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Artists reflect on Winter Festival-winning pieces
This needle-felted piece by Reanne Settee titled Curious Camaraderie won Best in Show. (Peter Lozinski/Daily Herald)
Three of the winners of this year’s Mann Art Gallery Winter Festival Show and Sale have more in common than just inclusion in the same exhibition.
Reanne Settee, Sharron Schoenfeld and Donna Stockdale submitted different pieces with different subject matter in different mediums. But each of the three winners first got their start in other art forms.
Stockdale has been an artist as long as she remembers.
“In my family, art was always part of our life,” she said.
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Saskatchewan is remembering one of its most cherished voices following the death of Don Kerr, a writer and teacher whose work was deeply rooted in the province he called home.
“He was a very gregarious person. Loved life, people and he loved teaching,” his son David said on Friday.
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Kerr’s writing was often focused on the history of Saskatoon. His friend, Canadian author David Carpenter, told The StarPhoenix in 2015 that “if Don were to pass on, it’s almost like Saskatoon would lose its memory.”