Meet a trash can Picasso, an Indigenous NASCAR driver, a roadkill and rot artist, and a young Ukrainian refugee. The stories are part of Creator Network Presents, a compilation of short films airing Saturday at 8 p.m. on CBC Manitoba and streaming on Gem.
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Shawna Dempsey (left) and Lorri Millan, outside their warehouse studio in north Winnipeg, where they have been making ground-breaking art for 30 years and recently received a $30,000 award in recognition of the milestone. Winnipeg One Gay City! proclaims bus-shelter advertisements designed more than 20 years ago by artists Lorri Millan and Shawna Dempsey to promote queer visibility in Winnipeg. Winnipeg One Gay City! proclaims bus-shelter advertisements designed more than 20 years ago by artists Lorri Millan and Shawna Dempsey to promote queer visibility in Winnipeg.
The posters were banned back then. Fast-forward to today: they are being displayed in eight transit shelters as part of University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery s One Queer City exhibit.
Posted: Jan 15, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 15
A bus shelter advertisement riffing on Winnipeg s slogan, One Great City, but with a LGBTQ-themed twist, never saw the light of day when it was conceived in 1997. It has now been brought to life at the corner of Main Street at Stradbrook Avenue as an art exhibition from the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery. (Jaison Empson/CBC)