Ice Follies 2023
February 10th - 24th, 2023
Theme: Nbaagzi Mkwam (Thin Ice)
The 2023 theme “Thin Ice” looks at our shifting landscapes and communities, including our changing relationships with our environment and each other.
Presented Artists
A visit to the Underwater World of Gichi-nibiinsing-zaag’igan, 2023
An Ice Follies 10th Year Retrospective – A Downtown Walking Tour, 2023
Landlines, 2022
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10th Anniversary Special Guest Presenters
WKP Kennedy Gallery
An important part of your Capitol Centre, the WKP Kennedy Public Art Gallery presents the finest in historical and contemporary Northern, Canadian and International visual artists. In their two gallery spaces, through their public arts activities, through their programming with the Capitol Theatre and in their touring exhibition projects, they showcase art of all forms and media. The WKP Kennedy Public Art Gallery is a gathering place for art and art ideas. They offer to the people of North Bay and Northeastern Ontario, a forum for artistic dialogue and development.
Website: http://www.kennedygallery.org/
Nipissing Regional Curatorial Collective
The Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective works with curators, artists, collectives and cultural organizations (eg. the Gateway Theatre Guild) to promote, animate, produce and document cultural events in the Nipissing region of northeastern Ontario.
The NRCC is committed to the professional payment of artists as outlined by the CARFAC Ontario union of artists. They are connecting new regional and national audiences for art and culture to emerging and professional visual, media and performing artists in the Nipissing region. The NRCC also offers administrative and educational programming assistance to all non-profit organizations in our region.
Website: https://thenrcc.com/
Nipissing University
Nipissing University is a primarily undergraduate university with a reputation for excellence in teacher education, arts, science and professional programs. Nipissing is located on an impressive 720 acres of Canadian Shield forest within the city of North Bay, Ontario – a few hours travel north of Toronto and west of Ottawa.
Nipissing’s strategic focus on student success and experience has translated into consistent top rankings in the country in the areas of student support, student experience, faculty, and residences as a primarily undergraduate institution. Students find themselves in a high-quality academic environment that is student-focused and based on personal teaching practices, innovative approaches to learning, and a growing research culture.
Website: https://www.nipissingu.ca/
Trinity Square Video
For 50 years, Trinity Square has been a champion of media arts practices. Our activities are guided by a goal to increase our members’ and audiences’ understanding and imagination of what media arts practices can be. Trinity Square strives to create supportive environments, encouraging artistic and curatorial experimentation that challenge medium specificity through education, production and presentation supports.
As video-based practices have become increasingly present across disciplines, Trinity Square engages artists and curators in critical investigations into the changing conditions of perception, materiality and the virtual. We consider all of our artistic activities and structures through a process of critical self-reflection, continuously evaluating the ethical positioning of our programming, jury structures, inter-organizational relationships, et cetera. In addition to holding aesthetic worth in its own right, our artistic programming extends our education and production activities in order to generate new knowledges.
Website: https://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/