Kelly Klick Art who I am and how to contact me...
Art takes action to create, patience to grow, vulnerability to deliver and a lot of trust to let it live its own life separate from the artist.
I am a rural artist living in Pinawa Manitoba, where the prairie meets the Canadian Shield and where the historic Winnipeg River flows. My inspiration springs from 20 years as a midwife and childbirth educator in Ontario and Manitoba. In my artwork I use traditional handicraft mediums of lace and wool along with found objects, my own clay sculptures and oil paintings. My pieces are available for exhibition.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 "Mother Tree" solos exhibition, Pinawa Club, Pinawa , MB
2024 "Mother Cake" solo exhibition, Pinawa Club, Pinawa MB
2024 Eastman Judges Art Exhibition, group exhibition, Great Falls MB
2023 “Celebrate li waayzan” group exhibition, Pinawa ArtGallery, Pinawa MB
2023 “Northern and Rural Juried Art Exhibition” Manitoba ArtsNetwork
2022 “Mother Cake” solo exhibition, The Public Brew House and Gallery, Steinbach MB
2022 “Confluence” group exhibition, Arts Forward Gallery, Neepawa MB
2021 “Momentum” online Rural Arts Mentorship Program group exhibition, Manitoba Arts Network
2021 “Confluence” group exhibition, Pinawa Art Gallery, Pinawa MB
2021 “Conflux” Rural Arts Mentorship Program group exhibition,Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon MB
AWARDS
2024 First in Sculpture class for "From Little Acorns Grow", Eastman Judged Art Exhibition
2023 Manitoba Arts Council Share Grant. Pinawa Art 211
2021 Winnipeg River Arts Council and Northern and Rural Manitoba Juried Art Exhibition 2nd in Mixed Media for “Tree of Life”
2021 Mentee, Rural Artists Mentorship Program, Manitoba Arts Network and MAWA
2021 Manitoba Arts Council Share Grant. Pinawa Art 211
EXPOSURE
2023 First Friday Lecturer “Pregnancy and Birth in Art” Mentoring Women for Women’s Art, Winnipeg MB
2021 “Mother Cake” slide show, Midwifery Program, Winnipeg MB
2021 “Inside Story” oil painting chosen as cover of 20th year Annual Report, College of Midwives of MB
2021 Feature Artist, Summer Circular, College of Midwives of MB
2018 Artist/Guest Lecturer, “Clay Sculpture to Explore Midwifery Philosophy” School of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB
INVOLVEMENT
2024 Assessor, Manitoba Arts Council
2023-24 Youth Mentor, Manitoba Craft Council
2020-Present President, Pinawa Art Gallery, MB
2020-Present Host of clay sculpture, other art workshops, as well as children’s school classes
2022 Mentor, One to One Mentorship, Mentoring Art for Women Artists
EDUCATION
2024 Tip Toland in the Skin workshop, Ubud, Bali
Classes and workshops including painting, sculpture, pottery and rug hooking from Winnipeg Art Gallery, Forum Art Centre, Stoneware Gallery, Pinawa Art Gallery, Douglas Family Art
Centre, notably from Valerie Metcalfe, Metro Dmytriw, Heidi Hunter, Brenna George and other generous artists.
2003 BSC (honours) Midwifery, Toronto Metropolitan University
1990 BA (honours) University of Manitoba, Women’s Health
Contact Me I'd love to hear from you!
204-471-7745