Roewan Crowe
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| Born | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Occupation | Artist, Writer and scholar |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Notable works | Quivering Land |
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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. 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 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.
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.
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. 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;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;Lifting Stone, a queer femme performance/installation creating intimate poetic encounters; and My Monument, 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. 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.
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