Roewan Crowe

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Roewan Crowe
Born Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
OccupationArtist, Writer and scholar
NationalityCanadian
Notable worksQuivering Land
Website
roewancrowe.com

Roewan Crowe is a Canadian feminist artist, writer, curator, and educator. In 2011 she was honoured for her social justice work in the arts by the Government of Manitoba as part of their celebration of Women in the Arts: Artists Working for Social Change. [1] Her first book of poetry, Quivering Land, was published in 2013 by ARP Books. Roewan Crowe is currently an Associate Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of Winnipeg [2] and Co-Director of The Institute for Women's & Gender Studies. Her creative and scholarly work explores queerness, class, violence, queer ecology, and what it means to be a settler. She lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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Early life and education

Crowe was born to working class parents in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, moving to Spruce Grove, Alberta in 1969. After completing an honours bachelor of arts degree at the University of Alberta, Crowe moved to Toronto to complete graduate studies in community psychology and arts-based research at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. After she completed her doctoral studies, she returned to the prairies. [3]

Art

Roewan Crowe creates work through the use of performance, installation, video, text, and theory, and her recent work creates intimate landscapes, making space for feelings, connection, and queer encounters. [4] Noted work includes: stop-motion animation Queer Grit which has traveled to video and film festivals internationally; [5] digShift (ongoing), a decolonizing and environmental reclamation project using site specific performance and multichannel installation to explore the shifting layers of an abandoned gas station; [6] [7] Lifting Stone, a queer femme performance/installation creating intimate poetic encounters; [8] and My Monument, [9] a multimedia exhibition with artists cam bush, Steven Leyden Cochrane and Paul Robles. That video uses Crowe's book Quivering Land to explore vanished feminist/queer/alternative cultural sites. [10] Her longstanding community practice is concerned with creating space for and building engaged feminist/queer/artistic communities [ citation needed ]. In collaboration with Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA) in 2008, she curated Art Building Community, a project that saw the launch of ten new works and a weekend symposium. [11] [12]

Writing

Crowe is the author of the book Quivering Land as well as scholarly articles and several chapbooks.

Quivering Land

Quivering Land is a queer Western, engaging with poetics and politics to reckon with the legacies of violence and colonization in the West. [13] Reviews of Quivering Land include: Herizons: Women's News and Feminist Views , [14] and Canadian Women in Literary Arts, an inclusive national literary organization. [15]

Selected Scholarly Articles

Roewan Crowe is particularly interested in exploring, and writing about, artistic practitioner knowledges and artistic processes. In 2014, with collaborator Michelle Meagher, she published the article, "Letting Something Else Happen: A Collaborative Encounter with the Work of Sharon Rosenberg." [16]

Other scholarly writing includes: "So You Want our Ghetto Stories: Oral History at Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre" [17] with Robin Jarvis Brownlie. Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance, [18] S. High, E. Little, Thi Ry Duong (eds). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014, pp 203–217.

"Slow Art in a Time of Flash Floods: What's a Queer Feminist Settler To Do?" [19] Multimedia essay, Studio XX Electronic Review, .dpi, Issue No. 25, "Inevitable Transitions," 2013.

"digShift: a Queer Reclamation of the Imagined West," [20] Multimedia essay, No More Potlucks: Online Journal of Contemporary Arts, "Wound," Issue 7, Jan. 2010.

"Feminist Encounters with the Hollywood Western." T. M. Chen, D. S. Churchill (eds). London and New York: Routledge Press, 2007, pp 113–130.

"Crafting Tales of Trauma: Will this Winged Monster Fly?" Provoked by Art: Theorizing Arts-informed Inquiry, L. Neilsen, J. G. Knowles, & A. L. Cole (editors). Halifax: Backalong Books, 2004, pp 123–132.

"Angelic Artful Encounters." Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Special Issue: Performances in Arts-Based Inquiry, Mullen, C. A. & Diamond, P., Spring 2001, pp 81–94.

"She Offers Fragments." The Art of Writing Inquiry, L. Neilsen, J. G. Knowles, & A. L Cole, editors, Backalong Books, 2001, pp 125–131.

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References

  1. ↑ "Dr. Roewan Crowe Honoured for Social Change". University of Winnipeg News. 26 October 2011. Archived from the original on 24 June 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Faculty: Women's & Gender Studies". The University of Winnipeg. Archived from the original on 1 April 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. ↑ West End Cultural Center. "Winnipeg Poetry Slam 2015 featured reader bio". wecc.ca. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Crowe, Roewan. "Description of Artistic Practice". www.roewancrowe.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Skoðar hugmyndafræði vestrans í femínísku samhengi". mbl.is. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Abramson, Stacey. "Digging into the Past". No. 19 July 2007. Winnipeg Free Press. Uptown (newspaper).
  7. ↑ Milne, Heather (2007). "Excavation as Transmutation: Roewan Crowe's digShift". Ace Art Critical Distance.
  8. ↑ "Roewan Crowe: Lifting Stone". Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Archived from the original on 25 June 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  9. ↑ Gibson, Jennifer. "My Monument at UW Gallery 1CO3". uwinnipeg.ca. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  10. ↑ Thiessen, Lukas (17 March 2014). "Ghost Launch Artists collaborate to evoke sites of queer/feminist literature". Manitoban Newspaper Publications Corporation. The Manitoban. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  11. ↑ Light, Whitney (8 May 2008). "More than Murals: Roewan Crowe's Symposium Art Building Community looks at the potential of community Art". Winnipeg Free Press. Uptown Magazine (newspaper).
  12. ↑ Campbell, Marlo (20 November 2008). "Civic Art, Social Activism". Winnipeg Free Press. Uptown Magazine (newspaper).
  13. ↑ Thiessen, Lukas (19 November 2013). "'How does the artist decolonize' Writer Roewan Crowe and visual artist Paul Robles discuss their recent collaboration on Quivering Land". The Manitoban. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  14. ↑ Ryan, Kelly. "Review of Quivering Land: Roewan Crowe". Herizons.ca. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  15. ↑ Webb-Campbell, Shannon. "Shannon Webb-Campbell reviews Quivering Land by Roewan Crowe". CWILA.com. Telegraph Journal's Salon Books. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  16. ↑ Meagher, Michelle; Crowe, Roewan (2014). "Letting Something Else Happen: A Collaborative Encounter with the Work of Sharon Rosenberg" (PDF). Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. 10 (2): 16. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  17. ↑ Brownlie, R.; Crowe, Roewan (2014). 11. "So You Want to Hear Our Ghetto Stories?" Oral History at Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre. pp. 203–218. doi:10.3138/9781442666580-014. ISBN   9781442666580. S2CID   165947758.
  18. ↑ Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance. University of Toronto Press. 2014. ISBN   978-1-4426-1465-9. JSTOR   10.3138/j.ctt5vkj5r.
  19. ↑ "Slow Art in a Time of Flash Floods: What's a Queer Feminist Settler To Do? | .dpi". dpi.studioxx.org. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  20. ↑ "Nomorepotlucks 7 by Mél Hogan - Issuu". issuu.com. 23 January 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
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