Occupation: Painter, Printmaker Media: Acrylic & Mixed Media; Printmaking. Born Kansas City, Missouri; United States & Canada citizen.
Education Univ Kansas, BA (education), 61. Univ Southampton, 62. Kansas City Art Inst, 63. Ottawa Sch Art, with Duncan deKergommeaux, 65.
Teaching Positions Fine arts coordinator, Algonquin Coll Visual Art, Ottawa, Ontario, 75-78, teaching master painting, 79-82; guest lectr, Univ Manitoba, NASCAD, 82, Ottawa Sch Art, 86, Alberta Coll Art, 87, Banff Center, 87, Holland Col Sch Visual Arts, Prince Edward Island, 89, Georgian Coll, Ontario, 92; drawing & painting institute, Alpen Sch Art, summer 87; guest lectr, Holland Coll Sch Visual Arts, Prince Edward Island, 89 & Yukon Art Gallery, 95; guest Lecturer for workshops at Gallery 101, Canada, 98-2002.
Business and Professional Positions Consult, Mayor's Advisor Committee Arts & Cult, 79-82, Revenue Canada Visual Arts Advisor Bd Customs Regulations, 80-82, Ottawa Visual & Performing Arts Center Steering Committee, 81-84, vice chairman, Health & Welfare Canada Adhoc Committee Health Hazards Arts & Crafts, 82 & 86, chairman, Jack Chambers Found, 84-86 & Munic Ottawa Visual Arts Advisor Committee, 86-91; vice chairman, Ottawa Arts Center Found, 87-88; curator, Govt Canada Persons Award Exhib, 87-88; consultant, Arts-Peat Marwick, 89; art comn advisor, Ottawa/Carleton Regional Govt, 92-94, Cent Canada Exhib Association, 94, Canada Inst Planners, 94; guest curator, Ottawa Art Gallery, 92-93; project manager, CARFAC-Heritage Canada Grant to Develop Serv for Artists in Nunavut & Yukon Territories, 2005-2007.
Commissioned Works Mural, Ottawa Sch Bd, First Ave Sch, Ontario, 79; serigraph, 75th Anniversary Portfolio, Royal Trust Co, Ottawa, Ontario, 80; mural, City of Ottawa Heron Road Multiservice Center, 90; mural & frieze, Churchill Alternative Sch, Ottawa Bd Education, 91; patterned concrete walkways & mural, Ottawa/Carleton Transpo Heron Road Transitway Sta, 92-95.
Public Works Canada Coun Visual Art Bank; Univ Toronto Art Gallery, Ontario; Biogen Inc Cambridge, Massachusetts; Goodwin Procter, New York; Hinshaw & Culbertson, Boston, Massachusetts; EMC Corp, Boston, Massachusetts; Canada Embassies Kiev & Berlin.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, Art Gallery Algoma, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, 90, MacLaren Art Center, Barrie, Ontario, 92, Centre d'Exposition L'Imagier, Alymer, Que, 93, Libr Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario, 94 & The Gallery, Univ Toronto, Scarborough Campus, 96, CAC Gallery, North Adams, Massachusetts, 97, 2005, Univ Winnipeg, Manitoba, 99 & Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss Sch, Lakeville, Connecticut, 2003; Group exhibs, In Situ, Sightline, Univ Alta, 97 Freedom, Diversity, Pluralism, Mu de Arte Contemporaneio de la Univ de Chile, Santiago, 98, Big Impressions: the large-scale contmporary print, The Art Galleries of the Fine Arts Center, Univ Rhode Island, Kington, 99; Pan America Print Exhib, Site Gallery, Winnipeg, Man, Canada, 99; The Spirit of Drawing, the Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada; Printtypes Dickenson State Univ, Dickenson, North Dakota, 2004; Directors Choice, Missouri Western State Col, St Joseph, Missouri, 2004; Made in NAMA, CAC, N Adams, Massachusetts, 2005; 4th Int Juried Print Biennial, Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey.
Bibliography Heidi Geraets (author), Pat Durr, Ottawa Art Gallery, 93 & The Library Gallery, Cambridge, 94; Judith Tolnick (author), the Phenomenon of the Large-Scale Contemporary Print (catalog), Univ Rhode Island, 99; Jennifer Gibson (author), Culture Trash (catalog), Univ Winnipeg, Canada, 99; Julie Dault Its ok to have a crush on Art, National Post, 11/06/2003.
Publications The not so impossible dream, Artviews, Vol 9, No 3, 83; Death & taxes, Parallelogamme, Vol 9, No 3, 2/84; The Ottawa Arts Court Project, Recreation Canada, Vol 46, No 4, 11/88; Don Wright in the National Gallery, Arts Atlantic 49, Vol 13, No 1, 94; Past, Present, Future, Arts Atlantic #66, spring 2000; Landscapes with Thighs, Charlotte Wilson-Hammond, Acts Atlantic, #73, Fall 2002; Past Present, Future, Calendar, vol8 # 1 Spring, 2005.
Honors and Awards Grant, Canada Coun Travel Grants, 81-82 & 99; Victor Tolgesy Award, 89; Whitton Art & Cult Award, City of Ottawa, Canada, 96; City of Ottawa Senior Artist Grant, 2003; Keith Kelly Award for Cult Leadership, National, Canada, 2006.
Memberships Canada Artists Representation-Les Front des Artistes Canadians (president, Ottawa, 79-80, national vice president, 80-82, national president, 82-84 & 2002-2005); Royal Canada Acad Arts (exec coun, 85-87, 90-91 & 96-2000); Ottawa Arts Center Found (found member & board member, 86-91); City of Ottawa Arts Advisor Committee, (co-chair, 2001-2003); Canada Artist Representation (national president, 2002-2005).
Dealers Edward Day Gallery 33 Hazelton Ave Toronto ON Canada M5R 2E3; Therese Dion Consultation 372 Rue Ste Catherine Ouest Montreal Province of Quebec Canada H3B 1A2; Galerie St. Laurent & Hill 333 Cumberland St Ottawa ON Canada K1N 7J3; Morgan Lehman Gallery 24 Sharon Road Route 41 Lakeville CT 06039; Boston Art 23 Drydock Ave Boston MA 02210.
