March 20, 2007

Canada Council for the Arts announced on March 20 that Aganetha Dyck has won the 2007 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts!
Ian Carr-Harris, Aganetha Dyck, R. Bruce Elder, Murray Favro, Fernand Leduc and Daphne Odjig will receive awards for artistic achievement. They will be presented with their awards by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Friday, March 23.


February 14, 2007

Manitoba Bees with Aganetha Dyck on Bravo Feb 14 7:00pm EST

Wild and domestic bees are an integral part of the worlds food supply, helping to pollinate 30%-50% of what we eat. Aganetha Dyck installs found objects, drawings, paintings, and sculptures into living beehives where they are altered and eventually completed by her winged collaborators. Aganetha’s work shows us that sometimes it is the smallest things that are the most important:

“I am interested in the small – in the really tiny of the world. We’re going so fast, because we have so many people to feed and house and so we just bulldoze ahead. It’s the simple things that already exist that work so hard for us, that that I think we’re kind of ignoring…”

291 Film Company for Bravo Television


January 2007

Word is buzzing that well-loved visual artist Aganetha Dyck has been named the fifth recipient of the Manitoba Arts Council Arts Award of Distinction. This $30,000 award is presented annually to recognize the highest level of artistic excellence and distinguished career achievements by a professional Manitoba artist.

“The purpose of this award is to celebrate the careers of senior artists who represent our province so prominently on a national and international scale,” says Judith Flynn, Chair of Council. “This year we are celebrating the exceptional career of Aganetha Dyck, who began her professional artistic practise later in life and has since consistently produced original and thought-provoking work.”


Summer 2006

Aganetha Dyck's work "PIVOT" will be included in the national sculpture biennial on June 16 in Three Rivers Quebec

Work from the "Large Cupboard" is currently at the Cambridge Art Galleries "Story Girls" Exhibition May 20 - June 30, 2006

The CBC has just finished filming the bees and Dyck's work for ART SPOTS to be broadcast at a later date. Also CBC's The Nature of Things will broadcast "BEETALKER" a film with Dr. Mark Winston, the bees and Dyck on Sunday July 23, with David Suzuki moderating.