The Northern Juried Art Show will come back to Flin Flon in April - and artists are being encouraged to look to the past.
As was first reported in The Reminder in October, the 2025 edition of the Northern Juried Art Show will come to the Flin Flon Community Hall. More information about the event was announced last week, including its confirmed dates and a theme for the show.
The NorVA Centre confirmed Jan. 3 that the show will take place from April 10-12 at the hall, with all categories remaining the same as previous years’ shows - awards will be given in oil painting, acrylic painting and mixed media, watercolour painting, drawing and printmaking, digital art and photography, three-dimensional art, fibre art and in youth categories, along with best in show. Youth ages nine to 17 can enter the competition for free and artists from across northern Manitoba and from Saskatchewan communities near Flin Flon can enter.
The upcoming show will have a theme for pieces - “lore”, according to organizers. How to interpret “lore”, defined mainly as past knowledge or tradition, is up to the artists themselves and pieces do not necessarily need to reflect the theme, but it is encouraged.
Pieces selected for awards from the show will qualify to be shown at a gallery event in Winnipeg later this year, the Manitoba Rural and Northern Juried Art Show.
The show, which rotates between different northern Manitoba communities every year, was held in The Pas last year and was last held in Flin Flon in 2022. Pieces by several locall based artists received awards - one of those pieces, “More Horsemen” by Flin Flon sculptor Doug Dmytriw, a copper sculpture showing a modern manifestation of the Biblical Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, inspired by the ongoing war in Ukraine, was named “Best in Show”.
A total of 70 artists from across northern Manitoba exhibited works at the most recent show in The Pas, including many based in and around Flin Flon. Rosimeire Anjos, Karen Clark, Noelle Drimmie, Matthew Enns, Lois Fisher, Ann Marin and Monique Rainville received awards for the pieces they exhibited, with Clark earning a first-place ribbon in the acrylic painting and mixed media category.
