September 14 - October 23, 2026
Prairie Fusion, Arts & Entertainment, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
Reception: Sunday, September 20, 1-4pm; Artist Talk 2pm
Informal Meet the Artist: Saturday, October 17, 1-4pm
Regular Hours: Monday to Wednesday, 10am to 4pm; Thursday 10-7pm
Brief Exhibition Statement:
An inner voice emerged as Exploration of Contentment unfolded. Intuitive abstraction came to life. Paintings developed personalities through colour, line, and mark-making.
Light and dark tones appeared like shifting emotions, similar to the way a person processes challenges or reflects on past conversations. Discovering forgiveness, moving beyond identifiable loss, a contemplative yet positive tension exists. Layers are built up and swiped away. Vibrant, subdued, and translucent colours create visual harmony.
The quiet solitude of creating is both restorative and energizing, providing a fulcrum of balance within an abstracted mind filled with noise. Exploration of Contentment reflects on resilience and acceptance, inviting viewers to consider their own relationship with the subtle ways contentment can coexist with uncertainty, change, and the complexities of modern life.
Artist Biography:
Jordan Miller, an artist living and working in Manitoba, graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts honours from the University of Manitoba in 2002. She graduated with an Arts and Cultural Management diploma from the University of Winnipeg in 2008. Jordan was the founder and owner of cre8ery for 19 years, retiring in May 2025.
She was the recipient of the 35th Annual Woman of Distinction Award for the arts in 2011. She was one of three finalists for the Future Leaders of Manitoba Awards (2015).
Jordan is a volunteer board co-chair at Artists AccessAbility Network Manitoba. She advocates for artists with invisible disabilities as an artist with a medically disabling condition.
She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Pulse Gallery, Birchwood Gallery, Fleet Galleries, cre8ery, Gallery Lacosse, Urban Shaman, Gallery 111, outworks, Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Gallery in the Park, Prairie Fusion, 210 Gallery, and Golden Prairie Arts Council, MAWA and many other places in the last 23 years.
She is an active member of Manitoba Society of Artists, Creative MB, MB Arts Network, Artists AccessAbility Network MB, aceart and Mentoring Art for Women’s Art, .
She is collected across North America and internationally, by the Province of Manitoba and by incorporated businesses.