Past Events

Gallery hours 12noon - 4pm, Tuesday to Saturday

This show will feature more of my mosaic works, also some new textile pieces.

WALKS - a continuation of my work in mosaic, these are more landscapes that have come out of photos and sketches done on walks in my neighbourhood.

POTHOLES - a series of floor rugs inspired by the potholes (sloughs) of south western Manitoba.

SECTIONS - small hooked pieces, each one describing a section of the prairie landscape.

Please note on the event page link opportunity is given for an RSVP to the opening celebration.

I am a wanderer in my neighbourhood. I follow the paths, the creeks, and the field roads and rarely walk far from home. But the completeness of this small world astounds me. There is really nothing more needed in my travel. Here I see a creation that never ends, a world which is constantly being made new.

As an artist, this act of renewal or re-creation is also my task. At time the work seems exhausting and unending, but this search for the new as it emerges from the old pulls me on. My work is a connection to the creator God, One in whose image I am also created.

As in the natural world, my re-creations are also a remaking of the old. A pieces of a broken teapot, a tile from a rubbish heap, or a treasure found in a thrift store remains recognisable as part of that past creation and brings its own story to become part of the new.



Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery
600 Shaftsbury Blvd.
Winnipeg Manitoba

June 23 - Sept. 15 2017
Opening June 23 7:30 pm



Pembina Hills Art Council
352 Stephen St.
Morden Manitoba

October 3-31 2017
Opening October 6 7-9pm



1894 Art Centre
402 South Railway Street
Boissevain Manitoba

November 18 2017- January 8 2018
Opening November 18 2-4pm.

Several new pieces will be shown at the Pembina Hills Art Centre, 325 Stephen Street Morden, Manitoba in the RAMP (Rural Artists Mentorship Program) Show from Sept 2 to Nov 13.

This show also coincides with the Pembina Valley Studio Tour which runs Sept 12 - 13.

For more information on hours and directions, see pembinavalleystudiotour.com or pembinahillsarts.com

My work will be featured at the Manitoba Craft Council office in the Winnipeg Exchange District, 553 -70 Arthur Street for the month of June. The show opens on Friday, June 6 from 5 - 9pm as part of the First Fridays event.

For more information about the Manitoba Craft Council, see http://manitobacraft.ca/ (Please note office hours if you are planning to stop by during the month.)

For more information about the First Fridays in the Exchange, see http://www.firstfridayswinnipeg.org/

Jun 6 - Jun 27

Authored by Manitoba Craft Council




MCC Presents :: First Fridays in the Exchange
Featuring Sharon Loeppky

Opening on Friday, June 6, 5-9 pm
Manitoba Craft Council office – 553-70 Arthur St.
Work on display until June 27, 2014.

About her art practice, Sharon writes:
Both my home and workshop are on the bank of a small creek that cuts down through the escarpment and heads east on the prairie south of Morden MB. The quiet of the woods and fields helps remove the clutter from my mind and keeps me focused on my work. Most of this work is ceramic mosaic, and at the moment I am concentrating on landscape.

My art springs from the urges in my life. I have a compulsion to save scraps. I am preoccupied with puzzles. I need to wander, and I search for God in the open spaces. These landscapes document the world immediately around me – the view I see from a doorway, from the path behind our house, or from the road leading up the escarpment. Like the many colorful scraps they are composed of, they are glimpses of color, light and pattern to be quietly savored.

First Fridays in the Exchange is dedicated to bringing together artists, artist run centres, galleries, businesses and the public for a greater understanding, appreciation and promotion of the arts and the further development of a vital Exchange Area community. See the full listings here.




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Manitoba Craft Council annual show and sale

Feb. 7-18 Cre8ery Gallery, 125 Adelaide St., Winnipeg Manitoba

If you missed my work at the Craft Council in June, I will have 2 of these pieces in a show of Manitoban artists upstairs at the Gallery in the Park (Altona, MB) from Aug. 10 - Oct. 6 2013. Here is a link for directions and hours for the gallery. Unfortunately the website has no information up about shows beginning in August.



http://www.galleryinthepark.ca/

MCC Presents: First Fridays in the Exchange, Featuring Sharon Loeppky

Opening: Friday, June 7, 2013 5-9 pm




Work on display until June 28, 2013. Click here for office hours.

Manitoba Craft Council – 553-70 Arthur st

Working from her home just south of Morden, MB, Sharon creates ceramic mosaic landscapes inspired by her surroundings. Of her work Sharon writes, “These ceramic landscapes document the world immediately around me – the view I see from a doorway, from the path behind our house, or from the road leading up the escarpment. Like the many colorful scraps they are composed of, they are glimpses of color, light and pattern to be quietly savored.”

First Fridays in the Exchange is dedicated to bringing together artists, artist run centres, galleries, businesses and the public for a greater understanding, appreciation and promotion of the arts and the further development of a vital Exchange Area community.


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