $4 million. Funds raised will go towards the development of Plug In ICA’s new facility at 460 Portage Avenue as well as to support an Endowment for programs.

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