curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

]2005-2009 BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), Halifax, NS

2008 Gerrit Reitveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands (exchange studies in art)

2004-2005 Concordia University, Montreal, PQ (studies in fine art)

1998-2002 BA with Great Distinction in Humanities, McGill University, Montreal, PQ (minors in art history & social studies of medicine)

 

SELECT GRANTS and AWARDS

2016 Canada Arts Council Travel Grant

2016 Nova Scotia Arts Professional Development Grant

2016 Filmmakers Assistance Program, National Film Board

2013 NSCCH Creation Grant, Visual Arts Nova Scotia

2012 Helen Hill Animated Joy Award, Atlantic Film Co-op/Centre for Art Tapes

2009-2010 Media Arts Scholarship, Centre for Art Tapes

 

RESIDENCIES

2016 Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB

2016 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL

2016 Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON

2013 White Rabbit Open Air Arts Project, Upper Economy, NS

2012 Hothouse 8: Sheep Dreams, National Film Board, Montreal, PQ (animation apprenticeship)

2011 Project: Space Available, Seattle, WA (with collaborator Emily Davidson)

2009-2010 Media Arts Scholarship, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS

 

SCREENINGS

2016 Animation Nights New York, NY

2016 Atlantic Auteurs, Halifax Independent Film Festival

2016 Scarborough Worldwide Film Festival, Scarborough, ON

2016 Animation ABCs, Toronto Animated Image Society

2015 Rough/Cut/Screening, Connexion ARC, Fredericton, NB

2013 Atlantic Film Festival Presents: CBC Download, International (TV/web broadcast)

2013 Hothouse 8 Sheep Dreams, Theatre Pierre Perrault, Montreal, PQ

2011 Frame X: Shorts Program 2, Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, NS

2011 Shorts Circuit 2, St John’s International Women’s Film Festival, St. John’s, NFD

2011 Women in Atlantic Canada Showcase, Halifax Independent Film Festival, Halifax, NS

2011 Performatives, SVA Film and Media Festival, Montreal, PQ

2010 Out of the Centre, Neptune Theatre, Halifax, NS

 

COMMISSION

2016 Animation ABCs, Toronto Animated Image Society

 

EXHIBITIONS

2017 Speak Vagina, Buddies and Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, ON 

2016 INsideOUT, Atlantic Centre for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL

2016 ERI:7, Eyelevel Gallery/Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

2015 Solo presentation Impact: after the fall, Danspace, Halifax, NS (performance in collaboration with Jeremy Costello, Hannah Levin McGrath and Kira Daube)

2015 Circus of the Spectrum, Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax, NS (performance in collaboration with Rosalynn Illuicci)

2013 Line and Ladders, White Rabbit Open Air Arts Project, Upper Economy, NS (collaboration with Laura Merdsoy)

2013 Set: Process as Product, Nocturne Art Festival, Halifax, NS

2013 Set: Process as Product, Khyber ICA, Halifax, NS

2011 Informal Institute of Unrefined Knowledge, Project: Space Available, Seattle, WA (performance in collaboration with Emily Davidson)

2011 Not Cool, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

2010 Ranters, Ravers, and Raconteurs, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

2009 Solo Exhibition Wooden Bed, Horsehair Mattress, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

2009 They Only Come Out at Night, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

2009 Graduation Show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

2009 The New Drawing Show, Khyber ICA, Halifax, NS

2009 The Crystal Cave, Khyber ICA, Halifax, NS

2008 Sierad, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2008 RE: Directions, Seeds Gallery, Halifax/Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary, AB

2007 Tangible, Seeds Gallery, Halifax, NS

2007 Haute Down, Influx Gallery, Calgary, AB

2006 Art to Ease Crappy Conversation, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON

2005 Stuff, Espace 306, Montreal, PQ

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2013 Strange New Worlds, Animated film screening, CFAT, Halifax, NS

2012 Folks Fest, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

2008 If it ain’t funny, it ain’t art, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

2002 Curatorial Intern, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, PQ

 

RECENT PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS and DANCE TRAINING

2016 Dancing Training, Kelly Keenan, Kinetic Studios, Halifax, NS

2016 More than Naked, Doris Ulrich, Love-In, Toronto, ON (one day training)

2016 Improvisation and Choreography, Ishmael Houston Jones at Movement Research, NYC, NY (week intensive)

2016 Freedom + Rigor + Courage, Stephanie Skura at Movement Research, NYC, NY (week intensive)

2015 Body Voice Intensive, Denise Fujiwara and Gerry Trentham, Halifax NS (one day workshop)

2015 Butoh, Denise Fujiwara, Halifax, NS (two day workshop)

 

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

2016 Editorial Board, Visual Arts News, Halifax, NS

2014-2016 Organizer/Municipal Lobbyist, Friends of the Khyber, Halifax, NS (municipal campaign to preserve historic cultural hub)

2011-2013 Programming Chair/ Board of Directors, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

2013 Event Organizer, “Eyelectures”, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS (public lecture series)

 

Jury Member

2015 Local Artist in Residence, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS

2014 Local Artist in Residence, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS

2013 Grants to Individuals, Nova Scotia Arts, Halifax, NS 

2011 Public Performance Series, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

 

TEACHING

2012­-2015 Studio Arts Educator, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia

2013, 2015 Animation Instructor, ViewFinders Atlantic Film Festival for Youth, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

2013 Animation Instructor, Professional Artists in the Schools, Halifax, Nova Scotia

2010 Silversmithing Instructor, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia

 

EMPLOYMENT HIGHLIGHTS

2013­-2015 Program Coordinator, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery

2013 Museum Technician, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia

2010-­2013 Print Traffic and Post Production Coordinator, Atlantic Film Festival Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia

2010 Jeweler, Donna Hiebert Design, Herring Cove, Nova Scotia

2009 Special Effects Artist and Prosthetics Fabricator, Carnifexfilm, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2009­-2010 Studio Assistant, Kim Morgan (artist), Halifax, Nova Scotia/Borden­Carleton, PEI

2002­-2004 Anthropological Researcher, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec

 

LECTURES

2011 Artist’s talk, While We Were Gone, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (with Emily Davidson)

2011 Artist’s talk, The Informal Institute of Unrefined Knowledge, Project: Space Available, Seattle, Washington (with Emily Davidson)

2002 Panel participant, “A l’abri du musée: Exploring Environments of Site and Authority at the MACM,” Globalization and Postcolonialism II Symposium, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec

 

PUBLICATIONS  

2005 “Parental Perspectives on Hospital Staff Acts of Kindness and Commemoration after a Child's Death.” Contributor. Pediatrics. University of Vermont College of Medicine, Vermont.

2003 “Peeling Back the Skin: Revealing Alternate Meanings in Valverde’s Muscle Man,” Author. Boundaries of the Body, Exhibition catalogue, McGill/Osler Library, Montreal, Quebec

2002 “A l’abri du musée: Exploring Environments of Site and Authority at the MACM,” Author. Globalization and Postcolonialism II Symposium, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec

 

MEMBERSHIPS and AFFILIATIONS

·        Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON

·        Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS

·        Atlantic Film Cooperative, Halifax, NS

·       Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS

·       Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, NS

·       Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS