Notice Board

Megan Morman’s transdisciplinary visual practice examines processes of socialization into artistic circles and the socio-economic conditions of art-making. Over the past ten years, Morman has used humour, portraiture informed by children’s and “low” craft, and text-based games to picture Canadian contemporary art. Morman's work has shown at festivals and in solo exhibitions across Canada, including Stride, Latitude 53, Neutral Ground (Regina), Artspace (Peterborough), & Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton). In 2008 she received the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts' Jane Turnbull Evans award for emerging artists. In 2013, the Art Gallery of Alberta chose giant word search puzzle Now You See It for its Manning Hall commission series. Her permanent public project "Downtown Lethbridge" was installed as part of SAAG's Into the Streets project in October 2014. 

Morman grew up in rural Minnesota; before moving to Lethbridge in 2012, she spent fifteen years in Saskatoon working in communications with queer and arts non-profits. Morman is a current MFA student in Visual Art at the University of Lethbridge. Her thesis exhibition, scheduled for July 2016, will focus on text interventions and installationswhich encourage audiences to think critically about the socio-architectural and institutional frames through which they interpret art and artists.