The Artists

Jen Delos Reyes

Jen Delos Reyes is an artist originally from Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Her research interests include the history of socially engaged art, group work, and artists’ social roles. She has exhibited works across North America and Europe, and has contributed writing to various catalogues and institutional publications. She contributed writing to Decentre: Concerning Artist-Run Culture published by YYZBOOKS in 2008. In 2006 she completed an intensive workshop, Come Together: Art and Social Engagement, at The Kitchen in New York. She has received numerous grants and awards including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant. Jen is the founder and director of Open Engagement, a conference on socially engaged art practice and herself speaks widely on Art and Social Practice at conferences and institutions around the world. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Portland State University where she co-directs the Art and Social Practice MFA.  Her essay A Case For a Contemporary Collection of Canadian Folk Music was written for the project.

Kerri-Lynn Reeves

Kerri-Lynn Reeves is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and arts administrator. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts – Honours degree from the University of Manitoba. Along with creating textile, sculptural, and multi-media works, she has orchestrated large and small group socially engaged projects, locally, nationally, and internationally. Along with previously sitting on MAWA’s Board of Directors, she has received awards from the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts and participated in a thematic residency in 2010 at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her essay Manitoba was written for the project.

Contact

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Photo credit: Christopher Friesen