Keyword: MHC Gallery

In The World But Not Of It offers a look inside Hutterite colonies

Tuesday, September 6, 2022 @ 3:44 PM

MHC Gallery invites visitors to look inside the often-misunderstood and cloistered world of Hutterite colonies with a new exhibition by Brandon-photographer Tim Smith.

In The World But Not Of It is a collection of photographs created over the 13 years that Smith has spent developing relationships with Hutterite colonies across Manitoba. In a modern western world faced with increasing levels of isolation and loneliness, Hutterite community life offers a different perspective. In fact, Smith says that the importance given to engagement in family life, social life and spirituality, as well as the defined purpose for their lives, means that Hutterite communities meet many of the requirements to be considered Blue Zones—areas where health, happiness, and life expectancy rates are higher than average.

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Local artists featured in new MHC Gallery exhibitions

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 @ 12:00 AM

Two new exhibitions open at the MHC Gallery on Friday, March 16 at 7:00 PM. The exhibitions will run from March 16-May 5.

Faye Hall (main level)

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Art and Mennonite history book to be launched at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Thursday, October 26, 2017 @ 12:33 PM

Nearly 10 years in the making, the official book launch of Along the Road to Freedom – Mennonite women of courage and faith featuring the paintings of artist Ray Dirks will take place at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on Wednesday, November 8 at 7:00 PM. All are invited, and admission is free.

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Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives & Gallery to continue under new structure

Monday, January 9, 2017 @ 11:09 AM

Joint News Release by:
Mennonite Church Canada,
Canadian Mennonite University
Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies

The Mennonite Heritage Centre including its Archive and Art Gallery programs, is being reorganized under a new partnership and name.

Discussions over the last months between Mennonite Church Canada (MC Canada), Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), and the Center for Transnational Mennonite Studies (CTMS) at the University of Winnipeg culminated in a proposal for CMU to assume full ownership of the Mennonite Heritage Centre building, and programming of the faith-based Art Gallery, while the archives will be managed and funded by a three-way partnership of MC Canada, CMU, and CTMS. CTMS is a partnership between the University of Winnipeg's Chair in Mennonite Studies and the D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation Inc.

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