Roewan Crowe

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}} {{Infobox writer | birth_name = | birth_place = Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada | occupation = Artist, Writer and scholar | nationality = Canadian | notableworks = ''Quivering Land'' | website = {{URL|roewancrowe.com}} }}

'''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.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/uw-news-action/story.684/title.dr-roewan-crowe-honoured-for-social-change | title=Dr. Roewan Crowe Honoured for Social Change | publisher=University of Winnipeg News | date=26 October 2011 | accessdate=7 March 2015 | archive-date=24 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624182801/http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/uw-news-action/story.684/title.dr-roewan-crowe-honoured-for-social-change | url-status=dead }}</ref> 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<ref>{{cite web| url=http://uwinnipeg.ca/wgs/faculty.html| publisher=The University of Winnipeg| accessdate=7 March 2015| title=Faculty: Women's & Gender Studies| archive-date=1 April 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401123707/http://uwinnipeg.ca/wgs/faculty.html| url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.

==Early life and education== Crowe was born to working class parents in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, moving to Spruce Grove, Alberta in 1969. 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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=West End Cultural Center|title=Winnipeg Poetry Slam 2015 featured reader bio|url=http://www.wecc.ca/site09/performers/Poetry_Slam15_2.html|website=wecc.ca|accessdate=7 March 2015|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402100651/http://www.wecc.ca/site09/performers/Poetry_Slam15_2.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Crowe|first1=Roewan|title=Description of Artistic Practice|url=http://www.roewancrowe.com/|website=www.roewancrowe.com|accessdate=7 March 2015}}</ref> Noted work includes: stop-motion animation ''Queer Grit'' which has traveled to video and film festivals internationally;<ref>{{cite news|title=Skoðar hugmyndafræði vestrans í femínísku samhengi|url=http://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/1007257/|accessdate=7 March 2015|agency=mbl.is}}</ref> ''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;<ref>{{cite news|last1=Abramson|first1=Stacey|title=Digging into the Past|agency=Uptown (newspaper)|issue=19 July 2007|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Milne|first1=Heather|title=Excavation as Transmutation: Roewan Crowe's digShift|journal=Ace Art Critical Distance|date=2007|url=http://e-artexte.ca/19887/}}</ref> ''Lifting Stone'', a queer femme performance/installation creating intimate poetic encounters;<ref>{{cite web|title=Roewan Crowe: Lifting Stone|url=http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/enc14-performances/item/2398-enc14-ui-crowe-stone|website=Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics|accessdate=7 March 2015|archive-date=25 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150625194013/http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/enc14-performances/item/2398-enc14-ui-crowe-stone|url-status=dead}}</ref> and ''My Monument'',<ref>{{cite web|last1=Gibson|first1=Jennifer|title=My Monument at UW Gallery 1CO3|url=https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/art-gallery/programming/2013-14/my-monument.html|website=uwinnipeg.ca|accessdate=7 March 2015}}</ref> a multimedia exhibition with artists cam bush, Steven Leyden Cochrane and Paul Robles. That video uses Crowe's book ''Quivering Land'' to explore vanished feminist/queer/alternative cultural sites.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Thiessen|first1=Lukas|title=Ghost Launch Artists collaborate to evoke sites of queer/feminist literature|url=http://www.themanitoban.com/2014/03/ghost-launch/19599/|accessdate=7 March 2015|agency=The Manitoban|publisher=Manitoban Newspaper Publications Corporation|date=17 March 2014}}</ref> Her longstanding community practice is concerned with creating space for and building engaged feminist/queer/artistic communities {{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}. In collaboration with Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA) in 2008, she curated Art Building Community, a project that saw the launch of ten new works and a weekend symposium.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Light|first1=Whitney|title=More than Murals: Roewan Crowe's Symposium Art Building Community looks at the potential of community Art|agency=Uptown Magazine (newspaper)|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press|date=8 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Campbell|first1=Marlo|title=Civic Art, Social Activism|agency=Uptown Magazine (newspaper)|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press|date=20 November 2008}}</ref>

==Writing== Crowe is the author of the book ''Quivering Land'' as well as scholarly articles and several chapbooks.

===''Quivering Land''=== ''Quivering Land'' is a queer Western, engaging with poetics and politics to reckon with the legacies of violence and colonization in the West.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Thiessen|first1=Lukas|title='How does the artist decolonize' Writer Roewan Crowe and visual artist Paul Robles discuss their recent collaboration on Quivering Land|url=http://www.themanitoban.com/2013/11/artist-decolonize/17720/|accessdate=7 March 2015|agency=The Manitoban|date=19 November 2013}}</ref> Reviews of ''Quivering Land'' include: ''Herizons: Women's News and Feminist Views'',<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ryan|first1=Kelly|title=Review of Quivering Land: Roewan Crowe|url=http://www.herizons.ca/node/557|website=Herizons.ca|accessdate=7 March 2015|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402153120/http://www.herizons.ca/node/557|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Canadian Women in Literary Arts, an inclusive national literary organization.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Webb-Campbell|first1=Shannon|title=Shannon Webb-Campbell reviews Quivering Land by Roewan Crowe|url=http://cwila.com/shannon-webb-campbell-reviews-quivering-land-by-roewan-crowe/|website=CWILA.com|publisher=Telegraph Journal's Salon Books|accessdate=7 March 2015|ref=11 January 2014|authorlink=Shannon Webb-Campbell|archive-date=3 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403234208/http://cwila.com/shannon-webb-campbell-reviews-quivering-land-by-roewan-crowe/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Selected scholarly articles=== Roewan Crowe is particularly interested in exploring, and writing about, artistic practitioner knowledges and artistic processes. In 2014, with collaborator Michelle Meagher, she published the article, "Letting Something Else Happen: A Collaborative Encounter with the Work of Sharon Rosenberg."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Meagher|first1=Michelle|last2=Crowe|first2=Roewan|title=Letting Something Else Happen: A Collaborative Encounter with the Work of Sharon Rosenberg|journal=Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies|date=2014|volume=10|issue=2|pages=16|url=http://liminalities.net/10-2/somethingelse.pdf|accessdate=7 March 2014}}</ref>

Other scholarly writing includes: "So You Want our Ghetto Stories: Oral History at Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre"<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Brownlie |first1=R. |last2=Crowe |first2=Roewan |date=2014 |title=11. "So You Want to Hear Our Ghetto Stories?" Oral History at Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre |pages=203–218 |doi=10.3138/9781442666580-014|isbn=9781442666580 |s2cid=165947758 }}</ref> with Robin Jarvis Brownlie. Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5vkj5r |title=Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance |date=2014 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-1-4426-1465-9 |jstor=10.3138/j.ctt5vkj5r }}</ref> 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?" <ref>{{Cite web |title=Slow Art in a Time of Flash Floods: What's a Queer Feminist Settler To Do? {{!}} .dpi |url=https://dpi.studioxx.org/en/no/25-inevitable-transitions/slow-art-time-flash-floods-whats-queer-feminist-settler-do |access-date=2022-07-01 |website=dpi.studioxx.org}}</ref> Multimedia essay, Studio XX Electronic Review, .dpi, Issue No. 25, "Inevitable Transitions," 2013.

"digShift: a Queer Reclamation of the Imagined West,"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nomorepotlucks 7 by Mél Hogan - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/nomorepotlucks.org/docs/nmp_7 |access-date=2022-07-01 |website=issuu.com |date=23 January 2010 |language=en}}</ref> 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.

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==External links== * [http://www.roewancrowe.com/ Roewan Crowe official website] * [http://mawa.ca/artbuildingcommunity/ ''Art Building Community website''] * [http://arpbooks.org/books/detail/quivering-land/ ''ARP Books''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226091901/http://arpbooks.org/books/detail/quivering-land |date=26 February 2015 }}

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