Communications: Art, Media, Theatre

Biographical Details

• Vanier Discipline or Program Teacher, Communications: Art, Media, Theatre
• Undergraduate Degree Institution: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
  Diploma: B.F.A.
  Discipline: Studio Art
• Graduate Degree Institution: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
  Diploma: M.F.A.
  Discipline: Painting

Professional Experience

• Teaching

  1998-present, Fine Arts Professor, Vanier College, St. Laurent, Quebec
  1977-2005, Ceramics Instructor, Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec
  1976-1975, 1978-80, Ceramics instructor, Visual Arts Centre, Westmount, Quebec
  1975, 1976, Fine Arts teacher, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Quebec

  1976-78, private classes in wheel and handbuilding at my studio

Professional Activities

• Publications

  2005, The Westmount Examiner, July issue
  2004, On the Road Again, CBC TV
  2002, November, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Upfront Column
  2002, The Montreal Gazette, October 26, “Books and Visual Arts”, Elizabeth Kalbfuss
  2001, The Montreal Gazette, Saturday, December 22, “Heart for art, head for finance,” Henry             Lehmann
  2000, Making Ceramic Sculpture, Raul Acero, Asheville, North Carolina: Lark Books
  l998, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, November, The Attraction of the Intimate, article and             photo    
  l997, The Best of New Ceramic Art, Toni Sikes, Madison, Wisconsin: Hand Books, Inc.
  l996, October, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, article and photo
  1996, the Montreal Gazette, Thursday, May 2, 1996, “Art”, Ann Duncan
  1996, Monarch National Ceramic Competition, catalogue
  1996, Contact Magazine, article and photo

• Exhibitions

  2009, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery at Victoria Hall, Westmount, Quebec
  2008, Ceramic Sculpture, Gallery at Victoria Hall, Westmount, Quebec
  2006, Les Femmeuses, Pratt and Whitney, Montreal
  2005, Scenes of Westmount, Victoria Hall, Westmount
  2004, collection, summer, 2004, Centre de ceramique Bonsecours, Montreal
  2005 Clay Lover’s Calendar Show, Greensburo Cultural Center, Greensboro, North Carolina,              July 2-20
  2002, Ceramic Sculpture, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal, Quebec, solo exhibition
  2002, La Petite, Alder Gallery, Coburg, Oregon, juried group show
  2001, At Present, Queen’s Gallery and Art Center, Charlotte, North Carolina and Musee du             Haut Richelieu, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, juried group show
  1975-2001, solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States

• Awards/Honours Grant: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, l996.