Aganetha Dyck was born September 12, 1937, in Marquette Manitoba. In 1958 she married Peter Dyck with whom, in 1972, she would later move to Prince Albert Saskatchewan. There she began taking art courses in 1974 at the Prince Albert Art Centre, where she learned pottery, art criticism, batik and Salish weaving. In 1975 she began a mentorship with Professor George Glenn, and studied art history at the Prince Albert Community College. In 1976 she and her family moved back to Winnipeg, where in 1980 she continued her studies in Art History.
By this time she had already established herself as an artist. Hear early work used everyday objects in art in order to validate traditional female domestic activities. The inspiration for her work Close Knit (1975-1981), which used felt as a medium, occurred as a result of a dryer accident with wool. For the work she intentionally shrink dozens of articles of wool clothing. Another work exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1984 consisted of hundreds of Mason jars filled with buttons which had been prepared in various cooking techniques.
She has received the most attention for her art which focused on honeybees. After seeing a sign made of beeswax she got the idea to place objects inside beehives. She considers these works collaborations with the bees, she constructing the objects and the bees adding and finishing the artwork. This technique has produced such works as the Glass Dress, a glass wedding dress that took ten summers to complete, and Sports Night in Canada (1995-2000), in which she placed sports equipment such as helmets, pads and sticks into the beehives.
Her work with bees has earned her many honours, and had been notably featured in international exhibitions in Troyes, Paris, Rotterdam, and at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, England. In 2007 she was awarded bot the Manitoba Arts Council Award of Distinction as well as the Governor General`s Award in Visual and Media Arts. In 2013, for the help she gave, over the years, to the Art Centre for Broadway Youth in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she was awarded the Art City Star Award. In 2014 she received the Making a Mark Award by the Winnipeg Arts Council.
These awards were not given just in recognition for her artwork. Dyck has been an advocate for the continued survival of bee populations in North America, and she appeared on CBC`s The Nature of Things, with David Suzuki in 2006. She has sat on the board of the Plug in Gallery, and since the mid 1970`s Dyck has worked extensively with youth, visiting schools all over Canada doing workshops with students teaching them about, and how to make, art. She has served as a mentor to young women with Mentoring Artists for Women`s Art, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Consists of records relating to her art career, including correspondence, financial records, awards, photos, videos, research and documents concerning exhibitions.
Artifacts are fragile and should be handled with care. One artifact is broken.
Further accruals may be possible.
Records were donated by Aganetha Dyck. Donated in 2014.
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Documents relating to work done by Dyck over the course of her career as an artist. Organized by event in chronological order. Files contain correspondence, flyers, financial documentation, reviews, and miscellany related to particular events.
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Research done by Aganetha Dyck predominantly on honeybees. Includes poems, newspaper clippings, photocopies, and journal articles.
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Dyck`s correspondence with individuals and institutions. Files contain letters, emails, as well as postcards, and greeting cards.
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Publications relating to Dyck. Includes magazines she used for research or was featured in, including press release dossiers, and art books which she contributed to or was the focus of. Also contains fliers and pamphlets to shows and exhibitions which she was involved with.
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Contains documents relating to awards Dyck won over the course of her artistic career. This includes textual records such as certificates, invitations letters and documentation. Also includes the Governor General`s Award a glass and metal sculpture.
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pieces not fastened together so taped in place by donor. Wrapped in bubble wrap and in a protective bag. Handle with care.
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Physical images relating to Dyck`s artistic career, including photographs, negatives, and slides relating to her career as an artist.
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14 Slides
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10 photos
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221 Slides in plastic sleeves
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7 Photos
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22 Photos
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38 Photos
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22 Photographs, 2 envelopes of negatives
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9 Photographs, 1 envelope of negatives
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35 slides, 12 photographs
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27 photographs and one envelope of negatives
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24 photographs, 7 large negatives, 51 slides, and 2 sheets of negatives
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19 photographs
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60 Photographs, 4 sheets and 1 envelope of negatives
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40 slides
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28 photographs
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6 envelopes of negatives
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62 photographs, 1 envelope of negatives
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31 photographs
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57 photographs
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33 photographs, 20 slides, 1 envelope of negatives
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8 photographs, 30 slides, 5 postcards, negatives
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82 photographs, 2 envelopes of negatives
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5 sheets of negatives, 2 slides
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8 Photographs
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20 negatives, 4 slides
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1 envelope of negatives
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5 photographs, 7 strips of negatives
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19 strips and 1 envelope of negatives, 69 photographs
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14 photograph
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240 slides
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73 slides
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24 photographs
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6 photographs, 3 envelopes of negatives
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14 photographs
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2 envelopes and 2 pages of negatives
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9 photographs
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Books belonging to Aganetha Dyck, including books used for the research of bees, as well as artistic research. Some books were written by people she worked with. The rest either concern her work directly or in some way feature her or her work.
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Contains VHS tapes containing her work with bees and a few of her exhibitions. Also Contains DVD`s and CD`s which hold many of her appearances on film and other images. Series also has two floppy disks, an audio cassette and a memory stick, all mostly containing images.
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Length: 6:30 mins
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Length: 24 mins.
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Length: 13 mins.
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1 video length: 44:57
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37 JPEG image files in 1 Folder
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Video Length 23:13
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103 JPEG image files in 1 folder
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20 TIFF image files and one DOC text file
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One PowerPoint presentation (.pptx) file
File will not open from disc. Will work if it is saved to computer and opened there.
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408 files in 27 folders
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42 JPEG image files
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10 JPEG image files 4 DOC text files
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1 memory stick containing 292 files in 11 folders, two letters and an envelope.
Notes on cover: Phil has assisted me for over 22 years! Starbuck, MB
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One black Macintosh 3.5" floppy disk with one document file. File printed and put in file
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Consists of a photograph album, a ceramic award, a pin back button, and a case with a bee and a honeycomb.
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Cracked in two pieces from top left side diagonally to right side. In a protective pink box, handle with care.
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One large folder containing posters from exhibitions and shows, newspapers, newsletters, and newspaper clippings that relate to Aganetha Dyck’s artistic work, and floor plans for her exhibitions.