Canadian
Federation
of
University
Women
Corner Brook, NL Club
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Art Raffle Fundraiser for
the Dr. Wynanne Downer CFUW Corner Brook
Award
The Artists and their Works
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Linda Foulds was born and
raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and currently lives in Corner Brook,
NL. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual) at Sir Wilfred
Grenfell College/Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2003. She has
exhibited her prints, paintings and objects in Corner Brook and St.
John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Vancouver, B.C. Linda has taught
printmaking, drawing and watercolour through the Mini-Enrichment Program
in Corner Brook and Community Education at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College.
Her work is held in private collections and Department of Tourism and
Culture, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. Linda’s solo
exhibition, "Colours of Morocco", has supported by a project grant from
the Newfoundland
and Labrador Arts Council.
Three wrapped spoons from
the series “Colours of Morocco” |
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Barb Hunt
lives in Corner Brook,
Newfoundland, Canada. She studied art at the University of Manitoba and
completed her MFA at Concordia University, Montreal in 1994. Her art
practice is based in textiles, with a focus on the rituals of mourning,
particularly those of Newfoundland. Her current work is about the
devastation of war - knitting anti-personnel land mines in pink wool and
creating works from camouflage army fatigues. Her work has been shown in
solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally. She has
been the recipient of many grants, including Canada Council for the
Arts, and she received the President’s Award for Outstanding Research
from Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she teaches in the
Visual Art Program at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. She has also been
awarded residencies in Canada, Paris and Ireland.
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| Shirley Greer is a visual artist living in Pasadena, Newfoundland and Labrador. She pursued a formal art education in her mid 50’s and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual) from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College/Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2003, and was the recipient of the University Gold Medal for Academic Excellence.Since graduation, Shirley has exhibited her prints and book works in juried and invitational shows in Canada and Italy. She has completed residencies at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College and St. Michael’s Printshop.Shirley has taught workshops with the Labrador Creative Arts Festival, at St. Michael’s Printshop in St. John’s, NL, the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy (where she was also visiting artist), with the Learning Through The Arts program throughout Western Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as with the ArtsWork program for teachers. She has also taught Serigraphy in the Visual Arts Program at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College.Shirley has received supporting grants for her work from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Her work is held in teaching, public and private collections throughout Canada, and has been published in journals.
My Little Yellow House |
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Marlene MacCallum
is an
artist and teacher living and working in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and
Labrador since 1990. She received her BFA degree in Studio Arts in 1981
from Concordia University, Montréal, Québec and MVA degree in
Printmaking in 1984 from the University of Alberta, Edmonton. She has
been teaching visual arts at the university level since 1985 and is
currently a full Professor in the Visual Arts Program of Sir Wilfred
Grenfell College, Memorial University. Between 1985 and 2007, Marlene MacCallum exhibited prints, photographs and book works in more than 80 solo, invited and juried group exhibitions in 13 countries. She has been a visiting artist and lecturer in Canada, the United States, Northern Ireland and Brazil. Selected awards include Honorable Mention at the Atlanta Book Prize, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia in 2000 for the book work Domestic Arcana and Grand Prize Winner for the “Biennale Internationale d’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières” in 1999 for a group of photogravure prints. Between 1989 and 2007, she was awarded a total of 25 grants in support of her work from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, Memorial University and, most recently, The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research/Creation Grant Program (as principal investigator). Her works are held in over 25 public collections in Canada, the UK and the United States. Marlene MacCallum was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2006. Her most recent exhibition, The Architectural Uncanny, opened at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery and will be touring during 2007-08.
Untitled image from the book work pink story: sinistral |