The View from Here: Linus Woods. After the Nest Ice Age in Long Plain Re, 2017

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Staycation: The Art of Being Here features more than 100 Manitoba-related artworks from the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq collection, spanning the past 50 years. These pieces reveal how the places around us are layered with memory, story and lived experience. Over the coming weeks, the Free Press will spotlight works from this eclectic exhibition, each one offering a new way of seeing home. Experience it in person and enjoy some staycation time at the gallery, on view until December.

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Staycation: The Art of Being Here features more than 100 Manitoba-related artworks from the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq collection, spanning the past 50 years. These pieces reveal how the places around us are layered with memory, story and lived experience. Over the coming weeks, the Free Press will spotlight works from this eclectic exhibition, each one offering a new way of seeing home. Experience it in person and enjoy some staycation time at the gallery, on view until December.

Linus Woods. After the Next Ice Age in Long Plain Res, 2017.

Acrylic, mixed media on canvas. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds from the Winnipeg Art Gallery Foundation Kathleen M. Richardson Fund, 2018-12. Photo: Scott Benesiinaabandan.

After the Next Ice Age In Long Plain Res was commissioned for the 2017/18 WAG exhibition, INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE. Woods is a Dakota/Ojibway artist from Long Plain First Nation. This large painting takes a humorous look towards the future and hope for cultural resurgence, as elders surf down the waves of change.

Woods sees his paintings as expressions of his spiritual journey. The subject of his work is based on the oral histories of his ancestors, dreams and the natural world — blending tradition with wit.

Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday (free after 5 p.m.) and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday (free on second Sunday of every month).

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