MAP Presentation Series - Prof. Risa Horowitz

Please join us on Friday, January 23 from 3:30 - 4:30 pm in Riddell Centre - RC 050 for the first installment of the MAP Presentation Series for Winter 2026. 

*Please note that this is an in-person event, however, if you are unable to attend on campus, please e-mail MAP.Admin.DeansOffice@uregina.ca to request a Zoom link.

A Measure of Salt

Prof. Risa Horowitz

Visual Arts Professor Dr. Risa Horowitz will present photo, video, sound, and nonfiction creative writing in progress, as part of her ongoing project that took her back to the High Arctic for the fourth time. Horowitz hand-wrote over one hundred letters of invitation asking for instructions to enact and document during an artist residency on a ship that circumnavigated the Svalbard archipelago in August 2024. Expecting only a handful of responses, she received close to forty, all of which she earnestly attempted to fulfil. By asking others to offer creative direction for her usually-solitary art practice, Horowitz wants to provide a vision of being in the world today that embraces both doubt and joy through the gentle bonds of even-distant friendship.

Horowitz’s practice blurs boundaries between expert-amateur, hobby-work, and leisure-productivity. Her work often engages durational practices tied to time and its presentation, spanning a range of media and creative modes. Horowitz has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad and her works are held in numerous public and private collections. Her paintings and photographs are on permanent display at Canadian Embassies around the world. In 2020, Horowitz represented Canadian women artists in “A New Light”, an exhibition at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC that included paintings from her “Trees of Canada” series. In Spring 2026 her pinhole photograph, Alton Mill Dam, will be presented as a large exterior banner with the Peel  Art Gallery, Museum, and Archives as a CONTACT Festival 2026 core program.