Latest news with #SportsNight
Winnipeg Free Press
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg artist's collaborations with the hive mind proved sweet
Aganetha Dyck saw art in the everyday, the domestic, the small. Nowhere was that more evident than in her internationally recognized work with live honeybees. The Winnipeg-based artist would place found objects — china figurines, sports equipment, Barbie dolls, stiletto heels — in beehives, and the bees would cover them in honeycomb and wax, creating striking sculptural works that have been exhibited in Canada, the United States and Europe. WAYNE GLOWACKI / FREE PRESS FILES Aganetha Dyck poses with her pieces Wedding Guest Shoes (right) and Sports Night in Canada in 2007. WAYNE GLOWACKI / FREE PRESS FILES Aganetha Dyck poses with her pieces Wedding Guest Shoes (right) and Sports Night in Canada in 2007. Dyck always made sure to give credit to her millions of tiny, buzzing collaborators, because to her it was, indeed, a collaboration. 'They're all unionized,' she told the Free Press in 2007 after winning a Governor General's Award for visual and media arts, as well as the Arts Award of Distinction from the Manitoba Arts Council. 'I look after them well.' Dyck died on July 18. She was 87. 'As an artist, she was absolutely fearless,' says Shawna Dempsey, visual artist and co-executive director of MAWA (Mentoring Artists for Women's Art). 'She would work with any material in any way, even if no one had done it before, considered it before, or if those processes and materials were considered crafty or feminine, which, particularly in the '80s or '90s, was a real way to marginalize women artists. TOM HANSON / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Governor General Michaëlle Jean congratulates Aganetha Dyck after recieving the Governor General's award in visual and media arts at an awards ceremony in Ottawa in 2007. Governor General Michaëlle Jean congratulates Aganetha Dyck after recieving the Governor General's award in visual and media arts at an awards ceremony in Ottawa in 2007. 'But nonetheless, Aganetha was true to her instincts and her inner artistic voice, and so, she canned buttons in mason jars and she boiled sweaters and she put a wedding dress in a beehive.' 'There's lots of ways to describe her art, but for me, one of the ways I've been thinking about recently is that I think she reflects the rise of feminist art practice in Canada in the 1970s,' says Serena Keshavjee, a professor of art and architecture at the University of Winnipeg who has curated and written about Dyck's work. Dyck took the domestic processes of so-called 'women's work,' and elevated them to high art, but she also saw immense value in collaboration — whether it was with bees or people. 'Collaboration is a feminist methodology. She collaborated with everyone, very generously. Scientists loved her. Beekeepers loved her. Artists around town loved her. She collaborated with her son (artist Richard Dyck),' Keshavjee says. 'This is part of her personality, but it's also a methodology. She was generous and she shared and she wanted to make art with other people. So all of these things come together for me and saying she was this revolutionary feminist artist in the '70s.' Dyck, who was born in Marquette, came to art later in her life and was largely self-taught. Her artistic awakening came in her mid-30s when she was living in Prince Albert, Sask. Her husband, Peter, was transferred there in 1972. She was an executive's wife and a mother of three and thought she might do some volunteering. She chose the art gallery. But it was when she started taking drawing courses at the Prince Albert Community College that the seeds of her own artistic practice were planted. One of her teachers, George Glenn, told her to stop painting mountainscapes and start making art about her life. Dyck protested that she was a homemaker. Surely this man wasn't suggesting she make art about laundry. But, in a way, he was. 'Then make art from that,' came the reply. So she did. Her children, with whom she was very close throughout her life, started noticing a change in their mother. 'We had a kitchen that had this one blank wall,' recalls her middle daughter, Deborah Dyck. 'I came home and she was throwing plaster at the wall. I went, 'This is new.' She was so passionate about it. It was wonderful.' Their late father was also incredibly supportive of their mother, who saw the world as a canvas. 'There weren't very many surfaces that mom wouldn't start altering,' adds her eldest son, Richard Dyck. 'This increased gradually and then sometimes controversially. Flowers started showing up on my toolboxes and tools…' '…and a certain car,' her youngest son, Michael Dyck, adds. This was back in Manitoba, where the family returned in 1976. Aganetha was managing the Big Buffalo Resort at Falcon Lake, and Deborah came out one day to use the car. 'And all of a sudden, mom just popped up on the opposite side of the car, and she had felt markers in her hand,' Deborah recalls. She'd decorated it like a 1960s hippie van, using rust spots as the flowers' centres. She was fearlessly experimental, and sometimes just fearless, period. When she was working on her canned buttons project, she'd boil them in pots of boiling oil in the yard at Falcon Lake. 'It seems a little out of character when I reflect on it now because we always had fondues for Christmas dinner, and mom was always worried about the oil catching fire on the fondue, and here she was out at the lake putting these plastic buttons into pots of boiling oil,' Michael recalls. 'And it was like fireworks going off. Some of the buttons would explode, and these buttons would go flying 30, 40 feet up in the air.' 'Different rules for the dinner table,' Richard says. Dyck's art practice began taking off. She had started making sculptural works out of Salvation Army sweaters she'd taken home and purposely shrunk. 'I've seen these — the WAG has some — these miniature, shrunken, felted sweaters become very anthropomorphic. They actually become people. It's so compelling,' Keshavjee says. In Dyck's hands, buttons were reimagined as jeweled jars of preserves; cigarettes, wire and wool became sculptures. Dyck's work soon caught the eye of Carol A. Phillips, former executive director of the Winnipeg Arts Council and then a curator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina. Phillips gave Dyck her first solo show in 1976. Dyck was a huge believer in mentorship, as both a mentee and mentor. She is considered a 'founding foremother' of MAWA in 1985, and one of its original members. She was a mentor in the inaugural Foundation Mentorship Program that first year, and again in 1988, 1995, 2004, 2012 and 2014. 'Through MAWA, Aganetha provided years of formal mentorship, but she was so generous with her experience and so curious about and engaged with younger artists, she informally mentored countless more. And not just share her advice as an artist or her experience as an artist, she also was very open about her experience as a woman, as a parent, as a person in the world,' Dempsey says. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS FILES Aganetha Dyck's work at an exhibition celebrating four decades of visual art education, community building, and peer support at Mentoring Artists for Womens Art (MAWA) in September 2024. Aganetha Dyck's work at an exhibition celebrating four decades of visual art education, community building, and peer support at Mentoring Artists for Womens Art (MAWA) in September 2024. Her mentorship spanned generations. Winnipeg painter Megan Krause, whose 1984 birth year puts her nearly 50 years younger than Dyck, was a mentee of Dyck's before becoming her studio assistant. Krause says that during her undergrad, her process was more rigid: she felt she needed a set theme and plan her canvasses ahead of time. 'Something I learned from her was just to play and see where it goes. I could get so paralyzed by not knowing where to start. She encouraged me to figure out the why later. Make a bunch of it and then, through that flow state, it will come,' Krause says. When they worked togther, Krause says, Dyck always prioritized the catch-up: 'First things first, we have to have coffee. We have to talk about life.' 'She was very humble, and so easy to talk to. She really was a really good friend of mine,' Krause says, her voice catching. Her kids remember her like this, too. A sounding board. They could tell her anything and be met with the same curiosity she brought to her art. 'There was no wall. I don't know how to explain it. It's just a very, very close connection,' Deborah says In the early 1990s, Dyck began her long collaborative relationship with the bees. She recognized that they were natural architects and wanted to work with them. WAYNE GLOWACKI / FREE PRESS FILES Souvenir Winnipeg Jets hockey stick and pucks covered in beeswax from Dyck's Sports Night in Canada. WAYNE GLOWACKI / FREE PRESS FILES Souvenir Winnipeg Jets hockey stick and pucks covered in beeswax from Dyck's Sports Night in Canada. She began working with Phil Veldhuis, a beekeeper and philosophy instructor whose Phil's Honey, a St. Norbert Farmers' Market staple, is based near Starbuck. Veildhuis recalls meeting the artist through the St. Norbert Arts Centre, where she was doing some work and he had been invited to keep some bees on the property. 'I think we had coffee and she told me what she wanted to do; I said it sounded like a ton of fun, and the rest is history,' he says. JULIE OLIVER / OTTAWA CITIZEN FILES Hive Scan by Aganetha and Richard Dyck appeared in the National Art Gallery of Canada's exhibition Flora and Fauna in 2012. JULIE OLIVER / OTTAWA CITIZEN FILES Hive Scan by Aganetha and Richard Dyck appeared in the National Art Gallery of Canada's exhibition Flora and Fauna in 2012. Dyck's work with the bees spanned decades, and led to residencies with beekeepers and entomologists in Europe; it was featured on David Suzuki's The Nature of Things TV series. But in 2009, her collaboration came to an end. Dyck had a strong reaction to a bee sting and returned to working with felt, but the legacy of her honeycomb-filigreed works is long-lasting, and has taken on added resonance as bee populations become more threatened. Dyck had an influence on Veldhuis, too. 'She got me to think about my bees in a very constructive way. I grew up in a beekeeping family and so, you know, bees are kind of just another day to us. To have someone come in and work who was so excited by it all was very stimulating to me,' he says. 'I'll never forget her excitement about opening a hive and watching the bees work.' Last year, Winnipeg visual artist Diana Thorneycroft posted on Facebook. 'There is a rumour circulating that Aganetha Dyck has passed away. When I told her about it, she couldn't stop laughing. Then she beat me at arm wrestling…' Thorneycroft and fellow artist Reva Stone were studio mates of Dyck's for decades. Stone was one of her first mentees. Her laugh is one of the things both are going to miss the most about her. That, and her eye — her discerning, out-of-the-box eye. Stone recalls taking a flight to New York with Dyck. 'We're on the plane. She looks out the window and says, 'Aren't those clouds beautiful?' And I say, 'Yeah, they really are.' She says, 'Wouldn't they look gorgeous on a doily?'' Thorneycroft also benefited from Dyck's eye. She was trying to make a sculpture using a plastic horse and Sculpey, a polymer clay, in her oven at home. 'Sculpey is supposed to harden at 250 degrees, but plastic melts at a much lower temperature, so one of the horses just collapsed and fell apart, and the Sculpey kind of broke. And I thought, 'Oh God, what a mess. What a mess.'' Thorneycroft brought the mess to her studio, and later found a note from Dyck: 'You've had a breakthrough.' 'We just loved her,' Thorneycroft says. 'It was easy. She's so easy to love.' Wednesdays Columnist Jen Zoratti looks at what's next in arts, life and pop culture. Jen ZorattiColumnist Jen Zoratti is a columnist and feature writer working in the Arts & Life department, as well as the author of the weekly newsletter NEXT. A National Newspaper Award finalist for arts and entertainment writing, Jen is a graduate of the Creative Communications program at RRC Polytech and was a music writer before joining the Free Press in 2013. Read more about Jen. Every piece of reporting Jen produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print – part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Felicity Huffman Joins Fox's ‘Doc' For Season 2
EXCLUSIVE: Fox's breakout Doc, starring Molly Parker, is getting a high-profile new cast addition for Season 2. Felicity Huffman has been tapped as a series regular on the medical drama from Sony Pictures TV and Fox Entertainment Studios, which is set to return this fall. This marks only the third series regular role on an ongoing series for Huffman following her starring turns on ABC's Sports Night and Desperate Housewives, the latter earning her an Emmy Award. Huffman will play Dr. Joan Ridley. Double-boarded in internal medicine and surgery, she's the kind of doctor who never has to raise her voice. Incredibly charming and charismatic with a wicked sense of humor that masks her ferocious ambition. She proudly describes herself as an 'old-school broad.' She drinks whiskey, smokes the occasional Marlboro red, and treats herself to solo steak dinners. Joan was Dr. Amy Larsen's (Parker) med school professor and early mentor — and Amy was her standout student. Their dynamic is layered, charged, and deeply rooted in mutual respect, with just enough friction to keep it honest which is why Michael (Omar Metwally) offers her the open Chief of Internal Medicine job at Westside, succeeding Dr. Richard Miller (Scott Wolf). While it's true that she's here to help Amy, and the rest of the department, she also has a secret that's motivating her even more. More from Deadline 'Boston Blue': Gloria Reuben Joins 'Blue Bloods' Offshoot For CBS 2025 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming 'Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service' Heats Up Fox's Summer Slate With Another Unscripted Hit, Growing Audience 27% Since Debut Based on the Italian series Nelle tue mani, Doc follows powerhouse physician Dr. Amy Larsen (Parker) as she continues to rebuild her life after a car crash erased eight years of her memory. No longer Chief of Internal Medicine at Westside Hospital, Amy must restart her medical journey as an Intern in the hopes of becoming the doctor she once was. She'll confront hard truths about her missing years, work to repair fractured relationships, and seek to reconcile the person she used to be with the one everyone else has come to know. In addition to Parker and Metwally, Huffman joins returning series regulars Omar Metwally, Jon Ecker, Amirah Vann and Anya Banerjee as well as Season 1 recurring players Patrick Walker and Charlotte Fountain-Jardim, who have been promoted to regulars for Season 2. Doc, which received a rare in the current environment 22-episode Season 2 order, is co-produced by Sony Pictures Television and Fox Entertainment Studios. Barbie Kligman and Hank Steinberg serve as co-showrunners and executive producers. Erwin Stoff, Russell Fine, John Weber, Frank Siracusa, Carol Barbee, and David Foster also serve as executive producers. Huffman, an Academy Award nominee for Transamerica, is a five-time Emmy nominee, twice for Desperate Housewives and three times for the ABC anthology series American Crime. Doc, which marks Huffman's biggest role since the college admission controversy, reunites her with Fox and Sony TV after her guest stint on the anthology drama Accused last year. Most recently, she starred in Lifetime's two-part film The Thirteenth Wife: Escaping Polygamy, which tells the true story of Rena Chynoweth, a woman who escaped a life of oppression and violence within a polygamous cult. Her recent credits also include a guest starring arc on Criminal Minds: Evolution and a UK stage debut in the 2024 Park Theatre production of Hir. She is repped by Atlas Artists. Best of Deadline List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds A Full Timeline Of Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Feud In Court, Online & In The Media
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Why the Cubs Might Lose Kyle Tucker to Free Agency in 2025
MLB 2025 SHOCKERS: Cubs to Win 99 Games? Tigers' Secret Weapon Revealed! Dive into the hottest MLB 2025 season updates with ESPN's David Schoenfield on Sports Night! Discover why the Chicago Cubs could lead with 99 wins, the Detroit Tigers' surprising dominance, and the Philadelphia Phillies' pitching prowess. Is Juan Soto struggling with the Mets? Will the Pirates trade Paul Skenes? Plus, get the scoop on Max Fried and the Yankees' chase for glory! Don't miss this in-depth baseball analysis packed with insights, predictions, and feel-good stories! - Subscribe for more MLB news and hit the bell for updates! - Like and Comment your favorite team below! Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro to MLB 2025 Season 0:58 - Detroit Tigers: Feel-Good Story 2:43 - Phillies' Top Rotation 3:58 - Mets & Juan Soto's Struggles 6:02 - Paul Skenes Trade Rumors 7:58 - Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong MVP Buzz 9:42 - Cubs as Legit Contenders 10:47 - Yankees & Max Fried's Impact 12:36 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Smith-Shawver put on 60-day IL with elbow injury
MLB 2025 SHOCKERS: Cubs to Win 99 Games? Tigers' Secret Weapon Revealed! Dive into the hottest MLB 2025 season updates with ESPN's David Schoenfield on Sports Night! Discover why the Chicago Cubs could lead with 99 wins, the Detroit Tigers' surprising dominance, and the Philadelphia Phillies' pitching prowess. Is Juan Soto struggling with the Mets? Will the Pirates trade Paul Skenes? Plus, get the scoop on Max Fried and the Yankees' chase for glory! Don't miss this in-depth baseball analysis packed with insights, predictions, and feel-good stories! - Subscribe for more MLB news and hit the bell for updates! - Like and Comment your favorite team below! Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro to MLB 2025 Season 0:58 - Detroit Tigers: Feel-Good Story 2:43 - Phillies' Top Rotation 3:58 - Mets & Juan Soto's Struggles 6:02 - Paul Skenes Trade Rumors 7:58 - Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong MVP Buzz 9:42 - Cubs as Legit Contenders 10:47 - Yankees & Max Fried's Impact 12:36 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Assessing Roupp, Rodriguez's performances in Giants' loss to Tigers
MLB 2025 SHOCKERS: Cubs to Win 99 Games? Tigers' Secret Weapon Revealed! Dive into the hottest MLB 2025 season updates with ESPN's David Schoenfield on Sports Night! Discover why the Chicago Cubs could lead with 99 wins, the Detroit Tigers' surprising dominance, and the Philadelphia Phillies' pitching prowess. Is Juan Soto struggling with the Mets? Will the Pirates trade Paul Skenes? Plus, get the scoop on Max Fried and the Yankees' chase for glory! Don't miss this in-depth baseball analysis packed with insights, predictions, and feel-good stories! - Subscribe for more MLB news and hit the bell for updates! - Like and Comment your favorite team below! Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro to MLB 2025 Season 0:58 - Detroit Tigers: Feel-Good Story 2:43 - Phillies' Top Rotation 3:58 - Mets & Juan Soto's Struggles 6:02 - Paul Skenes Trade Rumors 7:58 - Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong MVP Buzz 9:42 - Cubs as Legit Contenders 10:47 - Yankees & Max Fried's Impact 12:36 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
