Roewan Crowe

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.

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

Early Life and education

Crowe was born to working class parents under the big skies of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her parents struggled to find work and moved to Alberta in 1969. Crowe lived with her family in Spruce Grove, Alberta until she was 18 years old. 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 – how can you be queer on the prairies when your dad is John Wayne – which has traveled to video and film festivals nationally and 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, Roewan Crowe, and Paul Robles that 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. In collaboration with Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA) she organized and 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; scholarly articles; and several chapbooks. She has also written essays about art in various publications.

Quivering Land

Quivering Land is a rather 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 CWILA, Canadian Women in Literary Arts, an inclusive national literary organization.[15]

Selected Scholarly Articles

Roewan Crowe's scholarly work seeks to open meaningful encounters with art through feminist engagement. She is particularly interested in exploring and writing about artistic practitioner knowledges and artistic processes. Recently, 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" with Robin Jarvis Brownlie. Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance, 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?"] Multimedia essay, Studio XX Electronic Review, .dpi, Issue No. 25, "Inevitable Transitions," 2013.

"digShift: a Queer Reclamation of the Imagined West," 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.

References
  1. "Dr. Roewan Crowe Honoured for Social Change". University of Winnipeg News. 26 October 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  2. "Faculty: Women's & Gender Studies". The University of Winnipeg. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. West End Cultural Center. "Winnipeg Poetry Slam 2015 featured reader bio". wecc.ca. 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" (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. 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.
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